Back to Basics: Migrations hyper tuned for Efficiency and Automation

December 1, 1913 - quite an underrated day in common folklore. But, that day, perhaps the most impactful revolution after electricity was unleashed for the industrial world. Henry Ford, arguably the Father of commercial motor vehicles, first deployed his famous Assembly Line technique for the production of automotive vehicles. The average output time was reduced from 12 hours to roughly one.

On the surface, this might seem non-contextual to the IT or cloud world. But assembly lines helped establish and inspire two key paradigms: breaking complex production processes into defined independent steps synchronized in wholesome coherence and automation of all repetitive processes within.

Such diligence enabled constant standardized outputs irrespective of internal jitters and obviously, drastically reduce delivery timelines without impacting product qualities. Why can’t the Cloud IT universe tasked with hyper-complicated migrations, asset modernizations, management of multiple ecosystems, infra, platforms, apps, databases, workloads, and finally deliver ultra-innovative digital products and services operate in the same fashion?

That is a thought to ponder. And one that shaped Cloud4C’s strategy from the very beginning.

A New Opportunity to re-engineer the business processes is the No.1 driver for S/4 HANA Migration

57% of S/4 HANA projects deploy a Greenfield approach

77% of SAP Customers will rely on a partner for their S/4 HANA Migration project

Migration of SAP Workloads to Cloud via the Migration Factory Approach: Implemented and Managed by Cloud4C

Cloud4C’s unique Factory-based approach to large-scale, complicated cloud migration, modernization, and managed services enabled its rise to become the world’s leading application-focused cloud MSP today and the largest global premium supplier of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. Adept and SAP-certified in HANA Operations Services, Cloud Services, Hosting Services, Application Management Services, and DevOps, Cloud4C streamlines transitions of on-prem SAP workloads, applications, and databases to tailored public-private-hybrid-multi cloud architectures of choice at highest uptimes, negligible disruption, and zero data loss.

An industry standardized, step-by-step approach augmented with innovative automation called SAP Migration Factory helps achieve this magic with complete compliance with organizational objectives and needs. Also, enterprises struggling with legacy ERP applications and business solutions can leverage the SAP S/4HANA ERP suite on a custom cloud architecture leveraging Cloud4C’s incredible SAP centered offers: SAP Switch2Cloud, SAP RISE Switch2Cloud, etc. With Cloud4C as an end-to-end partner, experience a super-agile yet cost-effective transition with the Migration Factory Approach and top it off with full-stack AIOps-powered managed offerings from infra till application layer, at a single SLA promising the highest availability throughout.

Augment the entire experience with cutting-edge intelligent RPA solutions tailored to address and automate SAP and other workflows on the cloud. Leverage the unprecedented expertise of Cloud4C’s dedicated Migration Factory Specialists from our SAP Center of Excellence (COE) to achieve the transformation at a surprising TCO.

Deploy and avail the best SAP has to offer with Cloud4C, leveraging the power of the intelligent cloud.

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    Industry best
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  • Advantages

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    Trained
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    Leading
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Certified
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Advantages

Faster Migration to cloud

Highly secured

Lowest TCO

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Standardized Processes for Continuous Hyper-performance Outcomes: Why Begin your SAP Cloud Evolution Journey with the Migration Factory Approach?

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Industry standardized Step-by-step processes to enable frictionless SAP workloads, applications, asset migration to the cloud

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Highly automation-rich approach guaranteeing best results, regardless of ecosystem complexity and use-case scenario, no questions asked

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Automate SAP process management and workflows with Cloud4C proprietary intelligent RPA solutions dedicated to SAP practices

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SAP certified governance and in-transit monitoring and support for ideal outcomes

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Choice to opt for AIOps-powered managed services, guaranteeing best availability from the infra till application login layer

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Choice to opt for dedicated SAP application management, modernization services leveraging the power of cloud

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Super-agile migration regardless of source ecosystem complexity at highest 99.95% uptime

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Substantially low TCO without comprising performance and delivery quality

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Advanced tools and technologies deployed including cloud-native solutions to leverage the cloud perform best

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Migrations performed by SAP trained individuals promising dedicated support and consulting across the journey

