RISE with SAP Methodology
Confidently transform your business to be AI-ready with a proven methodology
The RISE with SAP Methodology—enabled by AI—helps you transform your business and drive continuous innovation by realizing the full potential of SAP Autonomous Suite.
Adopt SAP Autonomous Suite offerings faster and design your own transformation road map based on best practice templates.
Get tailored recommendations, continuous support, and expert guidance from SAP and validated partners throughout your journey, from discovery to innovation.
Orchestrate end-to-end business transformation and accelerate migration and modernization with AI assistants—driving continuous innovation and delivering measurable value while reducing costs and complexity.
Agent-led transformation
Learn more about RISE with SAP Methodology, new agent-led transformation, and benefits for your modernization.
Standardized framework
We distill thousands of past implementations to develop a tailored project plan for your use cases. Recommendations, guidelines, and checkpoints empower you to build a tailored road map grounded in proven best practices.
STEP 1
Discover
Analyze as-is situation, define project scope, plan project, and request project approval.
STEP 2
Prepare
Initiate project preparation and team onboarding by establishing a customized roadmap, including AI activation and a clear success plan.
STEP 3
Explore
Explore capabilities and AI scenarios, run fit-to-standard analysis, and define required extensions.
STEP 4
Realize
Realize value through solution adoption according to your project scope, while managing change and ensuring user adoption.
STEP 5
Deploy
Deploy the configured productive system and ensure quality by conducting final testing.
STEP 6
Run
Run with operational excellence and detect opportunities for continuous innovation.
Expert guidance
Achieve your goals with strong collaboration between your project team, SAP, and partners at every step—including onboarding sessions, quality gates, and supportive additional services.
Guided enablement through a rich onboarding experience
Onboarding is facilitated through personalized, embedded launch activities, including introduction to RISE with SAP Methodology and its components.
Transformation preparation service
SAP experts tailor your transformation road map, set up tools, establish governance, and provide use case examples to help you optimize your journey.
Skilled partner ecosystem
Find the right competency framework partners, enabled with RISE with SAP Methodology best practices, to help achieve a successful transformation journey.
And if you’re starting a large-scale, complex transformation project, you can get support from a specialized RISE with SAP Validated Partner.
Accelerate your journey to SAP Autonomous Suite with an agent-led toolchain
Position your enterprise to continuously innovate and capitalize on future developments with an agent-led toolchain that accelerates your transition to SAP Autonomous Suite, modernizes your business, and drives continuous improvement. AI assistants take over resource-intensive tasks, reducing time and effort during migration and modernization.
Our agent-led toolchain helps you transform across all dimensions:
People
- Guide your organization through technological change, drive effective adoption, and train employees using innovative e-learning content with WalkMe.
Processes
- Analyze, manage, and optimize your business processes with SAP Signavio solutions to achieve agility that drives successful change and value generation.
Data
- Migrate and transform your data while increasing data quality with guidance from SAP Business Transformation Center or SAP Advanced Data Migration and Management by Syniti.
- Reduce your data footprint by slimming historical data while staying compliant and having your documents on hand with SAP Archiving and Document Access by OpenText.
Applications
- Orchestrate your transformation project with SAP Cloud ALM using SAP Activate project road maps with quality gates and checkpoints for each phase of your journey.
- Analyze, align, design, and reduce the complexity of your IT architecture to meet your transformation goals using SAP LeanIX solutions.
- Extend, adapt, and automate SAP Cloud ERP to meet your unique needs with Joule Studio, following clean core principles for continuous innovation.
- Seamlessly connect and automate your entire business ecosystem using SAP Integration Suite, a secure, AI-enhanced platform designed to simplify connections, automate processes, and drive digital innovation.
- Accelerate innovation and minimize risk with SAP enterprise application quality assurance solutions by Tricentis, an end-to-end testing solution that automates and optimizes testing processes, ensuring fast and reliable software delivery.
New migration and modernization accelerators
Get support for your most complex, time-intensive transformation activities with AI assistants, including:
- System Analysis: Builds a trusted, customer‑specific system baseline for a clear starting point.
- Custom Code: Modernizes custom code to reduce technical debt and enable clean core.
- Data Management: Prepares and migrates data into a governed cockpit to improve speed.
- Configuration: Optimizes system configurations based on best practices and customer needs.
- Test Management: Automates test scope, data, and execution for testing.
- Rollout: Manages global rollouts with template comparison and automated localization.
- Project Management: Delivers end‑to‑end guidance, decision support, and training.
Featured resources
RISE with SAP Methodology deep dive
Learn how the methodology is designed to help organizations successfully transform their businesses while meeting project and financial goals.
Kickstart your transformation
Learn how the transformation preparation service—part of the SAP Cloud ERP Private package—can help you design a personalized journey.
Digital discovery assessment toolkit
Explore how this tool in the discovery phase of RISE with SAP Methodology enhances decision-making processes to achieve your business goals.
SAP Cloud ERP Private package
Discover the new SAP CLoud ERP Private pakage for existing SAP on-premises customer that accelerates your cloud ERP transformation.
Our global network of partners
Help ensure a smooth and successful transformation journey with new enhanced competencies and tailored solutions from a rich community of SAP partners.
Explore the RISE with SAP Methodology blog series
Discover the new five-part blog series and learn how the RISE with SAP Methodology delivers structure, clarity, and support for business transformation.
SAP Preferred Success
Explore a service for enhanced support through a proactive partnership, insight-driven recommendations, release guidance, targeted learning programs, and service-level agreements (SLAs).
SAP MaxAttention
Discover a premium-level engagement and tailored service plan with a single point of contact and clear, streamlined responsibilities.