Key Takeaways
- BCS's AI Driven Unified Orchestration platform, Symphony,
with its OAT technology has managed the SAP systems of Heineken,
Kellanova, Philips, AbInBev, Transport for NSW to name a few.
- Minimizes errors in cloud migrations and optimizes workforce
efficiency, while also reducing downtime and maintenance costs.
- Integrates with other tech like ITSM,
infrastructure-as-code
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.,
July 15,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In the move to cloud,
organizations enter a new paradigm of always-on business that is
accompanied by always-on routine tasks, operations and activities.
And while important to the smooth running of your SAP environment,
the staff time investment can be significant for "keeping the
lights on" kind of activities.
Cloud orchestration can not only
reduce errors and optimize workforce efficiency, but also decrease
downtime by 60 percent and maintenance costs by 40
percent
Cloud orchestration can not only reduce errors and optimize
workforce efficiency, but also decrease downtime by 60 percent and
maintenance costs by 40 percent Enter cloud orchestration that can
not only reduce errors and optimize workforce efficiency, but also
decrease downtime by 60 percent and maintenance costs by 40
percent, according to Prakash
Palani, the founder and chief technology officer
of Basis Cloud Solutions (BCS).
"Migrating SAP systems, whether it is moving from on-prem to the
cloud or between different cloud providers, involves a lot of
moving parts like virtual machines (VMs), operating systems (OSs),
databases, disaster recovery, among others, so there is huge
benefit to organizations to simplify the process.
"In cloud migrations, organizations spend most of their time in
handovers between teams," Palani said. "The cloud team has a task,
then hand over to the OS team, who then hands over to the database
team, and then once again to the SAP team. Thereby resulting
in increasing the chance of human error, missing timelines and is
an inefficient use of talent." A huge hindrance to seamless output
at a holistic environment level.
A unified cloud orchestration platform aims to addresses the
mentioned pain point of handover time and combine automation
scripts, managing tasks like system management, VM creation,
database installations and upgrades and SAP Basis operations like
migrations and refreshes.
"If you want to mimic SAP GUI transactions, Fiori actions,
Salesforce actions, etc. as part of the functional validation
process, cloud orchestration can be used," Palani added.
Orchestration platforms use templates to manage specific use cases
like high availability disaster recovery (HADR).
"Templates enables every client to gain best practice every time
whether that's following guidelines for an OS or for database and
provides consistency to each client. Additionally, templates within
the orchestration platform can also handle post-migration work like
kernel upgrades, OS patches, system refreshes and many more."
By integrating with IT service management (ITSM) platforms like
Jira and ServiceNow, the BCS cloud orchestration platform enables
true Zero-Touch Operations, streamlining processes and reducing the
need for manual interventions.
"For example, your agile teams or project teams or whoever is
responsible for a particular function or action, can raise a ticket
within the ITSM and it can instantly be actioned," Palani said.
"One such example is SSL certificate renewal, which must be done
every 365 days to keep its validity. If the rumors of renewals
shortening to 90 days are true, then you'd have to renew the
certificate of your SAP systems and then immediately supply it to
your partners or the integration systems every quarter. Cloud
orchestration can automate and transform all of that."
Part of the attraction of orchestration platforms is the
protection of existing technology investments, particularly during
costly migration projects. "Whatever investment, from existing
infrastructure-as-code (IAC) tools like HashiCorp's Terraform and
Ansible, won't be wasted with cloud orchestration. Customers can
also minimize the time involved in the planning and architectural
design phase of a migration, according to Palani.
"In cloud migrations, we spend a lot of time and human energy
into understanding a customer's IT landscape before getting to the
architecture design phase". He added that architecture design is
always unique to each specific customer and environment, making it
more time-consuming compared to the engineering work that follows
the design phase.
An orchestration platform would assist in the discovery process,
finding out what a customer's IT environment looks like, what
memory and CPU they have, their utilisation and how everything will
be mapped to the cloud. The insights are all collected and would
run an assessment to map out the migration process.
With experience managing around 1500 SAP systems globally, the
BCS' cloud orchestration platform, Symphony, has more than 400
built-in automation use cases. Palani calls it a full-stack cloud
management platform, because Symphony can enable a single
consultant to run end-to-end stack-related operations. "We have
transformed SAP Basis administrators to FULL STACK CONSULTANTS to
be able to perform any operations underneath Symphony," he
said.
BCS has worked with clients like Heineken, Kellanova,
Philips, ABInBev, Transport for New
South Wales to manage their SAP systems with
Symphony.
About BCS (www.basiscloudsolutions.com)
BCS is at the forefront of cloud technology, utilizing Full
Stack Technology to advance IT and Cloud Automation. With the
Symphony platform, BCS offers a unified AI Driven cloud
orchestration solution that significantly improves operational
efficiency and productivity for enterprises across the globe. BCS
is dedicated to modernizing business infrastructures, providing
accessible pathways to technological transformation. Symphony also
works across cloud platforms, including hyperscalers Amazon Web
Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Power,
as well as on-premise systems.
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priya@basiscloudsolutions.com
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