Cognizant helps to reduce client’s SAP infra cost by 20%

Dubai-based ANHAM provides multi-modal project management, logistics, supply chain, warehousing, and fleet, asset and facilities management solutions in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and Europe. 

As part of the engagement, Cognizant migrated mission-critical, on-premise enterprise SAP production system workloads to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. This has enabled ANHAM to improve the monitoring, availability and performance of its IT infrastructure, optimise the capital and operating costs of running it, and strengthen its compliance with NIST SP 800-171 Information Security Standards. 

A strategic partner to Microsoft and SAP, Cognizant leveraged its innovative service delivery model and SAP Cloud Assessment and Transformation (CCAT) Framework to enable ANHAM to migrate to the cloud with no business disruption. 

Hosting SAP applications on the cloud has provided ANHAM with a digital foundation to deepen business insights, unlock new opportunities, and build new business models. “In a highly competitive market such as ours, high levels of flexibility and responsiveness to continually evolving business and customer needs are key to achieving strategic objectives,” said Claudiu Iarca, CIO, ANHAM FZCO. 

“Cognizant’s robust consulting, domain and transformation capabilities, deep understanding of our business and technology environment, and strong alliances with Microsoft and SAP have enabled us to standardize and modernise our IT infrastructure with a digital core, while enhancing business continuity. 

We expect to reduce our annual SAP infrastructure spend by at least 20% to start with, and are confident that this initiative will deliver a number of other far-reaching operational and financial benefits, helping us provide richer, more meaningful customer experiences.”