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World-class threat alerting, risk monitoring, cybersecurity management including cloud-native security solutions and Cloud4C deployed MDR-EDR or Self-Healing Security

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Chance to leverage advanced Auto Backup, Disaster Recovery, and overall Business Continuity Planning for SAP on cloud workloads

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SAP Center of Excellence at Cloud4C

Largest Global Premier Supplier

for 180+ Enterprises of SAP HEC


Certifications

SAP certification in application management services
SAP certification in HANA operations services
SAP certification in hosting services
SAP certification in cloud services

Expertise

250+

Sap Success Stories

2000+
TB

Managed HANA

6000+

SAP Systems Supported

1000+

Sap Production Workloads

SAP Center of Excellence at Cloud4C

Business process Councelting

Application Consolidation and Harmonization Services

System Integration Services(Greenfield/Brownfield/ Bluefield)

Application Development Services

SAP Technology Factory (Upgrades, Conversations, Migrations etc.)

SAP S/4HANA, Private Cloud Edition

Cloud4C Private Cloud (CtrlS, Other Global DCs)

Any Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba)

Any On-Premise Cloud (Customer's Data Center)

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Reduced TCO

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Unified Delivery

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Automated Services

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Cloud platform agnostic

Cloud4C’s Unique Position as a Global RISE Cloud Partner

Present in 48 Cloud PODs
across Tier 2 Geographies

  • Compliant to Local Data Sovereignty Laws
  • Delivering 99.994% SLA at application level
  • Supporting Far and Near DRs across all countries
  • Extended Portfolio to support 3rd Party Products
  • Easy to consume SAP Implementation packages
  • Flexible contracting and HW buyback options
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Europe

Netherlands

  • Amsterdam

Switzerland

  • Zurich

UK

  • London

Portugal

  • Covilhã

North America

USA

  • Chicago
  • Virginia

Mexico

  • Queretaro

Canada

South America

  • Colombia

Middle East

Saudi Arabia

  • Jeddah
  • Riyadh

UAE

  • Abu Dhabi
  • Dubai

Qatar

  • Doha

Turkey

  • Istanbul
  • Izmir

India

  • Hyderabad
  • Mumbai
  • Noida
  • Banglore

Sri Lanka

Asia Pacific

Indonesia

  • Jakarta
  • Jawa Barat

Malaysia

  • Kuala Lampur

Philipines

  • Manita

Singapore

Japan

  • Chiba
  • Sanda

Thailand

  • Bangkok

South Korea

  • Gwangju
  • Paju

Vietnam

Hong Kong

ANZ

Australia

  • Brisbane
  • Sydney

New Zealand

  • Auckland
  • Hamilton
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1 North America

USA

  • Chicago
  • Virginia

Mexico

  • Queretaro

Canada

2 South America

  • Colombia

3 Europe

Netherlands

  • Amsterdam

Switzerland

  • Zurich

UK

  • London

Portugal

  • Covilhã

4 ANZ

Australia

  • Brisbane
  • Sydney

New Zealand

  • Auckland
  • Hamilton

5India

  • Hyderabad
  • Mumbai
  • Noida
  • Banglore

Sri Lanka

6 Asia Pacific

Indonesia

  • Jakarta
  • Jawa Barat

Malaysia

  • Kuala Lampur

Philipines

  • Manita

Singapore

Japan

  • Chiba
  • Sanda

Thailand

  • Bangkok

South Korea

  • Gwangju
  • Paju

Vietnam

Hong Kong

7 Middle East

Saudi Arabia

  • Jeddah
  • Riyadh

UAE

  • Abu Dhabi
  • Dubai

Qatar

  • Doha

Turkey

  • Istanbul
  • Izmir

Fortifying the Foundations: SAP Migrations Designed and Implemented for Any Cloud, Any Architecture No Questions Asked

Modern businesses need to be flexible in synonymy to an ever-fluctuating market. As a result, firms are often equipped with multiple architectural challenges followed by frequent IT upgrade and renovation demands. Such agility could be best achieved by adopting digital-first operational models using SAP Business Suite and leveraging the latter’s true potential by hosting all SAP workloads, applications, databases on the cloud.

