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SAP’s move towards the cloud has benefitted channel partners that are able to support the vendor’s offerings and add value and services. One of those that has seen the shift to cloud accelerate over the past 18 months is Lemongrass, which specialises in helping customers migrate, with opportunities for those capable of supporting digital transformation continuing to emerge. Lemongrass co-founder and chief technology officer Eamonn O’Neill said SAP’s Rise cloud offering has made a difference, and opened up fresh avenues for partners to support customers. “What we will be doing over the next few years is accelerating that,” he said. “One of the things that we’ve noticed, for example, supporting SAP enterprise customers globally, is that [only a fraction] have migrated to cloud data, infrastructure as a service. Pretty much all of those customers will also need to migrate to Rise at some point in the next four or five years. “What’s happened is SAP have created an offering where it’s going to generate a massive demand for ...