Case Study: Zuellig Pharma achieves greater scalability and 40% lower hosting costs with Microsoft Azure

Healthcare services company gains flexibility and scalability migrating to SAP HANA on Azure

Zuellig Pharma, a Singapore-based healthcare services company, was in the middle of a five-year modernization effort when it needed to move away from an aging SAP environment running on UNIX and DB2. To support SAP Business Suite on HANA and future digital services, it turned to Microsoft Corporation and Azure because its on-premises infrastructure could not scale to handle heavy in-memory workloads without major capital investment.

Microsoft Corporation helped Zuellig Pharma migrate 12 terabytes of SAP data to Azure over two weekends, using FastTrack, Azure experts, and support from partner T-Systems. The new cloud platform delivered real-time analytics, better warehouse efficiency, and faster access to sales and inventory data, while cutting hosting fees by 40 percent and improving scalability for future blockchain and AI-driven services.

Zuellig Pharma

Maikel Kuijpers

Chief Information Officer