In this Lemongrass Roots podcast, Lemongrass CTO Eamonn O’Neill and Chief Partner Officer Henrik Wagner unpack the latest insights from SAP Sapphire 2025 in Orlando and Madrid.

Automation is a critical enabler for enterprises seeking to reduce technical debt, streamline operations, and accelerate innovation in SAP environments. Whether organizations are migrating to RISE with SAP or optimizing existing cloud and on-premises landscapes, automation plays a pivotal role in eliminating manual inefficiencies, enhancing business resilience, and embedding security into systems – particularly when architectural principles are built into automated processes.

In this Lemongrass Roots podcast, Florida Crystals CIO, Kevin Grayling, joins Eamonn O’Neill to share how the company has turned IT simplicity into a competitive advantage. By prioritizing a clean SAP core, leveraging SAP BTP for seamless integration, and embracing automation, Florida Crystals has built an agile, future-ready IT landscape.

With ongoing industry confusion around SAP’s support timelines for legacy systems, this session will provide much-needed clarity on what this actually means for customers still running ECC and other older platforms. While SAP has outlined extended support options, these do not guarantee full functionality or long-term viability.

The world of enterprise technology is shifting, and SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP) is at the forefront of this transformation. In this episode of Lemongrass Roots, CTO and Co-founder Eamonn O’Neill sits down with Brian Dennett, the new Practice Lead for BTP at Lemongrass, to unpack how businesses can harness BTP to drive agility, innovation, and long-term success.

Modernization Governance is a critical component of managing change effectively in an evolving technological landscape. With the shift towards a Cloud-first architecture and Business Technology Platform (BTP), the importance of technical governance has become more pronounced. Watch our presentation as we explore key aspects of modernization governance, including change management, visibility, and technical oversight, to ensure a sustainable and cost-effective digital transformation.

As part of N2WS’s webinar series, “Maximize Your Cloud ROI” Lemongrass CTO and Co-Founder, Eamonn O’Neill, joins Sebastian Straub, Principal Solutions Architect at N2WS, for an insightful conversation on how to overcome the barriers to achieving AI success in the cloud.

As organizations transition to SAP S/4HANA and adopt cloud-first approaches, achieving a Clean Core is crucial to reducing complexity and avoiding technical debt. Balancing standardization and customization can be tough, but AI offers a game-changing solution.

Matthew Hough, CIO at Cintas – a leading provider of workplace uniforms, supplies, and facility services, joins Eamonn O’Neill, Co-Founder and CTO at Lemongrass for Lemongrass Roots Podcast, “Cloud Innovation with Cintas – A Journey to Google Cloud with RISE with SAP”.

Jon Reed, Josh Greenbaum and Brian Dennett discuss the looming SAP ERP deadlines, the role of the S/4HANA public Cloud edition and modernization/AI.

This webinar is designed for organizations in the early stages of assessing this transformative solution. In this session, Andrew Juric, SVP Solution Advisory at SAP specialist Lemongrass, joins Haroon van Rikxoort, part of the Acceleration Team RISE & Grow with SAP, to discuss the foundational steps organizations can take today to prepare for the journey, while ensuring its roadmap is both practical and achievable.

Village Roadshow’s applications were hosted on different solutions, including in the Cloud, and in multiple data centers. The company decided to consolidate its applications on AWS, with SAP and its ecosystem being the first key workloads to be migrated. The migration program would modernize the underlying Cloud technology stack, enhance system performance, and optimize operational costs across all of Village Roadshow’s IT landscape.

The Cloud provides an unprecedented opportunity to break down data silos and enable seamless integration of SAP data with other sources. By embracing SAP analytics in the Cloud, businesses can optimize their digital transformation initiatives, enhance efficiency, and create new revenue streams. AIDC, Gartner and other analyst groups agree that companies that leverage their data for insights are better positioned to make strategic, data-driven decisions.

