IDC recently conducted in-depth interviews with Google Cloud customers to understand the full potential impact for organizations of running their SAP environments on Google Cloud. Interviewed organizations articulated a clear value proposition from lowering the cost of running their SAP applications and workloads while benefiting from much-improved agility, resiliency, and performance. IDC projects that they will realize average benefits worth $76,800 per 100 users per year ($2.02 million per organization) by:

• Lowering infrastructure costs for running equivalent SAP environments
• Enabling IT infrastructure, database, and security teams to work more efficiently
  and effectively
• Minimizing productivity and revenue losses associated with unplanned outages
• Increasing employee productivity levels through faster migrations to more effective
  SAP environments