What is RISE with SAP?
A complete offering of cloud solutions, infrastructure, and services that helps migrate your SAP ERP and empower you to thrive in the cloud.
SAP has announced a new go-to-market offering called RISE with SAP, Business Transformation as a Service. RISE with SAP is a subscription-based service that includes a variety of products and services.
In simple words, RISE with SAP is a “bundling of existing SAP solutions” that focus on supporting customers in:
- MODERNIZING on the best cloud infrastructure to achieve the lowest possible TCO.
- STANDARDIZING on the best intelligent suite to drive process efficiency and scale.
- DIGITIZING on the best transformation platform to innovate faster than your competition.

Cloud ERP
Through SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, you gain a tailored-to-fit cloud ERP that adapts to your organisation’s unique transformation journey and drives productivity across lines of business.
RISE with SAP can bring cloud ERP to you
Keep control and protect your ERP investment in the cloud with our customer data centre option.
- Deploy secure, high-performance, and reliable cloud services from SAP in your data centre
- Benefit from a fully managed cloud service, similar to an SAP data centre or hyperscaler
- Simplify data residency, security, and connectivity with data governance
- Be confident in your operational uptime with a 99.7% service level agreement
- Receive cloud ERP capabilities as a service with the same pricing model as cloud services
Discover how your business can benefit from RISE with SAP
Migrate your ERP system to the cloud at your own pace with a personalised guided journey and unlock the benefits of the cloud.
Future-proof your business
- Improve productivity with a modern cloud ERP that automates processes and support users with a digital assistant based on generative AI
- Make better and faster decisions based on insights from real-time analytics enhanced with AI
- Gain visibility into the environmental impact of manufacturing and supply chain processes
Drive security, compliance, and scalability
- Run your technology operations as a service with SAP, a trusted partner, or in your own data centre
- Stay secure with cybersecurity and data protection based on the latest standards
- Improve transparency into risks and compliance requirements to adhere to local and global regulations with greater confidence
Migrate with confidence
- Follow a guided implementation approach based on the proven SAP Activate methodology
- Leverage a single service level agreement (SLA) from SAP, covering each digital layer including the application level
- Benefit from a live cloud service used by companies across 26 industries and more than 100 countries and supported by SAP and partner datacentres worldwide
A modern and modular cloud-based ERP
Benefit from rich, embedded business processes available on any device, including:
- Central procurement
- Transportation management
- Extended warehouse management
- Customer management
- Production planning and detailed scheduling

Business process optimisation
Understand, proactively manage, and optimise your business processes to achieve the agility for successful change as you take the next step in your RISE with SAP journey.

