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Elevate Your Enterprise With SAP on Running SAP on Azure enhances agility and accelerates innovation

Get Ready for Your Future nn A deep and trusted partnership. SAP nn A secure and trusted provider. runs its own business-critical systems More than 95% of Fortune 500 Moving your SAP workloads to the on Azure, and Microsoft and SAP have organizations trust Microsoft Azure is important for gaining a holistic view of partnered for over 25 years. With SAP for security, privacy, transparency, and your organization and real-time insights on Azure, you can take advantage the most compliance coverage of any to drive innovation, elasticity and of unified best practices, co-located cloud provider.1 growth. By moving your SAP workloads engineering resources and a proven to Microsoft Azure, SAP’s preferred reference architecture. Migrate Strategically with public cloud, you can build a more agile nn Hitachi Consulting and customer-centric business. And, Global support and flexibility. Azure with help from the experienced team at has a footprint of more than 50 The SAP-to-Azure migration is a Hitachi Consulting, you can move your regions worldwide, enabling single- complex undertaking that requires SAP workloads to the cloud seamlessly, architecture support for global deep understanding of and experience cost-effectively and on a timeline that businesses. Azure also offers the only with both Azure and SAP, including works for your business. consistent hybrid cloud, so you can SAP’s full range of analytics, cloud, develop and deploy where you want, mobile and business applications. For organizations that are running with native services to help extend Hitachi Consulting offers that unique SAP ERP Central Component (SAP SAP into business apps, data lakes and combination, as well as a wide array of ECC), support will end on December Microsoft Power BI reporting. SAP and Microsoft Azure services, tools 31, 2025. This might seem like the nn An environment built for digital and offerings to help you optimize your distant future but moving SAP ECC to transformation. Go quickly from SAP experience on Azure. Whether your SAP S/4HANA is a significant effort, concept to release with Azure path is to move SAP ECC to the cloud, so now is a good time to get started. solutions for data services, AI, implement SAP S/4HANA as part of Organizations that move ahead of the machine learning, blockchain, IoT your migration, or build and leverage curve can start reaping the benefits of and other emerging technologies, SAP Cloud Platform and SAP Leonardo emerging technologies such as artificial all powered by Hitachi Consulting’s solutions running in Azure, Hitachi intelligence (AI), automation, machine deep experience and longstanding Consulting can help. learning and the of things (IoT) relationship with both SAP and – and start leaving their competitors Microsoft. Why Hitachi Consulting? behind. nn A cloud ready for SAP S/4HANA. Using a combination of senior Advantages of SAP on Azure Azure is a powerful and scalable people, frameworks and intellectual cloud for the SAP HANA platform; property developed from numerous Compared to on-premises or hosted it is one of the major cloud successful projects, our approach and environments, cloud-based SAP providers supporting the largest engagement model is adapted to meet deployments offer several well- enterprise workloads. With advanced the requirements of every individual established benefits, including greater automation supported by Azure, you client. We’re committed to building agility, support for the latest apps and can quickly provision and configure long-term relationships — in fact, 80% analytics, and the ability to scale at will. any of your SAP workloads. of our business comes from existing When you run SAP on Azure, you can customers. enjoy the following advantages:

1 Microsoft Azure, “Azure vs. AWS,” Microsoft, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-vs-aws/ nn Relationships with SAP and Microsoft. nn Hitachi Optimized Factory for SAP About Hitachi Consulting Hitachi Consulting is both a long- increases supply chain process Hitachi Consulting is the global solutions standing SAP global partner and a transparency; improves planning, and professional services organization Microsoft partner with a specialization scheduling and quality management; within Hitachi Ltd., a global innovation in Azure. and streamlines maintenance and shop leader in industrial and information floor activities. nn End-to-end SAP experience. We are technology solutions and an early one of the few global companies to nn Hitachi Managed Services for SAP pioneer of the Internet of Things. Hitachi offer an end-to-end SAP experience, Environments on Azure provides Consulting is a business integrator for including licenses, maintenance, all-inclusive technical service-level the IoT era and a catalyst for digital functional design and implementation agreements (SLAs) to run and manage transformation. Using our deep domain services, cloud services, infrastructure, your SAP environment on Azure. knowledge, we strategically collaborate support and managed services. The Hitachi Consulting with our clients to help them innovate nn Customized support. Whether you faster, maximize operational efficiency want to optimize your current SAP Difference and realize measurable, sustainable solution, implement SAP S/4HANA As part of Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Consulting business and societal value. As a or integrate IoT solutions, our team brings extraordinary depth and breadth consulting-led solutions company, we works with you to address your unique of SAP technology and innovation can help you leverage data as a strategic requirements while mitigating risk and experience. We leverage our position as asset to drive competitive differentiation, reducing your total cost of ownership one of the leading industrial groups in customer loyalty and growth. To learn (TCO). the world to not only offer consulting more, visit www.hitachiconsulting.com. nn One vendor, one monthly price. We services but also to deploy and implement deliver everything to solutions to your specifications. simplify management, reduce costs We deliver industry-centric solutions and drive innovation with SAP offerings across key public and private- to meet your business needs. You pay a sector industries, and we have the predictable monthly price that includes ingredients you need to power your SAP all SAP, Azure and Hitachi Consulting environment. That includes the skilled services. resources necessary to migrate, design, Specialized Tools Accelerate run and manage every element in your Transformation SAP environment – and the strength to deliver everything as a service with a Hitachi Consulting offers specialized predictable monthly fee. capabilities to accelerate your SAP migration to Azure. Using these tools If your business is relying on a legacy to streamline and automate your move version of SAP, contact Hitachi Consulting to the cloud can avoid potential costly to find out how we can help you migrate outages. to Azure in a smart, cost-effective manner. We’ll help you reduce risk and nn The Hitachi Cloud Advisory Tool helps take full advantage of the flexibility, us map an overall cloud migration intelligence and security of Azure to strategy for you in less time, including create new customer experiences, applications and infrastructure. accelerate business innovation and scale nn Our Hitachi methodology enables us to meet global demand. to quickly work toward providing rapid return on investment (ROI) for your migration using SAP design thinking, Hitachi Consulting industry and IoT experience, and SAP capabilities.

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