Dive Brief:
- SAP turned to AWS to help drive adoption of the GROW with SAP cloud-based ERP solution, the software giant said Tuesday. The hyperscaler will begin offering the modular, SaaS-based ERP package through AWS Marketplace in the coming months.
- The update deepens a longstanding partnership between the technology providers. AWS began offering the RISE with SAP solution, an incentive-laden ERP migration package to move on-prem customers to cloud, in May.
- “We were the first cloud provider certified to support the SAP portfolio,” Ruba Borno, VP of specialists and partners at AWS, said in the announcement. “GROW with SAP on AWS represents our shared commitment to continuing to make it easy to realize the benefits of cloud ERP.”
Dive Insight:
The alliance expansion caps a year of cloud-centered transformation at SAP.
The company rolled out a multibillion dollar restructuring plan in January, prioritizing cloud ERP solutions brimming with business AI capabilities and anchored in consumption-based pricing.
Concurrently, CEO Christian Klein created a board-level unit helmed by SAP executive Thomas Saueressig to help drive the shift to cloud services as the company doubled down on plans to end mainstream maintenance for on-prem ERP Central Component systems in 2027.
GROW with SAP is designed to bring new customers into the fold and ease adoption of S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, the successor to ECC.
The modular ERP brings together prebuilt solutions for manufacturing and service-based industries, activation guidance tools and embedded AI and automation capabilities, Jan Gilg, president and chief product officer, cloud ERP, said in a Tuesday blog post.
“The solution helps accelerate time-to-value by offering preconfigured processes, guided tools and proven methodologies,” Gilg said.
GROW with SAP on AWS integrates billing as well as cloud-based capabilities. Customers will be billed for ERP usage through AWS and the partnership will enable them to pay for SAP services using existing cloud credits and commitments, the companies said.
