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SAP S/4HANA in the Cloud: Is it for you?
- Understanding the SAP strategy and roadmap for SAP HANA
- SAP HANA Infrastructure Deployment options along with the pros and cons of each option.
SAP S/4HANA on Cloud Your Migration Roadmap featuring
- Paths to S/4HANA
- How to Get Ready for the S/4HANA Transformation
- How to Start the Transformation
SAP S/4HANA on Cloud: Security & Compliance in the Cloud
- Anatomy of Security and Compliance
- Required Security and Compliance Functions
- Securing the Applications
How it works
Today Services for Managed SAP Applications has hundreds of production SAP clients around the world, managed by a single delivery team worldwide that ensures service quality and consistency, through a single service portal, regardless of the location from which they are running their SAP applications.
Benefits
IBM is the only company that is a public cloud provider as well as a system integrator.
We can provide truly end-to-end services from basic SAP certified IaaS to application management services, all the way up to business process as a service (BPaaS).
Accelerate cloud adoption
Moving your SAP applications to IBM Cloud™ can improve your agility and speed time to market, increasing competitiveness and allowing you to better serve your lines of business.
Features
Managed services include built-in security services and business-related key performance indicators (KPIs) and SLAs.
Transform your SAP deployment with cloud managed services: Six lessons from users.
Calculate potential savings for your SAP apps
The cost benefits SAP estimator can help you identify key areas of savings that can be reinvested in innovation, IT labor optimization and reduced TCO.
How managed cloud services can help different industries
Reduce time to market and simplify IT
Customer demands for variety and customization in products call for shorter supply chain lifecycles and flexible manufacturing operations. Manufacturers may need to refit production lines to support multiple products.
Drive down cost and free upstaff time
66% of financial services firms have adopted managed cloud services as a way to ensure optimal function of business applications within a secure environment.
Transform your customer experience
According to investment firm UBS, nearly 8,000 US retail store closures were announced in 2017—eclipsing the previous record of 6,163 closures during the 2008 recession.1 According to the National Retail Federation, while total retail sales are expected to grow around 4% in 2018, that number reflects growth of 10-12% in online sales, offset by continued declines in store-based sales.
Anticipate Change and adapt quickly
The conservative insurance industry is starting to embrace the digital era. After years of lagging behind other industries—including fellow regulated industries, such as financial services and healthcare—insurance firms are adopting cloud, analytics, and next-generation technologies as a means to win customers and grow revenue.
Resources
Find a strategic partner: How managed cloud services can Facilitate your digital Transformation
Analyst group Frost & Sullivan shares results from a recent survey of IT decision makers to show how businesses rely on their managed cloud service provider to help them realize their transformation strategies.
Enterprise Applications and Cloud Managed Services: 269 CIOs share their views
Based on a Frost & Sullivan survey of 269 senior IT executives, this paper reveals why companies are using cloud managed services for SAP or Oracle workloads.
IBM receives Frost & Sullivan’s North America Managed ERP Services leadership award for 2018
In their 2018 Best Practices Award, Frost & Sullivan recognizes IBM's strong managed services offering around business-critical ERP services, and proves their worth and benefits to clients based in customer results statistics.
Whats's new
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Andy Hacket
Technical Sales for Managed Applications on MultiCloud and IBM Q Ambassador
- SAP HANA, SAP on cloud
- Enterprise architecture, Managed services
- Multicloud enviroment, AWS, Azure, Google GCP
Madhuri Chawla
Director of Enterprise Application Solutions, IBM Cloud Services
- Managed applications cloud solutions
- Cloud adoption and support of hybrid cloud environments
- Digital transformation and SAP
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