Introducing the migration readiness accelerator for RISE with SAP on AWS

This post was jointly authored by AWS and SAP. We thank Amit Gupta, Head of Global Customer Engagement Excellence Centers at Enterprise Cloud Services at SAP, Sascha Soulier, Global Customer Engagement Migration Expert at Enterprise Cloud Services at SAP, Saurabh Sharma, SAP RISE – Cloud Architecture & Advisory at Enterprise Cloud Services at SAP, and Varun Varma Pinnamaraju, Global Customer Engagement Migration Expert at Enterprise Cloud Services for their contributions to our successful partnership and this blog post.

RISE with SAP on AWS overview

RISE with SAP is an offering from SAP that helps you transform on-premises SAP ERP systems, modernize business processes, and become agile in the cloud. RISE with SAP on AWS helps you to innovate faster, transform business processes, accelerate the move to cloud ERP, maximize performance, and protect against business disruption. AWS offers unwavering security, performance, and reliability for RISE with SAP. Thousands of customers have selected AWS for RISE with SAP, including leading enterprises such as PPG Industries, Zurich Insurance, Grupo LaLa, and Klismasan.

Safeguarding RISE with SAP on AWS adoption

The migration readiness accelerator for RISE with SAP on AWS is a complimentary offering from AWS and SAP to help you accelerate your readiness for RISE with SAP on AWS. In this blog, we will share additional details about the offering, and how you can work with AWS and SAP to take advantage of it.

While RISE with SAP presents ample opportunity to take advantage of the latest innovation from SAP and AWS, you must prepare to achieve a successful transition and navigate through unplanned challenges. Many customers are looking for additional support and guidance to help them embark on their transformation journey due to limited to bandwidth to prepare for RISE with SAP adoption, challenges in building business case, and limited skills on SAP S/4HANA and cloud. You need a comprehensive plan to address the key challenges in migration of the application landscape, custom ABAP programs, transactional and master data, and integration with other SAP and non-SAP applications. The migration may also require changing legacy business processes to take full advantage of the functional process improvements in RISE with SAP.

migration readiness accelerator for RISE with SAP on AWS
Addressing the challenges mentioned above early in the process is crucial to ensure smooth RISE with SAP on AWS adoption. It is worth noting that while each customer IT landscape is unique, the migration concerns are not. An ideal way to get a comprehensive understanding of the current environment, and what needs to be done in a migration, is to conduct a comprehensive migration readiness assessment. While migration readiness accelerator for RISE with SAP on AWS will help you plan the migration, the exercise of a detailed migration planning will remain the joint responsibility of you and the migration partner.

To help you accelerate migration readiness activities, AWS and SAP partnered to offer migration readiness accelerator for RISE with SAP on AWS. AWS and SAP will work backwards from your requirements, current landscape, and transformation plan and perform a comprehensive readiness check for customers. The scope of migration readiness offering includes SAP landscape discovery, SAP S/4HANA readiness, ERP transformation analysis, integration / interface discovery, network and connectivity discovery, and RISE with SAP on AWS migration planning.

AWS and SAP will use KTern.AI’s Digital Maps product as part of this offering. KTern.AI provides a non-invasive approach to accelerated SAP Digital Transformation Assessment for your SAP ERP environment with a rapid, thorough analysis that does not require any add-ons, transports, or plugins in your existing system. KTern.AI’s Digital Maps connect to the SAP system to assess business processes and modules and provide insights on integrations and transaction documents. KTern.AI’s Digital Maps generate test scenario recommendations automatically. KTern.AI’s Digital Maps also analyze custom objects, including code impact analysis and optimization insights.

You will receive the KTern.AI Digital Maps report and access to the tool, RISE transformation guidance, and inputs for RISE with SAP on AWS Bill-of-Material (BOM) to make informed decisions on your RISE with SAP on AWS journey. As customers are making plans to enhance their business operation with RISE, they are also looking for guidance on IT applications that don’t fit in to RISE (legacy SAP applications, bolt-ons, and non-SAP applications). This program will act as an input for SAP to provide a comprehensive transformation plan for your future SAP landscape.

You will realize several benefits by leveraging migration readiness accelerator for RISE with SAP on AWS offering.

• Migrate with confidence based on prescriptive guidance from SAP, AWS, and KTern.AI
• Reduced complexity and risk with data-driven insights and decision-making
• Accelerated journey to RISE by leveraging a unique combination of tools, accelerators, and best practices
• Expedite migration assessment by 4x compared to manual assessment process for migration

This migration assessment takes a holistic perspective and analyses business processes, custom objects, simplification list items, and overall usage of the existing system. You will receive a comprehensive report that can be used for project planning and stakeholder communication. Getting this insight, with the confidence of being backed by best practices, removes risk and allows the migration to start on a solid foundation.

Migrate with Confidence 
You can embark on their digital transformation journey with confidence, guided by the collective expertise of SAP, AWS, and KTern.AI. This collaboration offers prescriptive guidance that provides automated data-driven insights and decision-making tools and will help navigate the complexities of migration with reduced risk and minimal disruption to your operations. The migration readiness accelerator can also help create the business case for transition to RISE with SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition, while helping understand the scope, complexity, and effort required for transformation.

Contact a member of the SAP Sales team at AWS, a member of your SAP sales account team to know more about migration readiness accelerator for RISE with SAP on AWS. To learn more about the AWS/SAP partnership, visit thinkwithwp.com/sap.