Choosing Between GROW with SAP & RISE with SAP for Business Transformation

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Choosing Between GROW with SAP & RISE with SAP for Business

Transformation

Growth Strategies for Mid-market Companies

GROW with SAP & RISE with SAP: An Introduction

GROW with SAP is Changing the Future of Mid-market Businesses

Choose the right path for your business: GROW with SAP vs RISE with SAP

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As a midsize business ripe for making it big, it makes sense to overhaul your technology systems for business management.

The mid-size market has, in fact, been characterized by a positive and optimistic outlook, serving as a fertile ground for unconventional innovations, innovative ideas and unique product-service combinations.

However, despite the rapid development of this market, many leaders in the mid-market sector face significant economic challenges at both the macro and micro level, such as inflation, disruptions in the supply chain, shortage of raw materials and a lack of skilled workers.

These challenges make it exceedingly difficult for them to maintain a steady pace of growth.

A critical growth strategy for mid-sized companies is to undergo digital transformation across the entire value chain, from production to sales. Digital transformation can help businesses save time, improve efficiencies, enhance customer experiences and ultimately increase profitability.

In order to achieve this, mid-sized companies are turning to growth-focused cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions as the next-generation solution.

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Growth Strategies for Mid-market Companies

Streamline processes, automate workflows and provide real-time insights into business operations, allowing mid-sized companies to make better, data-driven decisions.

It’s becoming increasingly common for mid-sized companies to adopt or plan to invest in ERP solutions. In order to succeed, businesses must prioritize technology and utilize ERP solutions to improve internal operations and enhance customer experiences.

SAP has recently introduced GROW with SAP, a solution aimed at providing a comprehensive cloud-based ERP suite to mid-market businesses.

The offering includes SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud along with faster adoption services, pre-configured best practices, embedded AI, automation capabilities and SAP Business Technology Platform.

GROW with SAP & RISE with SAP: An Introduction

GROW with SAP has overlaps and differences with RISE with SAP and SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud.

 RISE with SAP is a more flexible and tailored offering that aims to provide a complete solution using cloud services from SAP. It targets the existing SAP customer base running on other SAP solutions.

This program is highly customizable to meet the specific needs of each customer, and it is part of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private E dition or 2-Tier for Large Enterprise use cases like Subsidiaries, Divesture, Acquisition, New Incubation, and more.

 GROW with SAP is designed to be leaner, more straightforward, and more predictable. It includes well-structured SKUs to onboard customers and get them live in just a few weeks with a controlled budget and deliverables. This program is targeted at mid-size companies and Net New Names with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition.

GROW with SAP is Changing the Future of Mid-market Businesses

GROW with SAP is specifically designed to cater to the needs of medium sized businesses looking for a fast deployment option. It offers several significant benefits, such as –

 Fast deployment of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud

 Uncomplicated evaluation and deployment process

 Access to case studies and relevant data to assist customers in creating optimized rollout plans

 Continuous automation and innovation

To ensure these key benefits, the solution is put forward with some critical features that include:

 Ready-to-run cloud ERP solution for small and midsize companies

 Self-service acceleration tools and services

 Embedded SAP Build portfolio that includes low-code solutions built on SAP BTP for onthe-go automation

 Ready-to-go preconfigured processes

Choose the right path for your business: GROW with SAP vs RISE with SAP

GROW with SAP has primarily been modeled on the lines of RISE for a parallel mid-market, there are some specific differentiators to enable the product-fit for this market.

As a midsize business ripe for making it big, it makes sense to overhaul your technology systems for business management.

The mid-size market has, in fact, been characterized by a positive and optimistic outlook, serving as a fertile ground for unconventional innovations, innovative ideas and unique product-service combinations.

However, despite the rapid development of this market, many leaders in the mid-market sector face significant economic challenges at both the macro and micro level, such as inflation, disruptions in the supply chain, shortage of raw materials and a lack of skilled workers.

These challenges make it exceedingly difficult for them to maintain a steady pace of growth.

A critical growth strategy for mid-sized companies is to undergo digital transformation across the entire value chain, from production to sales. Digital transformation can help businesses save time, improve efficiencies, enhance customer experiences and ultimately increase profitability.

In order to achieve this, mid-sized companies are turning to growth-focused cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions as the next-generation solution.

Choose the right path for your business: GROW with SAP vs RISE with SAP

GROW with SAP has primarily been modeled on the lines of RISE for a parallel mid-market, there are some specific differentiators to enable the product-fit for this market.

Particulars

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition

RISE with SAP Cloud, Public Edition

GROW with SAP

Description

Basics A ready-to-run cloud ERP that delivers the latest industry best practices and offers continuous innovation.

Full SaaS ERP

Highly flexible, included in base and premium

BPA Build Process Automation

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition + BTP Build

These services are part of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition, so for any of the offerings;

Continuous Upgrades Extensibility

Digital Supplier Network (Ariba)

Delivered by SAP, with VC ERP integrations

AIN Asset Intelligence Network

Baseline Activation Service (Activation of foundation scope in 30 days max using predefined bundle) are part of the standard SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition, so it’s included in all 3 offerings:

Fixed scope and price

Signavio PM Business Process Insights BPI

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One legal entity

Finance (Accounting and Financial Close,

Disaster Recovery capabilities Test and Data Refresh options

Operations, Treasury, etc.) Sourcing and Procurement (Supplier Management, Sourcing and Sourcing and contract management, Procurement, or Invoice management) Sales (Order and contract management) Supply Chain (Order processing, Inventory)

Activation Accelerators (Templates and automation accelerators for configuration, migration, and testing)

Targeted for Existing SAP customers, Large Enterprise Tier 1 (ECC customers) and Tier 2 (ECC or S/4HANA customers with subsidiaries or acquisitions)

Editions Base and Premium Base (Procure to Pay, Order to Cash and Finance fundamentals + BTP Process Automation , CPEA Credits)

Premium Same as Base + BTP Build Apps (low Code/No code) + Finance Accelerators

Base and Premium Base with basic finance capabilities and BTP usage Premium Same as Base with enhanced Finance for more prominent midmarket companies.

Support (Incident Management and Issue Resolution)

AMS Managed Services Advisory (Strategy, Roadmap, Business Consulting)

Continuous Innovation Services (e.g. iRPA, AI/ML, Industry Cloud Extension)

AMS (Content Management, Release Management, Process, Scope Expansion)

Functional

Technical AMS (Extensibility Framework, Cloud Development & Integration)

Data Management & Services

* This table is not an exhaustive list; it’s an April 2023 status, highly prone to changes, aimed to show the differentiation of the three offerings to give you an overview of the situation.

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GROW with SAP is a targeted cloud ERP offering for small and mid-market players, with a clear roadmap, predictable pricing, and rapid implementation timeline. This move is expected to tap into the parallel mid-market demand, potentially driving the next wave of growth for the company, building on the success of RISE.

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