In October 2021, SAP and IBM collaborated for the launch of BREAKTHROUGH with IBM — IBM’s complementary solution to the German tech giant’s Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) milestone offering — which is a package of existing consulting services intended to help enterprises advance their journeys to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, an intelligent enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The BREAKTHROUGH with IBM for RISE with SAP offering includes key components that are meant to help expedite the migration to SAP S/4HANA. These features include an improved data quality evaluation, translation, process optimization, and code or infrastructure upgrade.

This month, data management software and services company Syniti partnered with IBM in launching a new solution called IBM Data Readiness Assessment with Syniti Knowledge Platform which contributes to the common objective of speeding digital transformation and fostering continuous innovation by laying a foundation of clean and high-quality data. The two companies believe that the key to a successful transformation project is having a solid understanding of the quality status of data as well as its level of completion before moving to SAP S/4HANA.

According to them, customers have the ability to measure the required services and amount of time in order to maximize performance and potentially cut costs on required cloud infrastructure. Allan Coulter, Global Chief Technology Officer for SAP Services at IBM, explained that to ensure a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA, companies must have full confidence that they are working with data of the highest possible quality. He added:

“Through our work with Syniti we can bring to our clients a solution that enables them to better prepare for adopting SAP S/4HANA with modernized code, process and data capabilities that drive the foundation for continuous innovation.”

Simplifying the Steps to Migrating to SAP S/4HANA

The Syniti Knowledge Platform is a centralized and unified solution that provides assistance for the data management strategy of an organization, including the management of compliance and data optimization, as well as the transition to SAP S/4HANA. Last year, Syniti was placed as a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions and was designated in the 2021 Master Data Management and 2020 Metadata Management reports — made possible by the firm’s Syniti Knowledge Platform which provides services to a strong Global 2000 client base and major alliance partners.

Noting that having a clean core necessitates having clean data, Rex Ahlstrom, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Growth and Innovation at Syniti, mentioned that the company successfully completed the migration of thousands of businesses to SAP systems over the course of the last decade. Commenting on Syniti’s partnership with IBM, he stated:

“Working with IBM, we’ll be able to help more customers prepare for their migration to SAP S/4HANA easily to help ensure data integrity – setting them up for success with future digital transformation efforts.”

Customers can have the following benefits when implementing the IBM Data Readiness Assessment with Syniti Knowledge Platform:

• A platform that helps speed up initiatives, including ones that are currently in progress, and that also reduces the risk associated with several projects.
• A solution that covers every aspect of the process from beginning to end and that utilizes all of the rules provided by the digital platform in order to speed up and automate the migration.
• Pre-built data quality analyses and dashboards accessible to help identify efficiency gains, cashflow, and profit and loss (P&L) improvements.

Thrilled to be expanding Syniti’s collaboration with IBM, Kevin Campbell, Chief Executive Officer at Syniti, said that they are eager to strengthen their work with IBM, particularly in regard to the mission-critical imperative of beginning with reliable, high-quality data. He added:

“Leveraging the innovation and transformation expertise of IBM with the proven capabilities of the Syniti Knowledge Platform will deliver a win-win to our joint customers looking to become intelligent enterprises.”

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Leading American multinational technology company IBM is embarking on a landmark business transformation journey in partnership with German software company SAP to further propel its growth and deliver excellent products and services to its customers worldwide. IBM will be carrying out one of the world’s largest corporate transformation projects centred on enhancing business processes across its global operations by tapping on its own IBM Consulting, which boasts of over 38,000 SAP consultants to provide expert advisory, implementation, and technical critical in migrating the firm’s complex systems to the cloud.

Commenting on the IBM landmark transformation project, SAP CEO Christian Klein said:

“This expanded partnership will enable IBM to accelerate its business transformation in the cloud and fuel its future growth. As a result, IBM will be positioned to provide the highest value of support and flexibility to its clients, allowing them to simplify and accelerate their business transformations while benefiting from the full value of RISE with SAP.”

IBM and SAP Advancing Business Transformation 

Under the latest expanded partnership, IBM will be migrating to cutting-edge ERP SAP S/4HANA leveraging RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, premium supplier option with IBM Consulting– shifting over 375 terabytes of data to IBM Power systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud. RISE with SAP is the German tech giant’s subscription-based, concierge Business Transformation as a Service designed to accelerate customers’ journey to the cloud and become sustainable, intelligent enterprises. 

