Migrating SAP ERP workloads and applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not an end in itself. Rather, it is the essential first step to driving digital innovation and better serving the needs of customers. The key question facing any business looking to run SAP on AWS is how best to optimize their workflows, processes, and SAP systems to meet their business goals and drive value.
Migrating and managing workloads
From initial migration through to management of the cloud ERP system, there’s a strong case to be made for using RISE with SAP, a managed service offered by SAP that provides customers with cloud solutions, tools, and services designed to simplify business processes and drive digital transformation.
There are cost benefits to using this approach. AWS currently offers financial incentives to businesses migrating SAP systems to its cloud platform using the RISE with SAP approach. Businesses can benefit from further cost savings by streamlining their SAP licenses. As part of the service, organizations are helped to identify which licenses are required to achieve their desired end state, enabling them to retire the rest.
More importantly, however, RISE with SAP can reduce time to value for SAP on AWS. Guruguha Vijalapur, who leads SAP Cloud &Technology at LTIMindtree, explains: “With RISE, SAP takes care of migration from ECC, as well as ongoing management and optimization of the AWS infra layers. We enable the enterprise to focus on driving innovation and finding the transformational use cases that will drive efficiency and innovation. As an AWS exclusive “Accelerate RISE Program” partner, we have been delivering this differentiated value to our customers on AWS.
The benefits of the approach are significant. For example, Informa, a leading events, digital services, and academic knowledge group, worked with LTIMindtree using RISE with SAP to migrate to AWS from an inefficient on-premises system. Since then, Informa has transformed its operations, gained the ability to derive deeper insights from its data, and readied itself for an innovative future.1
The value of ecosystem tools and partnerships
The AWS cloud platform and ecosystem can help in a number of ways. On the foundational level, AWS provides a comprehensive set of data services that enable enterprises to integrate, process, and analyze SAP data effectively and rapidly, which helps improve decision making and accelerate the innovation pipeline.
The AWS ecosystem, meanwhile, comprises a broad range of tools and services that can help enhance operations, drive efficiency, and foster creativity in use of data and applications.
Finally, SAP-based organizations can benefit from the expertise and solutions provided by AWS and SAP partners. LTIMindtree is a case in point. As a strategic partner of both SAP and AWS, the organization provides a valuable source of technological expertise and industry-specific knowledge.
Working with LTIMindtree, businesses are better able to create workflows and processes suited to their individual industries and businesses, leveraging its AI-driven and industry cloud solutions. In the engineering, construction, and engineering space, for example, LTIMindtree has created a set of SAP-based GenAI driven industry solutions for Manufacturing, EC&O, RCG, Life Sciences, Asset intensive industries that integrate with the AWS ecosystem to accelerate Digital Innovation.
The express way to innovation
The advent of tools like RISE with SAP, the growing AWS ecosystem, and the value added by industry partners like LTIMindtree mean that SAP users can quickly move from migration to innovation. With the optimization and management of data, workloads, and applications in hand, the IT team can spend its time on meeting the needs of business units and end customers and driving innovation with impact.
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1AWS, “Informa and LTIMindtree Transform Operations, Gain Data-Driven Insights, and Innovate Using SAP on AWS,” September 2023 https://aws.amazon.com/partners/success/informa-group-ltimindtree/