Non-disruptive SAP ERP modernization on IBM Power

SAP ECC has been the ERP resolution for over twenty years that runs the core enterprise of many world enterprises. Whereas SAP launched their next-generation ERP, S/4HANA, in 2015 and introduced its plans to discontinue the help for ECC by 2027, more than 60% of customers have but to provoke their transfer to S/4HANA¹. A key cause for this hesitancy is the complexity and value of migrating to a brand new ERP platform. With ECC driving mission-critical processes, companies can not afford disruption to their day-to-day operations. Since 2021, SAP’s method to simplifying this was to create a SaaS-based resolution for S/4HANA on a single contract known as RISE with SAP that features software program, infrastructure and providers emigrate to S/4HANA. SAPinsider’s RISE with SAP 2023 report identified the first profit as the only contract that allows a cheap transfer². 

With the approaching 2027 deadline to maneuver to S/4HANA, now’s the time for companies to begin executing their modernization technique, contemplating their priorities, panorama and the ROI of the transformation. As with most enterprise IT modernization packages, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all resolution. Transferring to S/4HANA may contain modernizing the stack from software to database to infrastructure, relying on the present ERP panorama. The important thing to figuring out probably the most non-disruptive method is figuring out what must be modified and retained in your structure, contemplating the short-term and long-term advantages.

SAP presents each cloud and on-prem deployment choices for S/4HANA. Nonetheless, SAP has introduced that each one their newest improvements round generative AI and sustainability capabilities will solely be obtainable on the cloud model of S/4HANA, which is barely obtainable by the RISE providing. This additionally implies that any S/4HANA deployment on the Cloud apart from by RISE is S/4HANA AnyPremise, that’s, the on-premise license hosted within the Cloud and never S/4HANA Cloud. Whether or not companies wish to transfer to S/4HANA Cloud or host S/4HANA AnyPremise within the cloud, or proceed to run SAP workloads in an on-premise atmosphere, IBM^® presents the flexibleness and selection of hybrid cloud choices and is the one IaaS supplier that provides SAP-certified instances on Energy and Intel x86 architectures³.

SAP ERP modernization on Energy servers

Over 4,800 prospects worldwide select to run their mission-critical SAP HANA atmosphere on IBM Energy servers. The SAP ERP workloads working on IBM Energy AIX, IBM i and Linux environments may be deployed on-premises or within the cloud for Manufacturing, DR and Check & Growth use circumstances. As Tom McPherson, General Manager of IBM Power, stated: “Purchasers can leverage the advantages of cloud whereas additionally nurturing their on-premises SAP on Energy environments as they construct out their long-term hybrid cloud technique.” For patrons transferring to S/4HANA, listed below are the SAP-certified hybrid cloud deployment choices on Energy. 

As a premium provider of RISE with SAP, IBM is the only SAP partner providing cloud infrastructure and consulting providers⁴. By combining IBM Energy Digital Server on IBM Cloud with our advisory, implementation, software, safety and technical managed providers, we simplify buyer’s transfer to S/4HANA. 

Inherent to the supply of RISE premium provider, IBM’s ManagePlus control plane has the flexibleness to supply managed providers for RISE with SAP and supported non-RISE functions. This permits IBM to handle end-to-end workflows that embody SAP and supported non-SAP functions. This additionally allows shoppers to rework at their very own tempo by doing a carry and shift of their current SAP panorama to a RISE-ready cloud panorama.

Constructing on our 50-year partnership with SAP, IBM presents the mixture of SAP-enabled transformation experience with IBM Consulting and enterprise-grade cloud platform capabilities that assist speed up our consumer’s ERP modernization journey. We’ll work with you to construct and help a non-disruptive and cost-effective execution technique for S/4HANA transformation with RISE.

If you need to be taught extra, join us for the webinar “Non-disruptive modernization of SAP workloads working on AIX, IBM i and Linux environments,” the place we’ll cowl:

• Cloud modernization choices for SAP ERP on AIX, IBM i and Linux on Energy environments
• Essential issues whereas evaluating these choices
• Methods to get began

Join the IBM TechXchange webinar, March 6, 2024

^{1 https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/sap_ecc_migration_s4hana/
2 https://sapinsider.org/research-reports/rise-with-sap-2023/
3 Checklist of Certified IaaS platforms for SAP HANA
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