In October 2021, the long-standing tech allies collaborated for the launch of BREAKTHROUGH with IBM, IBM’s complemental solution to SAP’s BTaaS offering 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. Today, IBM is once again collaborating with SAP for its milestone corporate transformation that would modernise its corporate business operations as well as centralise and standardise its global data, ultimately helping its customers with their cloud journey harnessing the capabilities of the RISE offering.

Arvind Krishna, IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer explained: 

“Enterprise clients are seeking increased choice and control as they modernize their mission-critical workloads. Enabled by RISE with SAP, this is a milestone business transformation initiative for both companies due to its complexity and scale. With this move, and IBM’s experience using RISE with SAP internally, we will be even better prepared to support our clients on their hybrid cloud and business transformation journeys.”

Apart from having access to the SAP HANA database, which will streamline data management within IBM, the American tech company can also take advantage of SAP’s automated workflows and AI to enhance decision-making. The transformation project sees an estimate of US$58 billion in IBM revenue flowing through SAP software after completion.

IBM also announced that clients implementing RISE with SAP on IBM Cloud can also choose to run workloads on IBM Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud with the expansion of the premium supplier option.

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Digital transformation solutions specialist UST has joined the roster of SAP partners that have designed solutions to support their customers’ adoption of RISE with SAP, a subscription-based Business Transformation as a Service offering from the German tech multinational. SAP’s long-standing partners IBM and EY has earlier launched solution portfolios BREAKTHROUGH with IBM and EY Intelligent Delivery Platform for SAP that complement the RISE offering. 

Now a qualified partner to deliver the RISE with SAP, UST is bolstering its position as a trusted ally that designs disruptive solutions to help companies worldwide realise a successful transformation, scale growth, and achieve agility.

Sharing about UST’s capabilities to deliver solutions that support RISE with SAP, Chris Botha, Senior Vice President and Global SAP Leader at UST, stated:

“At UST, we focus on helping our customers adopt standard best practices and reduce technical debt while leveraging the latest digital technologies.UST is well-positioned to support its clients accelerate their digital business transformation and take their business-critical elements into the cloud with flexibility and innovation with RISE with SAP.”

With digitalisation at its core, UST leverages next-gen technologies and deep domain expertise to drive innovation and agility in its customers’ digital transformation journey. The IT company is known to deliver excellent transformative engineering through architecture, semiconductor engineering, AI as well a cloud and SaaS. In February, UST further strengthened its position in the product engineering space with the acquisition of Accrete Hitech Solutions, a consulting and outsourcing company services spanning in Hitech, Semiconductor and Networking focussed in information technology and engineering services.

Crafting Solutions to Back SAP RISE Offering 

As a partner in the SAP PartnerEdge programme, UST has access to enablement tools and support for the creation of industry-leading solutions at speed and at a much lesser cost. To support the increasing numbers of customers adopting RISE with SAP and help them embark on a holistic business transformation journey, UST has co-innovated with SAP to create a portfolio of cutting-edge tools, platforms, apps, and accelerators.

UST Rapid Readiness

This offering is a pre-preparation framework for SAP S/4HANA to support SAP Activate methodology and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Designed in eight stages, the solution harnesses UST’s human-centric digital development and harmonises landscape and cloud strategy to deliver a distinct standardisation and innovation roadmap as well as help build a business case for transformation.

UST Fast Start

Focussed on reducing risks of SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration, this cloud migration trial offering accelerates customers’ move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud by enabling UST to upgrade and migrate workloads to the cloud on a trial basis.

UST Evolve

This offering supports seamless and rapid migration of SAP ERP Central Component environments to SAP S/4HANA Cloud by providing a hybrid migration framework that utilises UST accelerators and IP.

The SAP RISE offering has further reinforced the German software multinational’s pivot to becoming a cloud company since its launch in January 2021 and has supported over 1,000 organisations worldwide across industries. Some of the companies that have adopted the BTaaS offering recently are Nippon Gases Europe, Subaru Corporation, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

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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.”

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