German Firms Turn to Microsoft During Challenging Times
Investments in cybersecurity and ESG hold great potential for innovation in new managed services from Microsoft partners, ISG Provider Lens™ report says
The 2023 ISG Provider Lens™ Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem report for
“Over the past few years, many German digitalization projects have been done hurriedly and without adequate foresight,” said Dr. Matthias Paletta, director, technology modernization, for ISG in
In addition to advancing their cloud-first and cloud-native capabilities, German enterprises will also need to invest in cybersecurity and solutions that advance their environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives, ISG says. Investments in Microsoft 365 and other solutions will be partly based on ensuring energy efficiency.
German enterprises still prefer local Microsoft partners to support them, the report notes. They expect local contact people, local development capacities, onsite support with the shortest possible response times and, above all, short recovery times from their Microsoft providers.
The report also examines the market for running SAP on Microsoft’s Azure cloud, which ISG describes as “mature on the supplier side.”
Both Microsoft and SAP have been pursuing a clear strategy of migrating workloads to the private cloud and the public cloud for several years, ISG says. In 2022, Microsoft introduced its Microsoft Cloud Partner Program, a new system for classifying its partners. According to surveys by the DSAG (German SAP User Group), Azure is the most frequently used cloud platform among hyperscalers in
“For enterprises, the trend toward cloud-first and cloud-native strategies will continue,” said Jan Erik Aase, partner and global leader, ISG Provider Lens Research. “When it comes to workload transformation, this is where the most important investments are likely to go.”
The 2023 ISG Provider Lens™ Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem report for
The report names Eviden/Atos as a Leader in five quadrants, while Arvato Systems, Capgemini and Deutsche Telekom are named as Leaders in four quadrants each. All for One Group, Bechtle, Devoteam M Cloud, Rackspace Technology, SoftwareONE and T-Systems are named as Leaders in three quadrants each, while Accenture & Avanade, Allgeier, Communardo, DIGITALL, DXC Technology, glueckkanja-gab, NTT DATA, ORBIT, PwC, q.beyond ,Scheer GmbH and Wipro are named as Leaders in two quadrants each. Adesso, AppSphere, Axians, CANCOM, Computacenter, Data One, Infosys, KUMAVISION, Kyndryl, Skaylink, Sycor and TCS are named as Leaders in one quadrant each.
In addition, PCG is named as a Rising Star — a company with a “promising portfolio” and “high future potential” by ISG’s definition — in two quadrants. DIGITALL and HCLTech are named as Rising Stars in one quadrant each.
Customized versions of the report are available from Communardo, Deutsche Telekom, DIGITALL, glueckkanja-gab, ORBIT, PwC, qbeyond, Rackspace Technology, Skaylink and T-Systems.
The 2023 ISG Provider Lens™ Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem report for
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