Our SAP Migration Specialists and Cloud Engineers ensure that a business can seamlessly migrate to a cloud-powered SAP experience on any cloud platform of choice, regardless of operational ecosystem complexity and underlining compliance. Cloud4C’s automation-rich, secure, and hyper-fast Migration Factory Approach is equipped to achieve the transition objective on the desired cloud platform at highest availability in a single SLA, from the infra till the application layer. In tandem, gain transformational impact from the IT till the business strata. Meet and exceed your enterprise digital transformation objectives on the cloud.

Breaking down the Mist of Cloud4C SAP Migration Factory: Step-wise Overview

Cloud4C's SAP Migration Factory approach helps organizations standardize and accelerate their SAP infra, apps, workloads, database migrations, modernizations to the cloud. Cloud4C. Deploying the highly efficient, intelligent automated assembly line approach, the migration is achieved super-fast at uncompromised security and continuity.

To better visualize, let’s take the example of one SAP application to be moved to cloud. Typical steps in the Factory include an assessment of application readiness, preparing the application for the cloud, deciding whether it needs to be rewritten or not, identifying the best target platforms in the chosen cloud, testing and validating the application, and finally deploying it. Hence, each application moves through specific assessment and functional steps on its way to the cloud, just like a highly efficient assembly line in a manufacturing facility would for best outcomes consistently, no questions asked.

Step 1: Pre-Migration
  • Platform and Foundation Services
Step 2: Assessment and Planning
  • Migration Assessment and Planning
  • Pilot Migration
Step 3: Migration to Cloud
  • Optimize for customer outcomes
  • Engagement by leveraging Intelligent Infrastructure
Step 4: Run on Cloud
  • Switch over to Cloud
  • Optimize Operations
  • Infrastructure & SAP Basis
  • Intelligent Operations
Step 5: Transform
  • Analyse and Interpret SAP Data through Machine Learning
  • Build Productive and Adaptive Apps for Intelligent Customer Engagement

SAP Database Migration Factory Map: Any Ecosystem,
Any Complexity

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Offline Migrations

  • Downtime planned for database and marked as read-only
  • Migrations done and applications switched to new databases
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Online Migrations

  • Minimal downtime
  • A front load of data to the target enabling sync so that the data continues to be replicated from source to target until customer is ready to cut-over
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Homogeneous Migrations

  • Source and destination databases are same
  • Lift and Shift Approach
  • Database server is installed on a VM on cloud and the latest Database backup is restored followed by cut-over
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Heterogeneous Migrations

  • Source and destination databases are different
  • Additional assessment of the objects, schemas, stored procedures, app dependencies and code changes
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Complex and Large-scale Migrations

  • Complete data transfer to target database at one go
  • After cutover duration, new systems would be in production

Inspire an Intelligent SAP on Cloud Evolution: Cloud4C Unique Offers. Single SLA. End-to-end Impact

With SAP S/4HANA, SAP took a transformative route in 2015. And, that was to take a fully cloud-first strategy to deploy their upcoming innovations. SAP S/4HANA, written in cognizance to the smart HANA in-memory database and its private cloud version for all SAP applications (HANA Enterprise Cloud), is the idea ERP solution and an ignition for businesses to make their evolutions on the cloud. Cloud4C, a leading global supplier of SAP S/4HANA and HEC, realizes that achieving such transformation is easier said than done. Cloud4C’s unique SAP Switch2Cloud offer allows enterprises to make swift conversions of their existing ECC or legacy ERP workloads to S/4HANA, deploy and manage effectively on cloud with end-to-end application management under a single, cost-effective SLA. The package could be customed based on client requirements; greenfield, brownfield, or hybrid deployment models.

The above competency takes an even greater transformative turn when taken into account SAP’s latest unveiling: RISE with SAP. Best suited for SMEs and businesses looking for ready-to-deploy digital transformation models into their core operations, RISE with SAP bundles S/4HANA ERP migration on firm’s choice of public and private cloud along with cutting-edge smart businesses processes, infra and application modernization solutions best suited to enterprise goals. Cloud4C tops the exciting proposition with a similar SAP RISE Switch2Cloud offer that packages SAP RISE business transformation offerings with seamless SAP S/4HANA Conversion and end-to-end application management under a single no nonsense SLA guaranteeing maximum availability, agility, and innovative end outcomes.

