“Cybersecurity risks do nothing but increase over time, and that means more risk than many security teams can keep up with,” says Lisa Anderson, president of LMA Consulting Group, which specializes in supply-chain modernization.”
Business transformation is a battle fought on many fronts, and one of the most important is the modernization of core business processes. By optimizing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, for example, enterprises can unlock new insights from business data for better decision making and to identify new market opportunities. Large and mid-size organizations can also better manage finances and inventories, HR operations, supply chains, and other essential areas. With these benefits in sight, forward-thinking companies are upgrading to the latest ERP platforms and moving them to a public cloud service to reduce capital expenditures while increasing agility, innovation, and competitiveness in quickly changing markets.
As global organizations across every industry adjust to the new normal, cloud solutions are playing an increasingly vital role in addressing immediate needs and paving a path to a resilient future. Many organizations running their SAP solutions on-premises have become increasingly aware of the need to be more agile and responsive to realtime business, technical, and environmental needs. According to an IDC survey, 54% of enterprises expect the demand for cloud software to increase. As global organizations seek agility, cost savings, risk reduction, and immediate insights from their enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, many of the largest enterprises choose Microsoft Azure as their trusted partner when moving their SAP solutions to the cloud.
Published in Harvard Business Review on Aug. 20, 2020