Navigating Security Challenges with SAP RISE

What is SAP RISE?

SAP RISE is an all-inclusive Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) product that helps customers migrate to the SAP cloud product system. It provides a structured approach to digital transformation, evaluating existing processes to ensure they are optimized for cloud-based solutions.

 

What are the components in RISE with SAP?

RISE with SAP includes several components designed to help businesses transform and modernize their operations. This offering is created to be adjustable and modular. Businesses can pick the components that are most useful for them and easily integrate them into their operations.

Here are just a few of the key components of RISE with SAP:

SAP S/4HANA Cloud: This is SAP's flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, delivered as a cloud-based service. It provides a suite of tools and features for managing various aspects of a business, including finance, procurement, sales, inventory, and more.

SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP): This is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that enables businesses to develop and deploy custom applications and integrations on top of SAP's core technologies. BTP provides a range of tools and services for application development, integration, analytics, and more.

SAP Business Network: This is a set of interconnected business networks that enable companies to collaborate and exchange information with their partners, suppliers, and customers. The Business Network includes solutions for procurement, logistics, travel and expense management, and more.

Industry-specific solutions: SAP offers a range of industry-specific solutions that are tailored to the needs of particular verticals, such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and more. These solutions provide pre-built processes and functionality that can help businesses streamline their operations and improve their competitiveness.

Differences between SAP RISE and S/4HANA Cloud

SAP RISE and SAP S/4HANA Cloud are two related but distinct offerings from SAP. Key differences between them include:

Scope

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution. It offers a suite of tools and features to manage various aspects of a business. These include finance, procurement, sales, inventory and more. On the other hand, SAP RISE is a comprehensive offering. It includes S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Business Network.

 

Flexibility

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a pre-configured, cloud-based solution that is designed to be easy to deploy and manage. It offers a standard set of processes and functionality that can be tailored to the specific needs of a business through configuration and customization. SAP RISE, on the other hand, is designed to be more flexible and modular, allowing businesses to select the components that are most relevant to their needs and integrate them seamlessly into their operations.

Cost

The cost of SAP RISE and SAP S/4HANA Cloud can vary depending on a range of factors, including the specific components and services selected, the size of the organization, and the level of customization required. Generally speaking, SAP RISE is likely to be more expensive than SAP S/4HANA Cloud, as it includes additional components and services.


 

These are just some of the key differences between SAP RISE and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Both offerings are designed to help businesses transform and modernize their operations, but they have different scopes, levels of flexibility, and support offerings.

Security Challenges with SAP RISE

While SAP RISE provides benefits in terms of agility and innovation, there are several security challenges that organizations should consider:

Digital Transformation with SAP RISE


From cloud deployment, to industry-specific solutions, digital transformation with SAP RISE is a comprehensive approach to modernizing and streamlining business operations through the use of SAP's suite of technologies and services.

As an end-to-end, holistic solution, SAP RISE includes a range of components and services, including SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform, and SAP Business Network. This comprehensive approach enables businesses to streamline their operations and gain a complete view of their operations, from finance and procurement to sales and inventory management.

RISE with SAP: Business Transformation as a Service

Delivered as a cloud-based solution, SAP RISE provides several benefits over traditional on-premises solutions. Cloud-based solutions are typically easier to deploy and manage, require less hardware and infrastructure, and provide greater scalability and flexibility.

Industry-specific solutions can also be tailored to the needs of particular verticals with SAP RISE, such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and more. These solutions provide pre-built processes and functionality that can help businesses streamline their operations and improve their competitiveness.

In addition, SAP RISE leverages agile development methodologies to ensure that businesses can quickly adapt to changing market conditions and customer needs. Agile development enables businesses to rapidly develop and deploy new features and functionality, enabling them to stay ahead of the competition and provide a better customer experience.

Based on the above offerings tailored to an individual business’s needs, digital transformation with SAP RISE offers many advantages. It can help them become more efficient, agile and competitive. This is achieved by streamlining operations and using the latest technology and industry-specific solutions.

Difficulties with SAP RISE Digital Transformation Projects

SAP RISE can level-up how your organization does business. But with this massive undertaking across many areas of your business, there can be roadblocks. As CIOs and IT leaders evaluate whether digital transformation projects make sense for their organization, security can often be viewed as a roadblock. Nevertheless, not focusing on security from the beginning, can result in costly delays:

#1
is security roadblock
to transformation

52%
of cloud migrations are delayed
due to security concerns

$4.12M
average cost of a failed, delayed, or scaled back digital transformation projec

Common Questions about RISE with SAP

The benefits of RISE with SAP include faster time-to-value, reduced IT complexity, increased agility and scalability, improved customer and employee experiences, enhanced data security, and optimized cost management.

RISE with SAP helps businesses with their digital transformation journey by providing a simplified consumption model, pre-configured solutions, and access to SAP's industry expertise and intelligent technologies. This helps businesses accelerate their time-to-value, reduce IT complexity, and improve their agility and scalability.

Businesses can get started with RISE with SAP by contacting an SAP sales representative or partner. The representative can help the business understand the offering and its benefits, and assist with the implementation process.

For more frequently asked cybersecurity questions about SAP RISE, Jana Subramanianas, APJ Principal Cybersecurity Advisor for Cloud Security, offers a comprehensive list on SAP.com