SAP RISE is a software solution that can help your business to reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase competitiveness.
In this post, we’ll discuss SAP RISE in depth and what you need to know before using it.
So, if you’re wondering how to choose SAP RISE, read on to learn more.
What Is SAP RISE?
SAP RISE is a novel market offering that was announced by SAP in 2021. It is a subscription offering that blends a particular set of products and services via Intelligent Enterprise.
The major component of SAP RISE is S/4 HANA Cloud Edition, a solution that enables the cloud infrastructures of clients to be managed in with their preferred hyperscaler or in an SAP data center.
What Are the Components of RISE with Sap?
The SAP RISE package boasts five major components that form an Intelligent Enterprise. They include:
- S/4 HANA Cloud Edition
- Business Process Intelligence
- SAP Business Technology Platform
- Services and Tools for Technical Migration
- SAP Business Network Starter Pack
Disadvantages of SAP RISE
1. Poor track record from partners who are not accountable
The biggest problem with RISE with SAP is their partners, although it’s the simplest to solve. They work with some global SIs that have a track record of egregious project failures and an uncanny ability to sink off the stage quietly while the SAP vendor takes all the heat.
RISE with SAP has partnered with third-party service providers such as Accenture, Cognizant, Deloitte, Infosys, Wipro, just to name a few. These companies tend to incur delays, muck up projects, habitually underdeliver and overcharge. Besides, when they fail to deliver a particular project, they get a free pass without any dire consequences.
2. Misguided priorities
RISE with SAP largely concentrates on migrating their clients to S’4 HANA rather than concentrating the clients to a forward-thinking digital future where S/4 HANA is at the center of the digital transformation among several other core elements.
Putting their focus on migrating customers to S/4 HANA perpetuates that all the roads leading to Intelligent Enterprise must go through the S/4 HANA mantra. No matter how much SAP wishes that so was the case, that is not what each client needs or wants.
3. The process of migrating from the old SAP system is tedious
When using RISE with SAP, customers using the old SAP systems will often find themselves between a rock and a hard place. First, how will a client with valuable and complex customizations in their older SAP system determine whether their specific customizations will be converted into standard functions in a future update to S/4 HANA or will become unnecessary?
Another scenario is, if those customers have to invest plenty of time and effort to maintain their old SAP systems and run the upgraded or new custom code on the Business technology Platform, then why should those customers bother upgrading ECC or anything similar to it in the near term?
If this is the case, should they be charged for the maintenance of the old SAP system or can they transfer it to a more economical third-party service provider? The problem that is evident here is whether and how RISE will reconcile these contradictions.
4. RISE with SAP is more expensive as compared to separately tendering the services
When RISE was introduced, SAP positioned it as a cost-reduction play promising to reduce TCO by 20%. However, RISE with SAP seems costlier than tendering those particular services separately because SAP will have to generate a margin on cloud and other services offered by the other vendors.
Disadvantages of SAP RISE: The Bottom Line
RISE with SAP is still a relatively new subscription offering in the market, so it’s interesting to see how it plays out. However, they have a long way to go before they become the go-to product. They need to find a way to force the market to decrease the cost of managing SAP systems and have more clients migrate to S/4 HANA.
In the long run, however, it looks quite possible that RISE with SAP will galvanize the industry to become a cheaper move to S/4 HANA. The only problem remaining is convincing customers to want to migrate from their old systems.
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