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RISE with SAP is SAP's methodology and commercial program for implementation and migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private. The product is SAP Cloud ERP Private, renamed in July 2025. Like RISE, GROW also transitioned from product to program, and the product parallel is SAP...
RISE with SAP is SAP's methodology and commercial program for implementation and migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private. The product is SAP Cloud ERP Private, renamed in July 2025. Like RISE, GROW also transitioned from product to program, and the product parallel is SAP...
This summer, we're pulling back the curtain on one of the most important shifts happening in enterprise SAP right now — the move from reactive operations to a fully autonomous foundation. It's a journey we know well, and over the next several weeks, we're going to...
The case for Cloud ERP has been settled for a while. The case for this year has not. The transformation gap in the numbers Gartner's estimate is that over 60% of SAP customers remain on ECC with no decision yet to move, and by 2030 four in ten of today's ECC customers...
SAP customers are navigating a period of significant change. Of course, there’s the transition to Cloud ERP and the scheduled end of standard support options for ECC in 2027 - these are well known. Basis professionals will be familiar with changes in support for...
For large enterprises, hybrid SAP landscapes are a long-term operating reality, not a transitional exception. It reflects a considered, risk-managed approach to transformation, and for most organizations the only realistic way forward. Existing ECC and S/4HANA...
When SAP unveiled the Business AI Platform at Sapphire 2026, it folded BTP, Business Data Cloud, and Business AI into a single governed environment. BTP didn’t disappear but became essential architecture underneath SAP’s agentic AI direction. A big part of the...
Drift Happens. Six months ago, your SAP landscape passed audit cleanly. Today? You couldn't say for certain without a manual scramble across Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to reconstruct what's true right now. You did exactly that for the audit, after all....
Automating SAP Basis tasks means trading manual, repetitive administration work for scheduled or event-driven workflows. These workflows typically include automated health checks, job monitoring and recovery, system refresh post-processing, and patch validation. This...
Since our firm first published the Cloud ERP (then it was “RISE”) F.A.Q., a lot has changed with SAP, the market, and adoption trends. It’s worth a revisit: how Cloud ERP is packaged and sold by SAP has changed significantly, as has our guidance for customers adopting...
If you’ve spent any time in the SAP ecosystem, you know the "Configuration Tax." It’s that invisible, compounding fee paid in hours, manual effort, and caffeine. SAP teams pay tax every time new systems or integrations are brought under observability and management....
Most large enterprises elect a hybrid approach to SAP operations, but this is a more recent trend. And, as SAP operations professionals, we are still learning about the impacts of this choice and approach, even though it’s often the most sensible and pragmatic. Years...
Avantra 21 introduced the concept of Automation workflows. By Avantra 23, compatibility with Ansible was added. Along the way, Avantra became the tool SAP teams reached for when they wanted system copies, refreshes, and backup orchestration to just run — predictably,...
SAP customers with complex SAP know the challenges of managing multiple landscapes well. While classic tools like SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) and Focused Run served us well for years, they were built for a static, on-premises world. Now, with the 2027...