Moving to the cloud is no longer an option but an imperative for businesses that still operate legacy SAP ECC systems, with SAP’s support for them ending in 2027. As companies survey their future options, RISE with SAP has become a logical next step for many.
RISE brings a fully wrapped Cloud ERP model that allows companies to embrace a raft of new digital capabilities that already includes the very latest in AI capabilities. Still, many businesses continue to struggle with finding the right balance between the financial impact of a move from SAP ECC and finding additional budget to unlock the benefits of digital transformation.
Now, a strategic partnership between SAP, NTT DATA Business Solutions, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help such organizations square the circle of funding a migration and investing in the immediate innovation that helps them build a business case to accelerate their move to RISE with SAP now rather than later.
The three companies have partnered to help businesses migrate to SAP S/4HANA with infrastructure provided by AWS and technical migration offered by NTT DATA Business Solutions through its “RISE to Innovation Powered by a Zero Cost Move.” This solution promises to save enterprises’ costs and drive operational efficiencies, business growth, and enhanced decision-making capabilities through digital transformation at the same price other partners will simply deliver the base migration.
A whitepaper by NTT DATA Business Solutions indicates that organizations that migrate to SAP S/4HANA through its RISE with SAP solution on AWS, can embrace advantages of a future proofed digital Cloud ERP platform, reduce their reliance on maintaining a heavily customed legacy SAP system, and move to fostering an environment of continuous innovation.
Core user benefits
The existing partnership between SAP and its hyperscale ally, AWS, runs high volumes of SAP-certified workloads and SAP SaaS services like SAP Concur, SAP Signavio, and SAP NS2 Cloud Security.
Moreover, NTT DATA Business Solutions, through its global partnership with AWS and SAP and expertise in having migrated hundreds of ECC environments to RISE on AWS, has developed specialist ‘factories’, to reduce the risk and time of migrating businesses from their legacy ECC systems. NTT DATA Business Solutions’ structured approach to technical migration helps users align, define, and refine their path to SAP S/4HANA readiness, transformation opportunities, and the business case for digital transformation.
This new offer to users is to simply move the ‘cost’ of migration to the benefit of a range of innovative capabilities inherent in the SAP Cloud portfolio. It includes:
The power of AI: Businesses that migrate to the cloud can use embedded SAP AI to automate complex tasks, enhance the productivity of employees, use AI to augment existing tasks and processes, and get deeper generative data insights through advanced machine learning through SAP and AWS’ investment in generative AI (Gen AI).
Automation: Organizations can further streamline complex business processes through advanced automation tools from SAP, like SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) with SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite. AWS solutions integrate seamlessly with SAP systems to enhance the automation process.
Robust data solutions: AWS’s advanced data solutions, which support data management and analytics for SAP environments, provide a complete data lifecycle management system.
Sustainability goals: Organizations can also enhance their sustainability initiatives since many AWS Availability Zones (AZs) operate on 100% renewable energy, helping businesses reduce their environmental impact during their SAP deployments. This is also supported by NTT DATA Business Solutions, which has committed to planting one tree for every consulting and SAP Managed Services day delivered each quarter.
As the end of the road for ECC nears but the future path of innovation and AI stretches far into the distance the offer from NTT DATA Business Solutions and AWS may prove a compelling reason for many businesses to start the journey to cloud adoption sooner rather than later.
