Successful Migration of Critical SAP Workloads to AWS Cloud

To maintain an innovative, flexible, and cost-effective IT landscape, the Finance Group decided to migrate its legacy SAP ERP to S/4HANA in the AWS Cloud.

This migration encompassed various application servers and database systems, including SAP ERP (HR/HCM), SAP ERP (NV), and SAP BW. Collaboration with an experienced and trustworthy partner was crucial for the customer.

Project Objectives – Organizational:

• Implementation of the new environment and project completion within a defined timeframe.
• Ensuring continuous availability of the existing environment for end-users during the project phase.
• Developing a secure and tested fallback scenario in case of issues with the new Cloud environment.
• Transitioning the project to standard operation (BAU – Business As Usual).
• Knowledge transfer to the client’s operations organization for secure and ongoing stable operation.
• Documentation update, including the operations manual.

Project Objectives – Technical:

• Migration of approximately 40 SAP systems (ERP, BW, HR, Solution Manager, HANA Cockpit, Netweaver Java) to the AWS Cloud.
• Ensuring a smooth cloud enablement for business units and the IT organization.
• Successful change management, particularly regarding the cultural shift within the organization.
• Fully functional SAP systems/landscape in terms of KPIs for performance and availability.
• Setup of monitoring and reporting tools for the client.
• Fulfillment of all security requirements regarding availability, confidentiality, and integrity.
• Minimal to no downtimes during migration from the end-user perspective.
• Successful implementation and testing of backup & recovery procedures for the new Cloud environment, including Disaster Recovery (DR).