GROW with SAP

Grow with GROW with SAP - your springboard into the digital future

GROW with SAP is now much more than just a package - it is a comprehensive transformation approach for new SAP customers who want to move directly into the cloud. Based on SAP Cloud ERP, GROW with SAP combines preconfigured processes with a modern, scalable infrastructure. This enables a successful start to the digital transformation without detours: fast, resilient, and innovation-oriented.

What is GROW with SAP?

With GROW with SAP, SAP offers a complete approach for companies that want to move their business to a modern, cloud-based ERP platform. The approach combines SAP Cloud ERP with best practices, tools, and services to accelerate adoption and simplify digital transformation. The aim is to make companies fit for the future - with efficient processes, greater agility, and fast access to innovations such as SAP Business AI or Process Mining.

Standardization & Clean-core Principle

A central element of GROW with SAP is the clean core principle. The core of the system remains standardized and can therefore always be updated. Adjustments are not made through in-depth modifications, but through clearly defined, selective enhancements or via the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). This allows companies to use new functions without jeopardizing the stability and maintainability of their system.

The preconfigured SAP best practices are based on years of experience in a wide range of industries. They shorten implementation times, reduce the implementation effort and create a solid basis for efficient, tried-and-tested processes. This makes the introduction of a cloud ERP system plannable, standardized and future-proof at the same time.

Increased Efficiency and Agility with SAP Cloud ERP

Cloud-based ERP from SAP

With SAP Cloud ERP, you do not need to invest in a local infrastructure. It offers the benefits of scalability, accessibility and reduced IT overhead with the lowest total cost of ownership.

Strong compliance and security

SAP places a strong emphasis on data security and compliance. The system helps businesses meet regulatory requirements and protect sensitive data with highest security.

Clean core advantage

SAP Cloud ERP is designed with a "clean core" principle in mind. This means that the core of the ERP system is kept as standardized and streamlined as possible, with minimal customizations and modifications. This approach allows for greater agility, ease of updates and possibilities to use ready-to-use SaaS-solutions.

Process automation and optimization

SAP Cloud ERP offers businesses a powerful tool for process optimization. Through real-time insights, intelligent automation, and streamlined best-practice processes, it enables organizations to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and stay agile in a rapidly changing business landscape.

Scalability

Cloud ERP is designed for scalability so your business can expand effortlessly as needed. It can handle growing data, users and global operations while maintaining performance and flexibility. Resource allocation, integration, and subscription-based pricing provide a customized, cost-effective solution for your scaling needs.

Hybrid options (two-tier scenario)

If your organization has a hybrid IT environment with a mix of on-premises and cloud systems, SAP Cloud ERP can integrate with your existing infrastructure and provide a scalable solution that bridges the gap between cloud and on-premises technologies.

Extensions in the Cloud: Flexibility with a System

Even in a standardized cloud ERP world, there is still room for individuality - but within the framework of clearly defined guidelines. SAP Cloud ERP offers various approaches that can be combined as required.

With in-app extensibility, user interfaces, forms, reports or user-defined fields can be customized directly in the ERP system. These adaptations are made without in-depth interventions in the system core. This means that the system remains flexible and can be updated at the same time.

In addition, side-by-side extensibility via the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) enables the development of external extensions and applications that are operated independently of the cloud ERP core. This makes it possible to implement individual workflows, AI-based scenarios or integrations with non-SAP systems, for example. This coupling ensures maximum freedom of innovation without jeopardizing the stability of the core system.

Traditional, system-internal ABAP code, as known from on-premise systems, is no longer directly supported in the public cloud. Instead, SAP offers the ABAP Cloud Development Environment, which can be used to develop stable and cloud-compliant adaptations via predefined APIs and extension points. This creates a modern, modular system architecture that combines expandability and future-proofing.

Innovation & Automation

A special feature of SAP Cloud ERP is the direct access to innovations. Companies benefit from continuous updates and can implement new technologies immediately. The focus is on automation and process optimization. With solutions such as SAP Business AI, Joule or Embedded AI, routine tasks are automated, decisions are supported on the basis of data and processes are controlled intelligently.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Machine Learning are also an integral part of the platform. These technologies help to make business processes more efficient, reduce costs and react more quickly to market changes. The advantage is that many of these innovations are already integrated into the standard and can therefore be used without complex projects.

Difference between RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP

RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP are two transformation approaches from SAP that support companies in their digital transformation - but they differ to some extent in terms of scope and approach.

GROW with SAP

GROW with SAP is aimed at new SAP customers. It offers preconfigured cloud solutions based on SAP Cloud ERP, which enables rapid implementations and the immediate use of proven best practice processes. The focus is on increasing efficiency, standardization and an easy entry into the digital, innovative world.

RISE with SAP

RISE with SAP addresses existing SAP customers who are pursuing a customized transformation approach to the new world of cloud-based ERP. It combines SAP Cloud ERP Private with platform services, innovation offerings (e.g. SAP Business AI, RPA, ML) as well as consulting and process analysis, whereby a more standardized transformation using SAP Cloud ERP is also possible here. The aim is not only to increase efficiency, but also to develop customized, strategic business models and future-proof processes.

Why it is important to act now

The urgency of a changeover is primarily due to the opportunities arising from standardization and AI-supported innovation. Companies that rely on GROW with SAP today secure access to continuous technological innovations, predictable operating costs and a modern, scalable infrastructure.

At the same time, many older SAP versions will be phased out of regular maintenance in the coming years. For SAP ERP 6.0, for example, mainstream maintenance will end between the end of 2025 and 2027, depending on the release, with optional extended maintenance until 2030. An early switch to the cloud not only avoids support gaps, but also opens up access to modern, intelligent processes that can be used directly in production.

Companies receive support from experienced SAP partners such as Arvato Systems, who facilitate the entry into the cloud with practical solutions and in-depth expertise. They help to structure the complex SAP solutions in a comprehensible way, implement standardized processes quickly and integrate individual requirements efficiently at the same time. This enables companies to benefit optimally from the cloud transformation and shape their digital future with confidence.