BREAKTHROUGH with IBM is the latest collaboration from IBM and SAP, which converges IBM Consulting portfolio with RISE with SAP to allow organisations access to an engagement model that can plan, execute, and support a holistic business transformation.
The recent study sponsored by SAP dubbed IBM Insights on SAP revealed that the cloud is still the key technology driver for digital transformation in this era of recovery– enabling new platform-based business models, the orchestration of digital ecosystems, and the delivery of connected customer and employee experiences. According to the study, 74% of CEOs say that cloud computing will help them deliver the results they need over the next 2-3 years and 80% of the cloud opportunity will focus on shifting core business applications and workloads to the cloud and optimising everything from supply chain to sales.
IBM and SAP have been longstanding partners modernising operations of organisations across industries worldwide using hybrid cloud environments. In August, the two tech giants embarked on a partnership centred on onboarding two of SAP’s finance and data management solutions to IBM Cloud for Financial Services to help accelerate the banking and finance industry’s IBM cloud adoption.
IBM Consulting Portfolio Complementing RISE with SAP
Acknowledging that companies, both large and small, are leveraging the cloud infrastructure and services for their next-generation enterprise transformations, the IBM and SAP launched another innovation that complements RISE with SAP, the German enterprise’s Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) offering. Converging IBM services with SAP solutions, the new solution BREAKTHROUGH with IBM is comprised of a collection of existing consulting services designed to help customers accelerate and amplify their journeys to S/4HANA Cloud with RISE with SAP at its foundation.
“I am excited to announce the launch of our latest collaboration with SAP – RISE with SAP, BREAKTHROUGH with IBM, a collection of our existing consulting services designed to help clients accelerate and amplify their journeys to S/4HANA Cloud with RISE with SAP at its foundation. With RISE with SAP – BREAKTHROUGH with IBM, clients can have access to an engagement model that can plan, execute, and support a holistic business transformation,” Michael Stevens-Jones, Executive, SAP Alliance – IBM Consulting, Asia Pacific, wrote in LinkedIn.
The new IBM solution, built on a flexible and scalable hybrid cloud platform, is designed to bring together tools and accelerators and allow clients to build upon their SAP investment, streamline operations, drive growth, and help reduce costs. It offers services that are compatible with RISE with SAP, ultimately empowering customers to define the full business value of the transformation opportunity.
BREAKTHROUGH with IBM services include:
- Value-driven assessments to define the optimal business case
- Reference architectures to help choose the cloud solution to determine the approach to help accelerate business transformation
- Advisory services that build differentiated solutions in an agile manner to move SAP S/4HANA to the cloud
- Business process management, which includes tools, applications, and adoption of intelligent workflows to maximize the value of SAP S/4HANA
- Application management to support minor enhancements, DevOps, automation, and continuous innovation
Sharing about IBM’s latest collaboration with SAP, Garrick Keatts, Partner – Americas and Global SAP Practice Leader at IBM, said:
“IBM plans to combine our industry, cloud and architecture experience to provide services designed to help our clients regardless of industry, size or point of departure in their transformation journeys.”
