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Custom Code Analysis for S/4 Insight and Business Transformation
Like people, most organizations have a natural aversion to change. As such, change management for S/4 programs is critical but can be met with resistance, especially in defining standardization targets. Failure to get buy-in across the organization on standardization...
Do More With Less During COVID – Automated Code Remediation for SAP
By Derek Oats, EVP & GM Business Development In the COVID-19 world, there has arguably never been more pressure on business and IT leaders to “do more with less.” These leaders are routinely challenged with prioritizing strategic initiatives with shrinking budgets...
Important Reasons for Transforming a Monolith to Microservices
By Stefan Hetges, Founder and Chairman Are you already using a microservices architecture (MSA)? You probably are, but you don't even know it! For example, a Google search generates an average of about 70 microservices when you click the "Google Search" or "I'm...
Why Companies Need to Have a Cloud Roadmap
By Sean P Sheeran, VP, Solutions Engineering As more customers shop online, they don't want to waste time waiting for a slow mobile device or website to load. If your website isn’t immediately responsive, potential customers will quickly pivot to find service...
smartShift Technologies Achieves AWS Migration Competency Status
smartShift Technologies has been awarded Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration Competency Status, a certification that highlights our capabilities of moving enterprise workloads to the cloud. AWS is a leader in the public cloud space, and provides infrastructure as...
Remote Control for Enterprise Applications
The disruption caused by Coronavirus (COVID-19) has just begun. Based on the forecast of experts, we are likely to experience a long-term disruption in our lifestyles where social distancing, limited travel, and significant business and economic impacts will continue...
When You Suddenly Need a Remote Work Solution, smartShift Can Deliver
By Sean Sheeran, VP, Solutions Engineering As uncertainty grows due the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), businesses and organizations are facing an immediate need to have their people work remotely. Some organizations are set up to support remote work, but many...
What Does SAP’s Extended Support Announcement Mean for Your Business?
By Seth Henry, Executive Chairman If you spend a lot of time in the SAP ecosystem, you’ve probably heard the news that SAP is extending support for its traditional, non-S/4HANA ERP application for an additional five years, providing customers an option to run these...
How to Reap Cost Savings by Embracing the Cloud
By Vyom Gupta, EVP, Enterprise Cloud Solutions Transitioning to the cloud can result in significant cost savings that could have a big impact on your bottom line. By moving from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, your business can save between 30 to 50 percent....
Enterprise IT Trends for 2020 and Beyond
By Seth Henry, Executive Chairman After a busy 2019, the smartShift Technologies team is gearing up for 2020. Based on what we’ve seen from our clients and in the marketplace, and our expertise built over the years, we’re looking at trends in enterprise IT that we...
Case Studies
Gebr. Heinemann selects smartShift to establish HANA-readiness for their custom applications
Gebr. Heinemann, a major distributor, and retailer for the international travel retail market, started their journey towards SAP HANA / SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (SAP HEC) at the beginning of 2020. They selected smartShift to efficiently, quickly, and reliably...
BMW Group
Enterprise-level access to smartShift’s Intelligent Automation In 2017, BMW and smartShift Technologies have entered into a multi-year collaboration in which BMW uses smartShift’s Automation platform to automate the digital transformation and management of BMW Group´s...
Water Utility Company
smartShift was selected by a private water utility company to plan and execute an SAP HANA and cloud migration and upgrade project. The water utility company provides a broad range of operations, maintenance, and management services, including water production,...
Clarus Commerce
Clarus Commerce is a leading white label, customer royalty program solutions provider, with three decades of experience designing end-to-end royalty programs, and a customer base that includes Amazon, Mastercard, Visa, Condé Nast, and many others. In 2017, Clarus...
Nilfisk SAP HANA Migration
Headquartered in Brøndby, Denmark, Nilfisk is a supplier of professional cleaning equipment in the industrial, commercial, and consumer markets. As a longtime SAP customer, Nilfisk was ready to migrate to SAP Suite on HANA and SAP Business Warehouse on HANA. In order...
Cengage Digital Learning on AWS
Cengage Learning is a leading educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education and K-12, professional and library markets worldwide.
