Cloud Comrade, part of leading public cloud solutions provider across Asia-Pacific ST Telemedia Cloud, has been strengthening its market presence since 2014 in Singapore and Southeast Asia as a trusted partner of tech giants such as SAP, Microsoft, and AWS. The consulting company’s recent innovation projects across industries in the region have earned Cloud Comrade various partner awards namely SAP Recognized Expertise designation in SAP HANA, Microsoft Singapore’s Customer Experience – Business Excellence, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Singapore Partner of the Year 2021.

Specific to the consultancy’s SAP expertise, Cloud Comrade has recently earned the SAP Gold Partner status in the SAP PartnerEdge programme, demonstrating that the company has a proven track record of customer success, received SAP certifications, met stringent qualifications, and is recognised internationally. The enterprise-focussed firm enables forward-thinking enterprises in South East Asia to move their SAP workloads to the cloud by offering turnkey project services, which include SAP system assessments, strategy consulting and implementation as well as language services support.

Achieving the SAP Service Partner Gold Status

Commenting on the latest SAP stamp, Andy Waroma, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director, Cloud Comrade said:

“Achieving SAP gold partner status, shortly after being awarded an SAP Recognized Expertise designation in SAP HANA, is a testament to our technical competence and commitment to the highest standards of excellence in cloud solutions and cloud managed services. We take the responsibility that comes with this elevated status very seriously. We will continually strive to be the most trusted collaborative cloud solutions’ partner that is committed to delivering desired business outcomes.”

The regional SAP Gold partner has offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia helping customers across the SEA region accelerate their cloud transformation by providing industry-leading, quality consulting services. Earning the SAP Gold status strengthens Cloud Comrade’s position as a trusted SAP solutions provider and cloud migration partner. This accreditation is on top of the company’s award “SAP Recognized Expertise designation in SAP HANA in Singapore” in December 2021, which demonstrates Cloud Comrade’s expertise and skills in SAP HANA and the successful completion of the requirements for SAP Recognized Expertise in the SAP PartnerEdge programme. 

Moving SAP Workloads to the Cloud

As a cloud solutions specialist, Cloud Comrade is in a unique position to offer a variety of cloud options for organisations when migrating and managing their SAP systems because the SAP Gold partner has established premier partnerships with hyperscalers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

“Over the years we have helped our customers to migrate and implement their SAP systems on AWS, Microsoft, Azure, and Google Cloud. We have been building expertise around SAP HANA and SAP managed services to enable our customers to run their SAP workloads safely and securely on Cloud,” Waroma wrote in LinkedIn.

Malaysia’s Baba Products and Indonesia’s Viva Health are some of the companies that have tapped Cloud Comrade to support their SAP systems cloud migration.

The SAP partner led the first phase of spice manufacturer Baba’s IT infrastructure migration that involved SAP S/4HANA on AWS implementation and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. Cloud Comrade supported the integrated health service provider Viva Health’s e-commerce and teleconsultation expansion by successfully moving its SAP Business Suite on HANA to AWS Cloud. The SAP expert now runs Viva Health’s infrastructure on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and deploys Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for SAP storage and backup, respectively.

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The first phase of the migration managed by Singapore-based cloud computing specialist Cloud Comrade involved the implementation of SAP’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system SAP S/4HANA on AWS, as well as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications.

Ilaventhan Vijaya, Head of Finance at Baba’s Group of Companies, explained that the company considered moving to the cloud as a “strategic imperative” to support the enterprise’s future growth and customer-centricity objectives. He remarked:

“Not only did we recognise the enormous savings in IT infrastructure and manpower costs, but also the great impact of speed, scale and security on almost every aspect of our business that the cloud offered.”

Expounding on Baba Products’ decision to tap AWS Premier Consulting Partner Cloud Comrade to lead the selection, planning, and execution of the migration, Vijaya further shared:

“In Cloud Comrade, AWS and the foundation of SUSE Linux Enterprise, we found the right collaboration and platform to help us make this pivotal transition and transformation. The cutting-edge features, expertise and support during every step of this process contributed to the ROI (Return on Investment) immediately; well-positioning us to capitalise on new business opportunities.”

According to Baba Products, implementing SAP S/4HANA has helped them reduce processing time, ensure the business spends its resources on strategic growth efforts, and provide real-time decision support to end-users. Using Cloud Comrade’s Well Architected Framework solution, Baba Products was able to deploy this mission-critical application on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications.

Additionally, Baba Products also employs Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) to keep up with the performance demands of modern SAP workloads.

Delivering Greater Efficiencies by Moving SAP to the Cloud

Cloud Comrade, which also goes to market as an SAP specialist, moved Baba Products’ SAP Direct Store Delivery mobile app from an on-premises SAP S/4HANA ERP installation to the cloud through AWS. Commenting on the project, Andy Waroma, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director at Cloud Comrade, said:

“Based on our experience in migration and managed services and a thorough understanding of Baba’s vision and business needs for the future, we were confident that the bespoke cloud-based framework we have developed was the right choice for the company.”

In operating as an AWS Partner Network specialist supported by SAP expertise, Cloud Comrade prioritises cloud migration at the enterprise level through technical and advanced workload capabilities. Waroma further shared:

“It is heartening and immensely fulfilling to make a significant positive impact on an already large and fast-growing organization like BABA’S within a short period of implementation. We will always be driven by and committed to enabling our clients to get the best ROI on their IT deployments.”

Additionally, Baba Products stated that adopting SAP S/4HANA on the AWS cloud has helped the business to reduce its order processing and delivery times by 50{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22}, as well as shorten its order-to-cash cycles by more than 40{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22}.

Moreover, the Malaysian enterprise — with products found in North America, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and most of Southeast Asia — also selected the end-to-end human capital management and payroll solutions offered by SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Payroll to further comply with local and regional HR regulations.

The automation capabilities of the organisation’s SAP SuccessFactors solution enabled Baba Products’ to ensure security and compliance while increasing operational efficiencies and, at the same time, saving HR staff costs and time.

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