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Microsoft and SAP share the love in new mega deal
March 25, 2022 | Cloud Computing, Microsoft, SAP
Microsoft and SAP have a long track record of collaboration and the Redmond giant has run large parts of its internal operations on SAP ERP for decades.
RISE with SAP will allow Microsoft to deploy new capabilities and technologies faster and run business operations on a flexible cloud-first solution that is integrated with the other SAP solutions that Microsoft uses.
The decision to adopt RISE with SAP builds on its wide adoption of SAP technologies, including SAP SuccessFactors solutions, the SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution, SAP Business Technology platform and other SAP solutions running on Microsoft Azure.
As part of its own transformative journey and to gain operational efficiencies, SAP will optimize operations for some critical internal business systems under the operations model used for the RISE with SAP solution hosted on Microsoft Azure.
The deal is a huge win for SAP and a bold statement by Microsoft, but it does raise one obvious question: why doesn’t Microsoft use its own ERP solution? Put simply, Dynamics was never designed to run a behemoth like SAP. Despite being the fastest growing cloud ERP solution – by as much as 45 percent at its current rate – customers that are selecting Dynamics will most likely have simpler businesses and Microsoft is an obvious fit if you are already using Teams and running workloads on Azure.
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