Siemens Smart Infrastructure becomes first
company within Siemens AG to move production-scale,
business-critical SAP environments to the cloud
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), announced that Siemens Smart Infrastructure, a business of
the Siemens AG group focusing on energy distribution and
intelligent buildings, is moving its SAP infrastructure to AWS. The
business will migrate over 20 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems, based on SAP HANA, to
AWS before the end of 2021. These systems support business-critical
processes in areas such as manufacturing, operations, and sales
across different business units including Building Products,
Electrical Products, Digital Grid, and Distribution Systems. Moving
these workloads to AWS will enable Siemens Smart Infrastructure to
significantly shorten hardware refresh cycles, increase agility to
test and deploy new systems, and provide the foundation for the
company’s future transformation using SAP S/4HANA technology. This
is the first migration of production-scale SAP systems to the cloud
across the Siemens AG group, with Siemens Smart Infrastructure
forecasting significant cost savings over the course of the next
three years.
Siemens Smart Infrastructure’s migration of SAP to AWS is a core
part of the company’s strategic plan to accelerate the
modernization of their business. Working alongside AWS as their
preferred cloud provider for SAP, Siemens Smart Infrastructure will
be able to integrate their SAP environments with a wide range of
advanced AWS technologies, in areas such as analytics and machine
learning, to uncover new business value and drive innovation. All
of this was not previously possible for Siemens Smart
Infrastructure, as their SAP systems were siloed off from the rest
of their business in co-located data centers. As the foundation of
their new cloud-based SAP environment, Siemens Smart Infrastructure
will utilize a broad range of AWS’s Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) instances, including memory-optimized R5 instances for
real-time big data analytics workloads, as well as X1 and X1e
instances built for high-performance databases, in-memory
databases, and other memory-intensive enterprise applications.
Siemens Smart Infrastructure
and AWS started their successful collaboration five years ago, when
Siemens began moving core parts of its digital building technology
to the cloud. The company is currently using a number of other
advanced AWS services including Amazon Aurora (a MySQL and
PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud), AWS
Lambda (AWS’s serverless compute service), and Amazon Neptune (a
fully managed graph database service).
“2020 has been a year like no other, yet AWS has been a
dedicated and trustworthy partner on our digital transformation
journey,” said Sébastien Bey, CIO of Siemens Smart Infrastructure.
“Our SAP environments are the backbone of our organization; by
moving these foundational pieces of the Siemens Smart
Infrastructure business to AWS, we are not only reducing costs and
upgrading the service we provide to our internal businesses, but
also fundamentally changing the way we use technology to transform
our business, innovate, and deliver value.”
“AWS is thrilled to be working alongside a forward-thinking and
customer-centric business like Siemens Smart Infrastructure as they
connect buildings and cities with their advanced technologies. AWS
delivers proven performance, insights, and agility to advance
Siemens Smart Infrastructure’s mission of helping customers around
the world run their infrastructure in the most efficient and
sustainable way and ensure our long-term future on this planet,”
said Carla Stratfold, Vice President of AWS Global Verticals and
Strategic Accounts at Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Organizations
around the world trust their most essential SAP workloads to AWS
because of our unmatched track record, breadth and depth of
services, and vibrant partner community that helps them to
transform their SAP landscapes.”
About Amazon Web Services
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Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups,
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power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To
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About Siemens
Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) is shaping the market for
intelligent, adaptive infrastructure for today and the future. It
addresses the pressing challenges of urbanization and climate
change by connecting energy systems, buildings and industries. SI
provides customers with a comprehensive end-to-end portfolio from a
single source – with products, systems, solutions and services from
the point of power generation all the way to consumption. With an
increasingly digitalized ecosystem, it helps customers thrive and
communities progress while contributing toward protecting the
planet. SI creates environments that care. Siemens Smart
Infrastructure has its global headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, and
has around 72,000 employees worldwide.
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