SAP's cloud portfolio — RISE with SAP, S/4HANA Cloud, BTP, and SuccessFactors — is evolving rapidly while SAP aggressively pushes customers toward migrations. RLM provides independent advisory on SAP cloud strategy, RISE evaluation, and contract negotiation that represents your interests, not SAP's.
RLM advises enterprises on SAP cloud migration strategy, RISE with SAP evaluation, BTP architecture, hyperscaler hosting for SAP workloads, and the contract structure that protects your investment.
A structured advisory process — from discovery and market evaluation to negotiation and post-deployment optimization — tailored to your specific environment and objectives.
We assess your current SAP landscape — ECC vs. S/4HANA, on-premises vs. managed services, HANA version, and support timeline — and evaluate the migration paths and timelines that make sense for your business.
RISE with SAP bundles S/4HANA Cloud with infrastructure, support, and business transformation services. We evaluate RISE economics against alternative approaches — hyperscaler-hosted S/4HANA, managed services partners, or phased migration.
SAP Business Technology Platform is increasingly central to SAP's cloud strategy. We advise on BTP use cases, integration with non-SAP systems, and the governance model for BTP development.
SAP contracts involve significant complexity — cloud credits, indirect access, license metrics, and RISE pricing. We advise on negotiation strategy and commercial terms that protect your interests over the contract term.
These are the dimensions that consistently separate successful deployments from costly ones — and the questions RLM will help you answer before any commitment.
RISE bundles infrastructure, licenses, and services at a package price. Decompose the RISE pricing and compare component by component against hyperscaler-hosted S/4HANA and managed services alternatives.
S/4HANA migration from ECC is a significant undertaking. Evaluate realistic migration timelines, data conversion complexity, custom code remediation, and the business disruption risk during cutover.
SAP's indirect access licensing model creates significant exposure for organizations that integrate third-party applications with SAP. Audit your integration landscape before any SAP cloud commitment.
Building integrations and extensions on BTP creates SAP dependency. Evaluate the portability of BTP integrations and the commercial implications of BTP volume commitments.
SAP workloads can run on AWS, Azure, or GCP-certified infrastructure rather than RISE. Evaluate the economics and operational model of hyperscaler-hosted S/4HANA against RISE.
RISE includes SAP support; hyperscaler-hosted SAP requires separate arrangements. Evaluate the support coverage, SLA differences, and escalation path quality under each model.
"RLM helped us rationalize our multi-cloud spend and identify over $1.2M in annual savings. Their approach was methodical and unbiased — exactly what we needed."
"Our migration was stalled for months. RLM came in, assessed the gaps, and helped us select a managed services partner that got us across the finish line in 60 days."
Start with a no-cost conversation with an RLM cloud advisor — vendor neutral, no agenda, just clarity on the right path forward.
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