White Paper on Microsoft Azure for Your SAP Solutions

This paper discusses how SAP and Microsoft plan to continue their collaboration to support the deployment of SAP solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. This paper is intended for CxOs in business IT and technical leadership roles, to help them understand the capabilities and potential value of using Microsoft Azure as part of your SAP solutions

Microsoft and SAP also plan to offer integration of the upcoming landscape management software from SAP, Microsoft System Center, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V technology, bringing greater agility for cloud management and deployments. This integration has the potential to enhance flexibility, scalability, and management in the cloud

This integration gives organizations access to unique advantages that only Microsoft can provide:

• One Cloud OS across private, public, and hybrid clouds
• One management solution for on-premises and online environments
• A unified platform that is enterprise-grade, hybrid, and people-focused
• A support agreement for SAP solutions and database on Microsoft Azure
• Enterprise-ready infrastructure that has global presence under familiar enterprise agreements
• Dynamic application delivery at lower prices

Businesses of all sizes are running SAP in the cloud to simplify infrastructure management, improve time-to-market, and reduce costs

Microsoft has more than two decades of industry experience with cloud technologies, and today runs more than 200 global services

These are the fundamental characteristics of Microsoft Azure that make it a trustworthy platform:

• On-premises and cloud
• Open, broad, and flexible
• Trustworthy and security-enhanced platform

Microsoft Azure also provides infrastructure services that allow for hands-on configuration and management, similar to on-premises servers many organizations have today. However, these servers are hosted in Microsoft data centers, which makes it possible to use Azure as if you were operating their own data centers in the cloud. With Microsoft Azure, you can extend on-premises data centers immediately and move applications “as they are” to Microsoft Azure—and maintain full control over the application environment.

In this paper you will find several cases and success stories across different industries.