IBM has just announced it is teaming with SAP to provide technology and consulting expertise to ease clients to embrace a hybrid cloud approach and move mission-critical workloads from SAP solutions to the cloud for regulated and non-regulated industries. 

In fact, clients look to adopt hybrid cloud strategies, moving the workloads and applications that are the backbone of their enterprise operation requires a highly secured and reliable cloud environment.

With the help of the premium supplier option with IBM for RISE with SAP, clients will have the tools to accelerate the migration of their on-premise SAP software workloads to IBM Cloud.

What is more, IBM is also unveiling a new program, BREAKTHROUGH with IBM for RISE with SAP, a portfolio of solutions and consulting services that help accelerate and amplify the journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The solutions and services use intelligent workflows to streamline operations by providing an engagement model that helps plan, execute and support holistic business transformation.

Clients are also offered the flexibility and choice to migrate SAP solution workloads to the public cloud.

The announcement of IBM becoming a premium supplier makes IBM the first cloud provider to offer infrastructure, business transformation and application management services as part of RISE with SAP. IBM’s premium supplier designation is a continuation of SAP’s efforts to provide choice and further support IBM customers that have a preference for their RISE with SAP package to run on IBM Cloud.

Moreover, according to a study by IDC, sponsored by IBM, migration to SAP S/4HANA on IBM Cloud from on-premise data centers can potentially deliver the following benefits.:2

• Return on investment: Migrating to SAP S/4HANA® on IBM Cloud delivered revenue increases for up to 90% of organizations making the transition according to users surveyed.
• Reduced costs: More than 80% of the organizations in the study said they experienced a reduction in operational costs.
• Greater productivity: 9 out of 10 businesses in the study said they improved their productivity after migrating to SAP S/4HANA on IBM Cloud.

John Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting, further explained:

“We are thrilled to advance our long-standing partnership through RISE with SAP. Our shared commitment is to meet our clients, especially those in highly regulated industries, where they are in their digital journey, while giving them choices for migrating or modernizing their mission critical workloads with a hybrid cloud approach.”

        John Granger. Credits: IBM

Brian Duffy. Credits: SAP

Brian Duffy, President of Cloud, SAP, also noted:

“BREAKTHROUGH with IBM is an outstanding complement to RISE with SAP as it lays the foundation for our customers to embark on or advance their business transformation journeys. Further, it reaffirms the value customers recognize from RISE with SAP and the impact and innovation opportunity RISE with SAP offers to organizations that move to the cloud. I have every confidence that the combined expertise and experience SAP and IBM offer will accelerate cloud adoption and business growth for customers across the globe.”

IBM and SAP have worked with global clients on many individual projects to modernize their systems and business processes based on an open, hybrid cloud approach- Coca-Cola European Partners, Parle Products, Harmont & Blaine, Puravankara Ltd and Virgin Megastore KSA.