Case Study
Challenges
A largest SAP implementation partner in Spain was looking for a cloud-hosting partner to host their SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) environment. The environment is extensively used to implement the SAP-qualified RDS solutions for SAP Supply Chain Management for Demand Planning and Analytics. SAP RDS are pre-configured applications that allow companies to deploy software in weeks or months for a set price. The applications are designed to address one area of functionality of SAP's larger enterprise applications, and address a specific function or need. This critical development project will expand its business at an international level.
Under such high-demand for a well-supported software development environment, the customer has a need for a cloud hosting partner who also provides SAP Basis managed services for a reasonable cost.
Solutions
The customer delivers packaged SAP solutions based on cloud IT architecture. The customer has chosen WFT Cloud as their SAP Cloud hosting partner for several reasons.
- An SAP-certified cloud hosting partner who also provides SAP Basis services.
- One of the most mature commercial approaches after evaluating partners listed in SAP Global partner website
- Tailored services and flexibility in meeting their requirements
- Simplified and predictable billing based on monthly usage
- Provide migration to cloud service including sizing and optimized performance approach
- Certified SAP consultants manage and maintain the SAP systems on a 24X7X365 basis
The transformation to cloud process was smooth and completed on schedule with a combination of greenfield installations and migrations from Spain to WFT Cloud datacenter in Philadelphia. WFT Cloud has conducted the migration seamlessly for the critical systems within the limited downtime window and brought up the systems without business impacts.
Benefits
The SAP landscape is fully managed by SAP certified professionals
No up-front investment for the cloud infrastructure and the users can access to the systems from any office locations
Well-maintained environment and end-to-end operation support allows the development team to focus on developing SAP RDS solutions which include ECC IDES & Non IDES, SAP SCM, SAP CRM, SAP SRM, SAP BW, SAP Portal 7.4, MDM, SAP Business Objects, SAP Sybase Unwired Platform, SAP PI 7.3 and Solution Manager 7.1 systems
Simplified and predictable bundled monthly billing on hosting and Basis services
Secured and reliable cloud infrastructure with backup, high availability and disaster recovery solutions