Cloud Kinetics, a Singapore-headquartered cloud solutions provider and AWS Advanced Consulting Partner presented its experiences in helping transform enterprises by leveraging SAP on Amazon Web Services at the recent SAP Partner Kick-Off Meeting (PKOM) Singapore.
Highlights included the benefits, including significant cost savings, that Cloud Kinetics customers gain by running SAP in the cloud using the opex model, starting with a small footprint and scaling up to keep pace with business growth.
Vidyashankar J, founder and CEO, Cloud Kinetics explained the strategic importance of his company’s partnership with AWS, providing details and examples from their years of successful experience in deploying and operating SAP on AWS across India, Singapore and Thailand. Vidyashankar shared Cloud Kinetics’ implementation of S/4 HANA, Hybris and other SAP products on AWS with its SAP Partners.
Cloud Kinetics cited key benefits of SAP in the cloud including: increased speed of implementation by reducing wait times for hardware; faster decision making on hardware sizing; and rapid creation of QA environments to validate SAP upgrades.
PWC, Soltius and UXC Oxygen also presented their views on the importance of the cloud to SAP and Hybris customers.
Working alongside its SAP partner, Hitachi Consulting, Cloud Kinetics has successfully implemented multiple SAP workloads in the cloud, in manufacturing, financial services, ITES and media verticals.