Hosted SAP on Cloud
The growing number of companies running
SAP for their operations was the reason why a Hosted SAP model was invented by
the techies. Nowadays, almost every Medium & Large enterprise is aiming for
the SAP for their internal processes streamlining, reason being it is one of
the top enterprise resource planning application systems and management
provider. For deploying a SAP ERP, one needs to elect a highly secure &
stable hosting architecture which will help them to decode their technical
challenges in the form of solution. It’s quite a pain for the organisations to
worry about expensive maintenance of server hardware and setting up the team of
best SAP experts who will take care of the set-ups, installations,
health-checks, back-ups, upgrades & so on. Expensive & stressful thing,
isn’t it? To help companies avoid these concerns, various players have
started offering a complete reliable, secure & highly compatible SAP
hosting solution. A managed Data center facility can make a difference- by
availing products for these companies to plot ahead, offering a gamut of
services along with the 24 x 7 support to make sure that the systems are
working fine round the clock. To be precise, it encompasses all the technical
layers of a Hosted SAP solution.
A typical Hosted SAP consists of 3
layers of "the Cloud":
- Infrastructure which includes Servers, Storage & Networking.
- Software as a Service which comprises the Application software.
- Consumption that involves the Use of application- no matter what is the location of the application & what is the access technology.
Hosted SAP Model can be implemented on
various platforms, depending upon the organisation’s technical & financial
preference. It can be hosted on a dedicated server, public cloud, private cloud
etc. A dedicated server was typically considered by most of the companies in
past as they believed that the physical server itself is fully available for
their operations, however when it comes to a secured infrastructure a Cloudhosting solution is given more importance. Cloud is favored due to its
scalable solutions that grow with your business, as you only pay for what you
need and can leverage vertical and horizontal scaling features. Many users
assume that a Private cloud is something which is based on a highly isolated
network & utmost security & thus it is worth spending a huge sum for
hosting a SAP on Private cloud. But this is not entirely true; a public cloud
can also be called an isolated network till an extent, it can also offer
similar features if the requirements are well composed & executed. It is
said that 44% of enterprises consider private clouds for hosting their SAPs. By
believing a Cloud technology, 5% expenses can be reduced which result an
increase in net income for the organisations.
Apart from all the above pre-requisites,
the most significant thing is to make sure that the Cloud provider is ‘SAPCertified in Cloud Services’.