Robert Holland, Vice President and Research Director at SAPinsider, sat down with Eamonn O’Neill, Co-Founder and CTO of Lemongrass to discuss the options that organizations have when moving to the cloud, how they should consider the move and what they can benefit from an infrastructure transformation, how to make cloud investments more effective, and when is the right time to start a cloud journey.

In this SAPinsider webinar, Eamonn O’Neill, Co-Founder and CTO of Lemongrass, joins Robert Holland, Vice President and Research Director, SAPinsider, to dive into how GenAI can enhance the system administration of SAP Cloud estates, including peripheral applications within the entire IT environment.

RISE with SAP is one direction SAP customers can take to modernize an SAP estate, so understanding what is and isn’t included in the offering is crucial, in addition to understanding how a RISE Cloud operating model changes the business and the relationships it has with vendors. These are fundamental questions organizations are coming to Lemongrass with, to help them navigate and understand.

Join Arul Arogyanathan, Village Roadshow’s CIO, as he discusses the company’s innovative approach to migrating the company’s SAP systems to AWS. This transformation has reshaped their operational processes, enhanced customer engagement, and improved sustainability metrics.

Many SAP customers are looking to SAP S/4HANA to modernize their aging ECC systems ahead of the end of mainstream maintenance in 2027, and unlock further value in their SAP investment. For customers, taking advantage of the latest in SAP S/4HANA and leveraging the power of the hyperscaler infrastructure provides many advantages. The key question for customers is what this path looks like and how to create a business case to get there quickly.

As organizations increasingly seek to leverage AI, ensuring their data infrastructure is optimized and cloud-ready is essential. Lemongrass Global Data Practice Director, Mayank Madan, explores the critical steps and best practices for modernizing data platforms to enable AI-driven innovation.

Our enhanced Advisory Services are aimed at guiding Enterprises through their transformation journeys with SAP technologies. his suite of services is designed to support Enterprises as they shift towards a more dynamic, Cloud-based environment using RISE with SAP, a comprehensive, transformation-as-a-service solution offered by SAP.

AWS and Lemongrass talk about the challenges that customers are facing with RISE adoption, advantages of running RISE on AWS and RISE advisory services by Lemongrass on AWS.

Watch our informative webinar featuring Eamonn O’Neill, our CTO and Founder, alongside Matthew Buskell, Cortex Gen AI Lead at Google Cloud. Discover how Google’s cutting-edge technologies can supercharge your RISE with SAP transformation.

Microsoft’s General Manager and Global Leader SAP Business Unit, Silvio Bessa and Lemongrass’s Global Sales Practice Lead, SAP on Azure, Christopher D’Alessandro discuss the benefits of RISE with SAP on Azure, and how Lemongrass can help.

Watch this webinar to hear about customer stories and use cases regarding their specific challenges, and how they were addressed using data solutions such as Google Cortex Cloud Platform together with Lemongrass services and capabilities.

Lemongrass Sales Practice Lead Alex Pond sits down with Kingfisher’s Head of Cloud Adoption, Paul Owens, and SAP Technical Services Manager, Gareth Llewellyn, to discuss their strategic partnership with Google Cloud to enhance Kingfisher’s digital capabilities and usher in retail’s next digital age.

Lemongrass Sales Director Joe Campbell sits down with AI expert, Dr. Daniel Hulme to discuss how AI will impact SAP customers and businesses more broadly.

Eamonn O’Neill, Lemongrass’s CTO, discusses key topics including the SAP skills gap, the role of machine learning and legacy data in disaster prevention, and Lemongrass’s unique success as a global remote company.

MDO™ is a patent-pending, premium managed services solution from Lemongrass that significantly reduces the planned downtime associated with routine SAP on Cloud maintenance activities.

Hear insights from Chief Sales and Customer Officer Tim Wintrip and Azure Practice Lead Chris D’Alessandro as they discuss the transformative capabilities of MDO™.

Our Lemongrass Cloud Platform, LCP Migrate option helps organizations migrate the largest and most complex SAP environments to the Cloud with near-zero downtime and no complications.

