Platform as a Service for SAP

Revolutionize deployment and consumption of your SAP applications with this full-stack, managed platform as a service.

In the digital economy, businesses must act with speed and agility to capitalize on market opportunities and adjust to disruptors. To meet market demands, IT providers are being asked to deliver impactful business solutions that are transparent, industry-specific, easily accessed and available on a consumption basis. DXC Technology is addressing these challenges with a revolutionary new way to deploy and consume SAP applications.

DXC Platform as a Service for SAP helps organizations rapidly adapt to business demands and fully utilize their function-rich SAP environment with a full-stack, managed platform as a service (PaaS) solution specifically designed for SAP applications. DXC offers customers PaaS for SAP on AWS and Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Optimize SAP operations

PaaS for SAP is the first full-stack managed cloud service for SAP, and it is changing how users consume SAP in the cloud. DXC removes typical IT constraints such as long lead times for provisioning new environments, dedicated high-cost environments, and lack of trained and experienced SAP staff. PaaS for SAP’s automated SAP Landscape and life-cycle management processes reduce latency across operations and development with the ability to quickly copy, clone and refresh SAP instances.

Our managed service helps you:

• Reduce time to perform common SAP operational processes. Drive business outcomes with a highly scalable and flexible, managed PaaS for SAP solution catering to your business needs. Quickly respond to seasonal demands, solve problems rapidly, and build development and testing environments without delay.
• Maximize business stability and continuity. Ensure seamless migration of operations, minimizing downtime and lost revenue while simplifying maintenance, providing maximum flexibility, and improving the resilience and agility of your business.
• Lower total cost of ownership. Lower TCO of your SAP footprint by one-third using automated SAP life-cycle management and a metered consumption model billed on an hourly and per-incident basis.
• Enable continuous operations. Enjoy high availability because DXC strives for always-on operations, supporting one of the top high-availability SLAs in the industry (up to 99.95 percent).

Key features
Built on IT4IT and ITIL3 industry standards, our solution puts you in control of your digital journey while delivering an enterprise-grade experience. Features fall into four categories:

Enterprise-grade SAP service delivery
– Management of the SAP IT stack (including the application Basis and database layers)
   – Proven SAP application transition and transformation services for deploying your SAP applications in DXC’s managed infrastructure as a service
    – Support from more than 16,000 SAP professionals serving 15 million SAP named users in more than 500 enterprises across 54 countries
    – Dedicated account team
    – Encryption for both data at rest and data in transit; compliant with ISO 27001, IL3, SOC 1 and 2
    – Distributed disaster-recovery options that minimize application downtime

SAP landscape automation
Automation of the entire IT stack of life-cycle management operations reduces provisioning time from weeks to hours. Automation also supports:
    – Copy, clone and refresh SAP landscapes
    – Suspend and resume capabilities for the complete SAP IT stack
    – An easy-to-use pick list of options for SAP Landscape (SAP Identifier or SID) configuration and ordering, predefined templates and automated billing at the SID level
    – DXC-managed SIDs and SID-level SLAs
    – 99.0 – 99.95 percent application-level (SID) service level availability
    – SAP Basis and database service level objectives

Latest SAP technologies
PaaS for SAP gives you immediate access to the latest SAP technologies, including:
– Virtual HANA
– SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) and SAP Business Suite 4 (SAP S/4) on HANA and non-HANA database
– SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) for life-cycle management

Managed full-stack, consumption-based cloud service
– Consumption-based billing across the entire SID
– Consumption-based application management services
– Services based on DXC managed cloud infrastructure as a service

PaaS for SAP delivers SAP environments on a secure, cost-optimized, managed cloud infrastructure. With it, you reduce the high cost of SAP-skilled staff, avoid hardware costs and gain dynamic cloud scalability. By combining unique DXC assets, business processes and methodologies, you can alleviate disruptions to your critical business functions, quickly solve problems, accelerate time to value for new SAP-based features by up to 30 percent, and shift the balance toward innovation over operations.

Enterprises can adopt cloud-first initiatives and deploy greenfield SAP applications; optimize runtime SAP environments through cloud-based services; and be assured of a smooth SAP application transition and transformation that include a large technology refresh as well as support for mergers and acquisitions, end-of-life scenarios, SAP S/4HANA implementations or migrations, enterprise upgrades or new modules.

Work with one of the best
Benefit from industry-leading innovations gained from DXC’s more than 25 years of experience in supporting SAP environments across industries. DXC is the first company to provide a full-stack PaaS solution for SAP applications, with a broad spectrum of services across the entire SAP IT stack (infrastructure layer through the application layer). Supporting 16 million SAP named users,

DXC is experienced in providing highly scalable, resilient and cost-effective managed solutions for your SAP ecosystem. Further, DXC has been providing virtual private cloud services globally for 6 years to over 600 enterprise customers across all industries.

Take the next step Let DXC demonstrate how PaaS for SAP can be applied to your business. We can help you identify areas in your enterprise where business innovation is constrained due to legacy SAP management models.