What is a clean core strategy?
With an ERP clean core strategy, you can help ensure your organisation benefits from the latest release with minimal modifications and cloud-compliant extensions and customisations.
The stability of standardisation with the flexibility to innovate
By standardising the processes and data underlying ERP operations, your business can benefit from more best practices and customise what it needs to differentiate itself.
- Reach new levels of IT efficiency and mitigate risks to the business
- Execute decision-making and actions better with improved data quality
- Accelerate innovation with regular upgrades and powerful development tools
Frequently asked questions
What does RISE with SAP mean?
The RISE with SAP offering is a managed cloud service that helps organisations using on-premise ERP software, including SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, to migrate to the cloud securely and smoothly. In return, our customers can take advantage of powerful cloud-based business management software with embedded intelligence, real-time insights, and advanced technologies that improve compliance and builds business resiliency.
What is the difference between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and RISE with SAP?
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition is the cloud ERP at the heart of RISE with SAP. RISE with SAP bundles software that includes the cloud ERP, process intelligence and execution, advanced office of the CFO features, and more, along with a complete cloud infrastructure and migration services.
Is RISE with SAP a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product?
Yes. Software as a service (SaaS) is a method of delivering software applications over the internet, where the provider hosts and manages the software, and users access it on a subscription-based or pay-for-use model.
What is the difference between RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP?
RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP are two different offerings from SAP.
RISE with SAP is tailored to help larger enterprises migrate their existing ERP data, processes, and capabilities to the cloud. With this offering, organisations can move from SAP ECC or other legacy SAP ERP software to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
GROW with SAP enables small and midsize businesses to adopt cloud ERP capabilities that scale as their needs change along every stage of their growth. Using this offering, organisations can embrace SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, where the infrastructure and software capabilities of SAP S/4HANA Cloud are shared with other SAP customers and are hosted and operated directly by SAP.
What are some of the advantages of RISE with SAP compare to those of a third-party hosted ERP model?
- A single contract for all solutions, services, and infrastructure, simplifying procurement and management.
- A unified service-level agreement (SLA) for the entire solution stack, helping ensure consistent service quality across all components.
- Ongoing support and maintenance for the entire solution stack, including infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
- Comprehensive and secure environment, covering everything from the physical data centre to the applications.
- Certified operating system subject-matter experts who handle OS management tasks like patches, monitoring, and maintenance.
- The ability to scale up or down as needed with flexible pricing based on usage and consumption.
- Faster time to value with options and preconfigured solutions that help businesses get up and running quickly.
- Integration with SAP Business Technology Platform, which provides advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning capabilities to help businesses make data-driven decisions and improve operational efficiency.
- Enhanced security and compliance features with built-in controls and monitoring to help protect data and meet regulatory requirements.
- Partners and developers that provide a wide range of complementary solutions and services that enhance the RISE with SAP offering.
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SAP S/4 HANA to RISE with SAP Migration:
Lot of SAP On-Premises clients are planning to move their SAP instances into RISE with SAP offering. The client who wants to move their existing S/4HANA system under RISE, iMatriz team will help them to plan their activity in more organized way and do the migration seamlessly.
RISE with SAP is not a product. RISE with SAP offering is centred around SAP S/4HANA and this package aims to accelerate, streamline, and motivate organisations with their journey to a cloud centric intelligent enterprise.
If you want to move your existing S/4HANA system (as-is) into RISE with SAP environment, iMatriz will help to follow the below five step Brownfield approach which uses the System copy – Backup/Restore method using the migration server.
Following are the steps
- Step 1: Take the backup of existing S/4HANA system.
- Step 2: Move the backup to Object Storage provided by SAP
- Step 3: SAP team will move the backup from Object Storage to Storage attached to the HANA Database of the S/4HANA server.
- Step 4: Run the SWPM on Migration Server.
Step 5: Restore the backup on the S/4HANA system hosted into Rise with SAP environment.
Since SAP has regulations in place and they do not provide OS/root access on SAP Cloud deployed application and database servers.
Instead of, SAP provided additional VM with full OS/root access and they call it as Migration server. The VM have 128GB RAM, 32vCPUs and 100GB storage which /sapmnt of 20GB and /usr/sap of 80GB.
Following details are required from client to start the migration:
- Hostname of the migration server, database server
- DB ports to be opened so that it can be accessed from migration server
- Location of Backup files and backup prefix
- SID and instance number of the database
- Passwords for SYSTEMDB/SYSTEM user, sidadm, Tenant DB/SYSTEM user
- S-user ID for software download on migration server
Once the migration is complete, partner will shut down the application running on the migration server and will provide password of DDIC in 000, 100, 200, 300, Tenant DB / SYSTEM, Schema user password which came with the backup.
What is SWPM used for in SAP?
Software Provisioning Manager offers the execution of many system provisioning tasks and covers a broad range of platforms and products, both on ABAP and Java technology
What is the difference between SWPM 1 and 2?
SWPM 1.0 caters to SAP systems built on SAP NetWeaver and S/4HANA. For instance, Application Server ABAP on SAP NetWeaver versions like 7.10, 7.11, 7.20, 7.30, and 7.40 SR1. On the other hand, SWPM 2.0 is tailored for SAP systems that are built on SAP NetWeaver ABAP on HANA
What is sum and SWPM in SAP?
SWPM is a versatile tool used for various SAP system provisioning tasks, including installations, system copies, and migrations. SUM-DMO is a component of SAP Software Update Manager specifically designed for seamless database migration during SAP system upgrades, offering a one-step approach
Looking for SAP GROW / SAP RISE Partner for your existing SAP ECC / S4 HANA migration to Cloud – Contact – sales@imatriz.com / +65- 6038 0225 / 0226