Eamonn O’Neill, Lemongrass Co-founder and CTO, covers real-world customer examples of cloud transformation, including key factors and successes. Lemongrass is a software-enabled services provider, focused on delivering superior, highly automated Managed Services to Enterprise customers with SAP Cloud.

Lemongrass migrated and integrated cane sugar company’s SAP systems to AWS to align with the company’s business and program office objectives. This includes an upgrade of FCC’s core SAP ERP system to S/4HANA.

High availability is an expectation in business today. So why all the focus on old, complex disaster recovery solutions?

Near-Zero Downtime is used a lot when talking about Cloud activities. But is it real, what is it, and why is it not absolute zero? In this session, we talk about the big advantages NZDT automation, patterns and approaches can bring to migrating and managing SAP in the Cloud.

Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP) is a governance, monitoring and automation solution that leverages proven methods for onboarding to the Cloud.

Discover the value and benefits automation can bring to SAP operations and how leveraging this can reduce the risks and accelerate innovation.

Meet Lemongrass Cloud, a software-enabled services provider focused on delivering superior, highly automated Managed Services to Enterprise customers.

In this 30-minute Lemongrass Live, our panel from APAC discusses how to manage SAP more efficiently and securely with Public Cloud with the use of automating operations throughout the migration process and beyond.

SAP S/4HANA projects are complex – our AMER panel will discuss how a minimum viable approach to SAP S/4HANA and Cloud is possible using advanced concepts, automation and expertise.

Discussion panel: Sandy Padayachee, Praveen Gadura, Kiran Musunuru

Discover the journey of getting your SAP services on the Cloud, a step-by-step approach to planning, migrating, operating and innovating.

Joan Couto, Vice President SAP Business Unit, Microsoft interviews Mike Rosenbloom, Lemongrass CEO on our recent strategic partnership agreement with Microsoft.

The decision to opt for RISE with SAP has been straightforward for some companies but the broader market is asking for greater understanding and evidence of the commercial, technical and business benefits (and impacts) before they make an informed decision. Learn more in this 30-minute recording, where we discuss some of the common questions being asked.

Fender made the decision to upgrade its SAP systems to the latest version of SAP ERP Central Component, re-platform the application to SAP Suite on HANA, and move it to AWS.

Marc O’Polo has the ambitious goals to be the most innovative fashion retailer in Germany and to shift to a direct-to-consumer model. To support these changes, Marc O’Polo decided to move from three legacy ERP systems to a unified to SAP S/4HANA implementation on AWS.

Our Application Archiving Solution for both SAP and non-SAP solutions is simple and delivers a significant return on investment by reducing the cost of your legacy SAP estate by as much as 90%.

Watch how you can save costs running non-production systems on the Cloud. Systems can start and stop on-demand or can be scheduled to start and stop at particular times of the day.

How can the Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP) help with near-zero downtime migrations and operations? Kieran Pierce, our EVP of Product Strategy, demonstrates an example of how an on-premise SAP system can be migrated into a Cloud-based scenario using the Lemongrass Cloud Platform.

SAP on Cloud: Is it a Promised Land? Our panel reviews the key findings from our recent research on enterprises migrating and operating SAP on the Cloud.

Life in the fast lane: our panel discuss how to continuously extend the benefits of SAP on AWS.

The Panel: Vince Lubsey, CTO, Jas Adams, Technical Architect & Frank Stienhans, CTO Products.

Super Retail Group (SRG) migrated their business-critical SAP systems to AWS, learn how they improved scalability and efficiency in their operations while maintaining business continuity throughout the project.

Speakers: Ben Seivl, General Manager, Strategy & Architecture, Super Retail Group. Jason Nicholl, Executive Vice President, APAC, Lemongrass & Haydn Sallmann, Head of Business Development for SAP, APJ, AWS

Kurt Wiener, Michael Weyrich from Covestro & Esra Tepe from AWS discuss the results from our DACH & EMEA surveys, with responses from 100+ senior SAP users in companies that have not yet migrated their SAP workloads to the Cloud.

Discussion in German.

