If we trust industry experts or people living in the SAP domain day in and day out, they are calling SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud (HEC) a dying business. Launched in 2013 with the intention of driving more customers to adopt SAP HANA is one of the most successful offerings SAP has, and is currently trending low in the market.
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)
HEC is an Infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) and is available for data centers around the world that are either owned by SAP or collocated with a premium partner to run SAP-based operations in a hosted environment with the advantages of being on cloud. When a customer deploys SAP HEC, SAP first conducts a technology assessment of the client’s landscape and then migrates the applications and extensions to the SAP HEC infrastructure. SAP then undertakes ongoing application support and management, including upgrades, backups, patches, restoration and recovery, infrastructure monitoring, and event detection. If a premium partner is selected to host the client in their Data Centre, SAP still owns the client contractual deliverables and works with Premium Partner to deliver the services.
Advantages of SAP HEC
The main benefit of SAP HEC for most companies is that it reduces the time, hassle and cost of deploying and running SAP HANA and its applications. It’s also a more flexible way to run HANA that allows organizations to respond quickly to platform changes or technology innovations.
Though SAP never disclosed the number for customers using SAP HEC but it is estimated to be in 4 to 5 digit figures With the advent of SAP RISE, customers are looking to move away from HEC.
RISE with SAP
Launched in 2021, RISE with SAP is a subscription service offering that combines a set of products and services. The main component of Rise with SAP is S/4 HANA Cloud edition, which allows customers’ cloud infrastructures to run in a SAP data center or with a Hyperscalers of choice The bundle offers five main components for customers to build an Intelligent Enterprise –
- S/4 HANA Cloud Editions
- SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform)
- Business Process Intelligence
- Business Network
- Tools and Services for Technical Migration
RISE offers its customers a bundle of software and services centered on SAP S/4HANA as a SaaS model (Software-as-a-Service). Here, the public cloud variant with more standardized processes or the private cloud variant with greater individuality and a similar process flexibility to on premise are available for selection. Both variants are hosted by one of the cloud providers Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure) or Google (GPC).
Benefits of RISE
We can call RISE a game changer as customer gets many services like cloud editions, business technology platforms and business networks in one subscription model
Customers gain access to many innovations that come with SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP
A single offer on one contract simplifies procurement and makes it easier to manage vendors and partners.
RISE with SAP offers a “One Offer, One Contract” (one subscription price) to take the customer on the path of an Intelligent Enterprise. It includes software, infrastructures as a Service (IaaS) and few Cloud Managed Services.