In 2017, Unilever has expanded its global beauty business with the 2.27 billion euros ($2.71 billion) acquisition of Carver Korea, a fast-growing cosmetics company from South Korea. According to Unilever, Carver Korea was able to gain a strong foothold not only in the country but also in the world’s largest skincare market, North Asia, driven by the beauty company’s AHC brand of anti-ageing creams, moisturisers, and other skin products.

In the recent “Global K-Beauty Products Market Forecast 2021-2028” report by Reportlinker.com, which included Carver Korea, the global K-beauty products market is projected to register a CAGR of 9.79{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} over the forecasted period of 2021 to 2028. Increased demand for organic products, the surge in e-commerce and social media, extensive research and development, and the curiosity to try new and innovative products are some of the key drivers of the market’s forecasted growth.

To ensure that Carver Korea remains agile in a highly competitive market, the company has recently embarked on a business transformation journey in partnership with Cloud4C Services, an Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) and one of the largest and trusted SAP partners. One of the key items in the major three-year deal was the migration of Carver’s SAP-based ERP core system to Azure, which has enabled the beauty company to perform a mission-critical, agile migration with minimal disruption.

Digital Transformation Journey with Cloud4C Services

One of the essential elements in the Carver Korea and Cloud4C Services digital transformation project was upgrading the specification of the company’s cloud architecture to support the cosmetics firm’s business requirements around rapidly increasing data consumption. In two days, Cloud4C successfully migrated Carver Korea’s ERP system to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, supporting Carver Korea’s operational and performance needs through customised SAP managed services.  

Peter Seo, Cloud4C Korea Country Manager, shared that Cloud4C is committed to supporting Carver Korea’s business transformation needs. He explained:

“The COVID-19 outbreak has forced retailers across the world to realign and reconfigure their service offerings. At Cloud4C, we are focused on value creation and world-class delivery capability combined with a deep understanding of the customer’s business.”

“With our partnership with Carver Korea, Cloud4C will draw upon its significant track record and expertise in cost optimisation and global regulatory compliance adherence. Moving forward, we will continue to support them in their digital journey and we believe this will help Carver Korea gain an important advantage in the competitive beauty industry,” he added. 

Under the contract, following the SAP ERP migration, Cloud4C will now focus on managing Carver Korea’s SAP system on Azure for three-years.

Cloud Milestones

Cloud4C recognises the partnership with Carver Korea as another important milestone in its journey to deliver cloud-managed services to accelerate enterprise digitalisation across industries.

In June, Cloud4C, a Microsoft Gold Partner, has received the SAP on Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization certification– an extensive validation of a partner’s capability to deliver high-fidelity services on SAP on Azure. This recognition further elevated the status of Cloud4C as a global Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP), highlighting the company’s distinct capabilities for every customer’s business needs.

Earlier this year, Cloud4C has forged a new alliance with Google Cloud to build a Center of Excellence (CoE) following last year’s global Silver Partnership with SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE (the SNP Group) to accelerate enterprises’ adoption of SAP S/4HANA in the cloud. The CoE project underpinned by SAP and Anthos technologies became a natural progression for Cloud4C’s mission to deliver ‘Total Control of Cloud’ to enterprise customers embarking on digital transformation.

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Cloud4C, one of the largest global premium suppliers for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) and a Microsoft Gold Partner, has recently received the SAP on Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization certification– an extensive validation of a partner’s capability to deliver high-fidelity services on SAP on Azure. This latest recognition further elevates the status of Cloud4C as a global Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP), highlighting the company’s distinct capabilities for every customer’s business needs.

Now, ‘SAP on Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization’ will be indicated on Cloud4C’s business profile together with the company’s competency status. Microsoft partners given the advanced specializations status have the privilege of being listed in the Microsoft-owned, customer-facing tool Partner Finder and access to specific Microsoft go-to-market programs, widening reach to targeted customers.

“The accreditation is a testimony of our expertise and commitment to support businesses in their most exciting and promising business transformations of the modern times. With a bundled offering including SAP migration to Azure, SAP Managed Services, S/4 Transformation Services, and SAP AMS, we stay committed to supporting businesses fast-track their move to SAP S/4HANA on the cloud by accelerating execution, bringing in business agility, providing access to new technologies and improving productivity without any business disruption.” expressed Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO of Cloud4C.

