SAP on Google Cloud: Two Analyst Reports, One Clear ROI Story

The Forrester survey found that SAP on Google Cloud unlocks game-changing uptime improvements, cost savings, and productivity wins.

The IDC report revealed that SAP on Google Cloud frees businesses to work smarter, move faster, and do more with less compared to legacy systems.

In August 2020, Forrester and IDC released independent studies answering the same basic question:

Are businesses getting value from running business-critical SAP applications on Google Cloud?

Each report delivers a remarkably clear and consistent answer: Moving SAP to Google Cloud creates a multifaceted, multimillion-dollar source of business value.

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$7.1M

companies studied

$3.8Min avoided downtime losses

in legacy system savings

$1.3M

31%

in end-user productivity gains

Reduces IT infrastructure

costs by

Deploying new SAP computer/storage resources happens

46%Decreases three-year operations costs by

56%

98%

98% faster

Increases IT team efficiency by

Cuts business losses due to unplanned

outages by

$1.3Min IT efficiency improvements

$800Ksaved from faster, simpler SAP maintenance

months to payback

months to payback

companies studied

average three-year ROI average three-year ROI

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FORRESTER IDC

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Forrester Highlights

IDC Highlights

For the companies studied, SAP isn't just business-critical — SAP is their business. Respondents revealed that 100% of their revenue is tied to SAP applications running on Google Cloud.1

Why Google Cloud?

Before

After

1 hour11 hours

of additional productivity created per user

6 reasons to trust Google Cloud to run these essential systems

To learn more about how SAP and Google Cloud can create value for your business, download the reports.

Better overall cloud platformReliability, scalability, cost, partner ecosystem, and technical support expertise1Cutting-edge technologyBigQuery, automated resource use monitoring, and capacity scaling2

Platform agility and cost flexibilityCost-effective backup and disaster recovery expertise

3 Superior securityReduced liability and risk

4IntegrationsG Suite and other Google solutions5SAP expertiseClear and compelling SAP roadmap

1 “Business Value of Google Cloud for SAP Environments,” IDC, August 2020.

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$1.1Msaved from reduced

business friction

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Forrester: The Total Economic ImpactTM of SAP on Google CloudIDC: Business Value of SAP for Google Cloud Environments•

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