SAP Migration to Google Cloud

Name: leverX Company
Brand: LeverX
Rating: 4.9 (114 reviews)

Merge your system environment with Google’s data cloud to leverage your innovative SAP solutions

As an SAP Gold Partner, we provide access to resources and seasoned professionals, ensuring your project's reliability. Our expertise helps us tailor SAP solutions for your unique needs, optimizing ROI and efficiency.

Partnering with LeverX as an SAP Global Strategic Supplier goes beyond buyer-seller dynamics. We provide critical solutions for global operations, collaborate with you on product development, and drive strategic initiatives.

LeverX is a certified partner of the SAP Center of Expertise. This accreditation ensures our unwavering commitment to upholding SAP's highest standards. Our mission is to deliver excellence, providing unparalleled support, and facilitating the seamless integration of SAP solutions into your business framework.

As an SAP AppHaus Network Member, we help businesses solve complex problems, deliver exceptional user experiences, and drive digital transformation using design thinking and innovation expertise. We leverage SAP's best practices and cutting-edge tools to create user-centric solutions.

Migrating SAP services to Google Cloud is transferring SAP applications, data, and infrastructure to Google's cloud computing platform. With SAP on Google Cloud, you can take advantage of the powerful infrastructure and scalability of Google Cloud for your SAP systems. Integration with innovative Google services such as BigQuery significantly expands the view of the data in your SAP systems, thereby opening up space for creative solutions.

LeverX fully supports you throughout the migration of your SAP systems to the Google Cloud — from concept to integration with ongoing operations.

SAP on Google Cloud

Google Cloud has an ongoing partnership with SAP to provide SAP-certified infrastructure for all your SAP systems. You can also use dynamic scaling to meet requirements.

Whether managing core SAP applications in a large-scale enterprise or overseeing critical functions in a small business, migrating to Google Cloud enables you to leverage SAP data while ensuring reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness in application operations.

A study by Forrester examined the results of SAP migration to Google Cloud and shared the following achievements:

$3 million

In annual savings for SAP customers that use Google Cloud to eliminate hardware, optimize software licenses, and utilize other features

$1.5 million

In average savings when businesses avoid downtimes that once resulted in customer complaints

$500,000

In annual savings with fewer server capacity issues, infrastructure disruptions, and other performance issues

LeverX helps customers build an end-to-end data cloud by combining SAP solutions with Google's data cloud. This integration allows businesses to seamlessly bring data from across the enterprise landscape, including SAP systems and other sources, in real time. Consequently, organizations can view their entire data estate, facilitating better decision-making and maximizing the value derived from their Google Cloud and SAP software investments.

By combining SAP software data with non-SAP data on Google Cloud, organizations can expedite their digital transformation efforts. LeverX ensures a fully defined data foundation that retains complete business context, enabling businesses to leverage advanced analytics, generative AI, natural language processing (NLP), and other transformative technologies. As a result, organizations can rapidly derive insights, streamline operations, and drive innovation across various domains such as supply chains, financial forecasting, human resources, and omnichannel retail.

Through the seamless integration of SAP Datasphere and Google Cloud BigQuery, businesses can tap into their vital data without delays or duplications. This collaborative solution ensures that organizations can access unified data from SAP software systems like SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA Cloud. As an SAP Global Strategic Supplier, LeverX empowers businesses with a holistic perspective of their essential SAP data assets within the Google data cloud environment.

Leveraging the collaborative efforts of SAP and Google Cloud, LeverX helps you simplify the integration of SAP software data. This breakthrough allows enterprises to seamlessly harness the advanced data analytics capabilities of SAP and Google Cloud. By enabling federated queries across SAP Datasphere and BigQuery, businesses can merge data from SAP and non-SAP software sources, eliminating data silos across various domains. For instance, businesses operating wholesale distribution models can now gain comprehensive insights into their products' journey through the sales pipeline, thus optimizing customer reach.

Deploying SAP on Google Cloud

Google's innovative Rapid Acceleration Migration Program (RAMP) is designed to expedite the migration of SAP solutions while enhancing their transition to the cloud ecosystem. RAMP seamlessly integrates Google's comprehensive suite of cloud products, engagement models, and industry best practices, providing customers with a holistic solution for swift and efficient migration to the cloud.

Leveraging strategic partnerships with channel partners, RAMP ensures the implementation of best practices for seamless SAP software integration with Google Cloud, streamlining the migration process and empowering businesses to unlock the full potential of cloud computing.

