6 businesses transforming with SAP on Google Cloud

Thousands of organizations globally rely on SAP for their most mission critical workloads. And for many Google Cloud customers, part of a broader digital transformation journey has included accelerating the migration of these essential SAP workloads to Google Cloud. These customers seek greater agility, elasticity, and uptime on a truly flexible cloud that includes the benefits of cutting edge AI, ML, and analytics capabilities. It’s why we’ve worked hard to bring our customers a wealth of options to fit their needs, including SAP-certified hardware options and Google Cloud for SAP RISE. We’ve also helped them understand the economic advantages of SAP on Google Cloud, including the significant migration assistance and incentives that are part of our Cloud Acceleration Program. Below, we’ve shared just a few examples of customers that have chosen Google Cloud to run their SAP workloads, and the benefits they’re seeing.Southwire: More stability, less worry with SAP on Google CloudFollowing a December 2019 ransomware event and the COVID-19 pandemic that began in spring of 2020, Southwire was preparing for an overhaul of their SAP ECC environment to take advantage of the latest functionality available for this critical ERP system. They also aimed to deploy SAP Business Warehouse on SAP HANA to accelerate vital reporting for all business users, and the company wanted to upgrade to the latest version of SAP Process Orchestration—an essential component that touches key manufacturing interfaces in all Southwire facilities. Southwire had looked at multiple options for the upgrades, including remaining entirely on-premises and colocation, but ultimately decided to migrate to Google Cloud. “We wanted to be on a platform for SAP that was flexible, scalable, and secure; that we could count on to get up and running quickly,” says Dan Stuart, Senior Vice President of IT Services. “We chose Google Cloud not only for those reasons, but also because we recognize that Google has other assets that we may be able to take advantage of down the line, such as technologies like artificial intelligence (AI).” Read more.Related ArticleSouthwire powers digital transformation with its SAP cloud migrationSouthwire migrated its SAP environment to Google Cloud for flexibility, scalability, and security, and for the potential to take advantag…Read ArticlePega: Optimizing business operations with SAP on Google CloudFor Pegasystems, a leading provider of cloud software for customer engagement and intelligent automation, it’s important to maintain smooth operations at all times. This includes getting the best performance from its SAP applications. But with its core SAP systems in a traditional data center, the IT department found it was spending too much time on day-to-day maintenance and less on strategic projects that generated value for the company. In 2020, Pega chose to deploy its SAP environment, including SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) and SAP HANA data warehousing, to Google Cloud. The move has helped Pega overcome many of the challenges it faced with the previous deployment. It also made Pega’s SAP systems more reliable and offered powerful new data capabilities to support the business in making the right decisions. Read more.Related ArticlePega: Optimizing business operations with SAP on Google CloudPegasystems deployed its SAP environment to Google Cloud to make its systems more reliable and take advantage of powerful new data capabi…Read ArticleCasa dos Ventos: Advancing its sustainability mission with SAP S/4HANA on Google CloudCasa dos Ventos has been on a path of steady growth—the company now represents about 30% of all wind farms in operation or under construction in Brazil. But growth on this scale generates more than energy: It produces vast amounts of data that needs to be processed and analyzed consistently to study wind behavior, control turbines, and forecast power production and climate, to name just a few examples. With the company’s continued expansion, it became clear that its on-premises infrastructure no longer had the capacity to process, orchestrate, and analyze such massive amounts of data. To keep pace with its growing number of projects, the company needed a solution that would centralize its workflows while providing scalability and flexibility. As a result, it decided to adopt SAP as a business-management solution and host its SAP S/4HANA environment on Google Cloud. When the migration was complete, the time needed to predict the amount of energy generated by a specific project went from 15 days to just one day. Thanks to the new cloud infrastructure and scalable services, the company was also able to process 20 years of data in less than two hours during its weekly data processes. Read more.Related ArticleCasa dos Ventos advances sustainability mission with SAP S/4HANA on Google CloudThanks to its new cloud infrastructure and scalable services with Google Cloud, Casa dos Ventos was also able to process 20 years of data…Read ArticleFFF Enterprises: 7x performance with SAP on Google CloudWhen there’s a patient waiting for a product at the end of each transaction, there’s far more at stake