Top 5 Telecommunications Company HANA Migration
Customer had to meet stringent new revenue recognition requirements which were unfeasible in their existing SAP landscape, only by upgrading to SAP Suite on HANA could these regulations be met.
An S/4HANA Conversion to the Cloud
To date, smartShift has completed more than a dozen conversions of ECC 6 systems to S/4HANA. One recent conversion involved a rather unique requirement around infrastructure, and we thought it would make for a good story.
Evonik’s accelerated HCM on HANA Project
The central SAP HR system at Evonik, which hosts payroll runs for different countries, was selected to be migrated to SAP’s HANA database along with an EhP-upgrade and a data center migration.
First BMW System on SAP S/4HANA
smartShift’s automation enables first BMW…
Press Releases
smartShift Achieves the Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Competency
BOSTON, Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- smartShift a leading provider of automated transformations and management of legacy enterprise systems in the cloud, today announced it has attained Microsoft Gold Platform Competency for Partners. The Cloud Platform Competency is...
Basis Technologies and smartShift Technologies announce partnership to accelerate SAP® S/4HANA migrations
London, UK; Boston, MA - Basis Technologies, creators of the most complete DevOps and test automation platform engineered specifically for SAP systems, and smartShift Technologies, pioneers of automated SAP system transformation, today announced a partnership...
DXC Technology and smartShift Announce Agreement to Accelerate and De-risk Customers’ Path to S/4HANA
DXC Technology and smartShift Announce Agreement to Accelerate and De-risk Customers’ Path to S/4HANA
Two years later: Leveraging Intelligent Automation to modernize and manage SAP systems across the landscape
Press Release: BMW chooses smartShift to leverage SAP presence
AMAG and smartShift Technologies partner on SAP S/4HANA consolidation
AMAG and smartShift Technologies partner on SAP S/4HANA
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[GUIDE]: Creating an Oracle RDS Read Replica
Creating and Oracle RDS Read Replica AWS recently announce the support of Read Replica for Oracle RDS starting with versions 12.1.0.2.v10 and higher 12.1 versions, for all 12.2 versions, and for all 18 versions. AWS RDS uses Oracle Data Guard to replicate the database...
[GUIDE]: Setting up an AWS VPC Client VPN
AWS Client VPN is a AWS client-based VPN service that enables we to securely access our resources in AWS and our on-premises network. With Client VPN, we can access our resources from any location using an OpenVPN-based VPN client. Below are the step to implement AWS...
Setup Kubernetes Cluster with Zero Cost
This document provides some basic understanding…
[GUIDE]: Encrypting existing MySQL RDS with reduced downtime
AWS RDS instances and snapshots at rest can be encrypted by enabling the encryption option in AWS. Data that is encrypted at rest includes the underlying storage for DB instances, its automated backups, Read Replicas, and snapshots. Amazon RDS encrypted DB instances...
Of application understanding and machine learning or where I am coming from
For the past 25 years, I have been working in the area of automation. But this is not where I started my career. During my master’s program at USC, I was first introduced to artificial intelligence, a field which immediately fascinated me. At that time, jobs related...
8 things about S/4HANA Conversions
Although S/4HANA is formally not a successor…
Automation is making boring IT jobs exciting
The fear of automation has been around ever since machines started to replace manual work on a mass scale.
Automated Transformation: Shift Gears
When your ERP software supplier provides an upgrade or enhancement, or the business demands new functionality only available in a new release, how do you organize the migration of your many customizations? Most companies start a manual migration process with a time...
Boost from In Memory Revolution
SAP HANA is an in-memory product, designed to…
Quick Distributed Development
SAP systems are often mission critical. They support ongoing core operations of the companies that rely on them.These companies need to be able to support their production systems at all times, which includes addressing critical bugs and urgent enhancements in a...
Webinars
smartShift SAP Digital Transformation on AWS
Explore different paths to Modernizing SAP on AWS and how leveraging smartShift’s unique automation can help accelerate your journey HANA or S/4HANA.
Why SAP on AWS
Learn from AWS SAP expert Eugene Kim, how AWS’s Platform helps SAP customers reduce cost, increase business agility, and improve performance.
Southwest Water Success Story
Hear from Southwest Water VP of IT Jeff Farney why they chose smartShift and AWS for their HANA on Cloud migration, and the resulting business benefits achieved.
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