Offered a Healthy Dose of Financial Insights and Sales Order Management for a Leading Life Sciences Company

Client

With nearly USD 500 billion dollars, 130,000 employees across 60 countries, this global life sciences multinational was into drug delivery technology and development solutions for biologics and consumer health products.

Business Challenges

• Seamless upgrade of business warehouse accelerator to SAP BW 7.5
• Noiseless migration from Oracle DBA to HANA on Cloud (AWS)
• Reduced TCO by decommissioning out of contract appliances
• Improved system performance and backup time by reducing database size

LTM Solutions 

1. BW(ABAP) migration from Oracle to HANA on cloud using DMO (Database Migration Option)
2. New installation of BW JAVA 7.5x with HANA DB on cloud platform & BI integration and configuration
3. NLS (Near Line Storage) migration to AWS
4. Integration between BW on HANA & NLS 
5. Technical migration - with no functional changes
6. Mock production cutover testing 
7. Technical Integration Check (TIC) with SAP

Business Benefits 

• Eliminated support for BWA appliances under extended contract (cost avoidance of around USD 1 million per year)
• Enabling advance analytical reporting and data ingestions using HANA in memory database capabilities  
• BW report performance improvement by 40%
• Reduced database size (Oracle 18TB to 2.9TB HANA)