SAP on Microsoft Azure

The right cloud offering for your business

Those who run mission-critical processes on SAP^® can gain competitive advantages by moving their systems to the cloud. The cloud market is abundant with choices, but lacks coherent or cohesive offerings.  

Organizations want to know:

• What is the right cloud strategy for my company?  
• How do I choose the platform that best aligns with my business objectives?
• What are the best practices for cloud migration and transformation?
• How do I integrate new cloud platform services with traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications?
• How do I lower my total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve my return on investment (ROI)?
• How do I manage the uptime and health of my landscape once it is deployed?

EY teams help clients deploy SAP on Microsoft Azure by building strategies, architecting transformations, and supporting a customized, secure and optimized cloud offering. We bring the value of cloud to clients through IP and thought leadership embedded in lightweight software assets. The EY services framework is designed to help clients adapt innovation at the speed of business.

Why Microsoft Azure for SAP^® offerings?

Here are three reasons why Microsoft Azure proves to be a highly favorable cloud platform for SAP applications:

• Flexibility and resiliency: Azure has deployed mission-critical workloads on SAP-certified infrastructure in more than 50 Azure regions, with performance and scale you can count on.
• Combinatorial services: Platform-as-a-service (PAAS) services that enhance ERP offerings through UX, and analytics offerings powered by AI.
• Compliance, security and data protection: Azure has more than 90 compliance certifications and highly advanced threat protection capabilities to protect your data and applications.

Moving to the cloud is a journey

There is a difference between merely lifting and shifting your assets from on-premise to the cloud versus designing and using an improved offering. Our systematic and strategic approach to cloud transition is the quintessential ingredient to realize true value.

Our approach to cloud integration and sustainable value capture includes proprietary technologies alongside leading practices:

• EY teams launched an SAP application portfolio for a global medical technology company on Microsoft Azure, assisting the client from strategy through cloud integration. EY teams deployed 60 virtual instances in Microsoft Azure, integrated multi-cloud and on-premises or SaaS landscape to attain TCO in line effort by more than 30%, and with EY intelligent DevOps platform, enabled 90% automation of build and refresh activities.
  
• EY teams architected and delivered a highly available global SAP platform for a global consumer products company across complex SAP S4/HANA and central finance environments compliant with EY, SAP and Microsoft Azure leading practices. Through the EY intelligent DevOps platform, our client leveraged 65% automation to save over US$250,000 across 60 virtual instances.
• EY teams helped an agriculture science company gain approximately US$1m in cost savings by designing and deploying a hybrid Microsoft Azure and on-premises architecture of 140 servers for a complex global SAP program. EY’s intelligent DevOps platform accelerated system deployment time by 30%.

This offering has recently surpassed a milestone of having deployed 200 SAP ERP and data management systems while demonstrating project savings of 30%–70%, compared to systems implemented without. The EY digital delivery platform has been designed and stress-tested to help address enterprise needs for increased power, storage, and connectivity while applying automation to help deliver economically optimized elasticity.