Hello everyone, my name is Lourduma Reddy Thirumal Reddy and I'm SAP Basics and HANA Administrator with over 17 years of experience. I am excited to welcome you all to this session. Today I will be talking about the introduction and benefits of running mission critical SAP workloads on Microsoft Azure Cloud. This presentation explores the transformative integration of SAP workloads. with the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. We will demonstrate how enterprises can achieve significant cost savings while maintaining more than 19 percent of availability for mission critical SAP applications. Leveraging Azure's extensive portfolio of critical solutions. Here we are going to see the main advantages of running SAP workloads on Azure. The first one is cost reduction Transform your IT budget with Azure's intelligent cost optimization, delivering up to 60 percent savings on operational expenses. Our pay as you go model eliminates over provisioning while automated resource management ensures maximum efficiency across your SAP landscape. The next one is high availability. Safeguard your mission critical operations. With Azure's enterprise grade infrastructure generating more than 99 percent uptime through redundant data centers, availability zones, automation failover, and advanced disaster recovery capabilities. Our globally distributed network ensures your SAP applications remain accessible 24 7. Here we will go through a comprehensive ecosystem. for diverse SAP workloads. The first one is SAP HANA. Accelerate your analytics up to 100 times faster while reducing data footprint by 98 percent while Azure's optimized infrastructure for SAP HANA workloads. Mainly M series VMs, which are designed specially for memory intensive applications like SAP HANA. SAP HANA The next one is SAP NetWeaver applications. Transform your business operations by seamlessly integrating ERP, SCM, CRM, and other business suite applications with Azure's certified infrastructure, ensuring more than 99 percent availability. The third one is S4 HANA. Future proof your enterprise with real time analytics. AI powered automation and intelligent process optimization while reducing TCO by up to 45 40 percent on Azure. Here we'll go through some real world success stories transforming SAP deployments. Accelerated time to value. Organizations achieve 40 percent faster deployment times with Azure's pre configured SAP solutions. Reducing implementation from months to weeks while cutting project cost up to 2 million annually based on customer's infrastructure size. Enhanced business performance. Companies report 75 percent improvement in system performance, enabling real time analytics processing of more than 100 TB datasets and supporting 100, 000 concurrent users With sub second response times here, we'll see how sap workloads, seamlessly integrate integration Integrate with microsoft services. The first one is microsoft infra id Shenton security and simplify access management With the single sign on capabilities across your SAP ecosystem, reduce IT overhead while ensuring compliance through centralized identity governance. The next one is Power Platform. Empower your teams to build custom solutions without extensive coding. Create interactive dashboards, automate workflows, and develop mobile apps That seamlessly connect with your SAP data. The next one is Azure Integration Services. Connect your SAP systems with over 1, 000 enterprise applications through pre built connectors. Streamline business processes and enable real time data synchronization while maintaining data integrity. And we'll see how can we do scalability and flexibility for growing business day by day. Scale your SAP environments dynamically with Azure's Elastic Infrastructure, supporting growth from 50 to 50, 000 users while maintaining sub millisecond response times and more than 99 percent availability. The second one is leverage Azure's consumption based pricing. To reduce infrastructure cost by up to 40 percent With automated scaling that optimizes resources based on real time demand patterns this, automated scaling will be helpful when a month in process running or year in process running when We need more cpu and memory resources the Third one is future proof your sap landscape With instant access to enterprise grade compute resources allowing you to add New workloads or expand existing ones in minute instead of months. Now we can see What are the options related to? security and compliance enterprise grade security and compliance achieve global compliance with azure's comprehensive certification portfolio spanning You More than 90 regulatory standards, including GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2, Type 2, enabling seamless operations across international market while maintaining secure data sovereignty. Protect your SAP workloads with Azure's military grade security infrastructure. Featuring 256 bit end to end encryption, biometric authentication systems, and real time threat monitoring powered by AI driven analytics. The third one is, strengthen your security postures with Azure Security Center's integrated tools, including automated security assessments, continuous compliance monitoring, and advanced threat protection that blocks, Over 99 percent of cyberattacks before they reach your SAP systems. Here we see the joint partnership program between Microsoft and SAP. The first one is joint innovation achieved by collaborative development of cutting edge cloud solutions and AI powered enterprises tools. Next one is certified solutions. Rigorously tested and validated architectures. Ensuring optimal performance. The next one is best practices. Comprehensive guidelines from thousands of successful implementations. The last one is, achieving customer success, dedicated support teams, and proven migration frameworks. Our 25 plus years of strategic partnership with SAP combines Microsoft's cloud leadership with SAP's enterprise expertise. This collaboration has resulted in certified solutions that power over 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies. SAP Cloud. Delivering unmatched reliability and performance for mission critical workloads. Through continuous innovation and joint development efforts, we provide organizations with a trusted path to digital transformation while reducing implementation risks and accelerating time to value. Here we see TCO, Total Cost of Ownership Optimization. The first one is reduced infrastructure cost by cut down hardware and maintenance expenses by up to 60 percentage through Azure's pay as you go model. The next one is optimized licensing cost. Save 30 to 40% on software licensing with Azure Hybrid benefit and consolidated billing. Third one is lower operational expenses. You can achieve by decrease operational cost by 30 percent through automated management and simplified, IT workflows. Transform your SAP landscape economics with Azure's intelligent cost optimization solutions. Delivering an average 45 percent reduction in TCO through automated resource scaling. Simplified management and integrated cost controls. Our customers typically achieve complete ROI within 18 months while maintaining enterprise grade performance and reliability. Here we will go through some key takeaways modernizing your SAP landscape. Cost reduction up to 60 percent Achieve significant savings through optimized infrastructure and operational efficiency Availability more than 99 percent Enterprise grade uptime with redundant systems and automatic failover and disaster recovery. Faster deployment, more than 40%. Accelerate implementation with pre configured templates and automation technologies. And performance improvement more than 75%. Enhance system responsiveness through Azure's optimized infrastructure. Here, we'll go how to empower your digital transformation. The first one is cloud strategy. Create a tailored cloud roadmap that maximizes ROI. Incorporating your existing SAP investments and future scalability needs. Align technical capabilities with specific business outcomes. The next one is migration plan. Build a detailed implementation timeline with clear milestones. risk mitigation strategies and resource allocation plans include testing protocols and business continuity measures throughout the transition. Thank you everyone for joining the session. Hope you enjoyed this session.