Why Managed SAP Hosting is the Key to Operational Efficiency

Managing SAP systems in-house can quickly become overwhelming. The resources required are significant for maintaining uptime, ensuring security, scaling infrastructure, and optimizing performance. This is where SAP hosting—specifically, managed SAP hosting—offers a strategic advantage. By outsourcing SAP hosting to specialized providers, businesses can access expert support, advanced infrastructure, and tailored service models that improve operational efficiency.

Unlocking Operational Value with Managed SAP Hosting

Managed SAP hosting is more than offloading IT tasks; it transforms how organizations interact with their SAP environments. Providers like Approyo take on the heavy lifting, offering cloud-centric solutions to meet each business's unique requirements. From daily system maintenance to high-level strategic planning, managed hosting empowers teams to focus on core operations while experts handle the technical foundation.

What Managed SAP Hosting Includes:

• SAP system implementations and upgrades
• SAP S/4HANA migrations and support
• Real-time monitoring and system diagnostics
• Disaster recovery and data protection
• Continuous performance optimization

Organizations can expect smoother operations, improved system reliability, and more predictable costs with this support structure.

SAP Hosting That Strengthens Security

Cybersecurity remains a top priority for any enterprise system. Managed SAP hosting significantly enhances security posture by introducing enterprise-grade protection protocols.

Key Security Benefits:

• Multi-layered data encryption for information at rest and in transit
• Regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
• Proactive threat detection and incident response
• Compliance with industry regulations and standards

A trusted SAP hosting provider like Approyo continuously monitors systems to mitigate risks before they affect operations. Their built-in safeguards and responsive support help businesses stay ahead of evolving threats.

Lightening the IT Load

Maintaining SAP environments requires a specialized skill set that many internal IT teams cannot manage alongside daily responsibilities. Managed SAP hosting alleviates that burden, allowing internal resources to concentrate on innovation rather than infrastructure.

Benefits of Reduced IT Workload:

• Eliminate time spent on routine system maintenance
• Avoid burnout from managing large, complex SAP landscapes
• Enable IT teams to focus on value-driven projects

With less time spent troubleshooting and patching, IT departments can play a more strategic role in business growth.

Maximizing System Uptime

Downtime is costly. Every second of unavailability affects revenue and reputation for businesses that depend on SAP for logistics, finance, or supply chain operations. Managed SAP hosting ensures system uptime through proactive support and infrastructure resilience.

High-Uptime Strategies:

• Redundant server architecture and automated failover
• Load balancing for consistent performance
• Predictive analytics for identifying performance degradation

Managed hosting guarantees higher availability, translating into smoother operations and uninterrupted workflows.

Built-In Scalability for Changing Needs

Business needs shift quickly, and infrastructure should evolve just as fast. SAP hosting through a managed provider introduces the flexibility to grow—or scale down—as needed.

Why Scalability Matters:

• Adapt to seasonal or project-based demand
• Quickly launch new services or locations
• Avoid costly infrastructure overhauls

Managed SAP hosting platforms are designed with agility, supporting dynamic growth and change without downtime or disruptions.

Financial and Performance Returns

While managed SAP hosting has a cost, the return on investment is compelling. Outsourcing reduces capital expenditure on hardware, minimizes downtime costs, and improves overall SAP performance.

Tangible Benefits:

• Predictable monthly billing for easier budgeting
• Improved system speed and responsiveness
• Faster reporting and analytics capabilities

With optimized performance and lower risk, organizations see more excellent value from their SAP investment.

Enhanced Compliance and Governance

Compliance is not optional in highly regulated industries. Managed SAP hosting ensures that data handling processes, reporting mechanisms, and security policies meet regulatory standards.

Governance Advantages:

• Audit-ready logs and documentation
• Role-based access control
• Automatic updates aligned with compliance needs

By integrating governance into the hosting infrastructure, businesses avoid costly fines and simplify audits.

Cloud Transformation and Hybrid Flexibility

A modern SAP hosting solution must accommodate multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Managed providers support seamless integrations with public cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, enabling more flexible deployment strategies.

