IT INFRASTRUCTURE TO MATCH BUSINESS GROWTH

Since being founded in 2001, Ametller Origen has been growing year after year. As a growing Retail company with a strong online presence, they needed IT infrastructure to match their business growth. 

Ametller had hosted its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) service in a data center managed by a third party, having reserved hardware resources for its operation.

Strong growth in recent years, which required constant review of data processing resources, led to the conclusion that migration to the cloud, and the scalability it provided, was the best strategy to support these increased needs. 

As an experienced retailer, it was also key to be able to respond to the specific needs associated with peak sales campaigns during the year. Under this criterion, the elasticity provided by the cloud was also a very relevant factor when making the decision.

Once the decision was made, Ametller Origen was clear that the migration of SAP instances to the cloud requires specialized knowledge and is best done with an experienced partner.

GCP was chosen as the cloud provider after evaluating different hyperscalers, and concluding that Google was the best partner for the company's cloud and data strategy. It also provided the scalability they needed to cope with growth without the need to constantly replace hardware. In addition, GCP provides some excellent coverage for retailers such as a 99.99% uptime SLA. 

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE WITH UNLIMITED SCALING POTENTIAL

Ametller chose Zoi because we have a wealth of experience with migrating SAP to the Cloud and knowledge of the Retail sector. It was determined that, in addition to migrating SAP S/4HANA, their SAP Process Orchestration (PO) middleware and ComerZZia Point of Sale (PoS) software would also be migrated. This would help position some of their most critical business components for growth.

SET FOR FUTURE GROWTH WITH MIGRATION AND MANAGED SERVICES

Three things were migrated to GCP over the course of 4 months:

1. SAP S/4HANA ERP software
2. SAP PO middleware 
3. ComerZZia PoS retail software 

A test environment was first set up in GCP and a backup of the environments to be migrated was created. It was critical that Ametller’s business operations were not interrupted by the migration, therefore exhaustive integration and functional testing on the environments to be migrated was performed. 

This was followed by a migration “dry run” to detect and correct potential bugs. Once the team was satisfied with the rehearsal, the migration of SAP S/4HANA and PO production environments was performed. A similar migration process was then used with ComerZZia.

After the migration, the care and maintenance of the systems were transferred to Zoi as Managed Services. This included managing & maintaining the GCP infrastructure, SAP S/4HANA and PO environments, ComerZZia PoS software, and other services such as Saiwall for firewall and network communication.

The customer now benefits from having a fully managed cloud environment with a greater uptime (99.99%) and the ability to scale their critical IT infrastructure with the company as it continues to grow.

ABOUT AMETLLER

Ametller Origen is a Retail company whose mission is to promote a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle, facilitating access to more nutritious, pleasurable, and cleaner food, and with a firm commitment to society and the environment. They operate a chain of stores in Spain where customers can purchase fresh produce, meat, dairy, bakery items, and other food products from local farmers and producers. 

Migrating to the cloud with Zoi has been a great success. In addition to their great technical expertise, we value their agility and ability to integrate with our internal teams. Good teamwork between Zoi and Ametller has allowed us to take a significant step forward in the quality of service that the company needs in terms of IT infrastructure.