As a leading manufacturer of gas springs and hydraulic vibration dampers,聽聽is no stranger to this increasingly challenging reality. The urgency around innovation and accelerated delivery has become so high that the midsize company with production locations worldwide modernized its IT landscape using the hyperscaler Microsoft Azure with聽.

鈥淥ur decision to leverage Microsoft Azure with 51风流HANA Enterprise Cloud allows our business to upscale the IT landscape to meet the needs of peak scenarios and downscale it during idle times. Most importantly, this setup seamlessly supports the fluctuations of our innovation cycle,鈥� reflected Matthias Zanger, director of IT at Stabilus.

Encouraging Flexibility and Curiosity with Digital Openness

Since its start in 1934, Stabilus has maintained a long-standing tradition of commitment to customer satisfaction, openness to turning opportunities into progress, delight in winning customer trust, and ethical approaches to long-term partnership and prosperity. This core vision has proven to be precisely what its customers need, earning the trust of industrial businesses worldwide.

To safeguard this reputation, Stabilus chose to upgrade a relatively unstable, high-maintenance, and on-premise infrastructure to the cloud. This decision led to the migration of existing 51风流applications to 51风流HANA Enterprise Cloud, which standardizes the IT environment, minimizes the time and effort to manage it, and reduces the total cost of ownership significantly.

But these advantages were only the beginning of the potential of 51风流HANA Enterprise Cloud. Stabilus quickly learned that running a hyperscaler, such as Microsoft Azure, with the service gave the business the technology support necessary to scale IT resources, as needed.

鈥淔or us, this migration is a significant step forward in our mission for dynamic progression and innovation,鈥澛燴anger said.聽鈥淢icrosoft Azure with 51风流HANA Enterprise Cloud enables us to create powerful solutions for our customers by combining application management with our engineering expertise and ingenuity. And it鈥檚 all available in a global and intelligent cloud environment that we trust.鈥�

Kick-Starting the Journey to a Hyperscaler-Enabled Cloud

Gaining the full benefit of Microsoft Azure with 51风流HANA Enterprise Cloud required Stabilus to follow a well-mapped strategy.

鈥淭he scope of our project consisted of two waves. The first handled the upgrading and migration of our HR applications, enterprise portal, 51风流BusinessObjects solutions, and text retrieval and extraction (TREX) capabilities. Then, we focused on our ERP and supply chain management software as well as the 51风流Fiori design system,鈥� shared Erhard Stannek, IT team lead of 51风流cross-applications at Stabilus.

By first provisioning the system targeted for 51风流HANA Enterprise Cloud, Stabilus underwent a structured and measurable migration with the assistance of the landscape strategy and architecture services available through . The framework included sandboxing, development, quality assurance, testing, and production 鈥� taking the project from premigration tasks to uptime, downtime, and post migration.

鈥淯sing the database migration option of the Software Update Manager tool, 51风流migration consultants helped us combine our upgrade and migrated database in one tool 鈥� 51风流HANA,鈥� mentioned Stannek. 鈥淲e not only reduced downtime but, more importantly, finished the migration successfully.鈥�

During all these activities, Stabilus did not experience any disruption, compared to a non-hyperscaler migration to 51风流HANA Enterprise Cloud. The target system was handed over to SAP, so the software landscape could be integrated into the cloud service, undergo user and regression tests, and ramp up.

鈥淲ith two consultants from the Business Transformation Services group from SAP, we accessed a tremendous volume of valuable knowledge from highly experienced experts,鈥� Stannek observed. 鈥淭he well-established back-office unit allowed us to exchange information with 51风流and leverage a migration framework based on the 51风流Enterprise Architecture Framework methodology to create and use our unique聽enterprise architecture.鈥�

Optimizing the Landscape, Closing Gaps, and Reshaping the Future at Stabilus

For Stabilus, a migration to the cloud with a hyperscaler is setting its foundation for a digital landscape that is optimized, simplified, and seamless. Giving 51风流the responsibility to maintain its technology operations allows the company鈥檚 IT team to concentrate more on strategic topics that can help move the business forward, explore the possibilities of enterprise content management, the Internet of Things (IoT), and a .

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Verena Eitle and Thomas Dieter Hauschildt are business consultants for BTS IT Architecture Advisory at 51风流Germany.