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We’ve recently been publishing a lot of information from Microsoft IT around our move to SAP on Azure. 

Microsoft runs SAP for:

• ERP (ECC 6.0, EhP6)
• Global Trade Services
• Supply Chain Management
• Master Data Governance
• Concur
• Success Factors
• Integrated Business Planning
• eRecruiting
• Ariba Business Network and Direct Sourcing, etc.

If you’re interested in hearing about the experiences of 100,000 employee company’s move to SAP-on-Azure and the benefits that have come from it:

• Cost management (sizing system to accommodate for capacity needs during holidays, snoozing systems)
• Agility (Creation, size up or size down, prototyping, development systems)
• Tooling for Security & Telemetry for managing compliance & security
• Classification of support tickets using Machine Learning to minimize turn around times & increase success rates
• etc.

…you may want to watch this short 5-minute video.

Like many companies, Microsoft uses SAP for mission-critical business functions for finance, human resources, and global trade. When it came time to move our SAP estate to the cloud we went through a process of planning and assessment prior to migration. We then focused on optimization along with management after the migration. In this video, Hans Reutter provides a first-hand account of moving SAP workloads to the cloud with Azure, and offers tips based on what we learned along the way.

• Lessons learned when migrating SAP to the cloud
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/itshowcase/lessons-learned-when-migrating-sap-to-the-cloud