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SAP on Google Cloud
Plan a new SAP environment or migrate existing workloads. Align infrastructure, connectivity, backup and operations with your SAP roadmap.
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Explore the capabilities, methods and practical resources for your project. Scope, licensing, timing and support are agreed with your Cloudypedia team.
SAP on GCP
Moving your Small or Medium business SAP workload to the cloud can help you save costs by utilizing salable on demand infrastructure. Simple upgrade path with additional integration with Google Cloud BI capabilities
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What is SAP on Google Cloud?
This service utilizes Google Cloud infrastructure to build greenfield ( fresh implementation ) of SAP environment or migrate existing SAP workloads from on-premises or other cloud providers to Google Cloud
Benefits of Google Cloud :
Project-specific SAP sizing and cost comparison: SAP customers need to upgrade hardware to meet the new HANA demand of high memory VMs by 2025. Google Cloud offers up to 12TB or RAM VMs with 35% cheaper than than on prim solutions
Pay as you go: Only pay for what you need, scale VMS with additional RAM on demand as your database grows or shrinks over the years
Pay per second of consumption , Compute(vCPU), RAM and Operating System Licences
Flexible payment for non production workload. when development or testing VM is off there is no cost
Custom machines option saves $$ on year over year resources growth
Google Cloud up time SLA is 99.999%
Streamlined incremental snapshot solution, only pay for the difference of data-backups, not the the full storage
Benefits of Cloudypedia Services :
Google Cloud Infrastructure specialization partner
Dozens of successfully SAP on GCP implementations since 2009
Dedicated SAP Consulting team
Unique methodology for SAP workload optimization on GCP
Certified SAP basis consultants in house
Main differentiation between traditional on prim or co-location hosting for SAP and Google Cloud
SAP on GCP Project Process
Adopting Cloud is done in weeks, not years
Strategy, Business Case and Planning
Project starts with Discovery of your current environment: (for free assessment click here)
SAP on GCP Adoption strategy :
Since the Cloud does not require 3 or 5 years capacity planning, the adoption plan helps understand the requirement and high level timeline :
SAP Landscape for current and future phases.
SAP consultant is consulted through the process. If customer has no SAP partner, Cloudypedia can provide the SAP for SMB Consultant
Optimize landscape for the Google Cloud Platform
Identify target SAP apps, size and price:
Based on the the adoption strategy, an estimate is created for the different phases.
Define use cases and prototypes
Define the additional Google cloud integration pints such as BigQuery and Google Workspace if needed
Finalize Architecture Blueprint
The outcome of the strategy and planning phase is a detailed architecture diagram along with project plan for the short, mid and long term project phases.
SAP Partner/consultant is consulted through the process. If customer has no SAP partner, Cloudypedia can provide the SAP for SMB Consultant
Execution
Once the business case, VMs discovery and Foundation for GCP project is setup actual data and VMs migration kicks off:
Define Sequence of migration
Automated Process: Using tools to do environment discovery such as CloudPhyscis . Useful for 10+ servers discovery. Also shows an accurate cost comparison for the servers on GCP and other cloud providers
Manual process : We fill in a discovery with the current environment details such as VMs Sizes, Operating Systems, Data size and plan accordingly
Pilot
If required, spinning up an SAP environment on GCP and testing it out to verify technical and business requirements.
Migrate:
Utilizing one or more of the following four migration process:
Velostrata (if customer has VMware, AWS, Azure)
Sureline Migration tool
Native replication services of SAP
System export, System import
Roll out
SAP Consultant to reconfigure, test and confirm
Phased roll-out if needed
System Admin GCP training
The Value of SAP on Google Cloud
The Value of SAP on Google CloudWatch the video ↗A Quick overview on the value of SAP on GCP
Deploying SAP on GCP
Customer Story
NACITA
Nacita is a leading agency in the trading and servicing of automotive products and in providing logistics services.
"The (SAP on GCP) pilots, migration planning and careful contingency rollback designed by Cloudypedia gave us the confidence to be live on GCP within 3 weeks with our full production system"
Edward Shenoud, IT Manager, NACITA
Book a SAP on GCP consultancy today : sap@cloudypedia.com
More Resources
SAP on GCP Blog
Partnerships and milestones
Read about our Google Cloud work, customer projects and regional partnerships.
Relevant experience
Explore the context and approach behind the work. Each story describes its own scope.
Saudi Arabia · Manufacturing
Browse every customer story ↗Deemah
A Cloudypedia customer story about planning an SAP S/4HANA upgrade and Google Cloud migration for a Saudi manufacturer.
Customer story ↗Egypt · Automotive & logisticsNacita
A Cloudypedia customer story about piloting and migrating SAP infrastructure to Google Compute Engine for an Egyptian automotive and logistics business.
Customer story ↗Make the next conversation useful.
Bring the business outcome, current environment and constraints. We can then define a suitable assessment, implementation or ongoing service.
Business sponsors
Agree the intended outcome, users, priorities and how the work will be accepted.
Technical teams
Review architecture, integrations, data access, security and operational ownership.
Procurement teams
Confirm scope, contracting entity, licensing route, commercial terms and support responsibilities in the proposal.
What shapes your proposal?
Workload complexity, dependencies, data location, delivery responsibilities and operating needs determine scope and timing. Licensing, billing currency, taxes, payment terms and support coverage are confirmed for the relevant market and agreement.
