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Why Microsoft Azure for SAP applications

Microsoft Azure is a trusted pathway for moving SAP applications to a secure, scalable, and enterprise-proven cloud platform. You can make the most of the SAP investments leveraging unique insights and rich product integration provided by the joint Microsoft and SAP ecosystem. Azure is a secure, robust and reliable cloud environment that features the broadest global footprint, the largest compliance portfolio, embedded security, enterprise-grade SLAs, and industry-leading support.

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What do you get when you migrate SAP to Azure?

Largest compliance profile with over 85 offerings, including tools for GDPR.
Global support of over 50+ Azure regions to keep your business running.
Advanced threat protection and single-sign-on (SSO) with multi-factor authentication.
Development and testing environments on a scalable, high-fidelity, on-demand infrastructure.
On-demand Azure virtual machines certified for SAP.

A partnership with 30+ years of experience

Microsoft and SAP are committed to empowering digital innovation for their customers. SAP is running on Azure for their business-critical systems and Microsoft has 110,000+ internal users running SAP. In addition, integrated enterprise-class support is provided by Delaware, ensuring your experience is seamless.

It was Microsoft’s history of providing technology and services to huge enterprises that made the difference and gave us the confidence to embrace the Azure Cloud.

Joerg Bruch, Global VP for IT Operations, SAP

Infrastructure for all your SAP needs

Enhanced performance, agility and innovation with SAP-certified infrastructure for SAP HANA applications like SAP S/4 HANA and SAP NetWeaver-based applications like SAP Business Suite or ECC on AnyDB. Support your largest SAP workloads and systems within minutes with up to 24 TB scale-up and 60 TB scale-out for SAP HANA. High-performance virtual machines, purpose-built instances, and storage help you get the most from your SAP investments.

Always innovating to putting you in control

Incorporate SAP transactional data with other data to power business intelligence and move to a dynamic real-time insight-to-action model with Microsoft services such as Azure Data Lake and Power BI. Upgrade your SAP systems to the Azure cloud and integrate your data – including unstructured and external data – to power better predictions, insights and decision making. Speak to the team today to find out how you can get started.