Transform your business for the digital eraDigital transformation is now an executive mandate and partner development capabilities will take advantage of customer demand for custom and packaged solutions.

By 2025, SAP customers worldwide will have to align with SAP roadmap for digital transformation to create new business models, operational efficiencies, and customer experiences.

DX spending is expected to steadily expand throughout the 2019-2025 forecast period, achieving a five-year compound annual growth rate of 16.7%.

Data Centre Modernization for SAP Customers – Cloud building the future

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Cloud technologies are at the forefront of the investment in the digital transformation revolution as cloud has changed more than the way we implement and manage IT; it’s changing the core of very business. Azure has engendered powerful new capabilities which are disrupting entire business models plus lowering costs of infrastructure.

Tech Data has a complete set of professional services and solutions to help to build a SAP on Azure practice and create more value to its customers by providing new innovative multi-vendor/partner solutions and services, and at the same time modernizing its IT infrastructure and developing more intelligent business processes.

Tech Data partners can accelerate its business partners in the SAP on Azure cloud practice by:

• Modernizing hosting infrastructure• Migrating SAP workloads• Creating new business applications

As business would like to follow a secure path to the SAP S/4 HANA, upgrading the infrastructure would be the first step. Cloud First and Hybrid strategies are the future to support extreme demanding HANA workloads. Customers need to be assured that your hosting solutions can scale to meet ongoing needs and maintain high standards of certifications, technical management, security and resilience.

Thanks to the transformation of the infrastructure, Tech Data, Microsoft and SAP partners can support SAP customers to co-innovate at the database and application level and leverage the technological advances of Microsoft Cloud Platform and SAP Leonardo to have real time control of your data coming from different sources and achieve the real intelligent enterprise.

Our partners are also able want to provide the SAP and Azure management services, monitoring and billing support they will require for all platforms. It is vital therefore to ensure you can offer them choice and also continue to support their more specific needs in a way that is viable and cost-effective, both for them and for you. At the same time, you need to always be looking to the future and building a practice and service that will enable you to differentiate and grow your business.

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A complete practice for SAP on Azure

Aimed specifically at partners looking to build on and develop their existing managed services and cloud practices, it provides a complete process for SAP workload migration, starting with a customer engagement presales support to prove the cost efficiency of the migration to the cloud.

When defining the strategy for your cloud migration practice, a key consideration is your target customer base. Some SAP on Azure practices focus on the enterprise segment, where other focused on the small and mid-size business (SMB) segment. SMB customers generate nearly three-quarters of cloud migration or modernization business.

• Migration practices that focus on SMB customers tend to have shorter migration project durations, with nearly half of all projects taking 3 months or less.

• Practices with an enterprise focus tend to see higher follow-on revenue for additional services post-migration.

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Building a SAP on Azure Practice

Engaging Customers• Understanding your customers challenges• Data driven customer insights• Understanding the TCO• Overcoming Customers Objections

Optimizing Operations• Revising business models to prioritize agility and emerging trends • Harnessing technology for next level of efficiency• Defining Services Offering• Define Pricing Strategy• Empowering Employees

Risk Mitigation• Financial Risk Control - Cost Control - Financing: Grow as your business grows. • Services - Optimization of Operations - Migration Assessment - Turn Key Projects• SLA: Standard, Professional, Premium • Workforce alignment to challenges

Transforming Solutions• New Scenarios• Leveraging digital platforms to innovate and reduce delivery timeframes • Making customers your business partners • Connecting products to amplify and redefine their value

Working closely with Microsoft, we’ve taken the initiative and led the way in enabling partners to engage on cloud programs such as Microsoft CSP and transition to the cloud. Our SAP on Azure Program is a key part of the next stage of our development and transformation plan.

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Assessment and Migration planningIt is important to understand how each application contributes to the business. What does it do? Who uses it? What is the impact of an outage? How important is business continuity and business assurance to the SAP workloads being migrated?

Tech Data offers includes in its CSP SAP on Azure program offering, SAP Gold Partner professional services for Assessment and Migration planning as non-competing indirect ‘white label’ service for the customers that require so to integrate in their offering or resale.

MigrationsTech Data offers includes in its CSP SAP on Azure program offering Turn Key Migrations as ‘white label’ service for the partners that require so to integrate in their offering or resale.

The most common service offered is ‘lift and shift’ migrations to Azure infrastructure services (IaaS). This focuses on cost reduction by reducing or removing the dependency on on-premises infrastructure.

Within this area, a range of complementary services can be offered, such as HANA migration assessments and HANA migrations.

Because the assurance that SAP works is key to the business of our clients, Tech Data offers different SLAs with 24-hour response times, down to 1-hour or even 15-minute response times as a premium service. Tech Data providers focus on Azure and SAP based service, while others focus on Azure.

Managed ServicesTech Data offers includes in its CSP SAP on Azure program offering managed SAP and Azure as ‘white label’ service for the partners that require so to integrate in their offering or resale.

There are a number of managed service models available. For example, customers can get managed services per application, per VM, per user, or patch. The right choice for your business will depend on the application’s operating cost and usage model, as well as customer preferences.

Why Tech Data for data SAP on Azure?

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We will examine every detail of your operational, technical and sales capabilities, including:

• Technical capability of current environment • Opportunities to modernize • Migration tools and planning • Contracts and SLAs • Supplier commitments • Licensing and customer models • Compliance • IT and DevOps requirements • Proof of concept for technical and operational acceptance • Headcount and skills • People development • Accreditations and competencies • Service management • Monitoring and reporting • Automation and orchestration • Operational and process changes • Product and services portfolio • Service plan • Sales training.

Here are the reasons why Tech Data can make data center modernization work for your business:

• Tech Data has the reach and scale to address your needs

• Tech Data has the technical skills to support you in migrating

• Tech Data has the flexibility and scalability to help you manage the transition

• Tech Data has the experience in engaging partners on cloud programs, providing training and accelerating business

• Tech Data has the processes in place to support you in addressing operational challenges

• Tech Data has the platform to support you in delivering and managing customers.

We have the experience, capabilities and scale to help you transform your data center and your business. With Tech Data, you can take advantage of hybrid and hyper-scale cloud services. We’ll help you ensure customer retention and accelerate new customer acquisition in order to drive business growth.

What to expect from Tech Data

For further information please visit Telephone 08-7952050 license@techdata.nu

We can provide:

• Additional specialist assistance with migrations • Assistance with hardware buy-back • Funding support and Finance Solutions • Expert technical assistance when and if it is required • A platform you can use to manage and report on Azure and other public cloud spending. This comes with intuitive usage dashboards to keep you informed and in control • Vendor authorized training and certifications for sales and technical IT professionals • Assistance in planning and executing marketing and lead generation programs • Pre-sales support through our Azure Centre of Excellence • Access to pre-configured Azure solutions and blueprints to make selling and deployment easier.

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