Everybody seems to be offering cloud services these days, whether you’re buying a new phone, installing a new operating system or just the constant barrage of advertising on the topic. It’s no wonder that the phase has a large range of interpretations both personally and technically. The decision to adopt cloud solutions should, like any other business investment, be driven by a clear business requirement (e.g. TCO, Agility & flexibility).Within the corporate and business world it’s understandable why it’s not always clear the benefits cloud can provide when looking at the deployment of SAP systems within the banking sector. With our long heritage in delivering SAP solutions and unique position of being positioned to adopt market leading hosting solutions within the marketplace, HCL AXON has developed a range of SAP centric cloud solutions developed to meet the full SAP lifecycle, from Proof Of Concept to full long term Application Management that we have successfully developed & deployed in the Banking sector. HCL AXON PaaS offering combines best of both worlds thereby giving optimum TCO & unlimited platform flexibility.

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HCL AXON- SAP Cloud Services
The ability to offer any infrastructure or service on a
virtual basis for Banking

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Key Business drivers for Cloud Platforms
Business Change
Global availability – non
premise managed
Agility: Mergers &
acquisitions/ Demergers &
divestitures
Redistribute IT budget-
focus on core competencies
Manage upgrades-
mitigating internal overhead
Enablement
On demand capacity
management
Tiered solutions, leveraging
virtualization/cheaper
hardware platforms within a
release track
Packaged business
continuity models & SLAs
Platform TCO
Lower cost of ownership:
reduction of customer code
& configuration
Lower support costs &
upgrade costs
License platform costs
aligned to demand, no
redundant overheads
Delivery effort
Shorter deployment times
for new waves/
engagements
Reduction in client/server
maintenance & support
overheads
Aligned to rapid /iterative
deployments(market/phase)
Innovation
Cost driven
BusinessLed
ITLed
Market Temperature Check
 Within the SAP Marketplace, analyst reviews now position
IaaS services as one of the fastest growing areas within the
IT industry.
 In 2013 the expected market value of this is set to meet
$8bn (up from $6.8bn) and it’s on target to top $10bn by
2014.
 PaaS services have also enjoyed a large take-up within the
market place doubling over the last 2 years and set to grow
even more aggressively over the next few years with the
uptake of the PaaS services natively from hardware are
software vendors as part of their standard service offerings.
 At the most integrated end of the services scale (SaaS) the
spending profile is more gradual
 However Trends are showing an increase in large
deployment programs – multi-thousand deals are becoming
increasingly common

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SAP in banking
With our long heritage in delivering SAP solutions and unique position of being positioned to adopt market leading hosting solutions
within the marketplace HCL AXON has developed a range of SAP centric cloud solutions developed to meet the full SAP lifecycle,
from Proof Of Concept to full long term Application Management that we have successfully developed & deployed in Banking sector.
SAPCloudScenarios
Add an additional
project with no
hardware investment
Add 10 application
servers for the payroll
run
Standup a sand box
in 45 minutes instead
of 6-8 weeks
Add 50% more
compute power to
Minimize upgrade
cutover times
Perform sizing with a
greater degree of
confidence
Add a training system
for 1 week then turn
it off
Divestment separate
a business into a new
landscape these days
Rollback to a clean
and precise test
system in 1 hour with
no basis efforts
Add a SAN and 20
Application servers for
a data load
Only pay for what you
use, Mitigate running
hardware for future
use
Create an upgrade
environment and
perform an upgrade
as a proof of concept
Turn on capacity for
the overnight batch,
then turn it off again
The illustration below shows some of the key scenarios we have utilized our cloud solutions to optimize SAP landscapes:

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Our Cloud Technology
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From our broad customer base HCL AXON understands that each organization is different, especially so in the Finance industry.
So with this in mind we offer a complete range of SAP centric cloud solutions. Our Public Cloud & PaaS solution is a highly
optimized pay as you go solution with multiple SLA & compute options based on the environment requirement. Working with our
strategic hosting partners we have developed a range of Cloud solutions for the financial market with this in mind:
1. On-Premise Private Managed cloud
2. Dedicated Cloud
3. Virtual Private Data Centre
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