SAP on Azure — Make the S/4HANA Move Count

You have to move off ECC by 2027 anyway. Do it on Microsoft Azure and turn a forced upgrade into a genuine leap — S/4HANA and RISE with SAP on certified, elastic infrastructure that connects your ERP to modern data and AI. Tech One Global plans and runs the whole journey.

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What is SAP on Azure?

SAP on Azure means running your SAP workloads — S/4HANA, SAP HANA, or classic ECC — on Microsoft Azure’s SAP-certified cloud infrastructure, instead of on the hardware in your own data center. Microsoft and SAP are long-standing partners, and Microsoft runs its own SAP estate on Azure.

The timing is what makes this decision urgent. Because SAP is retiring ECC support, almost every SAP customer has to move to S/4HANA anyway. Doing that migration on Azure — rather than refreshing on-premises hardware for a system you’ll modernize regardless — means the money you must spend also buys you cloud scale, security, and a direct line into Azure’s data and AI services.

  • Certified for SAP — HANA-certified VMs sized for the largest ERP workloads.
  • Elastic, no hardware — scale HANA up and down without buying and housing servers.
  • Connected to data & AI — your ERP data feeds Fabric, Power BI, and Copilot natively.
  • Enterprise resilience — high-availability architecture and strong SLAs for mission-critical ERP.
Your Route To S/4HANA

Three ways to make the move — we help you choose

1
BrownfieldConvert your existing SAP system to S/4HANA, keeping history and customizations.
2
GreenfieldA clean S/4HANA implementation — a fresh start with best-practice processes.
3
RISE with SAPSAP's managed S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, running on Azure.
Core Capabilities & Functions

What makes Azure the right home for SAP

Running the crown-jewel of your IT estate demands certified infrastructure, real resilience, and deep integration. Azure brings all three.

SAP-Certified Infrastructure

HANA-certified virtual machines with the memory and performance the largest SAP workloads need.

HANA-certified VMsLarge Instances

RISE with SAP on Azure

Deploy SAP's managed S/4HANA transformation package on Microsoft's cloud, fully integrated.

RISE with SAPS/4HANA Cloud PE

High Availability & DR

Availability zones, replication, and strong SLAs keep mission-critical ERP running.

Availability ZonesSite Recovery

Simplified Management

Azure Center for SAP Solutions gives you a single place to deploy, monitor, and manage.

Azure Center for SAPMonitoring

Data & AI Integration

Surface SAP data in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, and put Copilot to work on it.

Microsoft FabricPower BICopilot

Security & Compliance

Enterprise identity, encryption, and controls aligned to the Data Privacy Act and BIR needs.

Microsoft EntraDefender for Cloud
The 2027 Deadline

This isn't a someday decision anymore

SAP has confirmed the end of mainstream maintenance for ECC — and the timeline math is unforgiving. With migrations taking 18–36 months, the window to finish before support ends is closing right now.

Dec 31, 2027

ECC Mainstream Ends

No more standard support, security patches, or legal-change updates for SAP ECC 6.0.

To 2030

Extended Maintenance

Available at a premium — a costly bridge, not a strategy, and only for eligible releases.

18–36 mo

Migration Timeline

A typical S/4HANA program's length — which is why starting now is the safe choice.

The forced move is also the opportunity. Since you must move to S/4HANA regardless, doing it on Azure means the same mandatory project also modernizes your infrastructure, connects your ERP to data and AI, and retires aging hardware — instead of just buying you a few more years on-premises.
The Business Case

Spend the S/4HANA budget once — spend it well

The migration is happening either way. The real question for leadership is whether that investment simply keeps the lights on, or whether it also moves the business forward.

Migrate S/4HANA onto on-premises hardware and you’ve spent a fortune to end up where you started — just newer. Migrate it onto Azure and the same spend retires your data center, gives you elastic capacity you can dial to demand, and puts your ERP data one step away from Fabric, Power BI, and Copilot.

There’s a hard cost to waiting, too. Extended maintenance carries a premium, and as the deadline nears, the pool of SAP migration talent and partner capacity is shrinking — pushing timelines and prices up for everyone who starts late.

The organizations that win aren't the ones who migrate last and cheapest. They're the ones who treat the mandatory move as the moment to modernize. The deadline is doing the deciding — the only choice left is how well you use it.

The Timeline Math

Why "start now" is the only responsible answer

Dec 2027
hard end of ECC mainstream maintenance
SAP
18–36 mo
typical length of an S/4HANA migration program
Industry consensus
~50%
of SAP customers still to complete their migration
Gartner / DSAG
2033
how far RISE can bridge support for complex estates
SAP

Deadline and maintenance terms per SAP's published maintenance strategy; migration timelines are industry estimates and vary with landscape size, custom code, and data volume. Sources: SAP; Gartner; DSAG survey.

SAP On Azure By Industry

What S/4HANA on Azure unlocks in your sector

SAP runs the core of these industries. Moving it to Azure changes what that core can do.