SAP S/4HANA Switch2Cloud
What’s Included:
  • S/4HANA Transformation
  • SAP Managed Services
  • Application Management Services
Benefits:
  • Reduced TCO
  • Single Stop Management with proprietary Self Healing Operations Platform
  • AIOps-powered Managed Services
  • Non-SAP Workloads management
SAP RISE Switch2Cloud
What’s Included:
  • SAP RISE Deployment and Managed Services
  • S/4HANA Migration
  • SAP Application Management Services
Benefits:
  • Reduced TCO
  • Unified Delivery metrics and Visibility
  • Automation Solutions and Services
  • Cloud-agnostic Architecture design

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Securing the SAP Environment on Cloud: Continuous Monitoring and Risk Assessment

  • Risks outlined in
    risk tracker
  • List of new risks
    identified
  • Update
    Organizational Risk
    Database
  • Casual Analytics

Track

Control

 

Communicate

Plan

Analyse

Identify

  • Risk response plan
  • List of risks
  • Risk assessment
    workshop
  • Prioritize risks
  • Risk mitigation costs
  • Cost Benefit Analysis

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An Impact with Difference: Why Trust Cloud4C for your SAP Migration to the Cloud?

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World’s leading application-focused Cloud MSP

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Dedicated SAP migration, modernization, management expertise for private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments on AWS, Azure, Oracle, GCP, etc.

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Largest premium global supplier of SAP HEC, trusted global supplier of SAP S/4HANA, RISE with SAP, etc.

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SAP Certified in Application Management Services, SAP HANA Operations Services, Hosting Services, Cloud Services

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250+ SAP consultants and 2000+ certified cloud experts

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Managed 15000+ SAP Instances and 2300+ TB of HANA Database

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Deployed 565 successful SAP projects across 30 countries

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Industry highest SLA of 99.9% up to Application login layer

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Global premium supplier for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC), RISE with SAP

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1500+ SAP Netweaver, 700+ SAP ERP Systems, 1000+ Application production workloads

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6000+ SAP System Identifiers (SIDs), 475+ System DR workloads, 50+ Third party tools

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Offering support for complete suite SAP Applications and Databases

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Leaders in managing SAP HANA workloads with 20TB scale up and 64TB scale out

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Dedicated SAP on AWS CoE with AIOps-powered managed services

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Geography/Industry-specific compliance services with AWS-native tools and Cloud4C Managed Security offerings

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SAP Reg-Tech certified offerings for IRAP, SAMA, MEITY, MAS, GDPR, HIPAA, and more

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SAP Migration Factory - FAQs

  • What do you mean by the SAP Migration Factory Approach?

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    Cloud4C’s SAP Migration Factory approach involves an automation-powered, step by step process to transition existing SAP workloads to the cloud.

    Often including additional application modernization, database modernization, or ECC to SAP S/4HANA conversions while moving to cloud, everything is achieved in a streamlined assembly line-inspired process for maximum availability, agility, and friction-less outcomes.

  • Why should I move to SAP on Cloud rather than the on-prem version?

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    SAP in itself has adopted a cloud-first approach with SAP S/4HANA, its latest ERP offering. The innovative solutions suite is tailored to be hosted on a public or private cloud of choice to gain maximum availability, scalability, and agility of applications.

    This paired with the cloud’s native ecosystem consisting of monitoring, security, managed ops, automation tools and services allow the best outcomes out of the articulated SAP landscape.

  • What is the difference between Cloud4C’s SAP Switch2Cloud and SAP RISE Switch2Cloud Offers?

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    SAP Switch2Cloud is catered to SAP S/4HANA conversions for enterprises, regardless of the use case scenario: greenfield, brownfield, hybrid. The offer includes SAP S/4HANA conversion, managed services, and application management services end-to-end.

    The SAP RISE Switch2Cloud includes deployment of SAP RISE and its intelligent business transformation suite paired with S/4HANA managed services and application management.

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