For customers with a higher degree of standardization and fewer incentives to manage their infrastructure, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is a more suitable solution. However, for customers with a higher degree of standardization, requiring more control over the solution and infrastructure, and an identified roadmap, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition is a better solution for ERP transformation.  
 
RISE with SAP Methodology built around SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition focuses on providing a cloud-centric clean-core focused end-to-end framework empowering the customers to transform their ERP and modernize their business processes. It aims at accelerated transformation and seamless implementation leveraging a wide spectrum of SAP solutions built for the cloud and SAP’s expert guidance. RISE with SAP comes in three editions – Base, Premium and Premium Plus – incrementally progressing from a simpler to more complex solution tailored for small to large organizations.
 
Benefits of Rise With SAP Methodology –
1. Accelerated ERP Transformation suitable for both Greenfield and Brownfield implementations, leading to cost reduction and quicker business readiness.
2. Significant impetus on the Standardization and Clean Core enabling the solution to be more future-proof. This ensures optimization of business processes, quicker implementation and overall financial benefits.
3. Empowered by an integrated toolchain (solutions like Signavio, LeanIX, Test Automation by Tricentis, Enable Now etc.) for a more structured implementation. These tools offer a spectrum of benefits like agility, cost-effectiveness, quicker adoption of innovation etc.
4. Support by SAP Expert Guidance bringing in valuable insights from a global network of subject matter experts.
 
SAP Activate is the foundation of Rise With SAP Methodology by providing structure and best practices based on the solutions incorporated. For SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Activate provides a six-phase framework – Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy and Run – and multiple Quality Gates to ensure that Clean Core principles are adhered to.

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