RISE with SAP towards a Sustainable Enterprise: Become a value-driven, sustainable, and resilient enterprise using RISE with SAP

Get insights and guidance on various challenges within the industry and what business levers you can consider to effortlessly lead your business transformation through RISE with SAP

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Key Features

• Gain actionable insights into end-to-end process performance with process analytics
• Scale performance and reliability to accelerate your journey to the cloud and beyond
• Get a clear overview of the enabling tools and services you can leverage for the transformation

Book Description

If you’re unsure whether adopting SAP S/4HANA is the right move for your enterprise, then this book is for you. This practical and comprehensive guide will help you determine your next steps toward building a business case, while preparing you for all the possible scenarios and enabling you to make informed decisions during implementation. RISEwith SAP toward a Sustainable Enterprise is packed with clear and detailed advice, including a run-through of what it takes to design the landscape using RISE with SAP. As you go through the chapters, you’ll get a solid understanding of precisely what services are available (such as Process Discovery, data migration, the fit-to-standard approach), and which scope items on RISE with SAP should be considered, allowing you to make the most of RISE with the SAP-based model. Finally, you’ll get an overview of different industry-based use cases and how they can be brought to reality with the platform that’s set up on the RISE with SAP offering. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build a detailed business case to determine if RISE with SAP is the right transformation engine for you, along with a clear idea of optimized landscape design on RISE with SAP that addresses the pain points for your implementation and support activities.

What you will learn

• Understand the challenges faced by organizations and CXOs with the emerging market trends
• Know what to consider when creating a business case for RISE with SAP
• Explore deployment options within RISE with SAP and other functional and non-functional services
• Understand optimized landscape design on RISE with SAP along with effective implementation and support
• Take the optimum approach in adopting S/4HANA with levers like Process Discovery, testing, and automation
• Discover possibilities when dealing with SAP, the vendor ecosystem, and cloud products driven by industries

Who this book is for

This book is for CXOs and solutions and enterprise architects who’ve been working in the SAP ecosystem and want practical and concise advice on how to get up and running with the adoption of S/4HANA by leveraging RISE with SAP as the enabling engine. This book is also for professionals working toward creating a business case and trying to identify all possible best practices around the adoption of RISE with SAP and associated industry use cases. Prior experience with either SAP or a different ERP will help you get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Truth and Dare: The CxO Challenges
2. Faith of Four: Vision of the Masters
3. Eureka Moment: The missing link
4. Intelligent Enterprise and Sustainable Design
5. Cloud with a Silver Lining: Busting the Myth - Part 1
6. Cloud with a Silver Lining: Busting the Myth - Part 2
7. Back to the Drawing Board: Reimagined Processes
8. The Exodus: Data that Matters
9. The Pilot: High Stakes
10. All In: Leap of Faith
11. Innovation Unleashed: A Hunger Game
12. Digital Supremacy: The Path to Sustainable Growth

Adil Zafar is an Associate Partner with over 22 years of experience as a S/4HANA Technical Architect. He is also the Global Leader for RISE with SAP at IBM. Over the years Adil has developed into an all-rounder with a hands-on approach to winning and delivering SAP consulting services. Adil is an experienced S/4HANA Technical Solutions Architect, Technical Project Manager and Delivery Manager. He is an experienced Team Builder managing teams both onshore and offshore.

Dharma Alturi is an Executive Architect and certified Data Scientist with over 20 years of experience. He is currently leading the RISE with SAP engagement at IBM as a chief architect. Over the years, Dharma has also held other roles throughout his career as Chief Data Scientist for NexGen ADMI and Strategic engagements. Being the chief architect and a global leader in RISE with SAP and NextGen ADMI offering, he works closely with SAP, AWS, Azure, Celonis and ServiceNow.

Sanket Taur is a technology evangelist and Enterprise Architect. In past two decades has helped several global clients, across industries, define and realize their digital strategies and business transformation goals using hybrid cloud platforms and innovative digital solutions on SAP and non-SAP landscapes. As an Associate Partner and a global offering leader in Intelligent and Sustainable Enterprise within IBM, he works closely with ecosystem partners like SAP, Red Hat, AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Mihir Gor is an IBM Distinguished Engineer with over 25 years of IBM and SAP proven delivery experience. He is IBM-SAP Global Sustainability Innovation Hub leader designing solutions that help our clients to meet their ESG goals and objectives powered by the fusion of IBM and SAP technology solutions.