Rise with SAP or keep your license & run SAP in the cloud?

It’s no secret that changes in the business environment over the past year have accelerated the need for digital business transformation across industries and enterprise functions. The shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of cloud-enabled solutions and many businesses are ready to start moving their ERP to the cloud. This transformation promises an abundance of benefits, including increased agility, scalability, and flexibility. Best of all, it opens the gate for greater innovation.

For the thousands of organisations that use SAP, the benefits of moving their SAP ECC deployment to the cloud are clear – but the path to transformation can take various routes. Out of the many options SAP clients have to consider, there are two that stand out and require a decision: adopt RISE with SAP or migrate to the cloud and keep a perpetual license that will eventually be converted to SAP S/4HANA.

Announced in January 2021, RISE with SAP is a offering combining software license, infrastructure and technical managed services (TMS) as a subscription; it aims at supporting business transformation and accelerating cloud adoption by minimising the guesswork and piecemeal license purchases associated with enterprise planning. As with any offering, RISE with SAP has prompted plenty of interest and questions, with clients wondering which path to take.