Digital sovereignty thanks to the German cloud: Schwarz Digits and SAP will offer RISE with SAP on STACKIT in future

• The partnership provides a reliable solution for the digitalization of business processes, especially for companies with particularly high data sovereignty requirements.
• Customers of RISE with SAP can use STACKIT to move their ERP applications to the Schwarz Digits cloud, which is protected by XM Cyber.
• Christian Müller, Co-CEO Schwarz Digits, announces the new partnership with Thomas Saueressig, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Customer Services & Delivery, at the DSAG Annual Congress in Leipzig.

Neckarsulm October, 15 2024 – Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of Schwarz Group, and SAP, Europe's largest software company, today announced their partnership in the cloud at the DSAG Annual Congress, the most important meeting place for SAP user companies in German-speaking countries. Schwarz Digits will offer RISE with SAP via its data-sovereign cloud solution STACKIT on its own infrastructure. SAP customers will also have the opportunity to run their SAP S/4HANA environment on the data-sovereign STACKIT Cloud. Companies of Schwarz Group will also be able to move their entire ERP landscape to the STACKIT Cloud via RISE with SAP.

Back in 2023, SAP and Schwarz Group companies announced their partnership at Sapphire in Orlando to protect both SAP's IT infrastructure and its customer-specific cloud services and RISE with XM Cyber. With XM Cyber's cybersecurity platform, companies see their IT systems through the eyes of potential attackers - automated 24 hours a day. XM Cyber supports cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments to identify vulnerabilities in the system and prioritize them in order of threat potential.

"Both private-sector companies and public-sector organizations are increasingly recognizing how important it is to position themselves confidently and securely in the context of digital transformation. They are faced with the challenge of finding a suitable partner that not only fulfills the legal requirements, but also has a vision for true sovereignty," explains Rolf Schumann, Co-CEO Schwarz Digits. "With SAP, we can translate our vision of digital sovereignty, which we defined in our latest white paper, into concrete solutions."

Christian Müller, Co-CEO of Schwarz Digits, adds: "ERP applications and systems have become indispensable for handling core processes, for example in the areas of finance, production, human resources, logistics and procurement. In these business-critical processes, companies must retain sovereignty over their own data without compromise and must not become dependent on large international corporations whose understanding of data protection differs from that in Europe."

"We are delighted that RISE with SAP customers will have the choice of running their ERP systems on the STACKIT Cloud in future. With Schwarz Digits, we have gained a strong infrastructure partner that enriches our range of services in the private cloud," says Thomas Saueressig, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, responsible for Customer Services and Delivery.

RISE with SAP offers companies a holistic business transformation. It comprises an AI-enabled cloud ERP that is managed and optimized by SAP, as well as services and tools based on SAP's clean-core approach. This enables on-premise systems to be migrated, business processes to be transformed, innovations to be used in the best possible way and complexity to be reduced.