Automate, Accelerate and Amplify Your Journey to the Cloud!

The Cloud is for everyone. But enabling the migration to the cloud may not be. Migration to the cloud is a strategic decision that involves careful consideration of multiple factors including assessment of the existing architecture, selecting the right cloud model and strategy, ensuring data security, optimized performance and seamless transition post migration.

A study shows that 60% of organizations that contemplated moving to cloud are deterred by the lack of skills and expertise in this sphere. Decision makers are often weighed down by the complexity of migrating the legacy architecture, insufficient knowledge and expertise in the team, security concerns, the downtime required for transition that causes business disruption, the forbidding cost of an-inhouse team, impact on employee’s productivity due to outages, and direct and indirect impact on revenue owing to downtime, and absence of monitoring controls.

At BCS, with over 1250+SIDs migration to boast, have handled every complexity that you could name. The dynamic duo BCS and Symphony offer solutions to tide over the double whammy of lack of cloud expertise and unprecedented downtime owing to complexity of migration operations. BCS offers full stack administrators and a full stack hybrid cloud automation and orchestration platform, Symphony for effective assessment, implementation, automation, and monitoring through the phases of pre-migration, migration, and post-migration to the cloud.

The Pre-Migration Dilemma:

The pre-migration phase entails assessment, planning and design of target architecture.

Questions to Ask?

• Do you have a thorough understanding of the existing SAP landscape? Have you
  identified the target architecture, configuration, and dependencies?
• Have you evaluated the performance metrics to identify optimization
  opportunities?
• Have you determined suitable target Azure VM sizes?
• Have you assessed the network architecture for connectivity between onpremises and Azure environments?
• Have you ensured compatibility with Azure services and addressed security and
  compliance considerations?

Quite a task, isn’t it? BCS’s trademark Migration Assessment Service for SAP (MASS) along with the Symphony’s cloud discovery module gives you comprehensive cloud assessment reports to navigate through the transformation journey tackling all the afore-mentioned questions with confidence.

Global Scientific Solutions in Europe Glides through Pre-Migration Phase

In a remarkable feat, a global scientific solutions organization, headquartered in the Netherlands successfully migrated over 30 SAP systems that included SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, SAP PO, SAP VIM, SAP CRM, SAP Router, Cloud Connector from its on-premises data center to Azure within a stringent 12-week timeframe, despite it being a first ever migration. BCS hit the ground running with its assessment using the MASS Methodology and Accelerators, facilitating swift and precise progress throughout the design and execution phases.

The Migration Hitch:

The Migration phase involves complex and long-winded operations.

Questions to Ask?

Do you have a robust plan covering architecture, migration methods, network setup, and security?

Have you analyzed the complexity of the tasks and the dependencies on people and systems?

Owing to the complexity of the operations, this phase is time consuming, and every mistake is indeed a costly mistake.

Master Migration Hands Down with Symphony

In this phase, Symphony automates key processes such as Target VM Build, High Availability Build, and Disaster Recovery Build, ensuring these critical components are set up efficiently and accurately without the risk of human errors. With Symphony’s 100% automated approach, organizations can navigate the complexity of migration with ease, reducing manual effort and minimizing the risk of errors. Symphony also provisions project, training or testing systems in days for customers to hit the ground running from the world go!

One of the global healthcare giants faced a daunting task managing installation, migration, and maintenance across 17+ production landscape simultaneously. They turned to Symphony for high availability setup and cloud migration. Symphony automated various tasks, such as preparing target VMs and handling post-migration activities. Symphony streamlined maintenance activities for HA systems, freeing up 12 consultants for other tasks and reducing resource load.

Migrated to Cloud – The Story isn’t over Yet!

Migrating to cloud alone does not ensure cloud benefits accrue for the organization. Extreme governance is needed to optimize the cost, failing which the cloud cost could go multi-fold. If Automation for Full Stack Operations is not in place, then the costs of the managed services will also be equivalent to on-premise.

Questions to Ask?

Do you have an inventory of resources?

Do you have effective cost governance mechanisms to manage cloud expenses?

Do you have an effective resource distribution and utilization mechanism?

Do you have a proper roadmap for ongoing optimization and evolution?

Do you have a contingency plan ensuring readiness for any unforeseen issues or changes in the new environment?

In the post migration phase, Symphony streamlines and automates operations and optimizes costs. Symphony automates tracking and management of cloud resources, enables automated and scheduled start/stop of VMs, zero touch operations enabling cost optimization. Symphony also assists in developing improvement plans and cost management solutions to ensure that cloud resources are continuously optimized to meet evolving business needs.

Indian Conglomerate Peaks in Performance Post Migration with Symphony

An Indian Conglomerate initiated the migration of its SAP Business to the cloud, prioritizing minimal downtime and data loss due to its large-scale operations. With 11+ production landscape and over 150 VMs slated for migration within a tight 3-week timeframe, they also sought SUSE-based high availability setups and comprehensive disaster recovery plans. Partnering with BCS, they incorporated Symphony into their landscape, facilitating swift system builds, including high availability setups, in just a few hours. In the post-migration phase, owing to the optimal performance of the SAP Systems, the organization is now able to reap the benefits of cloud computing at minimal operating costs. This collaboration has led to an impressive 85% reduction in Full-time equivalents (FTE) for the customer, demonstrating the efficacy of the partnership in meeting stringent
migration requirements.

Symphony delivers a holistic solution for SAP to Cloud migration, optimizing costs, providing expert support, and minimizing downtime with its Zero-touch operations. With Symphony’s automation capabilities, organizations can confidently navigate complex migration challenges, unlocking the flexibility, scalability, and elasticity of the cloud.