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Cloud Exit

For startups, the exit strategy is one of the most important parts of the business plan. Ultimately, everyone wants to know how and when to exit - and what will then be left in the wallet, be it as cash or in the form of shares.
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
August 21, 2019
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This text has been automatically translated from German to English.

Nobody talks about a cloud exit strategy! Why? Because it is not a business case for the cloud providers, but a disaster case. Once you have finally lured the existing SAP customer into the cloud, the trap snaps shut and you have a secure income as a cloud provider.

We don't want to create discord and bad blood between user and provider here, but something can always happen - and what happens then? When the existing SAP customer is in the SAP cloud with all licenses, obligations and rights, but one day can no longer or no longer wants to continue his business.

Of course, he could now cancel the cloud and no longer pay SAP a cloud subscription! But the SAP system should continue to run, because one is still obliged to provide information to the financial and other institutions for several years.

With a few licenses and a small on-prem server, this would not be a problem, but as part of the digital transformation, all licenses, including maintenance, have been handed over to SAP. And SAP does not offer an exit service for the data either. What now?

Give SAP's cloud a wide berth; keep and guard your SAP licenses; go to one of the well-known hyperscalers, they don't have an exit strategy for you either - but it's easier to make provisions for your personal K-case there.

Do you know of a cloud exit strategy? Write to me (pmf@b4bmedia.net) so that we can keep the SAP community informed. Thank you!

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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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