Manufacturing

Run S/4HANA production, planning, and supply-chain on elastic infrastructure — and feed real-time ERP data into analytics and IoT.

Built with: HANA-certified VMs, Fabric
Real-time
planning on a modern core

Banking & Financial Services

Modernize finance and risk on S/4HANA with the security, availability, and compliance controls regulators expect.

Built with: Availability Zones, Defender for Cloud
Compliant core
resilient and auditable

Retail & Distribution

Scale S/4HANA for peak trading, unify inventory and finance, and connect ERP to real-time demand signals.

Built with: Elastic HANA, Power BI
Scales with sales
one source for stock & finance

Consumer Goods

Support complex distribution and trade promotion on S/4HANA, with the analytics to manage margin in real time.

Built with: S/4HANA, Fabric
Margin visibility
across a complex supply chain

Energy & Utilities

Run asset-intensive operations on a resilient S/4HANA core, with the availability critical infrastructure demands.

Built with: HANA Large Instances, Site Recovery
Always-on core
for critical operations

Government & Public Sector

Modernize public-sector finance and procurement on S/4HANA, with data residency and sovereignty in mind.

Built with: S/4HANA, Sovereign Cloud
Modern & sovereign
public finance you can trust
Proven At Scale
2,000+

cloud projects delivered across 23+ years in the Philippines

An SAP migration is one of the most consequential projects a business ever runs. We bring the delivery discipline, Microsoft depth, and local presence to make sure the crown jewels move safely — and land better than they left.

Why Tech One Global

The partner for a move you can't afford to get wrong

The right path, chosen with you

Brownfield, greenfield, or RISE — we assess your landscape and recommend the route that fits your reality and timeline.

Compliant & secure

NPC-aligned and built to support BIR requirements, so your ERP move satisfies the regulator as well as the roadmap.

Beyond go-live

We integrate SAP with your wider Azure, data, and Microsoft 365 estate — and manage it long after cutover.

Why Tech One Global Philippines

A 4-time Microsoft Country Partner of the Year — with the delivery muscle to match.

Legacy migrations go wrong in the details: hybrid identity, mail flow, the line-of-business app nobody documented. Technical depth isn’t a nice-to-have here — it’s the whole job.

How We Move Your SAP

A disciplined path to S/4HANA on Azure

Mission-critical migrations reward structure. Ours de-risks every stage from assessment to steady-state.

1

Assess

Review your SAP landscape, custom code, and readiness — and define the target.

2

Plan

Choose the route — brownfield, greenfield, or RISE — and design the Azure architecture.

3

Migrate

Execute the conversion or implementation with testing and clean cutover.

4

Integrate

Connect SAP to Fabric, Power BI, Copilot, and your Microsoft 365 estate.

5

Manage

Run, monitor, and optimize your SAP-on-Azure environment for the long term.

Related Azure Pathways

SAP is the core - connect the rest

Data Modernization

Surface your S/4HANA data in a unified, governed estate — ready for analytics and AI.

Build AI on Azure

Put copilots and agents to work on the ERP data that runs your business.

Migrate to Azure

Move the rest of your estate alongside SAP for one consistent, cost-optimized cloud.
Frequently Asked Questions

SAP on Azure, answered

What is SAP on Azure?

It means running your SAP workloads — S/4HANA, SAP HANA, or classic ECC — on Microsoft Azure’s SAP-certified cloud infrastructure instead of on-premises hardware. You get SAP’s enterprise applications combined with Azure’s scale, resilience, security, and integration with data and AI services.

SAP is ending mainstream maintenance for ECC on December 31, 2027, with extended maintenance only as a paid bridge to 2030. Because S/4HANA migrations typically take 18 to 36 months, organizations need to start now to finish in time — and as the deadline nears, migration talent and partner capacity get scarcer and more expensive.

RISE with SAP is SAP’s managed, subscription-based offering that bundles S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with infrastructure and services. Running it on Azure gives you SAP’s transformation package on Microsoft’s cloud, integrated with your wider Azure, data, and Microsoft 365 estate.

It depends on your landscape. Brownfield converts your existing system and keeps history and customizations; greenfield is a clean re-implementation with best-practice processes; RISE is SAP’s managed private-cloud path. We assess your estate and recommend the route that best fits your complexity, timeline, and goals.

Yes. Azure provides enterprise identity, encryption, and availability for mission-critical SAP, and we align the environment to the Data Privacy Act and support BIR requirements. As an NPC-registered, Data Privacy Seal–certified partner, we make sure your ERP move is defensible to the regulator.

With a SAP readiness assessment. We review your landscape, custom code, and constraints, recommend the migration route, and build a costed roadmap and Azure architecture — so you begin the most important project on your horizon with a clear plan.

Book a SAP Readiness Assessment

Beat the deadline. Land somewhere better.

A focused assessment of your SAP landscape, your route to S/4HANA on Azure, and a realistic plan to finish before support ends.