Organisations are now looking for a partner with specialised expertise to shift and upgrade their existing SAP infrastructure in the cloud, with key SAP products being optimised for the SAP HANA database and given the fact that mainstream support for the SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) platform will end in 2027. Committed to helping customers in various industries, oXya, a Hitachi Group Company, is one of many SAP partners that utilise its capabilities to facilitate transformation projects — notably those involving the migration to SAP S/4HANA and other cloud platforms.

Since its inception in 1998 and acquisition by Hitachi Group in 2015, oXya has been running SAP and other business-critical workloads for large and middle-sized enterprises worldwide. The IT firm is a long-standing partner of SAP, delivering a wide range of SAP technical services, cloud solutions, and managed services through its diverse business operations and local support teams in the US, UK, Canada, Spain, Belgium, France, China, and Japan.

Earning the SAP on Azure Advanced Specialization Status

Recently, oXya made an announcement that it has earned the SAP on Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization. The status validates the company’s ability to combine the flexibility of Microsoft Azure with its strong technical expertise of SAP in order to provide customers with a quick response for their needs. Thrilled to be receiving the latest certification, Geert Vandendorpe, Chief Executive Officer at oXya, stated that this recognises the company’s dedication to successfully managing and moving SAP customers to Microsoft Azure. He further shared:

“Since its foundation, oXya’s mission has been to help organisations increase their efficiency and flexibility by providing SAP customers with a range of technical services, managed services, and cloud solutions. Our customers, who give us a 99{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} satisfaction rating, consider that oXya gives them more agility to adapt to market changes,” Vandendorpe further shared.

Vandendorpe explained that oXya was accredited by a third-party external audit firm, which verified that all of their processes adhere to the high standards set by Microsoft Azure. Along with its SAP on Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization status, the company is also a Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform and Gold Application Development Partner.

Reinforcing Commitment to Providing Value to Customers

Meanwhile, oXya Deputy Chief Technology Officer Matthieu Petitprez stated that Microsoft Azure provides significant value to its SAP customers by incorporating enterprise IT technologies, such as Microsoft Office 365 and Active Directory. He added:

“For these reasons, more and more companies make the choice of Azure to embrace their vision for the future. At oXya, we have migrated multiple customers, from industries such as manufacturing, retail, water and waste management, services, and more.”

Commenting on the announcement, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions and Channel Sales Rodney Clark remarked:

 “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.”

According to Clark, oXya has the necessary knowledge and experience to provide clients with a comprehensive and professional SAP to cloud-managed service, as evidenced by their demonstration. Other partners that have successfully completed the stringent validation process and earned the same certification include Capgemini Technology Services, Delaware Consulting, and Cloud4C, one of the leading global premium suppliers for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (SAP HEC).

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oXya, a subsidiary of Hitachi Group Company and an SAP cloud solutions specialist, was awarded the 2020 Google Cloud Global SAP Specialization Partner of the Year for leading successful migration of its customers’ mission-critical SAP systems to Google Cloud. oXya is a member of Google Cloud’s partner program, Partner Advantage, which helps partners sell, service, and build new solutions for their respective customers.

“We are extremely proud and humbled to win this prestigious award from a global technology leader such as Google Cloud”, says Geert Vandendorpe, oXya CEO. “We began partnering with Google Cloud a few years ago to enable our customers to migrate their mission-critical SAP systems to the public cloud. Since then, we have migrated multiple customers’ SAP systems to Google Cloud, from industries such as manufacturing, retail, oil & gas, media & entertainment, and more. Our customers love the agility and flexibility that Google Cloud enables”.

Vandendorpe emphasized that oxYa’s SAP customers have achieved their business goals leveraging Google Cloud’s high-speed and resilient network that brought significant improvements to long-distance connections for multinational SAP systems. He detailed:

“Google Cloud offers innovative IaaS and PaaS solutions that are based on Google’s own infrastructure and on many years of IT management experience. By integrating its big data and machine-learning modules (BigQuery and AutoML) with SAP systems, Google Cloud provides significant value for oXya’s SAP customers, leveraging the capabilities of HANA to analyze and predict business needs.”

A Trusted SAP and Google Cloud Partner

oXya has been strengthening its position in the Google Cloud ecosystem since 2021 opened. Earlier this year, the company achieved back-to-back certifications from Google Cloud– a global certification as a Managed Service Provider (MSP) in January and a certification as a Google Cloud SAP Specialization Partner in February– expanding the company’s market footprint to a global scale as an SAP migration and Google Cloud specialist. oXya has been a long-standing partner of SAP, providing a range of SAP technical services, managed services, and cloud solutions to over 1,000 enterprise customers worldwide. As of June 2020, a quarter of oXya customers are running on SAP S/4HANA. 

