Wipro to run its business on SAP in Google’s cloud

Indian IT providers large Wipro is planning to improve its core SAP ERP system to S/4HANA and migrate the workloads to Google Cloud Platform.

It’s a part of Wipro’s inside transformation program, Mission Quantum, by way of which the corporate desires to convey simplicity, velocity and visibility to the way in which it really works, mentioned Wipro president and COO Bhanumurthy B.M.

“We’re upgrading our complete ERP methods to swimsuit our new enterprise necessities and migrating them to Google Cloud,” he mentioned. “It is a massive a part of our roadmap.”

The transfer will likely be an indication to potential clients of Wipro’s SAP cloud migration capabilities, and a key step in its transformation of inside methods serving its 180,000 workers.

David McIntire, analysis director at analyst agency NelsonHall, mentioned it’ll enable Wipro to say to potential clients, ‘’We’ve achieved this ourselves; we all know the place the large rocks are buried,” and to develop reusable belongings in a comparatively low-risk surroundings: “You’re by no means going to have a friendlier consumer than your self.”

For Google, it’s a precious buyer win within the SAP internet hosting market area because it battles Amazon Internet Providers’ far higher cloud market share and the entrenched place of Microsoft’s Azure as SAP’s most popular cloud accomplice.

A partnership within the cloud

Wipro and Google have been constructing their SAP S/4HANA capabilities lately.

Rob Enslin, Google Cloud’s president of worldwide buyer operations since April 2019, beforehand spent 27 years at SAP, most just lately as president of its Cloud Enterprise Group.

Google has already moved on-premises S/4HANA environments into its cloud for numerous clients. A easy lift-and-shift will be achieved in as little as six weeks, Enslin mentioned, though it could take as much as 4 months.

“We do that with Wipro, we do it very securely, very quick,” he mentioned.

Bhanumurthy mentioned Wipro has developed instruments to assist their joint clients simplify the migration of workloads to Google Cloud.

“We’ve constructed toolsets that clients can leverage to take their SAP workloads to Google Cloud,” he mentioned. “This isn’t nearly a technical migration of the product from location A to location B. It has to give attention to enterprise first, and it must be design led. We are going to assist the shopper reimagine their processes first.”

Proof of the pudding

“The primary proof of the pudding is our personal inside use of the frameworks that we’ve got constructed already right here,” Bhanumurthy mentioned.