Two weeks ago, SAP gave the world a look at its first major offering of 2021: RISE with SAP. Aimed at nudging SAP customers into becoming intelligent enterprises and adopting SAP S/4HANA Cloud, this bundled subscription service could be a game-changer for many SAP customers who find themselves debating about whether they should make the jump from legacy ERP systems to SAP S/4HANA, or from on-premise environments to the cloud.

To help members make sense of this new offering, ASUG is hosting a series of virtual webcasts focused on RISE with SAP. ASUG CEO Geoff Scott and SVP of Executive Programs David Wascom kicked things off last week with an Executive Exchange Virtual Roundtable with Robin Manherz, VP and chief performance officer at SAP; Tony Caesar, director and head of IT at Ericsson-MANA; and Ron Gilson, VP and CIO at Johnsonville Sausage. Audiences heard about everything from a breakdown of the RISE with SAP offering to where systems integrators fit into this bundled service. Here are three key takeaways from that roundtable.

The Goal of RISE with SAP

The roundtable began with a conversation between Manherz and Scott breaking down the SAP vision for RISE with SAP and how customers can leverage the offering. Manherz emphasized the importance of the Intelligent Enterprise, calling it “the enterprise footprint” that will lead to change and growth in the world. Looking at RISE with SAP, the entire offering is designed to help make the processes of adopting SAP S/4HANA, migrating to the cloud, and, ultimately, becoming an intelligent enterprise easier. Manherz referred to SAP S/4HANA Cloud as the “nucleus,” while a customer’s decision to move their ERP to the cloud as the “anchor” of RISE with SAP.