Brigade Group has achieved its goals of upgrading to SAP S/4HANA and generating business reports in close near-real time. “We are providing executives with instant reports based on the latest project data to help them make sure projects run on time and on budget. We can deliver reports to them at least 20 percent faster with SAP S/4HANA running on the AWS Cloud than if it ran on-premises,” says Patel.

Patel is also delivering on his plan to start moving the company’s IT environment away from an on-premises model to the AWS Cloud. By doing so, Patel has lowered the company’s CAPEX and pays for only the IT the platform consumes. Patel says, “The TCO for our SAP S/4HANA environment is less compared with our on-premises SAP environment, because we no longer have the same CAPEX costs. By using AWS, Brigade Group expects to reduce the TCO for SAP S/4HANA by 25 percent over the next five years.”

By migrating to the AWS Cloud, Brigade Group can easily scale up the SAP S/4HANA environment to meet business needs. “Because our SAP S/4HANA infrastructure is in the cloud, we can provision additional compute power or storage in minutes instead of days or weeks with an on-premises platform,” says Patel.

In addition, since the SAP environment went live on the AWS Cloud, there has been zero downtime. Patel says, “By running our SAP S/4HANA infrastructure, we have an ‘always on’ computing platform that is highly redundant, incorporating multiple AWS regions and Availability Zones to maintain availability.”