In December 2020, Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business reengineering services and solutions, extended its partnership with SAP as a global strategic service partner to join a select group of consultancies working with the German software enterprise. As part of TechMNxt, the exclusive partnership enables SAP and Tech Mahindra to leverage their strong domain expertise and portfolios, providing customers worldwide increased implementation services, enhanced solution delivery, increased global access, and improved pricing options in support of SAP applications.

As a true reflection of Tech Mahindra’s expertise in SAP, including but not limited to SAP data migration, the Indian multinational technology company has received the SAP Expertise on Google Cloud. The recognition establishes the enterprise’s brand as a certified Google Cloud Platform Partner helping customers accelerate digital transformation by leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

“Tech Mahindra is honored to have received the SAP Expertise on Google Cloud. Through this accreditation, we can combine Tech Mahindra’s cloud migration expertise and the power of Google Cloud to enable enterprises migrate complex workloads,” said Vivek Gupta, Head, Global Cloud Services, Tech Mahindra.

“The testimony further enhances our Google Cloud capabilities thus strengthening our commitment towards TechMNxt charter and allowing us to help customers enable digital transformation with a special focus on Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence /Machine Learning, and digital workspaces,” added Gupta.

Specialising in SAP Data Migration 

The accreditation was given to Tech Mahindra for demonstrating expertise on end-to-end implementation and migration of SAP environment to GCP, Google’s public cloud computing service platform. The Mahindra Group subsidiary provides comprehensive migration services to the public cloud, minimising the impact to the business while reducing risk to achieve a successful migration including performing a complete SAP HANA or S/4HANA upgrade.

In 2017, SAP and Google forged a strategic partnership that helped extend GCP’s robust set of existing capabilities through jointly developed solutions. The alliance opened the door for SAP flagship products to run on GCP and integrated SAP applications with G Suite.

Nina Harding, Chief of Global Partner Programs & Strategy at Google Cloud stated:

“We’re excited to recognise Tech Mahindra with this SAP Expertise, and look forward to working together to help customers migrate and manage their most critical enterprise workloads on Google Cloud.” 

Tech Mahindra’s customer-centric TechMNxt charter focuses on providing digital solutions while enhancing customer experience through new-age technologies. In line with this charter, having expertise in the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program highlights Tech Mahindra’s goal of meeting customers’ dynamic needs with technical proficiency and proven success.

As a Google Cloud Partner, Tech Mahindra has over 1000 trained resources and has also built a dedicated Google Cloud Practice which includes consulting services for assessing the migration of workloads, including SAP, to Google Cloud; managed services for providing ongoing services and domain solutions based on next-generation technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML). 

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Wipro president and COO Bhanumurthy B.M. said,

“We are upgrading our entire ERP systems to suit our new business requirements and migrating them to Google Cloud. It’s a big part of our roadmap.

This roadmap is the Indian multinational IT company’s internal transformation program, called Project Quantum—launched in 2006 and revamped this year—that aims to transform the company’s various business processes and operations across finance, sales, delivery, human resources, and other departments.

Bhanumurthy adds,

“As a provider of digital transformation services to some of the world’s most impactful businesses, it is critical that our own core systems and technologies are running on intelligent and modern platforms that encompass the needs of the future. This transformation program will help us to run our most business-critical workloads and applications with speed and agility, and to support our customers more effectively.”

In a report, research director at analyst firm NelsonHall, David McIntire, comments that the move will allow Wipro to gain customers’ trust and develop reusable assets in a relatively low-risk environment.

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud said,

“Wipro is embracing digital transformation at speed and scale. By modernising their core systems and technologies with Google Cloud, they have a powerful and scalable foundation to accelerate their strategic enterprise priorities and build for the future.”

Bhanumurthy also notes that Wipro has already developed the toolsets needed to help customers simplify the migration of their SAP workloads to Google Cloud.

Moreover, Rob Enslin, Google Cloud’s president of global customer operations said that the move can be done in as little as six weeks, up to four months.

A Look at Wipro’s Business Partnerships with SAP and Google

Wipro has been enhancing value with industry-leading solutions for the utilities, mining, manufacturing and the consumer business sectors with SAP since 2007. The company is a certified SAP solutions reseller in the Middle East, India, Germany and Latin America. It is also a Global Partner for hosting, cloud, infrastructure operations, AMS and HANA operations and a global BPO partner for SAP Ariba.

