Category: Enterprise Strategy

The VMware Cloud on AWS Try & Buy Program offers multiple ways for AWS Partners to grow their business. First, there is a huge market for VMware Cloud on AWS. In a 2019 report, IDC put the partner addressable market opportunity for VMware Cloud on AWS at $3.1 billion. In addition to the sizeable market opportunity, trial engagements give AWS Partners an opportunity to earn customer trust, help them validate use cases before jumping into a production environment, and speed up customer migrations.

Cognizant is providing consulting and execution services for SAP customers to migrate the SAP landscape from on-premises to AWS, with SAP S/4HANA implementation on AWS combining SAP S/4HANA conversion and migration to AWS in a single step using the Cognizant migration factory called SmartMove. This solution provides a risk-free, comprehensive solution to transform customers’ SAP landscape into one that’s intelligent enterprise-ready.

A large public sector organization in India was looking for a solution that would address key challenges in their existing ERP and build systems. Tech Mahindra chose SAP as its core solution to address the customer’s key requirements, and this solution enables the customer to adopt new business models, manage business change at speed, orchestrate internal and external resources, and use the predictive power of AI. In this post, learn how different AWS components can help you host SAP applications on AWS.

Modernization can drive future business and serve customers better with higher efficiency through automation. Learn how a technology, such as ATADATA offered by Deloitte, can make the journey to cloud possible 1) without disruption to the business; 2) efficiently through AWS API integration; and 3) with low risk through the integrated discovery technology. Deloitte has a unique perspective on common migration concerns and has developed a suite of tools to address each one.

Big datasets have traditionally been locked on-premises because of data gravity, making it difficult to leverage cloud-native, serverless, and cutting-edge technologies provided by AWS and its community of partners. Modernizing an on-premises analytics platform takes time, effort, and careful planning. Explore the challenges of migrating large, complex, actively-used structured datasets to AWS and how the combination of WANdisco LiveData Migrator, Amazon S3, and AWS Glue Data Catalog overcome those challenges.

Containerization has emerged as one of the most popular choices for application deployment. Some apps can be easily moved to managed container platforms, but they require changes before they are ready for containerization. The Atos cloud factory migration approach helps customers adopt modernization along with migration rather than do it in a two-step process which starts with lift and shift and ends with modernization. Atos is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with the Migration Competency.

Venerable needed to modernize a core business application for managing agent commissions, so they engaged AWS ISV Partner Heirloom Computing and AWS Premier Consulting Partner Cognizant. Learn how Venerable’s Agent Management System (AMS) application was replatformed into a cloud-native Java application running successfully on AWS, through a process known as automated refactoring using the Heirloom product suite.

The legacy nature of its Windows application was a challenge faced by a rail manufacturer while migrating to AWS was. Refactoring the application to leverage AWS cloud-native features was not a viable option in this case, as the vendor had stopped their software maintenance and support. Learn how IBM leveraged AWS to improve the application’s long startup time by implementing a warming functionality using AWS Lambda and AWS Systems Manager.

One of the first steps for organizations adopting AWS is migrating data from an on-premises environment or existing cloud to AWS. Many legal and regulatory requirements make it imperative to know the cause and reason for collection, storage, and usage of data, as well as the exact physical location of the data. Learn how Dataguise, a PKWARE company, helps organizations minimize risk and cost during the data migration process.

With more and more businesses investing in cloud products and solutions, the time to power a sustainable cloud practice is now. For technology solution providers, it can be time-consuming and costly to figure out how to build a cloud business that offers customers the best value and stands out from the rest. Tech Data created a clearly defined path through its Cloud Practice Builder framework meant to streamline this journey for fellow AWS Partners.