Microsoft has added to the Azure proposition as the best public cloud for SAP HANA workloads with support for running some of the largest public cloud estates of SAP HANA, across both virtual machines and large instance offerings.
The move follows growing interest in deploying SAP on Azure. "One
of the key advantages of Azure is that customers can drive
intelligence and insights from their SAP solution environments by
integrating with solutions like Power BI and Cortana Intelligence,
powering new business opportunities and efficiencies," Jason Zander, CVP, Microsoft Azure Team said in a blog post. Companies deploying Azure as their cloud platform for SAP solution
landscapes include:
Accenture:
This is the largest business warehousing SAP HANA deployment in the
public cloud, running Accenture’s own mission-critical financial
reporting systems on Azure.
Pact Group:
By choosing to migrate their on-premises SAP servers to Azure, this
Asia-Pacific packaging company anticipates annualised savings of 20%
with their business running more than 90% of its
applications and compute on Azure.
IXOM:
When they needed to separate from their parent company,
Australia-headquartered water treatment and chemical distributor IXOM
chose to move its SAP applications to Microsoft Azure.
Subsea7:
This seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services
contractor, which has offices in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and
Singapore, is working with Accenture to unlock cost savings and greater
efficiencies through SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA hosted on Azure.
Subsea 7 aims to deliver a simpler, faster and more tightly integrated
landscape to its global employees, providing more mobility, agility and
an enhanced user experience.
Microsoft is enabling even more SAP functionality on Azure by:
- Introducing M-Series virtual machines powered by Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v3 that support single node configurations up to 3.5TB memory. "This will allow customers to quickly spin up a new virtual machine to test a new business process scenario and turn it off when the testing is done to avoid incurring additional costs," explained Zander.
- Adding new SAP HANA on Azure Large Instance SKUs, powered by Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v4 from 4TB to 20TB memory, for customers using online transaction processing (OLTP) landscapes like SAP S/4HANA or SAP Suite on HANA (SoH) that go beyond the limits of today’s hypervisors,
- Supporting SAP HANA Large instances up to 60TB memory for potential future use for business warehousing applications like SAP BW, and SAP BW/4HANA.
- Making SAP’s platform-as-a-service offering available as a public preview hosted on Microsoft Azure. Customers can take advantage of prebuilt SAP Cloud Platform components to build business applications while leveraging the broader toolset of Azure services.
- Working with SAP to make Azure a deployment option for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, SAP’s secure managed cloud offering. "Customers will benefit from Azure’s enterprise-proven compliance and security, in addition to close connections between their other Azure workloads and SAP solutions running on Azure in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud," said Zander.
- Integrating SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication Services with Azure Active Directory. This integration enables customers to implement seamless web-based, single-sign-on capabilities across all SAP solutions that integrate with SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication. In addition, SAP software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions such as Concur and SAP SuccessFactors as well as core SAP NetWeaver-based solutions or SAP HANA, are now integrated with Azure Active Directory.
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