The SAP business partner offers industry-specific solutions with help from its more than 1,025 trained consultants on SAP HANA and S/4HANA. Earlier this year, the IT company announced a new agreement with SAP to jointly go-to-market and co-develop solutions for the retail and fashion industry based on SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

As part of its Project Quantum program, the company also recently invested heavily in the implementation of SAP HANA applications across departments to accelerate its digital transformation and speed up operations. 

The technology provider has also been a long-time Google Cloud partner and recently announced an enhanced alliance that expands its strategic partnership to target enterprise customers across industry verticals such as consumer goods and banking, financial services and insurance, alongside semi-conductor and healthcare sectors.

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The announcement of the new GCP region in Indonesia advances cloud integration for local businesses running on SAP. The launch highlights Google’s Cloud Acceleration Program, designed specifically for SAP customers wanting to streamline their cloud migration plans—whether it’s shifting SAP workloads from on-premise to Google Cloud, or extending SAP solutions with Google Cloud.

The initiative, which started in 2019, includes support from top global services partners such as Accenture, Atos, Deloitte, HCL, Capgemini, DXC Technologies, Hitachi oXya, IBM Global Business Services, Infosys, NTT, TCS, and Wipro. Participants enjoy a variety of benefits that help simplify cloud migration:

• access to expert capabilities for migration, implementation optimization from Google’s expert partner community
• upfront financial incentives to defray infrastructure costs for SAP cloud migrations
• new architecture templates and accelerators
• SAP-focused support
• partner-led assessment services
• access to centers of excellence dedicated to SAP on GCP

SAP and Google set Local Cloud Integration In Motion

Indonesia is fast emerging as a diverse digital economy, with many businesses aiming to digitalize and move core business processes to the cloud. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts IT spending in Indonesia will grow to $78 billion in 2022, which would see 61 percent of GDP being digitalized. Indeed, with the Indonesian government’s ‘Making Indonesia 4.0’ program which focuses efforts on boosting the country’s digital economy, many SMEs are fast becoming more competitive in driving and accelerating their organization’s digital transformation and cloud adoption.

SAP Indonesia has been a prominent player in helping businesses of any size and segment, from the local SMEs to regional conglomerates in the country along their digital transformation journey. For the past 20 years, SAP has allowed Indonesian enterprises realize breakthroughs locally and globally through innovation and technology. Businesses running on SAP have successfully become more transparent, efficient, and compliant thanks to innovative enterprise solutions.

In a statement, Claus Andresen, President and Managing Director for SAP Southeast Asia said,

“SAP Indonesia opened its doors to business 20 years ago, and during the two decades of being in operations, the pace of technological change continues to be incremental. Businesses and governments alike need to adapt and keep up with the demands of the digital economy. SAP has proven to be a reliable partner to see organizations in the private and public sectors through these changes and we will continue to support our customers in Indonesia move the needle in digitization.”

Through SAP’s partnership with Google Cloud, SAP customers who are are strategizing to build robust and innovative IT systems are better equipped in fast-tracking their cloud integration and digitalization.

Google Cloud Capabilities

In addition to empowering SAP Indonesia’s customers on their cloud adoption journey through the Cloud Acceleration Program, GCP Jakarta provides opportunities for SAP customers to take advantage of Google’s SAP partner ecosystem and the latest SAP-specific Google Cloud and partner capabilities. These new capabilities include fresh and updated certifications that allow customers to use Google’s VMs for more varied workloads and provides more throughput and better processing:

• updated SAP HANA certifications to improve workload performance and enable customers to ‘right-size’ their Google Cloud VMs to match their SAP HANA licenses
• the new OLAP Scale-up certification which provides increased options for running OLAP scenarios for customers running larger SAP HANA deployments 
• the new SAP NetWeaver certification, offering customers optionality and flexibility of choice for deploying SAP NetWeaver applications or SAP application servers alongside their SAP HANA deployments
• updated SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Database 16.0 which is certified on Google Cloud for customers who build applications on SAP ASE as a general-purpose database

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The Google Cloud partnered with system integrators and launched Lighthouse early this year. The Lighthouse is a program that helps streamline the SAP journey of the customers to the cloud. Lighthouse was evolved; hence, the coming of the Cloud Acceleration Program.

The Cloud Acceleration Program provides Google Cloud and partners’ customers with solutions that will help simplify their cloud migration process.

