SAP to Azure Migration for Darnytsia Pharmaceutical Company

Darnytsia wanted to migrate its SAP infrastructure to the cloud environment since the platform had to be managed with a cost-effective approach. At the same time, the performance of SAP platform and intensive operations became critical and required better management of infrastructure, dynamic allocation of computing and data storage resources. Darnytsia required external help to overcome the following challenges:

• Local SAP infrastructure utilization level reached the critical threshold in terms of performance and capacity and required costly upgrade.
• Supporting traditional server/storage/network hardware with backup/HA solutions was too costly in comparison to the cloud.
• Technical and implementation expertise had to be delegated to a reliable service provider.
• Proper migration planning also required relevant expertise.
• Business Continuity became dependent on the availability of the ERP platform requiring High Availability and Data Recovery processes.
• IT infrastructure support created an increased need for availability of highly skilled technicians both for hardware maintenance and for local SAP support.
• Agile infrastructure adoption required significant investment in local infrastructure with oversizing, leading to extra expenses.
• Dev/Test/QA environments required extra resources and support.
• The customer needed to extend professional SAP Basis support and have an on-demand functional SAP Partner with a local presence.
• Up to 300 end-users (executives and decision makers) would benefit from this transition.

A Microsoft certified partner since 2004 and Microsoft CSP Tier 1 for EU and CIS, Infopulse previously helped Darnytsia implement another important cloud migration project. Azure is fully certified and approved by SAP as a reliable platform for SAP products and solutions. SAP on Azure is now used by 90% of Fortune 500 companies – its scalability is huge and handles more than 5Trln storage transactions on a monthly basis. Besides, SAP migration to Azure allows spinning up VM’s in minutes and SLA’s that provide for 99.9% VM availability for all these SAP products.

Infopulse offered Darnytsia its help to boost its SAP systems through migration to Azure with enhanced agility, lower TCO and storage expenses, higher availability and innovation.

Infopulse is one of the few companies on the Ukrainian market with the relevant expertise to implement the transition of SAP to Azure, and the first one in Ukraine to actually implement such transformation for a large enterprise. Microsoft Ukraine was instrumental in helping Infopulse win Darnytsia as a customer and greatly assisted in conducting this and other cloud migration project for the pharma giant. 100% of SAP infrastructure transition was finalized as of May 2019, with immediate proven results:

• Up to 30% performance boost
• 60% fewer storage costs
• 50% TCO cost savings with Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit
• Hardware cost savings on hyper-scale cloud infrastructure
• 300 end-users (executives & decision makers) affected
• Faster provisioning – minutes instead of days and improved time-to-market for new requirements
• High levels of SAP automation allows to focus on strategic tasks
• SAP systems can scale up/out/ down depending on workload
• Cloud consumption can be tuned and switched off for inefficient resources; Dev/Test/QA can be ‘parked’ to minimize computing costs
• Enhanced security and enterprise GDPR compliance with state-of-the-art cloud architecture.

Infopulse and Darnytsia continue working together and already plan the migration of a number of other systems, while further developing SAP infrastructure within the Azure cloud.

Besides, in June 2019, Infopulse’s efforts in delivering excellent cloud solutions and success in provisioning SAP on Azure service were recognized with a prestigious ‘Microsoft Country Partner of the Year’ award.