Global SAP Landscape Migration

Client

A global conglomerate with over 36 brands in luxury consumer products, active cosmetics, and professional products, operating across 150 countries. The client aims to create a responsible and sustainable business model focusing on three key areas – planet, people, and products.

Challenges

• Strategy to exit AIX architecture and migrate SAP workloads to the public cloud
• Migration large SAP ECC production work-loads, with some > 10 TB in size and a single instance >40 TB on the Oracle database
• Designing  a robust Azure architecture to host the SAP landscape and connect to IBM during migration
• Ensuring seamless expansion and meeting existing SLAs in the support environment
• Highly complex global SAP landscape across five regions with several hundred virtual machines

Our Solution

• Designed and implemented a robust Azure architecture to host the SAP landscape, including SAP ECC, CRM, SRM, Console, etc.
• Leveraged services like ANF and cloud-native solutions, along with existing backup and monitoring solutions
• Utilized LTM LAMPS for automated SAP deployments and minimal downtime services

Tools and Accelerators

LAMPS | ANF (Azure NetApp Files)

Business Benefits

• Improved efficiency and achieved over 50% overall performance improvement (0.4 seconds user response time)
• Successfully migrated critical SAP landscapes to Azure using lift, shift, and lift & transform approaches
• Designed Azure architecture for seamless workload migration and expansion
• Utilized near-zero downtime techniques to minimize production impact during the migration
• Security-Enterprise Data Protection & Security and 85 Azure compliance offerings including tools for GDPR