The roadmap to Digital transformation

Digital transformation is the thing of today.  The businesses that are “born-in-the-cloud” are in need of unified approaches that are only possible with Tech Giants working and collaboration together for better customer experiences. With business processes and cultures being evolved in new ways, the need of digital transformation exists to the core in today’s business space. Cloud migration, being a vital aspect in cloud businesses, is evolving in new ways.

Reduced Complexities, minimized costs

With SAP-Microsoft Partnership, there are new agreements and programs coming up on the face of the earth out of which the “cloud migration strategy to SAP S/4HANA on Azure” holds great importance. With this, customers get to experience reduced costs and complexities and stay in control of the top-notch technologies. This provides the customers with the best of both the worlds for the betterment of their cloud business.

The Embrace Program

Back in May, 2019, Microsoft officials announced the details about project “Embrace”. It’s a fine combination of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud along with global strategic service partners (GSSPs) where the focus is to provide an integrated SAP Cloud Platform enabling orchestration and third-party applications running in the cloud systems or on-premise systems. It might sound complex, but in fact it has reduced complexities in practicality to a lot.

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MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

MachPanel provides full automation and management of cloud business lifecycle making provision and management of cloud services easier for CSPs and making their life easier to the core. With MachPanel cloud migration are smooth and all business processes are streamlined, thanks to expert support and professional advices from the Team behind MachPanel. There are many features beneficial to CSPs like Tenant Provisioning and Management, Extensive Reporting, CSP Sync, Packaging and Bundling with customized Margins and much more.

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Getting started User friendliness

In case of WorkDocs, it is easier to get started for the users to start using it without having to sign up to AWS first. However, things are not that easy at OneDrive. Since OneDrive is an Office 365 Application, each user of OneDrive needs to be subscribed to Office 365 and also needs to be associated to a particular domain in OneDrive.

Multi-factor authentication

Enabling Multi factor authentication in Microsoft OneDrive is easier to manage and implement as compared to AWS. MFA can be added as an option for different users through administrative panel of OneDrive. The respective users may receive their code as a second authentication factor via email, mobile phone or authentication app.  In case of WorkDcos, a two-step procedure there needs to be followed in order to enable multi factor authentication for users. The Active Directory needs to be connected to WorkDocs for cloud based storage.

High availability

Both OneDrvie and WorkDocs are excellent in terms of Availability and Global accessibility. There is a web based client portal for each of the two. The users are allowed to execute administrative procedures and operational tasks with ease of access.

Synchronization

Downloading and uploading is a tedious task each time documents are changed or edited. Synchronization is a much needed feature in business productivity applications and cloud based storage system. Thankfully, both the applications have this feature with best outcomes.  When you change your file in your local directory, it is automatically synced to the online central storage in the Cloud based storage.

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Cost

Amazon has a less complicated pricing model than OneDrive. In WorkDocs, Businesses have different rates in different nations for each 50GB of file storage initially. Microsoft offers a few plans and you can choose which fits best according to your business needs of cloud based storage system along with a few additional features as complimentary features in the plan. So Microsoft wins the game here.

Integration

OneDrive seamlessly integrates with Office Suite so it is great for professionals already familiar with Office Products while WorkDocs integrates with other platforms like OS X, Mac and PC very well with its cloud based storage system.

Security

WorkDocs and OneDrvie both have similar security features. WorkDocs encrypts files along with comments while at rest in its cloud based storage system. It uses two levels of data security: disk-level encryption and per-file encryption. They both encrypt with SSL. AWS also offers similar security measures but it goes one extra mile by allowing the business to set their WorkDocs site Location on their own. So, generally they chose the site nearest to their location.

That said, both services go neck to neck in terms of comparison based on features and core functionalities. Out of the two, OneDrive is suitable for businesses who are tight on budget, but still need a cloud based storage system, as it offers flexible pricing models. WorkDocs is suitable for business that prefers to work in multiple environments as it offers multiple platform support.

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The sole purpose of the introduction of Cloud services to business had been: to mitigate the overhead of establishing a full fledge infrastructure and its maintenance. In 2018, there are many options for businesses, like Microsoft Azure, Open Stack, Google Cloud Platform etc, when it comes to cloud computing. Businesses tend to go for hybrid solutions, if not one sole provider of IaaS. But in reality, Microsoft has developed its cloud services so versatile and cost effective with its Azure Cloud Computing services that it has become one of the most competent players in the market. Let’s have a closer look.

Azure vs AWS vs Openstack

Like Microsoft Azure, all cloud computing services are not just simple back-end Infrastructure providing services. They are much more than that. Not only storage and computing are necessary by business but the most important factor Security is always under question. Business computing is critical, but the approach of using sets of virtual machines for parallel computing, makes it insecure. That is a big limitation with open source cloud services like open-stack. Another service, Amazon Cloud services (AWS), is a pretty much know-it-all like Azure, in the field of cloud computing. However, this wide variety of services that AWS offers are sometimes seen as complicated to manage and business prefer to not indulge them with AWS complicated systems and interlinked services. They offer more than 100 products like Analytics, Compute, Migration etc. which cover 6 to 7 solutions like: Disaster Recovery, Archiving etc. In comparison to that, Microsoft Azure is simple and a complete solution. Microsoft offers an array of features that covers all of the solutions like Digital Marketing, Big Data analysis and many more. Another drawback of going for AWS is that, like Open Stack, their security and data hiding between businesses, on virtual machines sets, is still in question. Whereas Microsoft Azure has a high degree of certifications, that is: more certifications than any other IaaS Provider, making it the most trusted Cloud Service Provider for its clients.

Azure Vs GCP

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is another service that is striving hard to compete with the already flourishing Cloud providers in the market where Azure has made big name. Being the latest of all popular Cloud providers, GCP has the lowest number of data centers. On the other hand, Microsoft Azure has a wide range of data centers hence enhancing its feature of availability.

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Pricing comparison

When it comes to Pricing, Azure takes the lead. Not only, Microsoft’s CSP is a cost-effective solution than GCP or AWS, but it also enhances the features as number of users increase. Its pay-as-you-go billing model is ideal for businesses where they do not have to make a minimum purchase in order to get the services continually. The subscriptions can be cancelled any time and discounts are offered to clients who pay upfront. Hence the general verdict is that Microsoft Azure is the strongest proposition for businesses in 2018 and beyond.

At MachSol, services are offered with a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) – MachPanel. The MachPanel is simple yet robust in its interface and has a lot to offer to make you get rid of complications. It is Microsoft Accredited Service Orchestration Platform (SOP). MachPanel provides a distinct and complete solution for Cloud Computing along with the ability to integrate third party plugins. MachSol has a systematic knowledge base and also provides proper guides, similar to the complete documentation of Microsoft Azure, and training in order to get things working for your business from installation to migration assistance. Not only the business infrastructure gets simpler with this Platform but also the solutions are cost effective and reliable. The growth of your business is equally important to us as it is to you.

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