HPE Greenlake Paves a Path to a Hybrid SAP ERP Future
The HPE Greenlake team and SAP team joined together at Cloud Field Day 23 to kick off proceedings on June 5, and the topic was SAP ERP. SAP HANA, first delivered in 2010, provides enterprises an in-memory database that fuels the S/4 HANA ERP solution. S/4 has had mixed results in the market, driving SAP to introduce SAP Cloud ERP, a platform as a service offering, as an alternative to on-prem packaged deployment.
The HPE team delivered a message that SAP’s evolution of this solution in this marketplace has challenged customers, requiring too much change and too rigid of solutions to get traction with the solution in market. Yet, early adopter key learnings represent a new approach to the market enabled by Greenlake. This will enable enterprises to run this solution in their own data centers (managed by HPE) and navigate end of life of the traditional ERP solution coming in 2027. The solution also provides a path to multi-tenancy and public cloud adoption.
How does this solution come together? Private cloud ERP will be delivered with SAP support. The cloud ERP provides a foundation for layering on ecosystem solutions and Joule agents to drive functions like finance, spend, supply chain HR, and customer service. The team has packaged this as software plus infrastructure management and services, cloud services, and upgrade support into one integrated solution.
Why is this important?
The collaboration provides a path to simplified adoption for enterprises, and we expect SAP and HPE are banking on this single solution to help accelerate adoption of what has been a clunky solution. The public cloud ERP is touted to be simpler to use, and integration of Joule agents are touted as productivity drivers for across the enterprise. With ecosystem solution integration, the team has provided flexibility for deploying solutions that are tuned for unique enterprise environments with a common ERP foundation. This path has a lot of value for large organizations that don’t want the complexity of managing an on-prem implementation but still want control of their most precious data within a managed private cloud.
What’s the TechArena take?
SAP is a complex and powerful solution, and kudos to the SAP team for recognizing the complexity of traditional deployment models. HPE understands enterprise-class requirements for data security and control and makes a solid partner choice for this delivery. While I would like to have heard more in the presentation on why customers benefit from this SAP RISE solution vs. competitive offerings in what still feels like a very heavy lift, there’s no question that enterprise has relied on SAP and will continue to do so with this modernized solution.
The HPE Greenlake team and SAP team joined together at Cloud Field Day 23 to kick off proceedings on June 5, and the topic was SAP ERP. SAP HANA, first delivered in 2010, provides enterprises an in-memory database that fuels the S/4 HANA ERP solution. S/4 has had mixed results in the market, driving SAP to introduce SAP Cloud ERP, a platform as a service offering, as an alternative to on-prem packaged deployment.
The HPE team delivered a message that SAP’s evolution of this solution in this marketplace has challenged customers, requiring too much change and too rigid of solutions to get traction with the solution in market. Yet, early adopter key learnings represent a new approach to the market enabled by Greenlake. This will enable enterprises to run this solution in their own data centers (managed by HPE) and navigate end of life of the traditional ERP solution coming in 2027. The solution also provides a path to multi-tenancy and public cloud adoption.
How does this solution come together? Private cloud ERP will be delivered with SAP support. The cloud ERP provides a foundation for layering on ecosystem solutions and Joule agents to drive functions like finance, spend, supply chain HR, and customer service. The team has packaged this as software plus infrastructure management and services, cloud services, and upgrade support into one integrated solution.
Why is this important?
The collaboration provides a path to simplified adoption for enterprises, and we expect SAP and HPE are banking on this single solution to help accelerate adoption of what has been a clunky solution. The public cloud ERP is touted to be simpler to use, and integration of Joule agents are touted as productivity drivers for across the enterprise. With ecosystem solution integration, the team has provided flexibility for deploying solutions that are tuned for unique enterprise environments with a common ERP foundation. This path has a lot of value for large organizations that don’t want the complexity of managing an on-prem implementation but still want control of their most precious data within a managed private cloud.
What’s the TechArena take?
SAP is a complex and powerful solution, and kudos to the SAP team for recognizing the complexity of traditional deployment models. HPE understands enterprise-class requirements for data security and control and makes a solid partner choice for this delivery. While I would like to have heard more in the presentation on why customers benefit from this SAP RISE solution vs. competitive offerings in what still feels like a very heavy lift, there’s no question that enterprise has relied on SAP and will continue to do so with this modernized solution.
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