Think Tanks con­nect you with peers nav­i­gat­ing the same chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties as you. ASUG will facil­i­tate an inter­ac­tive peer-to-peer exchange where solu­tions are shared for top­ics spe­cif­ic to your role and interest.

The New­mont team will present their accel­er­at­ed migra­tion to the Cloud, to lever­age cloud scal­a­bil­i­ty, flex­i­bil­i­ty, reli­a­bil­i­ty, secu­ri­ty and soft­ware ser­vices.  They migrat­ed over 200 SAP-relat­ed servers to Ama­zon Web-Cloud Ser­vices (AWS) as a pre-req­ui­site to the loom­ing end-of-sup­port of lega­cy SAP appli­ca­tions in 2027 and com­mence­ment of their jour­ney to SAP S/4HANA. 

The for­mat for Tues­day, Aug. 18 at 1 p.m. CT will include: 

• Brief wel­come and kick­off from ASUG 

• Rapid case study led by ASUG mem­bers Om Singh, Dan Pataroque, Ethan Ken­nel­ly from New­mont Corporation 

• The dis­cus­sion will focus on: 

• Busi­ness case 

• Ven­dor selec­tion process 

• Suc­cess criteria 

• Approach 

• Tech­ni­cal aspects 

• Lessons learned 

• Shar­ing of recent wins or suc­cess­es, along with resources utilized 

Gain vis­i­bil­i­ty into the chal­lenges and suc­cess­es oth­er SAP cus­tomers are expe­ri­enc­ing, and acquire new ideas for real-world solutions. 

If you are expe­ri­enc­ing chal­lenges and would like to lead your own case study, fill out the sur­vey here. 

Think Tank Insights:

• After decid­ing on AWS, did you con­sid­er AZURE and oth­er than cost, why did you choose AWS? 
  • From a cost per­spec­tive, AWS was low­er cost
  • Group that designs their own hardware
  • SAP exper­tise
    • SAP expe­ri­ences
    • Knowl­edge of Migra­tion methodologies
    • Solu­tion Fit
    • Esti­mate accuracy
  • Cre­at­ed Hybrid environment 
    • Old­er win­dows work­load that are no longer in sup­port but AZURE will extend sup­port 2 – 3 years
• How is the performance? 
  • Ran sta­tis­tics and found for small­er trans­ac­tions there is a slight degra­da­tion in per­for­mance but unnoticeable
  • Big­ger trans­ac­tions ran faster in Cloud
• Billing
  • Sav­ings plan — com­pute neu­tral- can buy a cer­tain dol­lars worth of com­pute and switch resources as you need
  • Reserve instance — R series — lock­ing in with a spe­cif­ic ver­sion of the R series. If the R series upgrades, you can’t buy into that new upgrade.
• If the New­mount Team could do it again they would: 
  • Spend more time to make sure con­nec­tiv­i­ty was sort­ed out
  • Need­ed to imple­ment fire­walls and rout­ing tables
  • Impor­tant to cre­ate a mock environment