Solution: Migration to HANA on-premise, SAP RISE
and Managed Services
Dis-Chem considered both cloud and on-premise options, selecting on-premise with new hardware. They selected EPI-USE Labs and First Technology, using Hitachi equipment. This decision was influenced by a successful BI HANA migration, as well as the hyperconverged solution which EPI-USE Labs implemented in 2016.
The EPI-USE Labs Managed Services team undertook this project by migrating each SAP system landscape separately, as planned in collaboration with Dis-Chem. The following system landscapes were migrated to newly acquired infrastructure, in this order:
- Re-platforming of the SAP Business Warehouse (BW) landscape
- SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) landscape (DMO Migration DB2 -> HANA)
- SAP ECC HR landscape (DMO migration DB2 -> HANA)
- SAP PI migration landscape (DB2 -> HANA)
- SAP ECC FILO landscape (DMO migration, combining a Unicode conversion and DB2 -> HANA)
Aside from the above, the Fiori Gateway and Solution Manager systems were also migrated to HANA DB.
Critical business applications were then seamlessly moved to SAP RISE, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
EPI-USE Labs provides ongoing SAP technical Managed Services including RISE BRIDGE through a combination of expert engineers and trusted processes, proactive monitoring and preventative maintenance, automation of repetitive tasks and modernization. Integrated innovative solutions include automated solutions to monitor, automate and orchestrate this complex landscape; Data Sync Manager™ to aid in maintaining refreshed non-productive systems; and Client Central™ as an incident and change management tracking facility.
Included as part of the Managed Services are SAP monitoring and housekeeping, break fixes and ticket resolution against an SLA, support pack and SAP note technical upgrades, proactive Basis processes, SAP Platform and Basis advisory and a regular set of non-productive client refreshes.
