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migration support service for RISE with SAP on AWS
This post was jointly authored by AWS and SAP. We thank Amit Gupta, Head of Global Customer Engagement Excellence Centers at Enterprise Cloud Services at SAP, and Sascha Soulier, Global Customer Engagement Migration Expert at Enterprise Cloud Services at SAP, for their contributions to our successful partnership and this blog post.
RISE with SAP on AWS overview:
RISE with SAP is an offering from SAP that helps you transform on-premises SAP ERP systems, modernize business processes, and become agile in the cloud. RISE with SAP on AWS helps you to innovate faster, transform business processes, accelerate move to cloud ERP, maximize performance, and protect against business disruption. AWS offers unwavering security, performance, and reliability for RISE with SAP. Thousands of customers have selected AWS for RISE with SAP, including leading enterprises such as PPG Industries, Zurich Insurance, Grupo LaLa, and Klismasan.
Safeguarding RISE Migration
While RISE with SAP allows customers to take advantage of the latest innovation from SAP, customers must prepare to navigate through unplanned challenges. Many customers are looking for designated support from AWS throughout the RISE migration.
While SAP takes care of the creation of the target environment in the RISE with SAP on AWS landscape, ensuring implementation partners, AWS, and the end customer are aligned helps ensure a smooth transition. With this offering, organizations can navigate the migration process seamlessly.
Opportunities:
1. Connectivity Setup: From the setup of AWS landing zone to establishing secure and reliable connectivity between the customer’s on-premises environment and the RISE with SAP on AWS environment.
2. Cloud Environment Integration: Integrating the cloud environment on AWS with existing systems and applications, ensuring seamless data flow and compatibility.
3. Performance Optimization: Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, fine-tuning configurations, and ensuring efficient resource utilization at the AWS resource level, both on the source and target environments.
4. Ecosystem Complexity: Achieving a comprehensive understanding of the migration, including source systems, target environment, and intricate dependencies.
5. Migration Planning and Execution: We (AWS, SAP, Partners and customer) work side by side to develop comprehensive migration plans addressing dependencies, data integrity, and business continuity. Our team helps maintain resource availability during critical phases, and maintains contingency plans to address unforeseen issues and adhere to timelines.
6. Cutover and Hypercare Support: Addressing issues during cutover and hyper care phases, optimizing the new environment, and helping maintain performance and stability throughout.
How migration support service can help?
Addressing the mentioned challenges above at an early stage is crucial to ensure a smooth RISE with SAP on AWS adoption. It is worth noting that while each customer IT landscape is unique, the migration concerns are not.
To help customers throughout the RISE migration journey, AWS and SAP partnered to offer “migration support service for RISE with SAP on AWS”, an SAP-orchestrated service for RISE with SAP migrations on AWS that provides customers access to AWS technical infrastructure support engineers for rapid troubleshooting, technical guidance, and go-live support.
- Connectivity Setup:
The migration support service for RISE with SAP on AWS can provide guidance and best practices for establishing secure and reliable connectivity between the customer’s on-premises environment and the RISE with SAP on AWS environment including landing zone setup.
AWS experts can assist in configuring and optimizing network settings, ensuring seamless data transfer and minimizing latency.
Outcome: Customers can more easily establish a smooth and secure connection between their existing infrastructure and the RISE with SAP on AWS environment. - Cloud Environment Integration:
AWS experts can provide recommendations in configuring integrations between AWS service and how they are used, ensuring seamless communication between different application components.
Outcome: Expert guidance in integration simplifies this process, making it easier for customers to manage and maintain the cloud environment. - Performance Optimization:
migration support service can identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, provide recommendation on fine-tuning, and optimize resource utilization on both the source and target environments.
AWS experts can leverage their experience and best practices to ensure efficient resource allocation and performance tuning.
Outcome: Customers can experience optimal performance and resource utilization. - Ecosystem Complexity:
The migration support service provides the availability of AWS experts throughout the migration journey to answer questions and address unforeseen challenges.
AWS experts bring their deep understanding of the migration ecosystem, including source systems, target environment, and intricate dependencies, fostering better collaboration and synchronization among all parties involved.
Outcome: With AWS experts embedded within the migration ecosystem, customers can navigate the complex migration process with confidence, minimizing risks and ensuring a smooth transition. The collaboration and synchronization among all stakeholders contribute to a more efficient and streamlined migration experience. - Migration Support:
AWS experts provide guidance and best practices for executing migrations sharing learnings from other customers.
The migration support service for RISE with SAP on AWS can ensure the availability of AWS resources during critical cutover phases, preventing delays or extended downtime.
Outcome: Customers can execute migrations efficiently, minimizing disruptions and ensuring business continuity. - Post-migration support:
The migration support service for RISE with SAP on AWS offers post-migration support, addressing issues, optimizing the new environment, and ensuring performance and stability after the migration.
AWS experts can provide ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting, and proactive identification of potential problems.
Outcome: Customers can maintain a stable and optimized environment after the migration, helping with seamless operations and minimizing downtime.
What customers will get from this offering?
Key Benefits of the migration support service:
- AWS Expertise:
Support from AWS experts with proven infrastructure experience
Example: Direct guidance on configuring AWS services (compute, storage and network) for SAP workloads - Proven Migration Insights:
Shared tips and lessons from successful migration projects
Example: Implementation of tested migration strategies for RISE with SAP on AWS - Problem Prevention:
Identification and resolution of potential issues before they impact migration outcomes
Example: Analysis of resource utilization to eliminate performance bottlenecks - Rapid Issue Resolution:
Designated team per customer for faster response to network, performance, or infrastructure escalations
Example: Direct troubleshooting of connectivity issues between on-premises and AWS environments - Monitoring Metrics
Active monitoring of AWS service limits to ensure uninterrupted go-live
Example: Adjustment of EC2 instance limits to guarantee smooth scaling during migration - Expert and adhoc Support:
AWS experts present during critical planned phases like testing and go-live
Example: Direct assistance during final data synchronization and system cutover
These benefits enable customers to overcome the challenges of RISE with SAP on AWS migration, ensuring a successful transition and rapid deployment of SAP workloads in the cloud.
Migrate with Confidence:
Customers can embark on their digital transformation journey with confidence, guided by the collective expertise of SAP, AWS, and partners. SAP take responsibility for infrastructure managed services and typically partner performs the migrations. migration support service for RISE with SAP on AWS complements their efforts by providing deep AWS expertise, proven methodologies, and a comprehensive support experience tailored for RISE on AWS. This collaboration offers guidance from previous learning and will help customers navigate the complexities of migration with reduced risk and minimal disruption to your operations. For pricing details, reach out to SAP Sales team at AWS
Call to Action
To learn more about the AWS/SAP partnership, visit thinkwithwp.com/sap. Contact a member of the SAP Sales team at AWS,a member of your SAP sales account team to know more about migration support for RISE with SAP on AWS.