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New offering has been designed to accelerate the movement of SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to Cloud.

Technology companies IBM and SAP SE unveiled plans to release RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, a service designed to streamline the shift of IBM Power customers’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to the cloud. Using IBM Power Virtual Server, the cloud-based version of IBM’s Power platform, customers can move their SAP ERP systems to the cloud faster.

“I think it is saying something in terms of both IBM and Oracle getting more market share and being more active in cloud services alongside the big three,” he said. Research published last year by what was then the Cloud Industry Forum and is now the Tech Industry Forum, revealed a stronger than expected showing for smaller cloud providers – particularly in organisations employing fewer than 1000 people.

Application and big data integration are critical to every business. From accessing data source systems to sharing information through APIs, discovering what is happening in your business to responding quickly through data streaming platforms or events, we see improvement across use cases. Today, IBM has announced the availability of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 16.1.1. This modification release enhances the previous IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 16.1.0 version. It will be of interest to customers choosing to deploy Continuous Delivery updates rather than a Long-Term Support model.  

New offering designed to move SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 days IBM realized 30% reduction.

SAP® introduced RISE with SAP to help customers modernize their SAP ERP landscape and move to cloud. With the 2027 deadline for the end of mainstream maintenance of SAP ECC, more customers are considering their transition to RISE with SAP.1 It contains outcome-driven services, Cloud ERP on SAP S/4HANA® and platforms that help customers focus on driving value for their business instead of managing complex infrastructure with specialized talent.

New offering designed to move SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 daysIndustry-leading reliability1 and built-in security of Power platform2Customized investment program to ease the transition to RISE with SAPFor over half a century, enterprises have used IBM’s infrastructure to host their mission-critical SAP systems for round-the-clock operations and safeguarding their sensitive business data. In 2022, SAP partnered with IBM to offer cloud infrastructure and technical managed services with the Premium Supplier option for RISE with SAP. To further help clients accelerate their move to Cloud ERP, IBM and SAP have announced the upcoming release of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server. IBM Power Virtual Server offers a unique advantage to those enterprises that run SAP workloads on IBM Power servers in on-premise environments. It can help reduce risk and improve SAP S/4HANA migration time from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 days.3 The solution is planned to be available in the second quarter of 2025.

An announcement Tuesday by IBM and SAP detailing the upcoming release of an offering designed to move SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to the cloud within 90 days has been described by an industry analyst as seeming “like a sales and marketing play more than anything.” Scott Bickley, advisory practice lead at Info-Tech Research, said a press release  outlining the pending launch of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, scheduled for the second quarter of 2025, “touts 10,000 customers over 50 years running SAP on IBM. That provides no real information about how many customers currently run SAP on IBM, and SAP has 437,000 customers, so even if all 10,000 are running SAP on IBM, that is ~2%, which is not material.” What it does, he said, is provide “another option for SAP customers who want to move to the cloud and run S/4HANA to utilize the IBM Power Virtual Server.”

Together, IBM and SAP aim to help organizations more seamlessly transition and modernize their on-premises ERP environments to the cloud and support AI-powered business processes. As a new SAP hyperscaler offering, RISE with SAP on IBM power Virtual Server can help reduce risk and improve SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration time from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 days.

International Business Machines Corp ( IBM, Financial ) and SAP SE have announced the launch of “RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server,” a new offering designed to facilitate the migration of SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to the cloud within 90 days. From a financial standpoint, IBM’s partnership with SAP to offer RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server is a strategic move to capture a larger share of the cloud ERP market.