Sharing about oXya’s strategic alliance with Google Cloud, Snehanshu Shah, Managing Director for SAP at Google Cloud said:

“oXya is one of our leading partners in the SAP ecosystem and we’ve been collaborating since 2018 when oXya migrated one of its customers to Google Cloud. Tory Burch, was our first SAP S/4HANA system on Google Cloud.”

“We have since expanded our relationship with oXya. Many oXya customers are currently running their SAP workloads on Google Cloud, enjoying our services and products. Last year was incredible for our partnership, with oXya migrating multiple SAP customers to Google Cloud, such as Rémy Cointreau. We appreciate the commitment and investment that oXya has been putting into partnering with Google Cloud, which is why we chose oXya for the prestigious global “Partner of the Year” award in the SAP Specialization category. We look forward to many more joint customers with oXya,” Shah highlighted.

The Partner of the Year for SAP Specialization award recognized oXya’s remarkable success in the Google Cloud ecosystem, ensuring seamless migration of customers’ SAP systems to Google Cloud to achieve agility, flexibility, access to innovative technologies, and a reduction in TCO.

Other SAP partners recognized in the Google Cloud Partner Awards 2020 were Tata Consultancy Service- Breakthrough Partner of the Year, Wipro-Specialization Partner of the Year for Application Development, Deloitte-Services Partner of the Year and Public Sector Partner of the Year, Capgemini- Industry Solutions Partner of the Year, and Accenture- Services Partner of the Year in EMEA. 

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In January, oXya, an independent provider of cloud services, has received a global certification from Google Cloud as a Managed Service Provider (MSP). This has expanded the company’s market footprint to a global scale coming from its 2018 Google Cloud certification as an MSP in North America. Having operations and local support teams in the US, Canada, UK, France, Belgium, Spain, China, and Japan, this Google Cloud certification strengthens oXya’s capabilities in handling additional workloads and activities aside from specializing in SAP migration.

This month, oXya has achieved another recognition from Google Cloud as an SAP Specialization Partner– a solid confirmation of the firms’ comprehensive expertise on SAP systems.

Making a Mark as an SAP Cloud Solutions Specialist

oXya, founded in 1998 in France and acquired by Hitachi Group in 2015, houses around 800 employees– most of whom are technical SAP experts and IT specialists– and provides technical services for SAP to over 1,000 enterprise customers worldwide. In recent years, the company has been helping corporations and mid-size businesses migrate to SAP’s next-generation, intelligent ERP business suite SAP S/4HANA. As of June 2020, a quarter of oXya customers are running on SAP S/4HANA.

Sevag Mekhsian, Americas CTO of oXya, shared about the company’s long-standing partnership with SAP, helping customers become intelligent enterprises.

“We’ve been doing that by providing SAP customers with a range of technical SAP services, managed services, and cloud solutions. oXya has been a managed cloud service partner to hundreds of enterprise customers, who give us a 99{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} satisfaction rating. It is an honor to also be recognized by Google Cloud for our SAP expertise, an area in which we have been a global leader for many years. We have already migrated multiple SAP customers to Google Cloud, from industries that include Manufacturing, Retail, Oil & Gas, Media & Entertainment, and more,” Mekhsian stressed.

oXya recognises the public cloud as one of its significant offerings that have been helping customers achieve increased agility, advanced analytics, and meet business goals. Sharing about the company’s huge investment to improve its public cloud capabilities and the recognition by Google Cloud, Mekhsian said:

“This also includes our recent certification as a Google Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) globally, an enhancement to oXya’s MSP certification from Google Cloud that we earned in 2018, which only covered North America. Having earned both of these certifications, we are proud to have Google Cloud recognize oXya’s abilities and professionalism to migrate customer workloads to the public cloud and manage them.”

Bringing Efficiency and Flexibility 

According to Snehanshu Shah, Managing Director for SAP at Google Cloud, the SAP, Google Cloud, and oXya alliance can be traced back to 2018 when oXya migrated fashion retailer Tory Burch’s global applications and systems infrastructure to Google Cloud to support over 150 retail stores. Tory Burch was their first customer to run SAP S/4HANA on Google Cloud. 

“Since then we have expanded our relationship with oXya. Many oXya customers are currently running their workloads on Google Cloud, enjoying our services and products, the latest addition was Rémy Cointreau. We appreciate the commitment and investment that oXya has been putting into partnering with us, resulting in them earning our SAP Specialization Partner certification. We look forward to many more joint customers with oXya,” Shah highlighted.

A French, family-owned business group and a global leader in spirits Rémy Cointreau, has tapped oXya in its Bluefield conversion project to SAP S/4HANA, with Google Cloud hosting. The project streamlined production and distribution under a single CAP ONE target system, with 37 systems supporting activities in the USA, China, and Europe. The strategic collaboration with oXya and Google Cloud has significantly improved customer experience and increased the agility and responsiveness of Rémy Cointreau.

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