In today’s competitive business environment, businesses attach more importance to digital transformation than ever before. Integrated systems have gained an important place in digital transformation processes. In this blog post, we will discuss the widely used SAP and Microsoft Azure integration.
What is SAP?
SAP is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software used by many businesses around the world. SAP offers a software suite that enables businesses to integrate various business processes, manage their operations and increase their efficiency. This package includes many solutions for business functions such as finance, accounting, human resources, sales and distribution. Thanks to SAP, businesses carry out all their business processes on a central platform and also manage their decision-making processes efficiently with tools such as data analysis and reporting.
What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is the cloud computing and infrastructure platform managed by Microsoft. It allows businesses to create, deploy and manage applications whose data is hosted in Microsoft’s data center. Azure offers many cloud-based systems such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, Active Directory Domain Service and SQL database to businesses. In this way, businesses can meet their cloud-based service needs easily and at less cost.
What is SAP and Microsoft Azure Integration?
SAP and Microsoft Azure integration is a solution that provides bi-directional data flow between SAP systems and the Microsoft Azure platform. The goal of the solution is to effectively integrate, simplify and automate business processes.
SAP & Azure integration offers the opportunity to leverage the full potential of Azure’s services and SAP data:
- You can transfer data such as SAP tables and ABAP reports from your SAP system to Microsoft Azure’s cloud environment safely and quickly.
- You can save large amounts of data from your SAP system to Azure SQL database.
- You can maximize the performance of your SAP data.
- You can analyze your SAP data more efficiently with Azure’s fast and secure data analysis capabilities.
What are the benefits of SAP and Microsoft Azure Integration for Businesses?
The benefits offered by SAP and Microsoft Azure integration provide significant advantages to businesses in various areas:
Improved Data Management: SAP and Azure integration improves data management by providing businesses with big data storage and processing capabilities. Thanks to Azure’s cloud-based infrastructure, businesses can transfer their big data to Azure and store it in the Azure database.
Enhanced Security and Compliance: SAP and Azure integration provides high security standards and compliance support, protecting businesses’ sensitive data from unauthorized access.
Automatic Data Synchronization: Azure and SAP integration enables automatic data flow between cloud-based and on-premises systems. Thus, it eliminates the manual data entry processes of businesses and ensures that all data is up-to-date.
Cost Savings: SAP & Microsoft Azure integration eliminates hardware investments spent on traditional infrastructure setups when deploying applications on Microsoft Azure. Thus, businesses save costs.
Scalable and Flexible Infrastructure: Businesses can grow and their needs may change over time. Azure’s flexible infrastructure helps businesses scale their resources and adapt to changing needs.
Business Intelligence and Data Analytics: The integration provides businesses with data analytics and business intelligence capabilities, enabling them to derive valuable insights from data. Through this information, businesses can make better decisions and gain competitive advantage.
Backup: Thanks to Azure’s backup features, businesses can securely back up their SAP data and protect it against disaster situations.
Cloud-Based Infrastructure: Integration allows businesses to transfer SAP applications and workloads to Azure’s cloud-based infrastructure.
How Can You Integrate SAP and Microsoft Azure?
MIP is an iPaaS solution that offers pre-built integration to accelerate the integration processes of businesses.
Pre-built SAP & Microsoft Azure integrations integrate your Microsoft Azure and SAP system without the need for special coding and ensure uninterrupted data flow between the two systems. This integration allows you to benefit from Azure’s cloud services such as storage, network management and database with maximum efficiency using SAP.
You can contact us to get more information about MIP’s pre-bubilt integration packages.