Cloud4C Achieving Advanced Specialization Status

Over 600 SAP-certified consultants, more than 600 Microsoft Azure certified professionals, and over 2,000 cloud experts who have undergone detailed assessment and workshop enables Cloud4C to deliver to businesses the best possible path for SAP migration and on-boarding on Microsoft Azure platform. With operations spanning 25 countries including the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Australia, Cloud4C has migrated over 1,000 HANA production environments and caters to over 450 SAP customers.

“The SAP on Microsoft Azure advanced specialization highlights the partners who can be viewed as most capable when it comes to migrating enterprise SAP applications over to Azure. Cloud4C clearly demonstrated that they have both the skills and the experience to offer clients a comprehensive and professional SAP to cloud-managed service,” said Rodney Clark, Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions, Channel Sales and Channel Chief at Microsoft.

Cloud4C’s SAP ERP-specific cloud framework benchmarked against SAP metrics on the Azure platform can be a single point of contact for organizations searching for a global SAP managed services provider to plan, implement and operate SAP on Azure. For example, enterprises concerned with the announcement made by SAP in February 2020 about the SAP Business Suite 7 mainstream maintenance extension until the end of 2027 with an option to extend the same to 2030 can tap Cloud4C to help them modernize their existing SAP environment in the cloud.

The company’s SAP on Azure service offers the following benefits:

• Dedicated and rich experienced SAP on Azure center of excellence providing 24×7 support
• Expertise around latest SAP technology innovations, providing an edge on the technology transformation
• Full cycle SAP managed services
• Cost efficiencies due to multiple licensing options
• Scalability on demand

Other Microsoft partners that have passed the rigorous validation process and have earned the SAP on Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization status include Capgemini Technology Services, Delaware Consulting, IBM, and Wipro.

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With its recognition as an MSP under the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program, Netmagic now aims to drive cloud-based transformation for companies with agile, secure, and scalable digital platforms to help them optimise their business workloads on the Google Cloud.

The new status reinforces Netmagic’s strategic alliance with Google Cloud India and further strengthens its position to support enterprises across a wide range of industries including financial technology, digital native organisations, and media.

Sharad Sanghi, CEO of NTT Ltd. in India spoke about the partnership in a press release statement:

“We are extremely pleased to expand our partnership with Google Cloud to enable customers derive greater value while delivering business outcomes with our hosted infrastructure, connectivity, security and managed support. This further strengthens our capabilities to accelerate customers’ hybrid cloud journey by modernizing their mission-critical IT infrastructure and applications.”

Netmagic, the leading managed hosting and multi-cloud hybrid IT solution provider in India, has established itself in the industry for more than 20 years with its solid market reach and reliable technological foundation.

Emphasising the collaboration’s value to the industry, Siddhartha Roy, COO, Hungama Digital Media said:

“We are glad to work with Netmagic and Google Cloud. Through their combined expertise, we have been able to strengthen our cloud-first strategy and deliver enhanced business value to our customers through accurate monitoring, automation and management of the Google Cloud environments. We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship.”

Developing Solutions through the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Initiative

Prior to its MSP certification, Netmagic has demonstrated its enterprise grade capabilities on the full scope of its solution offerings including cloud computing, managed security, Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) services, and Security Orchestration Automation & Response (SOAR).

As a Google Cloud MSP, Netmagic not only offers a list of managed and project-based services that assist customers in reducing their time and costs to the market but also provides a hands-on approach to ongoing operation of workloads.

In July 2020, Netmagic also announced its collaboration with Google Cloud to create a Centre of Excellence (CoE) that will enable their customers to accelerate their digital journey by modernising their mission-critical IT applications and provide them with various support across cloud adoption.

By utilising Anthos, Google Cloud’s modern application platform, the CoE team will create and test workload-based solutions that are ready for deployment. Serving as a multi-disciplinary customer showcase hub, the CoE will also allow customers to connect to Google Cloud’s global network with a great sense of security.

Migration of SAP workloads on Google Cloud

Netmagic’s comprehensive background in SAP workload management effectively assists clients in doing cost-effective migration of business-critical SAP workloads on Google Cloud. Google Cloud and Netmagic’s combined expertise in delivering services consistently with practical pricing options will be advantageous for businesses as it can reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO).

In addition, Netmagic now gets the most out of exclusive benefits from being a Google Cloud MSP which includes direct customer engineering support, a special MSP Partner Badge, and classified listing in the Google Cloud Partner Directory.

Amitabh Jacob, Head of Partners and Alliances at Google Cloud India, concluded:

“Netmagic’s enhanced and deep cloud expertise via the Google Cloud MSP framework brings a unique proposition to the market that will give customers the confidence to rapidly accelerate their transformation with cloud technology.”

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