One of the biggest misconceptions about private cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is that it’s fundamentally an on-premise system in a different deployment environment. The code base may be similar, but gaining the full advantages of cloud ERP – such as – requires customers to keep the solution continuously updated to leverage new capabilities, innovations, and technologies.

Available as a subscription and now newly enhanced, presents a proactive partnership to help support our customers that adopt the private edition of Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud through RISE with Â鶹ԭ´´. The offering can provide a comprehensive plan of services, guidance, learning resources, and expertise – enabling customers to bridge gaps between their current capabilities and relevant updates from each release.

Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success is designed for adopting new technologies and helping Â鶹ԭ´´ customers align their digital investments with business strategies and transformation journeys, at all stages of their project.

Enhancing the Cloud ERP Experience with Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success

The Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success plan for Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud, private edition includes scenarios that are key for the successful management of the cloud ERP, including:

Clean Core

A strategic clean core service helps ensure the stability of standardized core processes and data as well as the flexibility to innovate, differentiating our customers from their competitors. When these aspects of a high-performing cloud ERP are applied together, a harmonious balance between reliability and agility is created, allowing businesses to thrive and evolve more efficiently.

Thanks to the enhanced guidance of Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success, organizations can now streamline operations, reduce risks, and ensure data integrity – all critical to the ERP system’s day-to-day functioning. In parallel, they can keep the cloud ERP aligned with their ever-evolving IT landscape to help adapt swiftly to changing market dynamics, drive continuous innovation, and seize new opportunities.

Continuous Improvement Governance

To help customers stay one step ahead of potential disruptions, the addition of the continuous improvement governance service to Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success can enable organizations to proactively forecast high-risk situations before they significantly impact business processes and IT solution availability. Direct access to product engineers and subject-matter experts helps give our customers the peace of mind that comes with proven guidance and innovation.

This enhancement can ease the ability to predict the most valuable changes early enough for organizations to implement them promptly and securely and maintain a competitive edge. Businesses can also prioritize security by performing baseline security scans, receiving hardening recommendations, and ensuring their systems remain secure.

Driving Cloud ERP Stability with a Clean Core

Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success focuses on the data management and extensibility aspects of maintaining a clean core. The approach helps bring about a more resilient and high-performing system that can enable organizations to fully leverage the private edition of Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud for sustained growth and success. It can also identify efficiencies early and provide guidance on streamlining core business processes.

Our customers gain significant advantages that could outweigh the combined cost of migrating to and operating the private edition, as demonstrated by insights from a :

• 377% ROI achieved by optimizing processes and ensuring upgrade readiness
• 30% higher business-process efficiency through regular strategic reviews
• 25% time-savings in release management preparations
• 24% improved productivity with faster resolution of priority one and two incidents
• 10% faster time to value through streamlined implementation and adoption

To achieve these outcomes, Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success can be personalized to meet each customer’s unique requirements and objectives with clean core principles. This combination of strategic alignment, enhanced user experience, and continuous improvement helps ensure proactive, effective, and sustained support for the system’s performance and stability in the private edition.

Running ERP Operations with Flexibility

The continuous improvement governance service of the Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success plan can encompass a comprehensive analysis of all capabilities in the private edition. This includes fast identification of new mission-critical risk patterns, prompt communication of mitigation measures, and consistent transparency of tangible results from the analysis of the private edition to the predictive development of critical KPIs.

In addition, collaboration between our customers’ stakeholders and Â鶹ԭ´´ subject-matter experts is supported by on-demand engineering resources, focusing on providing practical and realistic recommendations and achieving real-world use of them. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI)-driven check logic and predictive check models based on customer system data provided by the Â鶹ԭ´´ EarlyWatch Alert service helps ensure a data-driven and efficient approach.

The holistic approach of the continuous improvement governance service can not only safeguard operations but also foster a proactive mindset crucial for long-term success. According to the Forrester Total Economic Impact study, the benefits of the service include:

• 50% reduction in incident tickets and much fewer priority one and priority two requests
• Reduced risk throughout the lifecycle of Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud, private edition
• Optimized business processes, which can increase the value of the cloud ERP capabilities
• Improved user satisfaction with faster access to the latest technologies that meet their needs

Moreover, the continuous improvement governance service can establish service-level agreements for risk evaluation, including initial evaluation time after initial risk awareness, corrective risk mitigation response time, and continuous weekly risk detection processing throughout the year. As a result, the private edition can remain stable yet ready to navigate an ever-evolving landscape of risks and opportunities.

Unlocking the Full Potential of Cloud ERP

With the latest enhancements to the Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success plan for Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, the debate on whether cloud ERP is merely an on-premise system in a different environment can be put to rest.

