New offer to migrate SAP S/4HANA workloads from on-premises environments on IBM Power systems to the cloud within 90 days.
IBM reduced infrastructure costs and associated operating costs by 30 percent in 18 months as part of a “RISE with SAP” modernization project for 150,000 ERP users.
Armonk and Walldorf – IBM and SAP have announced the upcoming launch of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server announced. IBM Power customers should be able to accelerate their ERP transformation even faster and more easily.
Together, SAP and IBM want to help companies move and modernize their on-premise ERP environments more seamlessly to the cloud and support AI-based business processes.
RISE with SAP offers value-added services, cloud ERP solutions and platforms and supports companies in redesigning their business model. As a new SAP hyperscaler offering, RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server can help reduce risk and shorten SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration time from on-premise environments on IBM Power systems to the cloud to 90 days.1
“Companies across all industries are now prioritizing RISE with SAP as they transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud,” said Anurag Agrawal, founder and chief global analyst at TechAisle. “The new offering from IBM and SAP is a compelling option for companies looking to migrate their mission-critical ERP workloads securely, quickly and with minimal disruption to business operations.
Cloud migration through industry-leading, SAP-certified infrastructure
With IBM Power Virtual Serversthe cloud-based version of IBM's mission-critical Power Server platform for on-premise ERP systems, customers can move their SAP ERP systems from an on-premise environment to the cloud faster, modernize business processes and become more agile. IBM Power servers are known for their high security, scalability and reliability. They take part among the SAP-certified infrastructures2 ranked first in availability and designed to minimize disruption and enable faster migration, supported by the highly resilient and secure IBM Cloud platform.
“IBM has worked closely with SAP to provide a seamless and rapid migration for customers who rely on the IBM Power platform for their SAP workloads and applications,” said Rob Thomas, senior vice president, software and chief commercial officer at IBM. “This new functionality helps reduce the complexity of moving to the cloud and deliver value more quickly – benefits we have experienced in our own modernization with RISE with SAP.”
IBM completes global modernization with SAP S/4HANA Cloud through RISE with SAP
IBM has extensive experience in modernization and managed services projects with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. In one of the largest and most complex SAP customer modernization projects to date with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, IBM recently transitioned its Quote-to-Cash and Record-to-Report processes to RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server.
This IBM project affected over 150,000 users in 175 countries within 18 months. During this time, infrastructure costs and associated operations were reduced by 30 percent by streamlining the entire server and data base and increasing process automation.3 IBM Consulting led this transformation project from start to finish, providing technical services, implementation and application management expertise. This ensured that these complex solutions could be migrated and operated safely.
“SAP helps companies realize their full potential through cloud-based enterprise applications that integrate SAP Business AI,” said Thomas Saueressig, Member of the Board of Management of SAP SE. “This announcement is another milestone in the long-standing partnership between SAP and IBM and offers our mutual customers a clear path to the cloud – for faster time to value, greater flexibility and continuous innovation.”
IBM consulting and partner network for accelerated transformation
Customers will also be able to accelerate their transformation with SAP S/4HANA Cloud by working with IBM Consulting or another SAP partner. To provide customers with choice, IBM also works with other global system integrators and service partners to develop, implement and migrate RISE with SAP projects.
The two companies plan to work together with a network of partners to help IBM customers transform with RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server with combined solutions, capabilities and joint sales efforts. RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server customers and IBM business partners will also have access to a new one IBM Transformation Suite for SAP Applicationswhich supports you in the transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud and RISE with SAP. It bundles best-of-breed software and services for evaluating current environments, data migration and automated testing.
Over 10,000 SAP customers have used IBM to deploy and operate SAP solutions on IBM systems over the past 50 years. IBM is a strategic full lifecycle partner of SAP, providing SAP customers with end-to-end consulting and technology solutions, including hybrid cloud, automation and generative AI watsonx.
RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server is intended to be used together with a tailor-made Investment program from IBM will be available in the second quarter of 2025. customers receive here more information to help you transform with our assessment and migration services IBM Consulting as well as other IBM and SAP business partners.
Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intentions are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent objectives only.
1 This estimate is based on internal IBM modeling of customer integration into an SAP landscape when moving from SAP S/4HANA from Power On-Premises to Power Virtual Server, assuming the right level of collaboration with the customer on network integration and testing.
2 Based on the ITIC 2023 Global Hardware, Global Server Reliability Report and the list of the entire SAP certified and supported SAP HANA hardware.
3 Based on IBM's results from the global migration to SAP S/4HANA and RISE with SAP
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