Louisiana Pacific's Seamless Migration of ERP Powered by Capgemini in Collaboration with AWS

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Teji Thomas
Capgemini - SAP® Cloud Migration Practice
Monday, June 11, 2018
LP’s seamless migration of ERP
Powered by Capgemini in collaboration with AWS

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 Current contract was expiring
 As the housing market recovered LP needed to prepare for growth; to
deliver new easier to use services and products to clients
 Aging/closing data centers presented opportunity to rethink how their
core IT was consumed
 Desired a consumption-based model
 Wanted to be partner agnostic when complete
 Experience in AWS migrations
 Confidence in Partners ability to deliver
Why Move & Deciding Factors

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Migration Approaches for SAP® Environments
Homogenous Migration (Lift & Shift or System Copy)
 Both operating system and database are the same in Source and Target System
 Standard SAP® System Copy process can be used
 Tool based migration performed with block level copy processes
Heterogeneous System Migration
 At least one of the following is changed during the copy:
• Operating system
• Database system
 SAP® Certified Migration Process
Rebuild
 Rebuild/Clone of Common Usage Pattern (App Server, SAP® Engines)
 Limited Transactional Data
System
CopyOS 1 DB 1
Source Server Target Server
OS 1 DB 1
System
MigrationOS 1 DB 1 OS 2 DB 1
System
MigrationOS 1 DB 1 OS 1 DB 2
OS 1 OS 1
Source Server Target Server

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For a Homogenous Migration
we have automated the process….
Public
Replica
Server Instances
Replica
Server Instances
Replication
Server
Storage Replica Volumes
Storage Replication Volumes
Automated
Migration Tool
Agent
VPC
Automated
Migration Tool
Agent

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Plan Migrate Cutover & Go-Live
 Requirement Workshops (Networking, Interfaces,
Bolt On, Basis)
 Testing Approach/Processes
 Develop Migration Approach
 Develop High Level Project Plan
 Functional Testing
 Transition to support teams
 CloudEndure Agent Installation & Configuration
 Finalize Testing/Validation scripts
 Detailed Project Plan
 SID & Hostname willremain same
Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Wk 7 Wk 8 Wk 9 Wk 10 Wk 11 Wk 12 Wk 13 Wk 14 Wk 15 Wk 16 Wk 17 Wk 18 Wk 19
Req Gath & Project Prep
SBX Migration
Dev Migration
QA migration
Mock Migration
PRD Migration Stabilization
 Considered Sandbox, Dev, QA migrations as "practice runs" for the production migration
 Included lessons learned in planning subsequent migrations
Timeline: Started in July - Thanksgiving weekendcut over
Planning and Timeline

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What was done – Architecture & Systems?
Landscapes Migrated (5)
Sandbox
Dev
QA
Prod
DR
BW
BOBJ
GRC
PI
Portal
Vertex
CPS
SCM
Adobe
SolMan
Solutions Migrated (73)

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Success Factor – One Team Approach
Capgemini, AWS & Customer
Program Management
Working Stakeholder Committee
Business Executive Steering Committee
Implementation Workstreams
BusinessSupport
Release&LandscapeManagement
Application
Development &
Integration
Migration
& CCMS
Infrastructure
& Networking
Testing/Validation
CoE
SAP Application
Support Teams
CoE
Operations
& Transition
Basis & Security
 Convert code
 Validate Apps
 Verify
Integrations
 Execute
Import/export
 Installation of SAP
 Verification
 Capgemini CCMS
shadowed Basis &
Security team for
30 days after go
live
 Architecture/
design
 Determine target
state sizing
 Provisioning
 Design and
execute test plans
 Integration test
 Regression
 UAT
 Support Export
 Post Production
Validation
 Support App Dev
 Deployment
readiness
 Deployment and
post production
support
 Security
requirements are
met for Hw,OS
and Apps

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How Collaborative Approach helped…….
 Capgemini gathered requirements from LP
 Capgemini drafted the to-be Architecture
 AWS validated the Architecture
 Performed Pre & Post Security Assessment of entire landscape
 This gave LP the extra confidence both in terms of Security & Performance of systems as the architectureput forth by
Capgemini was backed by the Cloud Service Provider
 Worked collaboratively with Capgemini to understand performance issues and suggested remedial actions
 AWS Technical Team was on standby during major cut-overs especially during the Thanksgiving weekend while
Production Systems were being migrated
 Near Zero issues during Production Migration and was completed ahead of Targeted Timeline

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Value Proposition
• Move to cloud provides better value at lower cost (est. $5M savings over 3 years)
• Enabled LP to move away for “hands on keyboards” to new value and innovation
• Gained greater agility in deploying solutions faster
• 20% Better performance translates into more informed business decisions and keeps their trucks moving faster

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Project Cadence, Risks
& Testing
Risk analysis
performed
during each phase
of migration
Lessons learned exercise
performed after each
phase of migration
Weekly
cadence calls
Project management
provided by Capgemini,
plus LP ran own project
internally
Testing completed
by CoE

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Q & A
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