This case study describes a global technology consulting firm that migrated their SAP workload to Microsoft Azure virtual machines to improve access to internal training programs. Hosting SAP on-premise previously caused issues with connectivity, redundancy, scalability, and capacity planning. Migrating to Azure offered flexibility and scalability. The client tested the Azure environment for 15 days and was impressed by its performance. Benefits included reduced capital expenses, quick and easy access to SAP, improved redundancy, auto-scaling capacity, and reduced hardware maintenance costs.

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SYSFORE CASE STUDY – SAP
ON MICROSOFT AZURE

2. Sysfore Case Study – SAP on Microsoft Azure
This case study is on a global technology consulting firm, focused on leveraging
emerging technologies for innovation and application modernization in
Banking & Finance, Utilities, CPG, Retail, Technology, Media and Entertainment
Industries. It partners with companies to identify new technology strategies to
help businesses transform, in order to advance performance and
competitiveness. They have over 100 clients globally.
Scenario: A Global Technology Consulting firm used Microsoft Azure to migrate
their existing SAP workload to the cloud, offering them redundancy, flexibility
and scalability.
Business Needs: The client’s internal and external training programs and
demos use SAP IDES (Internet Demonstration & Evaluation System), which are
demo systems running SAP modules and applications for training purposes.
Accessing these internal training programs across different global locations
posed hurdles in connectivity as their standalone SAP servers were
unreachable and lacked redundancy/fault tolerance. Implementing SAP on-
premise brought additional challenges like delays, security, scalability and
capacity planning.
Solution: To simplify the training and to overcome the challenges they faced
with hosting SAP on-premise, the client evaluated Azure and decided to
migrate its SAP workload to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines for creating an
environment to carry out training internally. The client worked closely with
Sysfore to migrate the SAP workload using Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines to
provision servers for installing and configuring the SAP. During this migration,
the standalone SAP tools & procedures for deploying SAP systems on the cloud
were employed. Initially, the client subscribed to a 15-day trial period to test
the performance, connectivity and response time of the system by allowing
maximum number of users to log into the system at any given point of time.
Benefits: The solution provided enabled the client to gain flexibility and
scalability. Impressed by the performance of the SAP system running on Azure,
the client plans to expand its Azure implementations for additional future
projects.

3.  Reduction in Capital Expenses for the organization on training their
professionals by eliminating expenses in hardware or procurement of
servers for setting up SAP workload.
 Quick and easy access to the SAP environment at any given time.
 Improved Redundancy ensuring continuity in training activities.
 Auto-Scaling feature to provision servers instantly to increase the
capacity for training.
 Deployment of SAP on Azure improved handling of offsite training
sessions and assuring easy access of data.
 Azure also offers opportunity to “park” virtual machines resumed at any
time without incurring costs. This significantly helped the client in
reducing their cost of hardware maintenance.
 Quick deployment as only the instances that are needed for training can
be provisioned and then deleted after training is complete.
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