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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

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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

ProvisioningSAPSystemswithin15- 30Minutes

InfrastructureCostSavingsbyUpto60%

GoDigitalwithS/4HANA’sDigitalCore

Avoid70%ofTypicalIssues

IntegrateSAPSaaSwithCloudConnector

AutoScalingofSAPApplicationServers

ZeroDefectCloudTransitionApproach

SAPSecurityBestPractices

Cognizant Solutions to Improve Business

Agility in line with CIOs Priorities

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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.

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“ 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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