4 CUSTOMERS SAY RUNNING SAP WORKLOADS ON AWS YIELDS ROBUST BUSINESS BENEFITS
Market
Pulse
WHY THEY CHOSE AWS
Nearly one-quarter of customers say their first or second most-
important reason for choosing AWS is the company's wide
range of cloud solutions. That is followed closely by security and
performance. AWS's big data expertise and low-cost backup
and archive capabilities are also important influencing factors.
The focus on industry-specific solutions highlights the importance
of choice in customer decision-making. Respondents cite many
other factors in the AWS decision, including the cloud provider's
analytics and big data expertise, low-cost backup, cloud applica-
tion development expertise, and tested and proven migration tools
and methodologies. This indicates that SAP customers consider
many factors when choosing an infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
provider and favor a provider that can support them from the
initial migration stage through the deployment lifecycle.
BOTTOM LINE
Old perceptions die hard, and the results of this study provide
further evidence that decade-old concerns about security and
availability are no longer an issue. In fact, nearly one-quarter of
customers say they saw improvements in those areas. The fact
that nearly two-thirds plan to shift additional SAP workloads to
the cloud demonstrates that customers' confidence grows with
their cloud experience.
Organizations that have hesitated to move mission-critical appli-
cations to the cloud over concerns about security, data integrity,
and return on investment should take heart in the findings of this
study. Experienced SAP-on-AWS users overwhelmingly report
strong overall benefits, with initial payoffs in cost savings giving
way to more critical transformative factors like improved agility
and customer experience.
Business agility is a linchpin of digital transformation. Organi-
zations that make the shift to a lower-cost, more flexible cloud
environment now will be better prepared to cope with business
uncertainty in the future.
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Experienced
cost savings
Biggest cost
savings impacts
Source: IDG Research 2018
FIGURE 2. Cost Savings as a Result of Moving SAP Workloads to AWS
Hardware/software investment
Operations (system/application)
Hardware/software ongoing cost/maintenance
Implementation (process design, organizational change,
project management, set-up, testing, training)
Continuous improvement projects
Upgrade projects
43%
37%
36%
33%
31%
31%
25%
23%
23%
18%
19%
15%
