Decreasing upfront costs, upcoming end of support deadlines for critical hardware components, new business needs, or simply ready to embrace the digital transformation.  For SAP solution providers , these customer scenarios  may sound familiar.

Enter the solution: migrating your SAP workloads to Microsoft Azure.

By running your SAP solutions on Microsoft Azure, you will maximize profitability, ensure business continuity, enhance flexibility, improve agility, and streamline data analysis.  The opportunity is immense, but the migration process can seem daunting.

We understand that SAP workloads  in Azure can be complex, but that’s why we’re here to take the heavy lifting off you and guide you through the journey.  The best part – we offer our expertise as a white label service for partners, allowing you to integrate into your own offering or resell.  Let Tech Data’s team of experts and services pave a seamless SAP migration path.

Now, let’s jump into our approach for a successful migration.

Assess: Before diving into the migration, assessing the current environment sets you and your customer up for success. It’s important to understand how each application contributes to the business and potential customer challenges or objections.

Get a basis of what you're working with such as:

- What does it do?
- Who uses it?
- How important is business continuity and business assurance to the SAP workloads being migrated?

From assessing your entire SAP landscape to building a clear plan for cloud migration and optimization initiatives, we provide a complete assessment to recommend plan and deliver a complete assessment and actionable migration plan to best fit your customer’s needs.

Strategize & Plan: No seamless project or migration begins without a plan. Building a clear roadmap and migration plan lays the foundation for a successful migration. As you talk to your customers, you should understand their concerns and fears regarding their SAP instances on Azure. Tech Data Presales services will prepare you and your team, so you’re never alone unprepared.
Another pro-tip: When defining the strategy for your cloud migration practice, it’s also key to consider your target customer base. Since SMB customers versus enterprise post-migration outcomes can vary, you may need to strategize and plan for the aftermath.

Migrate: Now, it’s time to migrate. Don’t go it alone – leverage Azure expertise as we work closely with Microsoft to deliver the best architectures for a smooth transition.  From Greenfield Implementation to Migration Services, we’ll support you through the execution.

Optimize: Finding the best ways to get the most out of your resources seems like a complex and time-consuming task, but it doesn’t have to be. With our skilled team, you can easily optimize your cloud environments to provide greater efficiency, while saving.   Our services are designed to optimize your customers’ cloud environments to provide greater operational efficiency as well as an increased return on investment for your business.

Manage: Cloud environments need to be regularly managed and maintained to ensure it continues to work efficiently and without jeopardizing business continuity. Wouldn’t it be nice to enjoy increased revenue and profitability, resource optimization and establish your trusted advisor status without having to do the heavy lifting? Good news – we can provide you and your customers with peace on mind by managing and taking on comprehensive operations.  Leaving you with an efficient, optimized cloud environment all the time.

Support: More risk, more reward isn’t in our team’s practice.  We believe in mitigating risks. Our end-to-end support with skilled technologists is here to automate and enhance your customer’s business operations with SLA-based issue resolution or FlexSAP Pay-As-You-Go support.

Tech Data, Microsoft and SAP’s partnership sets the foundation you need to meet your everchanging business needs.  Don’t go through the journey alone.  Avoid risk with Tech Data Technical Support, Managed Services and After Sales while migrating your clients to Azure with the highest customer satisfaction and a seamless transition.

Ready to get started?

For more information, contact the Tech Data Microsoft Cloud Team at 1-800-237-8931 ext.5545006 or email Microsoft@techdata.com.

Amanda Pollard has been a part of the Microsoft Cloud Team at Tech Data for 2 years. As a Vendor Marketing Manager, she specializes in supporting the execution of our strategic go-to-market strategy. In addition, Amanda has earned an Inbound Marketing certification from HubSpot, an Azure Fundamentals certification and an IBM Design Thinking certification. From her academic career, Amanda brings experience in creative strategies and marketing.