Key Advantages:

• Migrate workloads to the cloud without disruption
• Utilize a hybrid cloud model to optimize costs and performance
• Leverage built-in disaster recovery and backup capabilities

This flexibility ensures businesses can align their hosting strategy with broader digital transformation initiatives.

Advanced Monitoring and Predictive Analytics

Managed SAP hosting goes beyond traditional monitoring. Providers like Approyo deliver proactive analytics and business intelligence tools through services such as Overwatch™, helping teams make more intelligent decisions based on real-time data.

Benefits of Predictive Monitoring:

• Early detection of potential system issues
• Insightful dashboards for IT performance
• Data-driven recommendations for optimization

Advanced monitoring turns SAP hosting into a strategic tool rather than a technical solution.

Why Approyo Stands Out in SAP Hosting

Approyo brings years of specialized SAP experience and a customer-first mindset to every deployment. As a global SAP cloud-centric solution provider, we offer:

• 24/7 support from SAP-certified engineers
• Custom-tailored hosting environments based on business needs
• Expertise in SAP S/4HANA migrations and hybrid cloud deployments
• Integrated services like Overwatch™ for advanced analytics and monitoring
• Full stack services, including private cloud, managed infrastructure, security, and compliance

From private cloud hosting to disaster recovery, Approyo’s full-service approach ensures stability, scalability, and security in every SAP environment.

Take the Next Step Toward Smarter SAP Hosting

Managed SAP hosting unlocks the speed, scalability, and resilience required to compete and grow in a digitally driven world. Rather than investing in in-house infrastructure and expertise, partnering with specialists delivers greater agility, cost-efficiency, and peace of mind.

At Approyo, we help businesses unlock the full value of their SAP investments. Our comprehensive hosting services, backed by deep SAP expertise, ensure your systems run smoothly so you can focus on driving results. Would you be willing to schedule a consultation today?

How can the Intelligent Enterprise impact the hospitality industry?

Hospitality is changing rapidly. With evolving guest expectations and an unrelenting flood of data, hospitality’s digital horizon is disrupting classic distribution and guest stay models. Technology has become so interwoven with business strategies that the two are hardly distinguishable.

Technologies such as mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) are
fundamentally redefining the way customers live, work, and play. Other innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and in-memory computing are opening up new playing fields and replacing traditional processes. For example, AI and machine learning are modernizing reservations, guest services, and operations. Meanwhile, consumer wearables, smart devices, virtual reality headsets, and online games are becoming points for brand interaction. It’s all happening at a breakneck pace.

Hospitality needs to act fast to stay ahead of the disruption curve. For example,
using the power of predictive analytics, hoteliers can now identify high-value guests, uncover profitable items and services to promote, anticipate demand, and manage inventory more effectively.

The Future: Priorities for Hospitality
Faced with a huge opportunity along with new market entrants, today’s hotel companies must focus on the right strategic priorities to drive digitalization across the business. By successfully embracing the opportunities offered by new technologies and addressing the following six strategic priorities, companies can lay the foundation for successful digitalization and stay ahead of the innovation curve.

• Own the Guest Journey with Enhanced Distribution and Shopping Models
• Transform the Guest Experience
• Digitalize the Workforce
• Unlock Business Value Across All Data Sources
• Enable Smart and Connected Hotels and Ships
• Drive Global Growth and Accelerate Brand Strategies with the Cloud 

Reimagine Hospitality
The digital economy offers infinite new opportunities.
In a connected world where every company is becoming a technology company, smarter products and services will refocus commerce on business outcomes and blur industry lines.

Own the Customer Journey

LOYAL CUSTOMERS WILL SHOP DIRECT - A digital and mobile world changes the way customers book travel. Based on changing behaviors, hoteliers are learning from retailers and adopting similar approaches with guests. Hotel companies that don’t adapt to digitalization risk being simply a supplier in the travel chain, leaving others, such as the Internet giants or new players entering this industry, to control the traveler conversation.

