Successful work team
When moving workloads to any cloud it is important to think about how this will affect your organization, and how you leverage partners to support you in this journey. As described earlier in this chapter, while many of the responsibilities remain unchanged, in a software-defined data centre individual roles may need to change if you are to take full advantage of the flexibility and agility provided by Azure. These roles and responsibilities will also be different when considering consuming IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings.
In the case of running SAP on Azure we are mostly considering the use of Azure IaaS services, but most customers will also need to consider how these integrate with native Azure PaaS services, such as AKS for hybris, SAP PaaS services such as SAP Cloud Platform (SCP), as well as SAP SaaS services such as Ariba, Concur, Fieldglass, and SuccessFactors.
For most of you, it is unlikely that you have all the skills in-house to manage the migration...