Expanded Premium Supplier Option with IBM for
RISE with SAP Now Supports Cloud Workloads Using IBM Power
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud
ARMONK, N.Y. and WALLDORF,
Germany, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and
SAP today announced the latest milestone in their long-standing
partnership as IBM undertakes one of the world's largest corporate
transformation projects based on SAP® ERP software, designed to
fuel the company's growth and better support its clients.
As part of the expanded partnership, IBM is migrating to SAP
S/4HANA®, SAP's next-generation ERP software, to perform work
across more than 120 countries, 1,000 legal entities and numerous
IBM businesses supporting software, hardware, consulting and
finance. The project is focused on improving business processes
with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, premium supplier
option with IBM Consulting, and will ultimately move more than 375
TB of data to IBM Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud.
RISE with SAP brings together what businesses need to pursue their
digital transformation objectives and accelerate their move to the
cloud.
Driven by the need to modernize processes and deliver better
insights to support clients running in the cloud, RISE with SAP is
helping IBM centralize and standardize data worldwide. With access
to the SAP HANA® database, data can be accessed in real time and
shared more efficiently among business units and teams. The
expanded partnership will also help with improved decision-making
supported by AI and automated workflows. Once the transformation is
completed, nearly all of IBM's US$58
billion in revenue will flow through SAP software.
"This expanded partnership will enable IBM to accelerate its
business transformation in the cloud and fuel its future growth,"
said Christian Klein, CEO and Member
of the Executive Board of SAP SE. "As a result, IBM will be
positioned to provide the highest value of support and flexibility
to its clients, allowing them to simplify and accelerate their
business transformations while benefitting from the full value of
RISE with SAP."
This business transformation will eventually move more than
300 SAP instances and consolidate 500 servers with the RISE with
SAP solution on IBM Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud.
The migration to SAP S/4HANA is already in progress across the
company's software business unit. The initial deployment is focused
on IBM's software-as-a-service and billing system and is already
benefiting clients and IBM business partners through simplified
billing and payment systems while enabling orders and contracts to
be processed quickly.
IBM Consulting, with more than 38,000 highly trained SAP
consultants, is leading the transformation providing the advisory,
implementation, security, industry and technical expertise required
to move these complex systems and applications to a digital
environment. This is another example of IBM and SAP's accelerated
ecosystem strategy, teaming up on both technology and consulting
expertise while supporting most any cloud environment to help make
it easier for clients to embrace a hybrid cloud approach and
move their mission-critical SAP software workloads to the
cloud.
"Enterprise clients are seeking increased choice and control as
they modernize their mission-critical workloads. Enabled by RISE
with SAP, this is a milestone business transformation initiative
for both companies due to its complexity and scale," said
Arvind Krishna, IBM Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer. "With this move, and IBM's experience
using RISE with SAP internally, we will be even better prepared to
support our clients on their hybrid cloud and business
transformation journeys."
Expanded Premium Supplier Option for RISE with SAP
on IBM Power on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud
To provide clients more flexibility and computing power,
including those in highly regulated industries, IBM is making the
same cloud-based computing power that is underpinning its own
migration available to clients. For clients who run RISE with SAP
on IBM Cloud, an expansion of the premium supplier
option provides an additional choice to run workloads on IBM
Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud.
As a premium supplier, IBM was the first cloud provider to offer
infrastructure, technical managed services, business transformation
and application management services as part of RISE with SAP. With
clients increasingly leveraging hybrid cloud strategies to
modernize their workloads, IBM and SAP are giving clients running
on Power servers the ability to use RISE with SAP S/4HANA on Power
infrastructure consistent with the architecture they run on
premise. Underpinned exclusively by Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
businesses running IBM Power on IBM Cloud will be able to achieve
high levels of performance in a cloud environment for their
mission-critical workloads, with the flexibility, resiliency and
security features delivered by IBM and Red Hat.
To learn more about the RISE with SAP offering, please visit:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/services/rise-with-sap-premium.
About IBM
IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business
services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries
capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business
processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their
industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in
critical infrastructure areas such as financial services,
telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud
platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital
transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's
breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing,
industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver
open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by
IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility,
inclusivity and service.
Visit www.ibm.com for more information.
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About SAP
SAP's strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent,
sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise
application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all
industries run at their best: SAP customers generate 87% of total
global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT),
and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers' businesses
into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give people and
organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that
helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology
for companies so they can consume our software the way they want –
without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and
services enables business and public customers across 25 industries
globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a
difference. With a global network of customers, partners,
employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and
improve people's lives. For more information, visit
www.sap.com.
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SAP
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IBM
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