TRANSFORM THE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - Offers have to be personal, contextual, relevant, and seamless, regardless of the touch point or device.
Hoteliers need to know their travelers and capture as much information as is available from internal interactions and social media data. They must use this data to create useful offers at the moment and location where they are most relevant. This retail approach is vital to have direct access to the traveler, expand reach in the guest journey, and increase revenues with ancillary products, partner products, and merchandising. Technological capabilities
enable this process.

BROADEN DISTRIBUTION MODELS - Distribution models are changing as the digital world requires new ways of selling. Powerful new digital players
are entering the travel market. Hoteliers want more control of the products and services they offer, whether they sell directly or indirectly. But mostly they want to own the guest journey and attract more travelers to buy directly from them. The ideal approach is to have a single view of available room inventory, amenities, promotions, descriptions, and rate plans across channels and third
parties while refining inventory to drive higher sales. This allows hotels to up-sell noninventory room items, meeting rooms, activities, and amenities. It’s a bit like supersizing a meal in a more personal way.

Drive Global Growth and accelerate brand strategy 

INCREASE BRAND VALUE - Build brand extensions by combining omnichannel commerce and digital technologies to move into new segment offerings. Configure and deploy new promotions and rate plans rapidly, and push distressed inventory to the direct channel of choice.

Unlock business value across all data sources 

ACCELERATE AND SIMPLIFY PROPERTY ACQUISITIONS -  To achieve a real-time view of data and system interoperability, your company needs a comprehensive platform approach. Cloud-based, standardized solutions enable hotel companies to innovate faster, manage master-data complexity efficiently, adhere to country regulations, and deliver quickly in the global economy. SAP can help you lead your organization’s digital journey and
address the challenges of data proliferation from enterprise data, Big Data, the IoT, and beyond. We can also help you transform all data – the foundation of a digital enterprise – into insight to drive innovation and create business value.

TRANSFORM ASSET MANAGEMENT - The platform approach enables real-time visibility into the condition of assets by measuring, predicting, and alerting when incidents occur. To do so, the platform links asset data to an intelligent asset network that provides performance benchmarking, up-to-date service documentation, and real-time visibility of spare-part replacements. The platform also connects asset data from OEMs, operations, and service providers – creating a collaborative solution for sharing asset information with business partners.

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Your Business Powered by Approyo

Digital business is built on new computing infrastructure – the pillars of mobile, cloud, Big Data, and analytics – accelerated by the Internet of Things (IoT), advances in machine learning, and innovations like blockchain. These disruptive technologies are giving companies the ability to radically change business models and create new products and services.

At Approyo, we see enormous potential for you to simplify your own businesses and seize new opportunities through the SAP HANA platform, with SAP S/4HANA as your new enterprise suite. Plus, SAP Leonardo, built on SAP HANA, works seamlessly with every SAP application making them more powerful, intelligent, and capable.

In today’s digital world, companies’ need to:

• Reduce complexity in business processes and simplify technology
• Deliver end-to-end outcome-based business solutions
• Ensure that the best business results are delivered

SAP Powered by Approyo
Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, and product procurement, in order to develop the right solution for our customers. Our extensive partnerships in the industry allow us to offer top-tier SAP procurement and logistics to meet all our customers’ SAP technology needs.

TRANSFORM SALES WITH SAP powered by Approyo 
SAP solutions powered by Approyo enable companies to substantially enhance, simplify, and visualize the entire sales process.

TRANSFORM PROCUREMENT WITH SAP powered by Approyo
SAP solutions powered by Approyo enable companies to substantially enhance, simplify, and visualize the entire procurement process from sourcing to purchasing to settlement.

TRANSFORM HR WITH SAP powered by Approyo
SAP solutions powered by Approyo enable companies to drive a Digital HR
Transformation and deliver new and innovative solutions to meet the rapidly evolving business needs, turning promise into purpose.

TRANSFORM MANUFACTURING WITH SAP powered by Approyo
SAP solutions powered by Approyo enable companies to integrate and embed intelligence in manufacturing processes facilitating Industry 4.0 principles with one source of live information.

Download the new Whitepaper at www.approyo.com

Experience a true one-of-a-kind SAP Certified Cloud

We revolutionize the adoption of SAP and SAP HANA solutions by making SAP simple for all businesses.