Customers who chose to be a part of the Cloud Acceleration Program will get many benefits which include accelerators, centres of excellence dedicated to SAP on the GCP, new architecture templates, partner-led assessment services, prototyping, and SAP-focused support. Additionally, cloud technology providers and independent software vendors (ISVs) will also participate in the program and will offer services such as code remediation assistance, near-zero-downtime migrations, and others.

Partners’ contributions for the SAP to cloud migration

Global services partners will also support the launch of the Cloud Acceleration Program. These partners include Accenture, Atos, Deloitte and HCL – each with its business units that cater specifically to Google Cloud to help customers in migrating their key applications and workloads to Google Cloud. Other partners such as Capgemini, DXC Technologies, Infosys, NTT, TCS, and Wipro will also help the global services partners in providing solutions that will simplify the migration process. Google Cloud technology provider partners such as Datavard, Gekkobrain, SNP Group, SpringML, and others, are also participating in the program.

Here are all the solutions made available by the partners:

Deloitte, an award-winning SAP partner, built a business unit from that launched a portfolio of Google Cloud-enabled SAP end-to-end cloud services called “Reimagine Everything… Anywhere.” The portfolio included industry-based leading practices on Google Cloud that will help accelerate SAP S/4 transformation. It will help SAP S/4 transformation by including industry-based leading practices made available on Google cloud. An SAP-specific API library on Apigee for SAP-to-anywhere integration was also added. Furthermore, they have also expanded their platform to welcome BigQuery and TensorFlow.

Accenture, a multinational professional services company, created and offered a solution that will allow customers to migrate their older data into cost-efficient data stores such as BigQuery. Customers are benefited from the solution because this will help reduce their SAP HANA footprint and the related infrastructure costs. Also, Accenture is creating machine learning-based applications that will help augment SAP on Google Cloud deployments.

Atos, a multinational IT service and consulting company, created a “Quick Cloud Start” program. This program lets them move the customer’s SAP environment to the Google Cloud in a timespan of less than four weeks. Also, the application will incorporate several Google Cloud-based machine learning (ML) offerings that will speed up the automation and innovation. This will also ensure SAP connectors for seamless integration of SAP data to BigQuery.

Datavard, a Germany-based software company, provided solutions that will assist in migrating data from SAP to BigQuery, archive SAP data, reports and decommission purposes.

Gekkobrain, a software company based in Denmark, offers industry-leading code remediation capabilities. These capabilities automatically clean up more than 90{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of the custom code, which is a critical part of the SAP migrations.

NTT created an industry template for manufacturing, automotive or automotive supply. They have also created a Life Sciences Platform-as-a-Service offering which will be launched on Google Cloud.

SNP has its own CrystalBridge platform. This platform allows customers to select applications, data, and workloads to migrate to the cloud with almost no downtime. They offer customers alternatives to brownfield or greenfield S/4HANA migration options.

Spring ML build smart workflows for SAP users using Google Cloud. It also includes unique offerings on document processing, sales forecasting and other preventive maintenance services which lets SAP users innovate quickly on the Google Cloud.

Wipro developed SAP workload migration framework named ‘Safe Passage to GCP.’ This framework provides low-risk yet accelerated and less disruptive ways to migrate on the Google cloud platform. It is expected to help customers with automated discovery, assessment, and migration as well as the maintenance of SAP landscapes on the cloud.

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According to SUSE, this option will help enterprise customers be more agile and reduce operating costs by only paying for what they use.

“SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications on GCP highlights a key benefit of the operating system – customers saving time, effort and budget as they implement SAP landscapes, including on premise and now on demand,” said Naji Almahmoud, vice president, global alliances, SUSE. “SUSE software-defined infrastructure solutions enable customers to meet the changing demands of the digital economy, and support for Google Cloud Platform gives businesses flexibility to choose the deployment method that meets their needs with the leading Linux for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA.”

With the addition of Google Cloud Platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is now available on three major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Brenton O’Callaghan, regional vice president of SUSE partner Bluefin North America, is positive about this new option.

“Bluefin Solutions believes the capability to run SAP on the Google Cloud Platform is going to drive innovation and disruption that will benefit enterprise customers for years to come. As a SUSE partner and one of the only service providers in the world to have experience running SAP on the three major public cloud providers, we believe there is no better time for enterprise customers to build public cloud into their digital roadmap.”

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