Microsoft and SAP have started delivering their global partnership in India, making Microsoft Azure available for SAP applications. The partnership will allow Indian enterprises to leverage the flexibility and scalability of Microsoft Azure for their mission-critical SAP deployments.
Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables users to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. The partnership is expected to deliver 200–300 per cent efficiency increase in IT infrastructure deployment and savings of 40–75% on total ownership costs with Azure’s “pay-per-use” model.
The SAP applications certification for Microsoft Azure allows customers with existing SAP licences to deploy SAP software on Microsoft Azure, thus safeguarding and increasing the value of their Microsoft and SAP investments.
“Along with SAP, we will deliver the best applications and services to customers on the cloud. This will help improve employee productivity, enhance workforce mobility and drive increased business value,” said Peter Gartenberg, General Manager – Enterprise and Partner Group, Microsoft India.
Sujit Mohanty, Head – Technology Infrastructure Group, Sonata, said, “We are thrilled to be selected as an early partner by Microsoft and SAP to take these unique solutions to market. Our proven track-record in mobility, BI and analytics coupled with our commitment to invest and innovate continuously across different segments of Microsoft’s business will help us deliver value to customers across industries and cloud configurations.”
The partnership supports SAP Business Suite software, SAP Business All-In-One solutions, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE) and the developer edition of the SAP HANA platform on Azure. In addition, Microsoft and SAP expect that customers and developers will be able to deploy and provision a number of preconfigured SAP solutions, within minutes, directly to Azure using the SAP Cloud Appliance Library tool.