than just the performance of your ERP system. That’s why FFF Enterprises, Inc. (FFF)—a leading supplier of critical and preventive care medications including the essential medications that help to reduce the effects of COVID-19—chose to migrate its core SAP enterprise applications to Google Cloud. “We’re 100% dependent on the ERP system,” says Brian Wemple, SAP Technical Manager at FFF. “It runs the business by integrating with our e-commerce systems; our pick, pack and ship; and our business intelligence. It has to be always available and always accurate.” After running SAP on legacy infrastructure for some time and experiencing core switch outages, server outages, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) edge router outages, and other issues, FFF knew it needed to revisit its technology infrastructure. “We’ve experienced an 80% improvement in the speed of our SAP environment at a lower monthly cost than we saw with our previous provider,” Wemple says about the migration to Google Cloud. “Our SAP applications are so much more reliable than they were previously. We’ve had no outages since we’ve gone live—that’s just a perfect situation for us.” Read more.Related ArticleHealthcare distributor FFF Enterprises improves performance 7x with SAP on Google CloudFFF Enterprises has seen an 80% improvement in the speed of its SAP environment at a lower monthly cost on Google Cloud.Read ArticleRodan + Fields: Achieving business continuity for retail workloadsSince its founding in 2002, Rodan + Fields, one of the leading skincare brands in the U.S., has been delighting customers worldwide with its innovative product portfolio. Recently, however, after taking stock of its pre-existing IT infrastructure, Rodan + Fields realized it needed a more modern, scalable solution—one that could keep pace with the company’s growth while simplifying management of critical SAP workloads and delivering access to cutting-edge IT services. Ensuring business continuity was a top priority driving the company’s move to Google Cloud. Rodan + Fields needed an infrastructure solution that would protect against unpredictable, potentially catastrophic business disruptions, such as user error, malicious activities, natural disasters.By shifting its SAP workloads to Google Cloud, Rodan + Fields is enjoying the benefits of modern, scalable infrastructure, while also protecting its business with a robust business continuity strategy. To support a peak in user access, Rodan + Fields was able to scale Hybris infrastructure by 10X in 10 minutes, supporting millions in additional revenue. In addition, as of the date of this blog publication, Rodan + Fields has experienced zero unplanned ERP outages in the year since the company migrated to running production on Google Cloud. Read more.Related ArticleRodan + Fields achieve business continuity for retail workloads with SAP on Google CloudLearn how Rodan + Fields designed and implemented a cloud-native, automated resilience strategy for their SAP workloads on Google Cloud.Read ArticleRémy Cointreau: Driving customer centricity with SAP on Google CloudImagine the challenge of supply chain planning and meeting changing consumer needs when you have products that can take up to one-hundred years to produce. That’s the case for Rémy Cointreau, a family-owned maker of fine spirits whose roots go back to 1724. With rapidly evolving consumer expectations and heavy competition from premium beverage brands, Rémy Cointreau set out on a strategy to put the customer at the center of their business. To make this a reality, Rémy Cointreau realized all elements of its business would need to be more agile. It needed more flexibility in its SAP systems, which drive Finance, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, and easy access to valuable SAP system data for business decision making and innovative customer approaches. Working with long-time partner oXya, Rémy Cointreau unified to one SAP system and migrated to S/4HANA on Google Cloud. While the environment is still new, Rémy Cointreau already sees big steps towards greater agility with Google Cloud. For instance, Google Cloud makes it much faster and easier to adjust the technical operating environment. If a team wants to start performing a new resource-heavy analysis, Rémy Cointreau can expand capacity to meet demands within minutes. The team can also roll back capacity so that it is only using the resources it needs. Read more.Related ArticleRémy Cointreau drives customer centricity with SAP on Google CloudRémy Cointreau moved to Google Cloud to gain flexibility in its SAP systems and gain easy access to valuable data for business decision m…Read ArticleGoogle Cloud is a great place to run SAPAs SAP customers begin and continue their cloud journeys, Google Cloud is committed to being there to simplify and optimize their move and ensure they have ready access to critical cloud-native technologies. To see more work that we’ve done with SAP and SAP customers, visit our solution site, and check out our customer video testimonials.Related ArticleCloud Acceleration Program: More reasons for SAP customers to migrate to Google CloudCloud Acceleration Program (CAP) offers solutions from both Google Cloud and partners to simplify cloud migrations. Here’s what customers…Read Article
