SAP RISE 2.0

SAP Suite on Hana as the BTP model of the future

SAP Business Suite 7 is a mature, proven, and stable ERP system. The Business Suite has three major issues: a database licensing issue with AnyDB (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft), a modification issue in the Z namespace with Abap, and a cloud lift-and-shift issue with an on-prem environment. What is the next step?

With SAP Hana, SAP has created an expensive but powerful alternative to AnyDB. Existing Suite 7 customers suffer from double database fees during migration, but with SoH (Suite on Hana) there is a powerful and innovative solution.

SAP's Abap programming language has been carefully renovated in recent years (codename: Steampunk) and is now available to partners and customers on the SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) as a hybrid solution (on-prem and cloud). The SAP Clean Core concept provides a roadmap for getting out of the modification jungle.

SoH is hybrid-cloud ready, but with BTP it is an ERP solution that can be fully migrated to the cloud in the coming years, meeting all the requirements of modern cloud computing.

RISE with SAP with EOL

With RISE, SAP's cloud roadmap for S/4 should have been given a forward-looking concept. But the RISE idea was formulated too quickly, communicated poorly, and which resulted in it not having the desired effect. RISE 2.0 was supposed to be a new offering with another ECC maintenance extension. However, SAP's announcement of the Business Data Cloud interfered with this plan.

SAP BTP with Business Data Cloud (the new name for SAP Datasphere) is now even more powerful and attractive, making it the ultimate composable ERP and therefore EOL for S/4 Hana. Many existing SAP customers will choose a BTP-BDC roadmap over an S/4 conversion.

SAP Business Data Cloud

Similar to SAP BTP, Business Data Cloud (BDC) will require consolidation and orchestration after years of maturation. With SAP Data Hub, Datasphere and now BDC, at least SAP's good will to build a sensible MDM (Data Master Management) is recognizable. Of course, better is the enemy of good, and there are some data platforms that can already do something similar to what SAP is promising for the future.

Boomi, a powerful addition to SAP BTP, will be presented to the SAP community at the Steampunk and BTP Summit on March 5 and 6 in Heidelberg, Germany. SAP customers are already using both platforms in parallel. Detailed information will also be available in Heidelberg. Register now (event is held in German) and successfully plan your own data management for the next ERP evolution.