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Achieving Agility, Efficiency, and Security with SAP on Azure
Across today’s digital landscape, technology and innovation have driven new business, opened new opportunities, and delivered unprecedented results. But with the power of these advancements come new business challenges. From choosing the right solutions to maintaining new systems and infrastructures, more focus than ever is being placed on IT.
Providing analytics, application platforms, data management,
security, and more, SAP is a cornerstone of countless
organizations. Serving across industries from mining to
aerospace, the enterprise application software is the
definition of an industry standard.
But maintaining an on-premises SAP environment is a
challenge, both to a business as a whole, as well as to its
individual IT professionals. It’s a complex system that
demands substantial investments in infrastructure and
hardware, as well as a team of employees to build and sustain
all systems involved. Cost is also a factor, with scalability
requiring further infrastructure spending and services bound
to rigid hosting periods.
Typical Challenges faced by CIOs with
Traditional IT Infrastructure
These challenges have direct and severe impacts on
day-to-day business, from solution and development
stagnation, to application vulnerabilities, to operational
strain. Delay in addressing these issues can lead to long-term
risks and falling behind the competition, not due to a lack of
innovation, but to being weighed down by cumbersome
infrastructure.
Migrating SAP to the Cloud Brings Agility, Efficiency, and Security
Migrating your SAP deployment to the cloud results in a far
more cost-efficient, flexible, and scalable environment. A
consumption-based pricing model ensures organizations
are only charged for the resources they need. Assets can be
added and removed as necessary. And users can rest
assured that their cloud is protected with a highly secured
app environment.
Two Tech Giants Partner to Optimize Cloud-Based SAP Deployments
Cognizant enables fast and successful cloud adoption while
mitigating risk and ensuring industry compliance. As a
SAP-certified Cloud Service Provider, our digital-first
approach drives relentless innovation that serves to both
modernize the organization and strengthen its offerings.
While best known for their operating systems and
productivity suites, Microsoft is a world leader in enterprise
IT. Boasting 120,000 new customers a month and over 100
datacenters worldwide, Microsoft Azure is their proven
public cloud platform.
These two pillars of the technology industry have partnered
to offer best-in-class digital transformation methodologies
that deploy SAP on Azure. Our combined forces offer over
1,000 Azure experts who work with customers to make the
most out of their SAP deployment. Cognizant has been
leveraging the power of Azure for years, having implemented
the first SAP production on Microsoft’s platform in 2015.
Microsoft Azure Brings Flexibility to SAP
Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud
services that developers and IT professionals use to build,
deploy, and manage applications. Rapid provisioning,
security, portability, and system availability help businesses
work smarter, not harder.
With Azure, organizations have the freedom to build and
deploy across global datacenters using their preferred
tools, applications, and frameworks. The platform’s
standardized, pooled, and high-availability server
configurations improve efficiency and reliability. Users can
provision individual servers or whole applications from
templates, reducing deployment time from weeks to hours.
Operational costs are driven down with self-service
provisioning, extensive automation, and standardization. By
enforcing security and auditing policies, Azure counteracts
unpatched, misconfigured, or unaudited servers, creating a
safer environment for the organization and its customers.
Cognizant’s Frameworks Augment SAP’s Benefits
Cognizant has developed an array of frameworks, tools, and
accelerators to add even more functionality to an
Azure-based SAP deployment.
Cognizant’s extensive experience with SAP migration can
accelerate your return on investment and minimize
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Cognizant Solutions to Improve Business
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downtime. We achieve this by applying our best-in-class
Cognizant Cloud Assessment and Transformation (cCAT)
Framework to each organization’s unique requirements.
This workflow helps customers achieve a 30% to 45%
improvement in productivity. We map customers’ business
needs to over 40 transformational blueprints containing
workflows, prepackaged COTS, and customized apps. The
SAP Cloud Assessment and Transformation Framework’s
effectiveness has been substantiated by the SAP Cloud
certification process, covering best practices and standard
operating procedures.
Digital transformation with Cognizant and Microsoft doesn’t
end with implementation. We continue to support customers
with managed services so they can focus on what they do
best. Cloud governance, integration with on-premises
resources, and monitoring and billing are just a few solutions
we offer.
Cloud Migrations Are Fast and Unobtrusive
Cognizant and Microsoft offer three focuses during
implementation. Data Center Modernization backs up all
SAP data for safekeeping, consolidates existing systems,
migrates all data to Azure, and enables the platform.
Application Platform Transformation develops and tests
environment optimizations, enables DevOps and websites
via Azure, commits to database migration, and implements
micro-services. And Digital Solutions Enablement grants
native desktop and mobile app development within Azure,
IoT features, analytics, machine learning, and Azure API
functionality.
Automation Brings Agility
With a SAP deployment optimized for Azure, automation
replaces expensive, manual maintenance. Building out a
deployment is only a matter of clicks rather than a lengthy
planning and implementation process. Fast and easy
scalability and reconfiguration grants the ability for
organizations to rapidly address market changes, conform
to new operating models, and meet emerging business
needs head-on. All of these benefits lead to a lower total
cost of ownership and a broadened horizon for further
investment in digital solutions.
Experience Leads to Excellence
Combining efforts with Microsoft, Cognizant has the
experience, expertise, innovation, delivery excellence, and
knowledge to make us the partner of choice when migrating
and deploying SAP to Azure. With a proven methodology,
Cognizant and Microsoft help organizations run more
efficiently and enable new business opportunities by
adopting public cloud hosting for SAP applications. Begin
your cloud journey to an Azure-based deployment today.
Next Steps
To achieve a successful migration of SAP to Microsoft Azure,
and enable an SAP digital roadmap by migrating towards
HANA or S/4HANA, SAP landscapes must be “right sized.”
To ensure your success, Cognizant offers a turnkey
assessment, including:
1. Quick Sizing: Current state review, early watch report,
remote turnaround.
2. SAP Cloud Assessment Workshop: 1/2 day, 2 days, or 2
weeks joint workshop by Cognizant and Microsoft to define
an advanced and optimized SAP landscape sizing.
3. Projected ROI Report: Presented jointly by Cognizant
and Microsoft.
Rely on Cognizant and Microsoft to help your organization
run more responsively and efficiently by adopting public
cloud hosting for SAP applications. Begin your cloud journey
to an Azure-based deployment today. Email us now at
[email protected] to learn more.
“ We have a long successful partnership with Cognizant and they have a rich understanding of our business and technology environment. Their domain expertise, proven transformation process and strong alliances with Microsoft and SAP, enabled us to modernize our IT infrastructure allowing our business to succeed in the digital era.” Joseph PekalaChief Information Officer, ACCO Brands
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