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SAP on Azure Implementation Guide

You're reading from   SAP on Azure Implementation Guide Move your business data to the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838983987
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bartosz Jarkowski Bartosz Jarkowski
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Exploring migration

There are typically two main reasons why you may consider migrating SAP to Azure:

  • You need to replace the infrastructure that is currently running SAP. This could be because the current hardware is up for renewal, or because an existing data center co-location or managed outsourcing contract is up for renewal.
  • You want to migrate SAP to a new database, particularly SAP HANA, or you plan to move to the latest SAP applications such as S/4HANA or BW/4HANA.

Depending on your goal SAP offers different migration paths. You can decide either to migrate the current workload to Azure as-is or to combine it with changing the database and execute both activities as a single step.

In most respects migrating SAP to Azure is no different to any other SAP data center migration, and if you have been running SAP for any significant time it is quite likely that you have already been through one or two migrations during that time. There are four...

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