Our Americas panel discuss and answer questions on ‘How to get the most from a Proof of Concept.’

Our EMEA panel discusses and answer questions on ‘How to get the most from a Proof of Concept.’

Our APAC panel discusses and answer questions on ‘How to get the most from a Proof of Concept.’

Our panel discusses and answers questions on determining the optimal migration approach to maximize benefits and minimize disruption. Planning a migration alongside existing projects, and the powerful advantages enabled by Cloud.

Our panel discusses how to achieve near-zero downtime and describes how this was achieved in relation to the Reynolds Consumer Products SAP to AWS migration.

Eamonn O’Neill, Lemongrass Founder, talks about his career history, SAP automation services, and how we focus on both efficiency and quality for our customers.

In our experience, some of the biggest challenges arise from separating infrastructure from application architecture or assuming lift & shift is the safest migration method, we discuss this and answer your questions.

In our experience, some of the biggest challenges arise from separating infrastructure from application architecture or assuming lift & shift is the safest migration method, we discuss this and answer your questions.

In our experience, some of the biggest challenges arise from separating infrastructure from application architecture or assuming lift & shift is the safest migration method, we discuss this and answer your questions.

The Panel: Mike Laanen, SAP on AWS Cloud Architect; Bob Villangca, SAP Technical Architect; David Nye, Senior Solutions Architect SAP Workloads, AWS.

Find out more on Smart Factory Use Cases supported by AWS, the 5 critical success factors to generate additional business value with SAP on AWS, and how to enable agile and responsive manufacturing through SAP DevOps.

Speakers: Kurt Wiener, Business Development Director, DACH Region, Lemongrass & Martin Santospirito, AWS

Our AMER panel address how to write an SAP-Centric RFP for Public Cloud, common RFP issues, and how to ask the right questions and make the right informed decisions.

Our EMEA panel address how to write an SAP-Centric RFP for Public Cloud, common RFP issues, and how to ask the right questions and make the right informed decisions.

Our APAC panel of experts address how to write an SAP-Centric RFP for Public Cloud, common RFP issues, and how to ask the right questions and make the right informed decisions.

The key SAP financial optimization areas for Retailers, and the 5 critical success factors to generate additional business value with SAP on AWS.

Learn the SAP on AWS tangible cost benefits, business cases, and financial outcomes achieved by recognized organizations, we’ve migrated & operate in AWS.

Eamonn O’Neill, Lemongrass Founder/EVP talks about the five paths of SAP cloud migrations, how SAP is evolving beyond ERP, and the responsibility models for SAP in the cloud.

In this webinar, we cover how to comply with legal requirements (GDPDU, GDPR, GOB, GOBS), how to reduce operating costs by up to 90% with AWS pricing options, and provide advice on a well-defined and proven financial business case. We also include a demo of the Start & Stop Cockpit using the Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP).

Watch our Substantial Cost Savings with SAP on AWS webinar and discover how you can cut SAP operating costs by 50% with automation on the AWS platform.

In this webinar, learn how we successfully migrated Reynolds’ databases to the AWS Cloud on time, on budget, on a tight deadline, and remotely.

Speaker: Jason Nicholl, Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan
Speaker: Mike Laanen, Senior SAP Technical Solution Architect, Asia Pacific & Japan

Discover how to reduce costs, increase agility, improve service quality, and accelerate innovation.

Technical and Functional Best Practices for SAP ERP in AWS Cloud Partner Cloud Innovation Series – Part 1

Technical and Functional Best Practices for SAP ERP in AWS Cloud Partner Cloud Innovation Series – Part 2

Technical and Functional Best Practices for SAP ERP in AWS Cloud Partner Cloud Innovation Series – Part 3

By migrating and operating SAP workloads on AWS, not only can significant cost savings be made, additional value can also be generated by increasing operational resilience, staff productivity and business agility.

In this Q&A style interactive discussion, our panel from Nationale-Nederlanden, AWS and Lemongrass discuss and answer questions on migrating your SAP workloads to AWS.