Last year, SAP launched the “RISE with SAP” subscription offering to help its customers move mission-critical SAP workloads to the cloud. On Thursday, the company announced a stepped-up version of RISE with SAP offered with the help of IBM.

Meanwhile, a new, complementary program called BREAKTHROUGH with IBM for RISE with SAP offers a portfolio of services – advisory services, cloud implementation, application management and technical managed services – that help customers move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

The companies designated IBM as a “premium supplier” of RISE with SAP, as the first cloud provider to offer infrastructure, business transformation and application management services as part of the program. IBM and SAP have an existing partnership and have already helped hundreds of companies digitize their operations using hybrid cloud environments. Hybrid cloud is a critical part of IBM’s growth strategy.

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