Read later Audio version Summary: SAP's January RISE announcement left a wake of questions, provoking a vital debate on the role of SIs in ERP project success. Grab your beverage of choice as I take stock, via exclusive responses from SAP's CEO, as well as ASUG, DSAG, and UKISUG. On January 27. 2021, SAP made one of its biggest news announcements in recent years, SAP RISE. Whether RISE turns out to be as important to customers as it is inside SAP remains to be seen, but: there was no mistaking the fanfare. There is also no mistaking the resources SAP put behind RISE's go-to-market. Billed as "transformation as a service," RISE is not a product offering at this time.