Global advertising company saves time and money migrating to SAP HANA with Onapsis
DownloadIndustry – Advertising
Company Size – 54k+ employees, >$9B revenue
Background
Like many large companies, this multi-national global advertising company relies on SAP as a key component of its business. Their SAP implementation processes $6.0 billion dollars a year, has 30,000+ users across 20 countries and is used for almost every function including finance, operations, reporting and analytics.
Challenge
Migrate SAP ECC to HANA while ensuring security and compliance.
Solution
The Onapsis Platform enabled the firm to complete migration one year ahead of schedule due to stable, tested applications, while strengthening security and compliance.
As a company that appeals to marketing and advertising professionals, this company wanted to be ahead of the curve, so they launched a business digital transformation project with a goal of creating shared service centers on a global instance of SAP HANA.
The champion for this project was the Vice President of Global SAP who is responsible for the uptime, performance and security of the key data and processes that are part of the SAP implementation. He was faced with the problem of moving critical data into SAP HANA and not being able to address key SAP security risks with the generic security products that the organization currently used, as none of these looked at SAP specifically.
In 2017, the vice president turned to Onapsis to address this challenge after researching organizations that are experts in business-critical application security. With The Onapsis Platform the company was able to migrate and upgrade applications in a phased approach, ensuring each phase was secure and stable before moving on to the next. This saved them significant resource time and budget as the program was able to move forward quickly after each new application or environment was tested and proven stable by Onapsis.
- Scanned and remediated vulnerabilities quickly
- Improved developer skills
- Accelerated development
- Ensured all code meets security and compliance requirements
“We could have waited to implement security after the migration, but it would have been too expensive. We were better off doing it as part of our ‘build’. As a result of our investment in the Onapsis Platform, we were able to decrease the project timeline and significantly reduce our estimated budget. A project that was originally scoped to be completed in 2020 finished a year early.
VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL SAP, MULTI-NATIONAL ADVERTISING FIRM
Results
Additionally, many SAP BASIS and security teams face an overwhelming amount of security notes from SAP, making it difficult to prioritize and configure their landscapes to ensure security. SAP BASIS and security professionals are challenged with the balance of system uptime and security and could not address this with built-in tools available from SAP. With Onapsis, both teams were able to understand each of their organization’s missing security notes as well as the business impact, helping them prioritize implementation.
As a result of working with Onapsis, the firm was able to see immediate success with the product and significant cost savings in their transformation project. If companies are not addressing SAP security they are running a big risk to their business, especially when considering the sizeable investment they’ve already made in SAP.