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RISE with SAP towards a Sustainable Enterprise

By : Adil Zafar, Dharma Alturi, Sanket Taur, Mihir R. Gor
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RISE with SAP towards a Sustainable Enterprise

By: Adil Zafar, Dharma Alturi, Sanket Taur, Mihir R. Gor

Overview of this book

If you’re unsure whether adopting SAP S/4HANA is the right move for your enterprise, then this book is for you. This practical and comprehensive guide will help you determine your next steps toward building a business case, while preparing you for all the possible scenarios and enabling you to make informed decisions during implementation. RISEwith SAP toward a Sustainable Enterprise is packed with clear and detailed advice, including a run-through of what it takes to design the landscape using RISE with SAP. As you go through the chapters, you’ll get a solid understanding of precisely what services are available (such as Process Discovery, data migration, the fit-to-standard approach), and which scope items on RISE with SAP should be considered, allowing you to make the most of RISE with the SAP-based model. Finally, you’ll get an overview of different industry-based use cases and how they can be brought to reality with the platform that’s set up on the RISE with SAP offering. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build a detailed business case to determine if RISE with SAP is the right transformation engine for you, along with a clear idea of optimized landscape design on RISE with SAP that addresses the pain points for your implementation and support activities.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1: Overview
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Part 2: The Journey with RISE with SAP
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Part 3: The Way Forward: The Art of Possible

Putting together a business case for RISE with SAP

In this section, we will start by outlining the different use cases that other organizations have been thinking through and when RISE with SAP would also be the right option. Since an announcement from SAP asking organizations to move to S/4HANA by 2027, there have been questions raised around whether this is a technical move or whether there is also a business-driven approach to how new features and functionalities can justify the move to S/4HANA. Some of the key use cases or drivers to consider are as follows:

  • Journey to the cloud with reduced dependency on multi-vendor maintenance:
    • Most organizations have different vendors providing the implementation or application management services, along with the hosting and maintenance services through IaaS and PaaS models.
    • Organizations also deal with SAP separately when it comes to product support.
    • The aspiration would be to have a single vendor who can be both responsible for the product...