Deutsche Telekom calls on SAP for Rise all-in-one offer

For the move to Rise, T-Systems will migrate, consolidate, and manage more than 300 Deutsche Telekom systems in its FCI private cloud environment or in public clouds, representing a major part of the company’s ERP landscape, according to an SAP representative.

Those systems are used by national operating companies in Germany and across the European Union. Some of them were originally developed and operated by Accenture, a Deutsche Telekom spokeswoman said via email.

Looming deadline

“Migration to Rise should be finished by 2026,” she wrote.

If things go to plan, then it will be in plenty of time to beat the 2027 deadline for SAP’s ending of mainstream support for of its legacy ERP platform, ECC.

That’s just as well because despite Deutsche Telekom’s previous work on standardization, not all the applications it is moving to Rise are currently running on S/4HANA. Some of them are still running on ECC 6.0, the company’s spokeswoman wrote.

In addition, the move also concerns systems running on SAP’s packaged data warehouse, BW/4HANA, she said, adding that all the applications to be moved to Rise are currently running in a Deutsche Telekom data center operated by T-Systems.