SAP

The market for Cloud Services has grown tremendously in recent years; many enterprises started thinking ‘when to migrate their SAP landscape into Cloud Services.’ However, the main topic of discussion among the stakeholders is ‘how to migrate current complex SAP landscape into Cloud Services.’

Let us see how Cloud Comrade expertise can help its customers to migrate SAP Workloads into AWS

Before that let’s have a close look at the benefits of Migrating the Workloads into Cloud over Traditional Workload Migration

Traditional Migration Processes- Manual

• Assessing the Infrastructure
• Design
• Cost Estimation
• Proof of Concept
• Migration
• Testing
• Operations

Conventionally, it’s challenging for any managed service providers to get 100% visibility of workloads in the infrastructure. Many technologies are outdated and unsupported by phones or tablets which results in a lack of future technical support. The old interface or legacy software could pose a significant security threat, downtime that will affect business productivity and efficiency.

Hence it’s a viable solution for organizations to consider migrating workloads (SAP) into cloud AWS. Like we all know the five R’s involved in the migration to cloud – Rehost, Refactor, Revise, Rebuild or Replace, we can choose based on the necessity.

Migrating SAP Workloads into AWS – Automated:

AWS has been an SAP Global Technology partner since 2011. AWS and SAP have partnered closely in coming up with various services to make fast and efficient deployment of SAP Workloads on AWS for lower costs, innovation, and simplified infrastructure management. With AWS Server Migration Service (SMS), we can migrate on-premises SAP workloads into AWS Cloud quickly and efficiently.

One of the critical benefits migrating SAP Workloads into AWS is the scalability, without worrying about how to accommodate the business growth. The ease of spin up/down/change the configurations.

After the workloads assessment, the service provider should know if there is a need for private/public or hybrid cloud migration. For example, there could be existing legacy systems at its performance limit that limits the SAP upgrades, then its advisable to have a private cloud migration which will help the clients to avoid additional hardware investment and achieve scalability.

Planning and choosing the right service partner is critical. Its critical for the service provider to have a proper understanding of migrating strategy as most of the decision makers struggle in understanding which applications to rehost, as some might require refactoring as well.   

Cloud Comrade has a team of professionals who assess existing workloads and provides its customers with the step by step right strategy to migrate SAP Workloads into AWS. We offer a customized cloud infrastructure for highly regulated businesses to maximize their productivity and efficiency

Case Study:

Cloud Comrade successfully helped one of their key customers (Security Industry) in migrating their SAP workload from SAP ERP 6.0 on DB2 to SAP ERP 6.0 Suite on HANA using Software Update Manager(SUM) Database Migration Option(DMO) with System Move and SAP HANA Quick Start.

Migration Strategy:

AWS is the market leader in Cloud Computing. It offers high availability, reliability, efficiency, scalability, and cost-effective solutions to enterprises resulting in high productivity. Hence, we see an increase in the number of enterprises with business-critical SAP landscape systems acclimatizing private/hybrid/ public cloud solutions.

As announced, SAP will extend maintenance support for their customers until the end of 2025 for SAP Business Suite 7 core application releases including SAP ERP 6.0, SAP Customer Relationship Management 7.0, SAP Supply Chain Management 7.0, SAP Supplier Relationship Management 7.0, and SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA 2013.

SAP is reforming their traditional support into Next-Generation Support. SAP Next Generation Support is designed for speed incident resolution, helps prevent incidents with proactive resources before they happen.

If the business decides to stick with SAP, they can fully realize all the benefits of SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA in the AWS Platform

Difference between SAP S/4 HANA and SAP HANA

SAP S/4 HANA stands for SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA. It is the next generation business suite built by SAP replacing both the ERP and BI.

In the three Tier architecture of SAP system, SAP HANA is the database layer, SAP S/4 HANA is the application layer, SAPUI5Fiori is the presentation layer.

What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA Database is a full-fledged, in-memory, relational database which is designed to replicate and ingest structured data from SAP and non-SAP relational databases, applications, and other systems quickly.

SAP HANA is a platform for real-time analysis of big data. It stores all the data in the server memory and processes a large amount of data faster than a traditional database system.

Why opt for SAP HANA in the AWS cloud?

1. To install SAP HANA in AWS platform is made easy and swift with AWS SAP HANA Quick Start tool (With the Quick Start tool it take just hours compared on traditional on-premises servers installation, where it will take weeks).
2. AWS has the broadest range of SAP certified instances. It comes with support up to 12TB memory on a single instance and 48TB on four scale-out instances compared to any other public cloud provider.
3. With the AWS available services, the customers can build secure, highly available, scalable and cost-efficient SAP HANA instances.

AWS Well-Architected framework provides the customers to evaluate the architecture and build secure, high-performing, reliable,  cost-effective, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their SAP applications

The businesses are dealing with the rise of new customized technologies. The systems to be managed range from on-premise to the cloud (public and private), the data is both within the enterprise and outside of it.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework uses a structured approach including strategies to compare the SAP workload with the AWS best practices, to produce secure, stable and efficient systems.

AWS Well Architected Framework focuses on five pillars,

Most of all, choosing the right managed service partner is the key. Cloud Comrade, with its expertise in SAP landscape and HANA, can come up with a customized cloud strategy for high performance, availability, and security requirements for mission-critical systems.