A NEW CLASS OF HYPERSCALERS FOR EUROPE: RISE WITH SAP ON STACKIT NOW AVAILABLE

RISE with SAP on STACKIT: The European hyperscaler alternative for your business-critical SAP transformation is now available for booking 

• A Robust Foundation at No Extra Cost: Commercially available now—run business-critical S/4HANA workloads under European jurisdiction with legal certainty.
• Proven scalability: As the foundation for the Schwarz Group companies, STACKIT ensures daily operations for 604,000 employees and the global supply chains of Lidl and Kaufland.
• Reliable Timeline: Immediate contract signing via SAP with technical system deployment starting in November 2026.

With the official market launch of RISE with SAP on STACKIT, STACKIT—as a European hyperscaler*—will consistently ensure that mission-critical S/4HANA workloads comply with European law. The offering is available for order immediately, with technical deployment of the systems beginning in November 2026. Given the impending end of support for SAP ECC, IT decision-makers and C-level executives are increasingly recognizing the urgency of a future-proof cloud transformation. However, stricter regulatory requirements such as NIS-2, DORA, and the EU AI Act present companies with new challenges regarding compliance and data sovereignty.

Until now, the move to the cloud has often meant a painful trade-off between global innovation and local data sovereignty. RISE with SAP on STACKIT resolves this conflict of objectives: Through an intelligent layered model, proven SAP process intelligence—including S/4HANA Cloud and Joule AI—is seamlessly combined with STACKIT’s sovereign infrastructure. Data processing takes place exclusively in BSI C5-certified data centers in Germany and Austria, consistently protected from extraterritorial access such as that permitted under the U.S. CLOUD Act.

“The cloud is less a replacement for the on-premises era and more the foundation for everything to come. RISE with SAP on STACKIT provides the sovereign foundation for this and opens up many more options.” – Moritz Beck, Head of RISE with SAP on STACKIT

Maximum flexibility and legal certainty through the “One Contract” principle 

The model is based on a clear separation between the application and infrastructure layers. While SAP acts as the central contractual partner and concierge for operations and support, STACKIT ensures technical independence at the foundation. The use of open standards such as OpenStack prevents proprietary interfaces and classic vendor lock-in.

C-level decision-makers benefit from direct contractual certainty and market-standard terms with full freedom of choice (“Power of Choice”) for server locations in Germany and Austria. STACKIT proves its capabilities daily on a large scale: As the cloud infrastructure for the companies of the Schwarz Group, the platform processes millions of transactions every day within one of the world’s largest retail ecosystems.

Ordering and Contact

You can order RISE with SAP on STACKIT by using the contact form to reach out to the team led by Moritz Beck (Head of RISE with SAP on STACKIT).

*As a European hyperscaler—recognized by SAP as a suitable infrastructure platform for RISE with SAP—we operate our infrastructure exclusively in European data centers without being subject to the U.S. CLOUD Act. Certifications in accordance with the international ISO 27001 standard as a fundamental security framework, as well as the BSI C5 Type 2 certification built upon it and GDPR compliance, form the verifiable foundation for data storage that meets European legal requirements.