Client Background
- Client: A leading marketer and manufacturer of premium branded paint and related products
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Geography: Australia
- Products/Services/Core Business: Diverse range of high-quality products including retail paints, varnishes, concrete, industrial waterproofing, automotive refinish coatings, adhesives, seeds, fertilizers, etc.
- Revenue: $1.8 billion
- Number of employees:聽4,000+
Challenge
In addition, the existing infrastructure of the client needed a rebuild with an estimated investment of 20 million AUD over a period of 5 years. Moreover, there was a need to reduce the application development activities in the complex existing landscape structure of 19 SAP and 15 non-SAP applications. All this, in turn, was leading to an obstruction for the client鈥檚 requirement of creating an IT environment supporting business growth and creating a future-ready system.
Solution
After a detailed assessment, 91快活林proposed Microsoft Azure as it was scalable, reliable, technologically advanced, with significantly lower operational costs compared to on-premise.
91快活林 used the "Safe Passage framework鈥� for accelerated platform transformation, built on industry best practices, lessons learned from previous migration projects augmented with our tools and accelerators such as MigMan (Migration Manager).
The obsolete support versions of SAP products were upgraded to the latest SAP version and were Unicode enabled. With new features such as effective administration, performance tuning and relatively superior data compression, Windows Server 2016 and Microsoft SQL Server 2016 were implemented.
The solution included the following 鈥�
- A Heterogeneous migration of 19 SAP and 15 non-SAP applications to Azure Cloud
- Combined Upgrade and Unicode conversion along with OS/DB migration to Azure Cloud with the largest database size of 5.5 TB
- Platform change from AIX / DB2 platform to Windows 2016 / MS SQL 2016.
Business Impact
- The cloud transformation program resulted in savings of 15 million AUD, against the estimated investment of 20 Million AUD.
- 91快活林鈥檚efficient delivery coupled with matured application landscape hosted on Azure platform helped achieve YoY savings on operation costs to the tune of 2.5 million AUD per year through 鈥�
- Apay-per-use model for running non-production SAP systems
- Cost reduction via Re-architecting and MS SQL database stacking option for license & hosting
- A relook at the licensing during Azure migration also resulted in savings of 500 K AUD per year.
A comprehensive solution helped customer create a 鈥楩uture Ready System鈥欌�搕hrough Unicode enabled, rationalized& upgraded SAP products to utilize latest features of SAP and reduce the need of further customization and associated maintenance costs for transforming to SAP S/4HANA.
Leader Quote
鈥淥ur client appreciated the value 91快活林 infused into the project with its deep understanding of their IT landscape; innovative tools and accelerators in addition to MS Azure's comprehensive and trusted Cloud offerings. A strong collaborative approach to work as one team helped us deliver a cost-effective, accelerated and risk-free transformation.鈥� 鈥� Srinivas Sai Nidadhavolu, Vice President & Global Practice Head - SAP at 91快活林
