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The RISE Renewal Playbook.

A forty-four page renewal playbook for SAP RISE customers approaching the second term. The leverage points hidden in the first contract, the credit-bank tactics, and the seven clauses that reshape the renewal economics.

Research Paper 44 pages Published April 2026 Format: PDF Access: Gated
What You'll Learn

Six learning outcomes from completed renewals.

  1. How the original RISE bundling shapes second-term leverage. The 32 FUE bundle composition decisions made at signing that compound — or collapse — at the renewal table 36 months later.
  2. The four credit-bank instruments you almost certainly forgot you had. Shelfware credits, overconsumption refunds, expansion entitlements, and BTP credit carryforward — and how each one converts to renewal leverage.
  3. The 22% renewal uplift problem. Why SAP's standard renewal-quote algorithm proposes 18–28% uplifts, where the model breaks, and the three counter-positions that reset it.
  4. How to model the renewal in twelve months, not three. The diagnostic timeline used in 90+ closed renewals and the data products that must exist at each milestone.
  5. The seven contract clauses that move at renewal. Indexation caps, FUE conversion ratios, BTP commitment structure, exit assistance — and three more that close in renewal but never in mid-term.
  6. When to threaten exit and when not to. The actual cost and timeline of a RISE-to-on-premise reversal, and how to use it as renewal pressure without bluffing.
Table of Contents

Seven chapters. Forty-four pages.

Chapter IWhy the renewal starts at signingpg. 4
Chapter IIThe 12-month renewal diagnostic timelinepg. 10
Chapter IIIConsumption forensics: where the credits actually livepg. 16
Chapter IVDecoding the SAP renewal quotepg. 22
Chapter VThe seven renewal clauses that movepg. 28
Chapter VIModelling the credible exit threatpg. 36
Chapter VIIA casebook: five completed RISE renewalspg. 40
Who It's For

Four audiences. One reference.

Chief Financial Officer

CFOs facing the second-term commitment decision and modelling whether the original RISE economics hold up under the renewal quote SAP has just delivered.

Chief Information Officer

CIOs weighing RISE continuation against the cost and timeline of a private-cloud or hyperscaler alternative, and the operational consequences of either.

SVP Procurement

Procurement leadership running the renewal commercial negotiation. The clause chapter is the negotiation framework; the consumption chapter is the leverage source.

Head of SAM

Software asset management leaders responsible for the consumption-data extraction, FUE reconciliation, and credit-bank quantification that the renewal model depends on.

SAP's opening renewal quote was a twenty-six per cent uplift on the original RISE contract. We closed at a three per cent reduction. The difference was the consumption data we walked in with.

VP, Strategic SourcingGlobal Industrial Manufacturer · Settled Q1 2026
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