Customers including LIONSGATE, EMBI, and Merrifield Garden Center
move SAP environments to AWS to take advantage of increased flexibility
and infrastructure cost savings
Independent Research firm VMS provides detailed research of
infrastructure cost savings of running SAP systems on AWS
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 11, 2012--
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN),
today announced the expansion of SAP certified solutions on AWS
including SAP Business All-in-One solutions for both Linux and Windows,
and expanded certification for SAP Rapid Deployment solutions and SAP
Business Objects business intelligence (BI) solutions to include Windows
Server 2008 R2. Today’s announcements provide customers the flexibility
to rapidly deploy SAP solutions on the scalable, on-demand AWS platform
without making long-term commitments or costly capital expenditures for
their underlying infrastructure. As more enterprises seek to understand
cost savings of cloud deployments, Germany based consulting firm, VMS AG
has also announced industry research that finds running SAP applications
on AWS provides infrastructure cost savings of up to 69% compared to the
same solution on-premises. For more information on deploying SAP
solutions on AWS as well as detailed research on infrastructure cost
savings of running SAP solutions on AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com/sap
“LIONSGATE is a $2 billion diversified global entertainment corporation
that produces feature films and television programming to a worldwide
audience,” said Theresa Miller, Vice President, Information Technology,
LIONSGATE. “Faced with IT challenges including expanding infrastructure
and costs, and increased enterprise application workloads, LIONSGATE
began using AWS in 2010 to avoid acquiring additional data center space,
saving an estimated $1M+ over three years. Now utilizing SAP solutions
in a Windows environment, LIONSGATE has migrated their SAP development,
test and QA systems to run on the AWS cloud.”
Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence (EMBI) provides HIPAA compliant
analytic tools for hospital emergency departments to monitor
productivity, utilization and patient care. “Cloud computing
allows hospitals the ability to buy mission critical software and
hardware as a service instead of trying to manage demand internally,”
said Scott Richards, CEO at EMBI. “Deploying SAP Business Objects BI
solutions on AWS, with solution provider DecisionFirst, allows us to
leverage industry-leading business intelligence toolsets to provide our
customers web-based, on-demand, key performance metrics they need to
manage their operations and business. With these solutions our emergency
department clients are able to focus on providing a higher level of
service to their customers.”
Merrifield Garden Center, one of the largest and most complete garden
nurseries in the US, is using SAP Business All-in-One on AWS to manage
inventory, purchasing and accounts. “Our IT operations were simply not
keeping pace with the rapid growth of our business,” said Bryan Moore IT
Director at Merrifield Garden Center. “Running our SAP Business
All-in-One solution on AWS, with systems integrator Savantis and managed
services provider Protera, provided dependable infrastructure and
offered an affordable solution that enhanced security and the
flexibility needed to scale up and scale down during seasonal demand
swings.”
Leveraging its industry-leading intelligence VMS AG has developed
detailed cost analysis of running SAP solutions on AWS using the best
practices of more than 2,600 SAP environments. The research found
infrastructure savings of up to 69%, on AWS, compared to an SAP Business
All-in-One system running on-premises.
“Customers have experienced tremendous success when running their SAP
applications on AWS,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, senior vice president,
Ecosystem and Channels, SAP. “Today’s announcement offers enterprises
and midsized companies alike the flexibility to deploy SAP applications
and analytics solutions quickly and scale up as the business grows.”
“We have seen a rapid increase in businesses deploying SAP solutions on
AWS,” said Terry Wise, Director of AWS Worldwide Partner Ecosystem.
“Whether it’s running SAP applications for development and testing or
production applications, businesses can take advantage of the AWS
pay-as-you-go model and quickly scale capacity both up and down as
needed, paying only for the resources used.”
To learn more about cost savings of running SAP solutions on AWS, visit http://bit.ly/IVsXYI
*This refers to two tier deployments as typically found with SAP
Business All-in-One installations. SAP Business All-in-One is the
pre-packaged version of SAP ERP for the indirect Channel.
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key
infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now
widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud
computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and
turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no
longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or
months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's
expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business
needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon
Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands
of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190
countries around the world. AWS offers over 28 different services,
including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from data center
locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan and Singapore.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most
compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced
electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright
sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an
easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages,
search, shop, and take notes - still with all the benefits of the most
advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line
e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch,
with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the
Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and
web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud,
Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon's new revolutionary cloud-accelerated
web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core
processor.
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competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
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