The client is an American stationery and lifestyle brand with an online store.

The client’s growing e-tail business demanded uncompromised performance from their ERP and other business applications. They wanted to migrate their SAP Business One (B1) ERP running on-premises to a scalable public cloud based on Microsoft Azure. Additionally, to have a business continuity plan in place, they wanted to have their backup and DR solution set in Azure. SAP Engineers at CCS had to provide solutions for the client’s below requirements and circumstances:–

Migrate client’s SAP B1 ERP to Azure and upgrade their SAP B1 release version from 9.1 to 9.2.

Client had an outdated virtualization software and faced compatibility issues with the latest OS.

Given their outdated hardware, a refresh would imply heavy costs for the client.

Windows and virtualization environment license costs would add to their expenses.

As the client had no secure backup in place, their offsite backup copy would require manual intervention.

In case of any major disaster or hardware outage, recovery of the whole system would span days or even an entire business week.

CCS SAP Engineers designed a cost-effective and performance-oriented solution for migrating the client’s ERP to the cloud.

Ensured that the Azure cloud infra was optimally sized based on their resource utilization.

Cloud environment was configured in compliance with SAP specifications to deliver an enhanced ERP experience.

Seamlessly upgraded to SAP B1 release version 9.2 with minimal business disruption.

The environment was configured to deliver superior performance and maximum value to the client by automating the runtime of the infra.

Configured a long-term backup retention for Azure SQL database.

Replicated Azure VM to a secondary region as the client’s business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.

Secured the application access using VPN and virtual network.

Provided proactive monitoring of the cloud infra using Azure Monitor.