We are looking forward to the DSAG Annual Congress 2023 taking place next month, September 19-21, at the Congress Center in Bremen, Germany.
The theme of the Congress this year is “Wonderfully Changeable”. Below are the topics that will be the focus of this year’s DSAG Annual Congress. Read on to learn how more about the topics and how Lemongrass can support you in your initiatives.
Migration to SAP S/4HANA
The end of maintenance for ECC6 is fast approaching and moving to SAP S/4HANA has already proven to provide businesses with many advantages. But the move to S/4HANA requires precise planning and preparation. So, what approach is best for you and our business?
One possibility is the greenfield approach. This offers the chance to start fresh and throw off any ballast that has accumulated over the last years or decades. You can also harmonize processes and master data to leverage new functions as comprehensively as possible.
Lemongrass has supported numerous customers in an S/4HANA Greenfield approach and has delivered the business outcomes expected from running SAP systems in the Cloud. For example, taking a Greenfield approach for an SAP S/4HANA implementation results in rapid and low-cost provisioning of SAP S/4HANA infrastructure, low-cost and responsive project support, and ongoing Cloud-native and Cloud-optimized operations.
If you don’t want to start from scratch with a new implementation, Lemongrass can assist you with a Minimum Viable Migration to SAP S/4HANA at the lowest possible cost and with minimal disruption to your business. This approach migrates like-for-like functionality to SAP S/4HANA on Cloud, minimizing business disruption, training requirements, testing and remediation.
Flexibility / Agility
Typically, Lemongrass does not simply perform a lift & shift to the Cloud but instead advises customers on the numerous additional possibilities of the Cloud and the options to optimize SAP landscapes for optimal performance.
Through our automation platform, LCP, we don‘t simply move SAP to the Cloud, we also bring the Cloud to SAP. We use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Configuration-as-Code (CaC) and Operate-as-Code (OaC) approaches to implement customized automation for SAP systems. This allows us to deliver Minimized Downtime Operate (MDO) for our customers. MDO significantly reduces the downtime associated with operating SAP in the Cloud and enables customers to initiate, monitor, and schedule critical operational tasks on SAP Systems and their underlying infrastructure with minimized complexity and effort.
Data / Analytics / AI
The hottest IT topic at the moment is Artificial Intelligence – AI. Fueled in the public perception by chat GPT and other AI tools, AI is already being used in some business cases. AWS, Microsoft and Google offer a variety of services here that can be easily added to their SAP landscapes in Public Cloud via their respective Marketplaces.
A basic requirement for effective AI scenarios is a consistent database. Lemongrass has built an agile data service offering to rapidly enable critical SAP data to be easily accessed and enriched and allow companies to innovate by leveraging Cloud-native data services like Data Lakes, Cloud analytics, modern data lake houses, Machine Learning and AI.
Partnership
SAP’s market leadership is based on its strong partner eco-system. A wide variety of SAP partner companies complement SAP’s solution portfolio and are dedicated to increasing the productivity of SAP customers.
Lemongrass is a long-standing SAP Silver Partner and RISE partner specializing in migrating and operating complex SAP landscapes for our customers in the Cloud of their choice including supporting our customers in their Journey to RISE. Lemongrass was “Born in the Cloud” and is therefore well qualified to help companies to determine the appropriate target architecture for their Cloud landscape (100% RISE, Hybrid or 100% Hyperscaler).
