Enterprises are always looking for innovative methods to boost their efficiency and scalability in their business operations. SAP, a leading ERP system, helps enterprises in handling their critical operations, from supply chain to maintenance, finance, and HR. However, the SAP interface is complex to navigate for business users. Besides, these systems are operating in silos. Migrating SAP systems to the cloud helps businesses extend their SAP capabilities and integrate with other systems. This is where Microsoft Azure comes into picture as the most suitable cloud provider for businesses aiming to maximize the value from their SAP investment. 

Why Customers prefer Azure for their SAP solutions 

According to a DSAG study, SAP customers prefer to move their SAP workloads to Azure compared to other cloud solutions. The reason is that Azure provides a lot of benefits to SAP customers with its myriads of features, such as AI/ML, data lakes, analytics, business intelligence, etc. These capabilities empower the users to extract the true value of their SAP data and convert it into a capital asset. 

For example, The National Basketball Association (NBA) leveraged SAP on Azure to drive innovation. They leveraged Rise with SAP service offerings to gain scalability and flexibility along with Data and AI solutions. They finally reduced the IT management cost and delivered the best fan management through a better data consolidation process. Rise With SAP on Microsoft, enabling enterprises to modernize their legacy ERP solutions to AI-powered ERP. 

Advantages of migrating your SAP solutions to Azure 

Real-time insights:  

Azure Cloud is loaded with plenty of data and analytics solutions, such as Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, etc., to help enterprises unlock real-time insights. These solutions enable businesses to unify their SAP and non-SAP data, cleanse the data, process it, and analyze to provide comprehensive analytics in real time. You can leverage the high-quality data to create AI solutions to gain advanced insights. 

Scalability and flexibility:  

For SAP workloads, Azure cloud solutions offer scalability and flexibility. Its essential applications can easily migrate and function with the highly scalable cloud solutions offering 192 GB to 12 TB SAP HANA-certified VMs. Customers' on-demand scalability can be easily met with Azure clouds. 

Security and Compliance: 

Azure is one of the most secure cloud platforms that offer maximum compliance and security to users. These services include Azure Security Center, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Sentinel for SIEM. Plus, the built-in recovery options such as Azure Site Recovery and Backup are bonus features that help enterprises continue their operations without any troubles and downtime. 

Did you know that Microsoft analyzes 43 trillion signals daily to find and neutralize threats? To boost cybersecurity, it invests USD 1 billion annually. 

Cost savings: 

Did you know that users achieved an ROI of 112% after running their SAP operations on Azure? (Source: Forrester Consulting) These enterprises achieve better output by simply freeing up the time that their teams spend on further business innovation activities, giving them a boost in their operations. Ultimately, these savings lead to cost savings. 

Streamlining business processes: 

You can easily integrate SAP workloads on the Azure cloud with other cloud-based or on-prem systems. This integration of SAP systems with other LOB systems enable process automation that help you save time, boost productivity, and improve efficiency. Here is one interesting case study of a business improving their employee productivity by integrating SAP workloads with Azure cloud Solutions. 

Accelerated time to market:  

Enterprises achieve faster time to market with the migration of SAP workload to Azure cloud. It accelerates the launching of new apps, products, and services in the market compared to competitors. Moreover, Azure's Infrastructure provides more agility to respond to market changes faster than its competitors, tapping into more business opportunities.  

Did you know that Microsoft dropped Infrastructure operational costs by 20 to 25 % by moving its SAP workloads to Azure? – Microsoft 

Better Collaboration leads to higher productivity: 

Integration of SAP ERP system with other productivity tools, such as Outlook and Teams, help you break down departmental silos and boost collaboration. Using Azure services, you can implement custom copilots and AI agents in your SAP systems and automate processes. Using these AI assistants, you can unify your systems and establish free flow of data across your organization for better outcomes. 

Conclusion: 

Managing SAP workloads feels like juggling many balls at once, complex processes, and huge costs. SAP on Azure is for streamlining complex things, boosting agility, reducing costs, empowering users to innovate, and extracting more value from their efforts. If you want to maximize SAP value using Azure cloud, connect with experts like the Saxon AI team.  Saxon AI brings deep expertise in helping organizations integrate their SAP workloads to Azure cloud solutions in every stage – starting from planning to execution.