The customer is a pharmaceuticals giant offering a wide range of formulations for newer drug developments globally. The formulations offered by the customer vary from tablets and capsules to injectables. The business model of the customer engulfs out-licensing and marketing with contract manufacturing and supply agreements. The customer partnered with Blazeclan for the Greenfield deployment of their SAP HANA workloads on Azure cloud.
The Challenge
The customer wanted to make their infrastructure highly scalable, available, and agile to meet business demand fluctuations. They wanted to deploy their SAP HANA workloads on Azure cloud. A key objective of the customer was to secure their HRMS operations on SAP HANA.
The Solution
The customer partnered with Blazeclan for deploying their SAP HANA workloads to Azure cloud. This was a Greenfield deployment. Blazeclan helped the customer to deploy their infrastructure on Azure cloud and manage their infrastructure using Azure-defined architectural best practices.
Blazeclan’s Azure cloud deployment and managed services facilitated customer to host their SAP HANA Modules HRMS, Web Dispatcher, and FIORI. These included multiple environments, such as Sandbox, Production, and Development.
The solution ensured a seamless transition along with managed services, which helped the customer realize continuous management and support for their new Azure environment.
The Solution Approach Involved Three Phases of Implementation
- Azure Account and Networking Setup
- Azure Resource Setup
- Managed Services
Benefits Gained by Customer
Cost Optimization: With Blazeclan’s Azure cloud deployment and managed services, the customer was able to achieve significant cost optimization. The solutions suit the customer’s requirements well and enable them to have better control of their overall IT budget.
Availability: Azure cloud adoption enabled the customer to achieve a highly available infrastructure. Also, it facilitated them in maintaining a consistently low redundancy
Scalability: Azure cloud deployment and managed services helped the customer bring high scalability to their infrastructure. Moving their systems to Azure enabled them to realize auto-scaling with minimum downtime.
Performance: The solution empowered the customer to bring a significant improvement in the performance of their infrastructure. The customer has better control and visibility of their infrastructure, which in turn enables them in maintaining seamless operations without any interferences.
Tech Stack
| SAP HANA App VM | SAP HANA DB | Azure Recovery Vault |
| Azure Files Service | Azure Key Vault | Azure ExpressRoute |
| Site-to-Site VPN | VNet Peering | FortiGate-VM |
