RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server

Faster and non-disruptive move to RISE with SAP

For over half a century, enterprises have used IBM's infrastructure to host their mission-critical SAP systems for round-the-clock operations and safeguarding sensitive business data. As the next step to help accelerate their move to Cloud ERP, SAP will offer IBM Power Virtual Server as the hyperscaler cloud infrastructure for RISE with SAP.

RISE with SAP is a methodology-based journey designed for SAP ERP customers to move to the SAP Business Suite that brings together SAP cloud ERP applications, SAP Business AI, and SAP Business Data Cloud. IBM Power Virtual Server offers a unique advantage to the enterprises that run SAP landscape on IBM Power servers: It is designed for a faster and non-disruptive move to RISE with SAP.

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Accelerate adoption of RISE with SAP utilizing IBM Power Virtual Server

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Benefits

Accelerate adoption of RISE with SAP utilizing IBM Power Virtual Server

90 days

Designed to move SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 days

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Ranked in availability among SAP-certified servers

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Fewer critical vulnerabilities and exposures in hypervisor of Power servers since 2020 as compared to SAP-certified clouds using other hypervisors*

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Investment program

To help ease customers transition to RISE with SAP on Power Virtual Server, IBM is launching a customized investment program to support early-stage technical assessments by SIs or resell partners, migration execution, and the deployment of surrounding non-RISE (SAP and non-SAP) workloads to cloud.

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IBM Power buyback program

IBM Transformation Suite for SAP Applications

To further accelerate Cloud ERP migration, IBM Transformation Suite for SAP Applications brings software and services from IBM and partners such as SNP that automates essential migration tasks, including technical assessments, data and code migration, code analysis, and automated testing.

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One of the industry’s largest RISE with SAP implementation

IBM’s own Quote-to-Cash and Record-to-Report operations now run on RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server. This deployment supports 150K users across 175+ countries and was moved to RISE with SAP in 18 months.

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The Struggle to Migrate SAP to the Cloud Just Got Easier

IDC research has found that:

The top 3 reasons for moving all SAP workloads to IaaS are high performance, data protection, and cloud migration support.
The top 3 reasons for specifically moving SAP HANA to IaaS are data control, easier integration with other portions of the SAP landscape, and greater transactional and analytics performance.
The top 3 reasons for choosing a specific IaaS provider are better security, having the most performant virtualized IaaS, and being the most cost-efficient.

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