RISE with SAP. SOAR with Accenture.

RISE with SAP is a comprehensive set of packages, with SAP S/4HANA® at the core, to help companies transform and innovate, redesign business processes, reduce internal complexity, and adopt new business models in the cloud. RISE with SAP is offered on a subscription basis, enabling clients to run their SAP estate in a SaaS-like model with cloud economics.

SOAR with Accenture is a solution and service portfolio that complements and is optimized for RISE with SAP deployments. It increases the value clients realize from RISE with SAP and accelerates their journey to and in the cloud. It also allows clients to move across the full spectrum of the Cloud Continuum with confidence and certainty.

An intelligent enterprise is an organization that is digitally driven and powered by cloud technologies to enable agility and faster speed to market. It is underpinned by analytics and other leading-edge technologies, it is capable of dynamic self-management and continual adaptation. It is designed to maximize value under the most dynamic and demanding market circumstances. It is proactive and able to anticipate and respond to shifting business conditions, customer expectations, stakeholder demands and ecosystem potential.

Intelligent enterprises collaborate with a broad range of ecosystem partners, including academic institutions, start-ups, alliances and even competitors to meet customer needs and acquire new capabilities. They share assets and analytics to define new markets that cross industries.

SAP works with all the major cloud providers, also called hyperscalers—including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. Accenture is the leading partner for all three, offering deeper experience, faster innovation, rapid delivery and exceptional speed to market and innovation.

Driven partly by the COVID pandemic and partly by the blistering pace of technology change, market and business change, companies are finding themselves in a position of continuous flux and adaptation. As Accenture characterizes it, succeeding in this time of compressed transformation requires a reversal of the typical or received wisdom about cloud penetration: Instead of being 20% in the cloud and 80% on-premise, those numbers will be reversed. Think of companies moving to 80% in the cloud and doing so not in a decade but in just a few years, and managing transformation in multiple parts of the organization at the same time. That is both the challenge and opportunity ahead.

Companies’ enterprise systems and technology used to run their business are often at least a decade old and not up to new challenges. Only a cloud-first strategy, executed at a faster speed than companies are accustomed to, can deliver the required resilience, agility, and customer focus that is required.