Is it the Right Time to Migrate?
Migration is a complicated procedure of data transition revolving around changes to the hardware, software and the physical location of the SAP landscape. It requires special knowledge and the engagement of professionals which we will provide.
& Plan Accordingly
The key objective of starting the journey of SAP cloud migration is to provide the exact functionality you promised the business stakeholders. To start with, you must assess the landscape and choose what to migrate to the cloud and when. One of the key aspects of the plan is to assess compatibility with the cloud provider system. Check the compatibility of your SAP applications and databases as well as the software portability. This assessment will enable you to put in place a meticulous plan that details the migration from the beginning to end to ensure that everyone is on board with how you will be executing the migration.
To get an idea of the storage size you need; you must evaluate the number of SAPs you need for each system. Do not over-provisioning the number of virtual machines in avoid budget waste. So, provisioning conservatively may be a good start as you can always scale up and down regarding your business needs.
It's common not finding a business having in-house cloud and SAP experts on their payroll. Therefore, finding a partner with specialisms in SAP and cloud technologies to provide independent consulting, help with SAP architecture, design the cloud landscape, provide guidance and help execute the migration becomes critical to your journey of SAP cloud migration.
Moving to the cloud is an opportunity to throw away the things underutilized. All the inconsistent and redundant files should be removed before migrating your system from an on-premises edition to the cloud. This also simplify the SAP on AWS migration process.
You don't want to be upset during migration. Therefore, ensuring that you safeguard the process by backing up your current environment before attempting to migrate to the cloud is a crucial mindset and approach during the migration.
& Plan Accordingly
The key objective of starting the journey of SAP cloud migration is to provide the exact functionality you promised the business stakeholders. To start with, you must assess the landscape and choose what to migrate to the cloud and when. One of the key aspects of the plan is to assess compatibility with the cloud provider system. Check the compatibility of your SAP applications and databases as well as the software portability. This assessment will enable you to put in place a meticulous plan that details the migration from the beginning to end to ensure that everyone is on board with how you will be executing the migration.
To get an idea of the storage size you need; you must evaluate the number of SAPs you need for each system. Do not over-provisioning the number of virtual machines in avoid budget waste. So, provisioning conservatively may be a good start as you can always scale up and down regarding your business needs.
It's common not finding a business having in-house cloud and SAP experts on their payroll. Therefore, finding a partner with specialisms in SAP and cloud technologies to provide independent consulting, help with SAP architecture, design the cloud landscape, provide guidance and help execute the migration becomes critical to your journey of SAP cloud migration.
Moving to the cloud is an opportunity to throw away the things underutilized. All the inconsistent and redundant files should be removed before migrating your system from an on-premises edition to the cloud. This also simplify the SAP on AWS migration process.
You don't want to be upset during migration. Therefore, ensuring that you safeguard the process by backing up your current environment before attempting to migrate to the cloud is a crucial mindset and approach during the migration.
You will usually find that your colleagues only put much emphasis on the "switch" day, and after that, they will expect things to go back to normal. This is just not the case. What you and they need to get prepared for is the required post-go-live tweaking, as well as ongoing SAP performance tuning, that will happen once you roll over to your new cloud landscape.
Cloud Migration & SAP BASIS Services
Most often, "Cloud Migration" describes the move from on-premises or legacy infrastructure to the cloud. However, the term can also apply to a migration from one cloud to another cloud.
Choosing the right cloud partner for you and deploying a systematic approach to carry out the migration process avoiding or minimizing any system downtime.