Technology Magazine March 2021 | Page 114

NTT LTD .
“ We ’ re able to remove the barriers to cloud adoption and help our customers modernize SAP architecture to optimize processes and increase productivity .”
Kirk Compton Vice President Cloud & Enterprise Application Managed Services , Sales , Americas , NTT Ltd .
Automation & Standardization For many organizations the SAP environment is a behemoth ; a core application for business operations . It touches most business units and is critical to financial transactions , supply chains , HR , payroll and more . So , when customers are thinking about moving to the cloud the key considerations will always be time and cost .
“ If I ' m a CIO and I want to figure out what it ' s going to take to get me into the cloud environment . I ' ve got to dedicate members of my team to analysing that proposition just to figure out my strategy ; and that can be very expensive ,” reasons Compton . “ At NTT we ’ ve partnered with Microsoft and developed a micro-site with an assessment tool that allows customers to build that picture for free ; they don ’ t need to hire us to make that assessment . What does their SAP environment look like ? What applications do they have ? What is the size of the environment ? And through that intake , we ' re able to provide a report providing that picture and how long it might take to migrate these environments ; and perhaps most importantly , what the estimated cost would look like . What is your business going to be like in the cloud environment ? Is it truly a cost saving ? Where is the ROI ?”
This assessment strategy is all about the automation and standardization of new

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