Unleash the power of an AI cloud ERP from SAP

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Why use SAP on public cloud?

SAP’s public cloud solution — SAP Cloud ERP (formerly SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition) — is a ready-to-run enterprise management solution complete with built-in automation, embedded AI, real-time reporting and robust business processes. It helps customers across multiple industries use a streamlined, scalable approach and standard business processes to gain an entry point to SAP Autonomous Suite.

Since it’s delivered through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, you can take advantage of new functionality as it’s released while hosted on a highly scalable and secure cloud platform. This helps you stay at the cutting edge of innovation and prepare for whatever challenges the future holds.

SAP Cloud ERP is an ideal fit for most mid-size companies, carve-outs, acquisitions, shared services, and organisations experiencing rapid growth. Many large clients also opt for so-called “two-tier” scenarios — running their core business on private cloud, while decentral, smaller subsidiaries or entities run on SAP’s public cloud.

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SAP Cloud ERP: Myths, maturity and faster go-lives | PwC

Is SAP public cloud only for small companies? It's one of the most common myths, and in this conversation PwC's Naren Jain sets the record straight. Naren Jain (Managing Director and SAP Public Cloud Lead for PwC US) joins Global SAP Alliance Driver Neil Morton to discuss the maturity of SAP Cloud ERP, where it fits across industries, and how organisations can get the most from it.

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A cost-effective way to make your business more autonomous

SAP’s vision for the future of business is the Autonomous Enterprise, where AI automates core business processes while humans steer, oversee, and enforce governance and compliance at every step.

We’re here to support you during this journey. We help you deploy game-changing AI at much lower cost. Our method uses existing and newly released AI assistants, agents and solutions from SAP and our proprietary technology wherever possible. This means that you only invest in building bespoke capabilities when they’re not available in the standard portfolio and they generate incremental value through differentiation.

How PwC helps you unlock more value from your SAP Cloud ERP implementation

A holistic approach to business transformation

With PwC, you receive support at every stage of the journey, from building a business case, to completing a fast, seamless implementation, to ongoing assistance helping you take advantage of new SAP functionality as it’s released, including new AI agents and assistants. This enables you to achieve scalable, sustainable growth on a timeline that is right for you, rather than a run-of-the-mill technology implementation. You don’t have to choose between settling for a starter ERP you’ll outgrow or overinvesting in complexity you don’t need yet.

With our deep knowledge of industries, line of business functions, audit, and tax and legal compliance, we provide a holistic approach to support every part of your business through the change so you can move faster, reduce risk, strengthen compliance, and scale without adding complexity.

Unlock the power of AI to make your business more autonomous

As SAP works towards the Autonomous Enterprise vision, it’s releasing numerous AI agents and assistants. We enable you to go a step beyond other SAP customers – providing additional custom AI and innovations over and above standard SAP functionality so you can further increase productivity and efficiency.

If you require additional functionality, we’ll design and deliver custom AI and extensions tailored to your unique business needs using SAP Business AI Platform.

Define your data strategy

Accurate, comprehensive data is essential to unlocking the potential of AI and future-proofing your business. We help you build a trusted data foundation using SAP Business Data Cloud, which provides a central place for all enterprise data – structured and unstructured, SAP and non-SAP – and build a data strategy fit for today and tomorrow.

Deployment assessment

Our deployment assessment helps determine whether SAP Cloud ERP is the right fit for your business. It can also identify potential implementation challenges and complexities, so that we can help you address them upfront, and achieve a smoother deployment by sticking to standard functionality as far as possible. We include this deployment assessment in every implementation. If a private cloud deployment is still a better option for your business, we will advise on your transformation with SAP Cloud ERP Private.

Implementation and transformation

We help you achieve a fast, seamless implementation for SAP Cloud ERP that is accelerated using pre-built solutions and industry-specific deployment templates. We assess fit by combining our many years of SAP and industry experience with solutions like SAP Signavio Process Navigator and SAP LeanIX. Our rollout templates streamline the implementation across your organisation’s locations and subsidiaries. Our entire project delivery methodology uses AI to ensure quality and deliver value, fast.

Our accelerated delivery approach provides exceptional time-to-value

Our Cloud ERP Express solution is a unique offering that provides an entry point to SAP Autonomous Suite across finance, supply chain, procurement, sales and HR, bringing in PwC’s expertise and methodology to deliver superb time-to-value.

First, we help you implement a finance core using an accelerated method so you can go live in just a few weeks. As your business grows and evolves, you can easily add additional functionality, users or scope across finance, procurement, sales, HR and supply chain.

Our delivery approach and methodology include process models, process documentation, process- and industry-related implementation accelerators, as well as country- and industry-specific implementation scope. We also follow approved approaches to SAP implementations, including the SAP Activate methodology and the SAP GROW Fast service.

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Cloud ERP Express

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Ongoing support

After the implementation, our application evolution services help you adapt SAP Cloud ERP to meet your ever-changing business needs, while our business evolution services help you manage change and adoption as SAP releases new functionality.

“The market has responded loud and clear. Customers want faster business outcomes with SAP Cloud ERP to streamline finance and boost efficiency. And PwC is delivering with Cloud ERP Express. It’s exciting to see PwC rolling this out in a big way across territories worldwide.”

Santina Franchi, President, SAP Corporate and GROW

Already live with SAP Cloud ERP?

If you’re already live with SAP Cloud ERP, we can help you optimise your existing implementation. Whether you have specific questions, face individual challenges, want to enhance and improve certain processes, or need additional training and upskilling, we will support you.

“By moving to SAP Cloud ERP, you are breaking new ground for more efficient, innovative and simpler ways of working.”

Alexander Hartwig, PwC Partner, SAP Cloud ERP Leader, PwC Germany

PwC is recognised as a leading service provider:

  • Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP Services for Service-Centric Enterprises
  • Leader in the Forrester Wave for AI Consulting Services in Q2 2026
  • Leader in the Forrester Wave for Business Transformation Consultancies
  • Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic QuadrantTM for Finance Transformation Strategy Consulting
  • Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2024 Vendor Assessment
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Alexander Hartwig

Alexander Hartwig

Partner, SAP Cloud ERP Leader, PwC Germany

Tel: +49 175 4014388

Sabyasachi Konar

Sabyasachi Konar

Executive Director, PwC India

Shann Wei Chiang

Shann Wei Chiang

Partner, SEA SAP S/4HANA Leader, PwC Singapore

Naren Jain

Naren Jain

Managing Director, PwC US

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