IBM and SAP Strengthen Partnership to Help Clients Engage Cloud

IBM is teaming with SAP to provide a portfolio of solutions and consulting services that help accelerate and amplify the journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Built on a scalable platform, the solutions and services use intelligent workflows to streamline operations, and provide an engagement model that helps plan, execute and support business transformation. Clients can thereby migrate SAP solution workloads to the public cloud with the support of deep industry expertise.

Intended benefits include projected revenue increases as high as 90%, reduced operational costs, and improved productivity.

“We are thrilled to advance our long-standing partnership through RISE with SAP,” said John Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting. “Our shared commitment is to meet our clients, especially those in highly regulated industries, where they are in their digital journey, while giving them choices for migrating or modernizing their mission-critical workloads with a hybrid cloud approach.”

IBM and SAP have worked with hundreds of clients globally on thousands of individual projects to help customers leverage the cloud. Recent examples include Coca-Cola European Partners, Parle Products, Harmont & Blaine, Puravankara Ltd and Virgin Megastore KSA.

Channel Impact^®
The alliance expands US-based As clients look to adopt hybrid cloud strategies, moving the workloads and applications that are the backbone of their enterprise operation requires a highly secured and reliable cloud environment. With the launch of this initiative, clients will have the tools to help accelerate the migration of their on-premise SAP software workloads to IBM Cloud.