Approyo is a leading global SAP technology solution provider. We are the only SAP partner that allows you to choose how your cloud environment is set up, how we manage it and how we support you.

Flexible Private Cloud, built specifically for SAP Customers

• Easy
• Secure
• Cost Effective
• 24 Hours a day, 7 Days a week, 365 Days a year

The Approyo SAP HANA Advantage

• Certified SAP Environments
• Enterprise Ready
• Scalable and Reliable 
• Global Team of SAP Experts
• Flexible Pricing Options 
• Quick Implementation

Join the Revolution
The opportunity exists to transform business processes and achieve the digital transformation of your business with more automation and real-time visibility. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important these needs and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Are you going to SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2017?
Visit us along with our partners, PCM, CoreALM and Abreon on the show floor at Booth #1027. And stop by our exclusive SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2017 After Party at the Icebar Orlando on Tuesday, May 16. RSVP today.

Rethink the Possible with SAP HANA

Why SAP HANA? Capabilities include database services, advanced analytics processing, app development, data access, administration, and openness. The benefits? SAP HANA helps you manage data in a single in-memory platform – so you can take action in the moment. Accelerate the pace of innovation and run live in this new digital economy.

Database Services
Take action in the moment by using in-memory database services to process high-speed transactions and analytics. Manage large database volumes using multitenant database containers and dynamic tiering across multi-tier storage.

Analytics Processing
Gain new insights from advanced analytics processing in SAP HANA. By leveraging  in-memory data processing capabilities – text, predictive, spatial, graph, streaming, and time series – you can get answers to any business question and make smart decisions in real time.

App Development
Develop next-generation applications that combine analytics and transactions, and deploy them on any device. Take advantage of best-in-class development tools – and deliver personalized experiences with the right data served at the right time for users.

Data Access
Gain a complete and accurate view of your business by accessing data from any source – internal or external. Access data where it’s located, integrate or replicate relevant data into SAP HANA, and ensure data quality to increase confidence in decision making.

Administration
Simplify system administration and IT operations with tools that help you monitor processes, ensure data and application security, and achieve continuous availability. Keep your business running smoothly and effectively – from any device or location.

Security
Keep your communications, data storage, and application services secure with robust identity and access management controls. Rely on best-in-class software security, patching, and encryption – and use a dashboard to monitor all KPIs related to security. 

Innovation needs Digital Transformation. Approyo can help!
Don’t let the new digital world pass you by. Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP S/4HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Rethink the Possible with SAP HANA

Why SAP HANA? Capabilities include database services, advanced analytics processing, app development, data access, administration, and openness. The benefits? SAP HANA helps you manage data in a single in-memory platform – so you can take action in the moment. Accelerate the pace of innovation and run live in this new digital economy.

Database Services
Take action in the moment by using in-memory database services to process high-speed transactions and analytics. Manage large database volumes using multitenant database containers and dynamic tiering across multi-tier storage.

Analytics Processing
Gain new insights from advanced analytics processing in SAP HANA. By leveraging  in-memory data processing capabilities – text, predictive, spatial, graph, streaming, and time series – you can get answers to any business question and make smart decisions in real time.

App Development
Develop next-generation applications that combine analytics and transactions, and deploy them on any device. Take advantage of best-in-class development tools – and deliver personalized experiences with the right data served at the right time for users.

Data Access
Gain a complete and accurate view of your business by accessing data from any source – internal or external. Access data where it’s located, integrate or replicate relevant data into SAP HANA, and ensure data quality to increase confidence in decision making.

Administration
Simplify system administration and IT operations with tools that help you monitor processes, ensure data and application security, and achieve continuous availability. Keep your business running smoothly and effectively – from any device or location.

Security
Keep your communications, data storage, and application services secure with robust identity and access management controls. Rely on best-in-class software security, patching, and encryption – and use a dashboard to monitor all KPIs related to security. 

Innovation needs Digital Transformation. Approyo can help!
Don’t let the new digital world pass you by. Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP S/4HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.