GROW with SAP: Booster for the business transformation of SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular often achieve strong growth and therefore need technologies that can keep pace with the speed of their business. The GROW with SAP offering primarily targets SMEs, which make up about 80% of all SAP customers. The companies not only receive SAP S/4HANA as an out-of-the-box cloud ERP system, but also additional services for rapid implementation and industry-specific best practices. As a result, companies are able to accelerate their business and benefit from the continuous innovation of an ERP system in the public cloud.

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What is included in GROW with SAP?

From a technology perspective, in addition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud as the core system, GROW with SAP also includes SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to build custom enterprise applications, set up AI-powered analytics and automate processes. Developers can map changing requirements quickly and flexibly, allowing companies to remain agile at all times.

In addition, access to the SAP community of experts, partners, and customers provides companies with customized learning content, continuing education, and training available on the SAP Learning platform. The diverse training offerings, which are tailored to companies’ goals, provide the opportunity to build the skills they need and strengthen adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud within the company. With the support of SAP partners, companies are also able to unlock the full potential of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and ensure a smooth implementation.

Preconfigured processes as best practices

As part of GROW with SAP, companies benefit not only from the advantages of advanced cloud ERP technology, but also from SAP’s industry knowledge and more than 50 years of experience. GROW with SAP includes activation services in the form of packages that include out-of-the-box processes. Up to 75 predefined business processes for different industries are included.

Using AI-driven bots and low-code/no-code development tools, specific business processes can be optimized and automated. The tools require minimal intervention by IT and are therefore suitable for numerous users. In turn, IT can focus on accelerating innovation and differentiating the business.

The advantages of GROW with SAP

GROW with SAP makes it possible to plan the scope and timeframe for the implementation of SAP S/4HANA as Public Cloud Edition. Unforeseen surprises can be avoided. The preconfigured processes optimize company workflows and ensure greater transparency.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud can be scaled quickly and adapted to changing business requirements without increasing the complexity of the system. As software-as-a-service (SaaS), SAP S/4HANA Cloud is always up to date – in terms of innovations, but also in terms of security and compliance requirements. With the cloud ERP system, companies achieve greater business agility through faster innovation and can respond flexibly to the economic, regulatory and industry dynamics of today’s business world.

Who is GROW with SAP suitable for?

On the one hand, GROW with SAP addresses companies that already cover large parts of their business processes with the standard functionalities of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud. On the other hand, however, companies with a greater need for customization can certainly benefit from GROW with SAP. With the public cloud version of SAP S/4HANA, customer-specific processes and applications are implemented as side-by-side extensions on SAP Business Technology Platform, which means that the release capability of SAP S/4HANA Cloud is fully retained.

The offering is designed for the greenfield approach, i.e. the new implementation of SAP S/4HANA. Accordingly, GROW with SAP is particularly attractive for new SAP customers. They benefit greatly from the numerous industry-specific best practice processes. But existing SAP customers who decide against converting their previous ERP system and want to set up SAP S/4HANA from scratch can also take advantage of GROW with SAP. Possibly less suitable is GROW with SAP for companies that operate in niche areas, have very special processes or have to comply with unusual legal regulations.

Conclusion: Standardized and ready for immediate use

GROW with SAP combines SAP S/4HANA Cloud with pre-configured best practices for processes, implementation services and free learning resources. Own process adaptations and minor additions to functionalities can be implemented with the low-code/no-code environment SAP Build on SAP Business Technology Platform, without the need for programming skills.

As a pure SaaS product, GROW with SAP is particularly attractive for companies that want to use a pre-configured ERP system with a lower degree of customization, and especially for new SAP customers. Companies that choose GROW with SAP receive a standardized solution with SAP S/4HANA Cloud that is ready to use immediately, brings the latest best practices for numerous industries and offers continuous innovations.