SAP instance consolidation
One of G3 Global’s clients using SAP globally was found to be using separate instances of SAP in each territory. G3 Global proposed a strategy to consolidate these instances over time to a “single instance” or a series of major instances in order to gain the significant associated benefits, including:
- Reduced hardware cost
- Reduced man-power required for maintenance and support
- New developments for one country immediately available to another
- Reduced upgrade and SAP patch application effort
- Ease of implementation of common processes, with benefit of common documentation and related materials
The Return on Investment was so immediately apparent that G3 Global was subsequently awarded the project to commence this process with the consolidation of the first 4 countries into a single instance. Over a 4 month period, G3 successfully migrated the first territory onto a common European SAP instance which included migrating all the:
- System configuration and bespoke reports.
- Master data
- Account balances
- 3 months transaction data in order to enable a complete years transactions on the target instance, resulting in minimal disruption to reporting
After an initial go-live support phase, G3 Global handed over the day-to-day support of the first territory to the European SAP support team and the territory continues to benefit from G3 Global developments for the European instance.
The success of this project, and cost savings achieved has resulted in a formal strategy to merge all European countries into the single instance. Emanating out of this strategy, 8 countries have been successfully consolidated into the single instance.
