RISE with SAP Methodology

Transform your business with confidence and enable continuous innovation.
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What is the RISE with SAP Methodology?

The RISE with SAP Methodology provides a standardized end-to-end framework, toolchain, and expert guidance for your journey to cloud ERP.

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A standardized framework 

Guardrails and clear steps help your transformation journey and enable continuous innovation.

Utilizing the integrated toolchain 

Tools offer support for a range of functions to enhance the customer experience and accelerate transformation.

Expert guidance 

SAP and our qualified partners can help with onboarding and ongoing engagement as you progress along your transformation journey.

Earn a financial credit by starting your transformation to the cloud today

Existing customers using SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA can access credits to offset the cost of maintenance, services, or a cloud subscription.

Credits are available for new purchases of RISE with SAP signed before December 31, 2024.*

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A standardized framework

The framework features an enhanced SAP Activate project road map tailored for RISE with SAP and includes task descriptors and accelerators, the clean core success plan, and quality gates to ensure adherence to clean core principles.

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The project milestones for the clean core quality gates (QG) ensure adherence to the clean core success plan and project KPIs

Utilizing the integrated toolchain

The RISE with SAP Methodology utilizes an integrated toolchain to support your business transformation journey.

  • Business processes
    Analyze, manage, and optimize your business processes with SAP Signavio solutions to achieve agility for successful change.
  • Enterprise architecture 
    Ensure that your architecture design aligns with your transformation goals using SAP LeanIX.
  • Validation and enablement
    Speed up testing with minimal business disruption using SAP Test Automation by Tricentis. Train users with SAP Enable Now, which provides e-learning content and in-application help to accelerate adoption.
  • Building and monitoring
    Enable agile application development and seamless integration with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and SAP Build.
  • Digital backbone
    SAP Cloud ALM helps you maintain a clean core with a success plan and quality gates between each phase of the methodology.
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Expert guidance from SAP and qualified partners

A strong collaboration between the customer project team, SAP, and partners can help you achieve your project goals.   

Guided enablement for onboarding and beyond

  • One-to-one onboarding sessions

  • A dedicated launch advisor to help, enable, and prepare the customer project team

  • Setup of project management tools and the project road map

  • Introduction to the clean core principles and clean core success plan

  • Quality gates support

SAP expert team advice

  • Advice on how to align with the clean core principles

  • Clean core quality gate report with recommendations

  • SAP Community to get advice from SAP experts, partners, and customers

Skilled partner ecosystem

  • Implementation and operational expertise based on a partner competency framework

Additional SAP service offerings

  • SAP Preferred Success for enhanced support through a proactive partnership, insight-driven recommendations, release guidance, targeted learning programs, and service-level agreements (SLA).

  • SAP MaxAttention for premium-level engagement and a tailored service plan with a single point of contact with clear, streamlined responsibilities.

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Now integrated: SAP Signavio solutions and SAP Cloud ALM

Discover how this powerful combination continuously synchronizes process information to enhance collaboration between business and IT teams.

Read the blog post

Get started with your transformation journey

Your SAP account executive along with hundreds of partners worldwide are ready to help you implement RISE with SAP.

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A global network of partners

SAP has a rich community of partners with new enhanced competencies and tailored solutions that can help ensure a smooth and successful transformation journey.

Additional resources for your transformation journey

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RISE with SAP Methodology

Learn more about the RISE with SAP Methodology and the onboarding experience, clean core success plan, and quality gates.

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Clean core

Learn how to adopt an ERP clean core strategy throughout your RISE with SAP journey.

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SAP Learning Journeys

Check out our enablement content on the RISE with SAP Methodology.

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SAP Community

Connect with our global community of SAP solution experts and customers to exchange best practices and learnings.

Frequently asked questions

The RISE with SAP Methodology’s onboarding experience includes an assigned SAP advisor who guides customers on the methodology, tools, clean core strategy, and initial project setup. All customers who have signed RISE contracts since April 1, 2024, are eligible for this experience.

The clean core success plan, available through the SAP Activate road map viewer, describes a clear set of tasks and activities that customers must complete in order to be aligned with clean core principles.

Quality gates are created based on questionnaires that customers complete at the end of each phase of the RISE with SAP Methodology. Based on their responses, the SAP team gives recommendations on tasks to complete in the form of a report.

*Additional terms and conditions may apply.