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Anthos 101 learning series: All the videos in one place

Do you need to develop, run and secure applications across your hybrid and multicloud environments? Look no further than Anthos, our managed application platform that extends Google Cloud services and engineering practices to your environments so you can modernize apps faster and establish operational consistency across them. To help you get started, we created the Anthos 101 video learning series. It’s a great starting point for understanding the basics of Anthos—and you can watch the whole series in less than an hour.Let’s dive in.1. What is Anthos?Discover what Anthos is and how it helps enterprises manage their applications. You’ll learn about the different tools Anthos offers—like the ability to create environs and platform administrators—to help you modernize and manage your application infrastructure.2. How to get started with Anthos on Google CloudReady to get started with Anthos? In this lesson, you’ll create your own Anthos deployment. You’ll learn about the different tools on the Anthos dashboard—like the Service Mesh card and Cluster Status cards—plus how to deploy and alter Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters and Anthos Service mesh via Google Compute Engine.3. How to modernize and run Windows apps in AnthosRunning a Windows application that’s in need of modernization? In this lesson, you’ll discover how you can create and deploy a Windows-based application on Anthos, allowing you to modernize existing workloads and manage your application seamlessly. You’ll even learn to do this without requiring access to source code, re-writing, or re-architecting your existing application.4. How to build modern CI/CD with AnthosContinuous integration? Continuous delivery? These are two things that developers need to think about with container adoption for hybrid or multicloud environments. Learn how Anthos helps you increase your development velocity without compromising the security of your application.5. How to adopt a multi-cluster strategy for your applications in AnthosThere are a number of use cases that might require a multi-cluster strategy, such as maintaining multiple clusters on the cloud and in your own data center. In this lesson, learn the different tools that Anthos offers—such as GKE, Anthos Config Management, and Anthos Service Mesh—to help deploy and manage multiple clusters.6. How to improve observability using golden signals in AnthosObservability is important in application development, but without the right tools monitoring your services can be time consuming. In this episode, learn more how Anthos Service Mesh can help you monitor and manage the four Golden Signals—latency, traffic, errors, and saturation—for your application.7. How to modernize legacy Java apps with AnthosLooking to modernize legacy Java applications? In this lesson, you’ll learn the three categories of Java applications and their unique paths for modernization via Anthos. This can help you reduce your dependency on high-cost proprietary software, decrease operational overhead, and increase software delivery speed.8. How to apply a zero trust model for your deployments using AnthosIt’s time to rethink traditional security models when it comes to network observability and consistency for IAM permissions. In this lesson, learn how you can adopt a zero trust posture with Anthos. This allows you to better secure your network, detect underlying network compromises, and ensure workloads are secure before deployment.9. How to go beyond business continuity with AnthosSometimes a business continuity plan that only covers traditional backup and disaster recovery methods simply isn’t enough. In this lesson, learn how Anthos helps resolve issues like data redundancy, scaling without code changes, implementing measurable SLOs, and much more. You’ll also discover how Anthos can help you manage your application beyond the confines of traditional backup and disaster recovery approaches.10. How to simplify identity with AnthosManaging identities across hybrid and multicloud environments can be troublesome and hard to keep track of. Luckily, Anthos is capable of simplifying identity management for users and workloads. In this lesson, you’ll learn how Anthos can extend and enable existing capabilities, while allowing you to manage IAM permissions across multiple Anthos and GKE environments.11. How to optimize costs with AnthosLearn how you can optimize costs with Anthos through greater observability, improving existing operations, and many other practices.Keep learningThis is just a starting point for learning about Anthos. To deepen your knowledge, check out our free on-demand training: Getting started with Anthos. Or, you can download our Anthos Under the Hood ebook, or get hands-on right now with the Anthos sandbox.Related ArticleHow does Anthos simplify hybrid & multicloud deployments?If you’re an enterprise, chances are you have networking, storage, and compute on multiple clouds and in your own data center. How can yo…Read Article
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