Our customers can gain the advanced support they need to empower their organizations to unlock the full potential of their software investment with ongoing guidance and expertise. They can facilitate a smooth integration between the stability of core processes and current data and benefit from the flexibility to adopt and innovate the latest updates, capabilities, and technologies. And as the Forrester Total Economic Impact study indicates, the results will speak for themselves.

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Arun P is global solution owner within the Chief Innovation Office of Cloud Success Services at Â鶹ԭ´´.

But that digital urgency is only a small part of the larger business transformation equation. Businesses must also objectively identify risks and see where potential disruption is beginning to emerge. Their future stability – let alone success – depends on this ability to guide highly strategic decisions every day.

That’s why Â鶹ԭ´´ customers rely on the  offering to help actively disrupt their sectors. They are the ones connecting processes across systems and ecosystems to improve their customer experience and streamline operations. And now that can go even further by being able to invent new approaches continuously and implement them rapidly with the latest enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology in a private cloud environment, .

Know the Right Way to Evolve at the Right Speed

When moving from an on-premise, legacy ERP system to intelligent ERP software in the cloud, business leaders usually consider a public cloud environment managed by a third-party provider and shared with multiple organizations. The functionality of modern ERP software is highly standardized and can be upgraded frequently with new capabilities as the business demands, with little or no effort from the company’s IT team.

While the use of a public cloud is widely popular, some businesses prefer the flexibility of a private cloud to be more hands-on with their deployment of Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud. In this case, they may already have a digital landscape with a global reach, multiple integrations, custom processes, and unique data. And leveraging cloud-based services that are hosted within their own private servers offers the control desired to transform on their terms and at their pace.

Available through , Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud, private edition can deliver on that promise with Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success. Our experts can bring together the technologies, services, and support that our customers need to transform their business in a way that works best for them – regardless of their digital maturity and ultimate vision. In return, our customers can drive continuous innovation through predictable upgrade cycles that can deliver measurable value, a clear view of current and future solution capabilities and innovations, and rapid adoption of new business models.

While the involvement of Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success can be a crucial factor in the successful deployment of Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, the offering can also provide an economic boost to a company’s bottom line. A conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Â鶹ԭ´´, reported that a composite Â鶹ԭ´´ customer realized 380% ROI over three years, 17% shorter implementation time, 30% higher efficiency, and 40% faster incident resolution.

Keep a Strong Focus on Continuous Value

The insight-driven, prescriptive recommendations generated by Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success can empower companies to actively understand how they can best benefit from Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, answering key questions such as:

• Why choose a cloud ERP subscription over an on-premise, legacy ERP?
• Which functionalities provide the capabilities the business needs right now?
• Will planned future capabilities address future demand, regulations, and growth?
• How should the business consume and optimize the cloud solution to position itself for future success?

This line of questioning is facilitated through a series of interactions and guidance that include:

• Success checks: Maintain peace of mind throughout the deployment and adoption experience by mapping a success plan and adapting it to achieve a desirable ROI with best practices.
• Targeted training programs: Empower key users and administrators with knowledge on relevant topics and best practices.
• In-depth release guidance: Plan for relevant feature adoption to reach desired business outcomes and tailor release timing and processes based on expected business outcomes.
• Designated expertise: Drive the cloud strategy and derive superb value from our cloud solutions with the assistance of Â鶹ԭ´´ experts.
• Advanced support and enhanced service levels: Receive faster initial incident response times and resolution targets for non-defect issues.

From initial setup to continuous innovation and operational excellence, the services provided through Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success are designed to help optimize the value of each stage of the overall business transformation journey.

Our customers can create an upskilled, knowledgeable team with continuous learning and resources, streamline comprehensive solutions to leverage best practices and capabilities, and provide positive user experiences that gain the confidence of employees and stakeholders. Plus, they can become a disruptive market leader with faster adoption of the latest innovations.

Accelerate Winning Outcomes with Insight-Driven Services

Businesses are surrounded by transformation drivers – from economic and environmental changes to technology disruption, rising competition, and new market behaviors. However, that doesn’t mean that digital investments must be inspired by a desire to appear cutting-edge. Instead, businesses should think about harnessing innovation and disruption to transform themselves and remain relevant to customers.

That’s the beauty of Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success when implementing Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud, private edition. Businesses can redefine their digital transformation proactively with a 360-degree view of the technology landscape, processes, customer demand, and future needs. But more importantly, all of this can be accomplished with an unwavering eye on broader challenges that impact their operations and how their people use advanced data and analytics to address them.

Ready to achieve innovation and cloud value by converting existing systems to an intelligent ERP system in a private cloud?

Arun P is global director and product manager of Â鶹ԭ´´ Preferred Success – Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud at Â鶹ԭ´´.