SAP Hosting Migration

Our SAP Hosting Migration from SAP Hosting in Germany to Secure-24 in Michigan was a success! The down-time was only 42 hours from start to finish. We handed the system over at 7PM Pacific on Friday and we were up and running in the new production environment at Secure-24 by Sunday at noon. That was 4 hours ahead of schedule!

After the Production migration was complete, we started working on the DEV & QA system migrations. The QA systems were copied from Production so that was relatively easy. The DEV systems were restored from USB drives as exported from our original DEV systems at SAP Hosting in Germany. The exception was our DEV Enterprise Portals and DEV BI instances. Those we wanted "configuration only" copies of our production environment.

The only problem that we experiences was with the creating of our DEV BI instance. The BCS configuration was not copied correctly. BCS stands for Business Consolidation System. It is the financial consolidation tool that sits on BI. SAP is now promoting Outlook Soft for this, but we are fairly happy with BCS.
We had to re-do the restore of our DEV BI environment.

Overall, I am very happy with Secure-24. They are priced competitively and have a professional staff that has proved to be very knowledgeable.

We gained a significant cost savings with this move. Some of that was do to utilization of Virtual Servers in the DEV & QA environments. I though our DEV & QA environments are a good place to test the different virtualization solutions for HP Unix and Windows platforms. We may consider virtualization on our production landscapes when our existing contract is up for renewal in a few years.

I would like to congratulate Secure-24 on a job well done. I would also like to thank SAP Hosting for all they had done for use over the last few years. SAP Hosting had the best service we have ever experience from a hosting partner. We will see how well Secure-24 compares. So far, so good.