There are different SAP migration scenarios to accommodate varying infrastructure needs, deployment preferences, and compliance requirements of businesses transitioning to Google Cloud. With 20+ years of experience as an SAP partner, the LeverX team will choose the most reliable solution for your business.

Manual deployment on Google Cloud offers complete control over configuration and deployment processes using the Google Cloud console, CLI, or APIs. After setting up the infrastructure, SAP systems are installed following SAP product documentation available from the SAP Help Portal.
Infrastructure as code options, such as Terraform configuration files or Cloud Deployment Manager templates, streamline the deployment of SAP-certified infrastructure and SAP HANA deployments. By leveraging these tools, deployments adhere to SAP certification requirements and Google Cloud best practices for optimal performance and compliance.
The SAP Cloud Appliance Library facilitates the automatic deployment of various SAP solutions on Google Cloud, adhering to SAP's licensing terms. Users can access trial, educational, and developer options, among others, subject to Google Cloud infrastructure charges, necessitating cleanup upon completion.
Leveraging the Google Cloud Marketplace provides access to SAP-specific offerings from diverse Google Cloud partners, simplifying the deployment of infrastructure and solutions tailored to SAP requirements.

We conduct a thorough assessment of existing infrastructure, workloads, and dependencies to devise a comprehensive migration plan tailored to the specific needs and objectives of the organization.

DISCOVER

We conduct a thorough assessment of the existing infrastructure, workloads, and dependencies to devise a comprehensive migration plan tailored to the specific needs and objectives of the organization.

PREPARE

We analyze your current SAP landscape together and map it. We will show you simplifications and plan your target landscape based on this. Finally, we develop a concept that provides the correct platform setup and forms the basis for your transition to the Google Cloud.

EXPLORE

We fine-tune the migrated workloads and validate the performance and functionality of applications to ensure a smooth transition and optimal operational efficiency within the Google Cloud environment.

REALIZE

We transfer data from legacy systems into the SAP production system, test the system, and validate roles/authorizations for all users.

DEPLOY

The LeverX team considers your requirements and assumes responsibility for the professional maintenance, integrated monitoring, and further development of your SAP systems in the Google Cloud. This means your company is not only prepared well for the future digital transformation but can also use the expanded functions earlier.

RUN

Practice-proven competence

Our certified SAP experts are knowledgeable about cloud environments. Our 20+ years of experience provide insightful guidance tailored to the unique nuances of each SAP environment.
We align migration strategies with broader business objectives, fostering long-term success and sustainability.

All-round support

LeverX helps businesses utilize Google Cloud features that are best suited to accelerate digital transformation.
Through seamless integration into your infrastructure, you can quickly adapt SAP systems in the Google cloud to changing requirements and benefit from constant innovation.

Innovations and flexibility

Through the continuous development of Google Cloud Services, customers gain access to the latest technologies and benefit from investment security.
Increase the flexibility and scalability of your SAP systems in the Google cloud to meet SAP's high requirements.

Why migrate SAP to the Google Cloud?

Globally, Google Cloud serves customers in more than 200 countries as a trusted partner to support their growth and help them solve their business-critical problems. SAP and Google suggest a comprehensive open data offering designed to help companies simplify data landscapes and get maximum value from their business data. In addition, SAP will expand its multi-cloud offerings and regional support for SAP BTP and SAP HANA Cloud on Google Cloud. This also includes support for SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere.

How long can the migration preparation process take?

The duration of the migration preparation process for SAP solutions to Google Cloud depends on factors like the complexity of the SAP landscape, data volume, and customization needs. Typically, it can range from several weeks to a few months and involves assessing, planning, and preparing the environment for migration.

How long does the migration process take?

The timeline for migrating SAP solutions from other platforms to Google Cloud varies based on landscape size, customization, data volume, and infrastructure readiness. Generally, this migration process can take several months to a year to complete.

How is data security ensured during migration?

Since all necessary structures are operated in the cloud and managed by Google Cloud, users avoid associated costs when migrating SAP applications. Through five layers of data protection, AI-driven threat detection, and best-in-class cybersecurity, Google Cloud protects systems, data, and users. Advanced AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities such as AutoML and BigQuery enable business users to gain a competitive advantage.

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An expert will reach out to you to discuss your specific needs and requirements.
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We'll work with you to prepare a customized proposal based on the project's scope, timeline, and budget.