«SAP New Work» Azure SAP assessment

Let Netrics help you assess how efficient and secure your SAP landscape would be on Microsoft Azure.

What does the assessment involve?

The «SAP New Work» SAP on Azure assessment was developed in consultation with Microsoft. The aim is to analyze a business' current SAP system landscape and illustrate what an SAP workload migration to the Microsoft Azure cloud would involve. It comprises an analysis of the relevant IT infrastructure, taking the applications, usage, processes and data into account.

The assessment is ideally suited to businesses that run local SAP solutions on Windows or Linux with MS SQL, SAP Sybase ASE, IBM DB2, SAP HANA, S/4 HANA or Oracle databases.

What questions will be answered?

What form could SAP on Azure take?
How would security requirements be met?
What costs would be involved in consumption and managed services?
How flexible are the variable costs?
How are the existing Microsoft 365 products choreographed in conjunction with SAP Modern Work?

How the «SAP New Work» assessment can help you

The assessment provides you with the information you need before you decide whether to transition your SAP systems. This information takes your requirements into account for ultimately providing the SAP workload in Microsoft Azure.

How you'd benefit: We can use the analysis as a basis for recommending how to optimize guidelines and processes to make it easier for you to implement your digital transformation.

Feasibility and security

You will learn in detail how you can run your current SAP landscape securely on the Microsoft Azure public cloud.

We will identify the potential configuration of the SAP resources required.

Potential for optimization

You will see the synergies that the combination of Microsoft 365 New Work and SAP on Azure could offer your business.

We will highlight potential operating models in terms of services and consumption.

Potential procedure for the transition

You will be able to share ideas with clients who have already undergone the transition, or are currently in the process of transitioning, and benefit from their experience.

We also offer a proof of concept of SAP on Azure as an option.

What does the «SAP New Work» assessment involve?

Take a fresh look at working with SAP! The assessment provides a complete analysis of your SAP starting situation, your options for migration to Microsoft Azure and the advantages migration could bring.

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PROJECT BASICS

General summary of the background and scope of the project and data gathering.

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SAP STATUS ANALYSIS

Evaluation of the overall infrastructure and your SAP landscape status in relation to the migration strategy for SAP on Azure, including product and component versions, plus details of operating systems and database platforms.

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FEATURES IN AZURE

General technical information about the features supported in Azure and the size options. Identification of usable Azure VM, hard drive and memory profiles assigned to your specific SAP in the Azure landscape.

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IT ENVIRONMENT

Relevant IT environment, identified during analysis, including application dependency mapping with the SAP systems. Summary – vertical by application or horizontal by system – of the proposed strategy for providing SAP on Azure.

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CONFIGURATION

Higher-level approach to the configuration of landscape and application (two-tier or three-tier, high availability) to identify the application migration scenario.

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SECURITY

Higher-level plan to cover the governance, identity, network, security, monitoring, high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions required for running SAP workloads in Azure.

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RECOMMENDATIONS/TCO

Identifying and recommending workloads and applications to be migrated. Indicating cloud advantages in running SAP on Azure.

TCO calculations for the transition, based on utilization, performance and current SAP size.

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Roadmap

You will receive a detailed road map for your potential transition:

System sequence for cloud migration
Detailed timetable with start and end dates
Estimated resource hours and rates for migration services

«SAP New Work» Azure SAP assessment: what to expect

Setup

Aligning goals and setting out the scope of your assessment. Defining the organization, process and participants. The aim is to gain an in-depth understanding of your problem and the overall context.

Workshop 1

The initial workshop is about defining your current position. The prioritization of results, the issues, and the focus are discussed and formulated in precise detail.

Workshop 2

The focus workshop is about verifying your current position and finalizing the definitions. We will scrutinize prioritized issues and set out areas of action and critical success factors.

Migration concept

Based on the results of the workshops and the analysis, we will set out your migration concept, with specific recommendations, and showcase it in a final presentation.

Request an «SAP New Work» assessment

Would you like to find out how you could migrate your SAP to the Microsoft Azure cloud and how migration could optimize your business? Then just fill out the form below and we'll get in touch with you to discuss your next move.