SAP® is an enterprise technology platform that powers critical business processes for many global organizations. However, in a digitally connected world, enterprise applications need to be flexible and scalable to meet the demands of a dynamically changing business environment. The significant fluctuations in SAP® demand and the need for rapid scaling make the on-premise infrastructure sized for peak demand option economically unviable.
With the need for agility, speed and cost reduction, the cloud is now a compelling choice for organizations looking to optimize their SAP® workloads. The cloud has changed the economics of buying and deploying a technology solution. Rather than investing upfront and buying servers with the constant worry that the infrastructure may fail to keep up with the demand, organizations are now proactively transitioning their workloads to the cloud at an accelerated pace. Further supporting this trend, Gartner has predicted that 80% of enterprises will no longer use traditional data centers by 2025. With more and more organization understanding the value of cloud v/s on-premises, many organizations plan to adopt cloud as the primary choice for deploying all kinds of SAP workloads (ECC, S/4HANA etc.)
Organizations can no longer justify the time and money spent in maintaining and constantly configuring hardware and infrastructure on-premises when deploying to the cloud. In fact, it can be used for better scaling, performance, and resilience at a fraction of the cost. SAP Customers who are commencing their journey towards S/4HANA based business transformation are choosing Cloud as the primary infrastructure platform for the S/4HANA implementation. Equally, those SAP customers who want to start their S/4HANA journey far out in the future (and want to take advantage of the extension to SAP ECC product support till 2027) are migrating their as-is SAP ECC workloads to cloud now to take advantage of the benefits that cloud offer.
