Case Study: SAP ECC Migration on Azure Cloud for a Health Care Manufacturer
Fast tracked On-Premise SAP ECC Dev, QA & Prod Landscapes to Azure while ensuring a smooth cutover within an hour.
About the client
Headquartered in Singapore for more than 25 years, the company has been developing and marketing critical care catheter systems and related devices used during heart surgery and intensive care treatment. Over the last two-decades they became one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of cardiovascular stents globally.
Business challenges
- On-premise hardware running out of support and needed to be migrated in less than a month
- Being a technical migration, requirements was to ensure near zero disruption to business
- Deliver a compelling TCO on Cloud
Solution
- Right sized Azure environment
- Considering the Tech Stack (Windows/SQL), identified the migration tooling and approach (Azure Site Recovery)
- Implemented Customer’s Information Security Policies & Standards in Azure environment including Active Directory
- Established Site-2-Site VPN
- Leveraging RI within a month of cutting over production
- Knowledge Transfer to the client’s team
Our approach
Proof Of Concept
Design & Architect
Cloud Infra deployment
OAT
PGLS & KT
01. Proof Of Concept
- Quick Assessment & Design
- Performed test migration as a proof of concept to test migration feasibility using ASR and SAP functionality in cloud
- Converted the system as Quality system to save cost
02. Design & Architect
- Requirement validation, Deployment architecture & framework driven design document for SAP ECC landscape
03. Cloud Infra deployment
- Setup Azure Site Recovery
- Create RG, users & Groups, Create network components, deploy compute & storage for Dev, QA and Production environment
- Implement security policy
04. OAT
- Perform & Validate backup and restore
05. PGLS & KT
- Go-Live support
- KT and Managed service on-boarding
Outcomes
Improved the SAP Performance on Azure over the on-premise SAP applications
Ensured application consistency during cutover
Aligned & Conformed & to Corporate Security Standards in Cloud
Delivered a reliable and secured connectivity to Azure environment
Delivered 50% Cost Savings on the cloud costs
Client IT Team fully enabled to derive the maximum value out of Cloud services
Looking forward
We are delighted to have helped the client to replicate and setup the landscape in cloud using Azure ASR within a short period of time. We look forward to helping them leverage cloud further to make their healthcare delivery more effective.
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