SAP® on Microsoft Azure

By 2027, all SAP applications must be migrated to the new SAP S/4HANA database system. Thanks to the close cooperation between SAP and Microsoft – which is intended to simplify and accelerate the migration and adaptation processes for SAP applications – the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is the ideal basis for the upcoming migration projects. Together with Microsoft, we offer tailor-made public and private cloud solutions for your SAP operations on Microsoft Azure. You get migration to the cloud, operational responsibility and secure connectivity from a single source. 

In order to successfully master the challenges of migrating an SAP environment to the cloud, there are many points to consider, phases to plan and tasks to complete. It is therefore advantageous to have a suitable partner at your side. Thanks to its partnerships with both SAP and Microsoft, Telekom has many years of experience, the necessary expertise and certified specialists to provide you with the best possible support for the digital transformation of your SAP systems. We provide you with expert support throughout all the necessary steps – from initial planning to the commissioning of the new cloud applications. From analysing the existing environment and planning the individual migration phases to providing network connectivity and cloud infrastructure to maintaining and servicing the established system, you receive all services from a single source. Telekom offers you maximum flexibility and a solution tailored to your requirements, allowing you to focus on your core areas and reduce capital expenditure.

Benefit from the interaction of the systems

Are you unsure whether SAP on Azure is right for your business? We have compiled the most important advantages of SAP on Azure at a glance:

• Compliance profile including tools for GDPR requirements
• Global support for SAP in over 50 Azure regions
• Transfer of existing SAP licences, reduction in capital expenditure and efficient cost monitoring
• Enhanced threat protection and single sign-on (SSO) with multi-factor authentication
• Development and testing environments on a scalable, highly available on-demand infrastructure
• SAP-certified virtual on-demand Azure machines

Telekom has set up one of the world's largest SAP HANA installations on Microsoft Azure for Züllig Pharma. As one of the largest healthcare service groups in Asia, Züllig Pharma supports companies and services in the healthcare industry throughout Southeast Asia. To achieve the required reach, reliability and speed, the company needed a new digital infrastructure and decided to migrate to SAP HANA and switch to a public cloud at the same time. The Telekom team prepared the migration of the infrastructure. The scope of the migration was very large. One goal was to achieve the highest possible availability with a capacity of one million SAPS.

The scale: in Züllig Pharma's sales department, 2,000 fully processed order items per hour correspond to just 100 SAPS. The enormous capacity made it necessary to configure the data centres with particularly powerful cloud components. In order to access large amounts of data more quickly – with HANA, a 40-terabyte in-memory database – the largest virtual machines offered by Microsoft at the time were used. With the new SAP system, Züllig Pharma can now use the faster database to convert raw data for applications with artificial intelligence or machine-to-machine. Upon completion of the migration process, Züllig Pharma gained access to SAP Business Suite on HANA (SoH), including the immediate modernisation of several applications.