There are many reasons why organizations are looking to extend their on-premises AD to Azure AD. Let's look into some of those reasons:
- Using cloud applications (SaaS): Organizations use different types of applications for their operations (on-premises). Standalone applications are easy to manage and maintain, but some applications have dependencies. Some require lots of resources. SAP solution is one great example. If it's on premises, it needs different components, such as database servers, application servers, GUI severs, and so on, since all of these components depend on each other. If any of the components fail, the whole application fails too. Therefore, you need to plan for high availability on top of that. Now, more and more vendors are taking away this burden from customers and offer cloud versions of applications instead of on-premises...