How Google Cloud and SAP Address Global Supply Chain Initiatives
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With SAP Sapphire kicking off today in Orlando, we’re looking forward to seeing our customers and discussing how they can make core processes more efficient and improve how they serve their customers.
One thing is certain to be top of mind – the global supply chain challenges facing the world today. It’s affecting every business across every industry, from common household items that once filled store shelves and are now on backorder, to essential goods and services like food and medical treatments, which are at risk. Even cloud-native companies are making changes to ensure they have the insights, equipment, and other assets they need to continue serving customers.
We are proud to work with SAP on many initiatives that are driving results for our customers and helping them run more intelligent and sustainable companies. I’d like to highlight three of these important initiatives and how they are helping address global supply chain challenges.
Enabling more efficient migrations of critical workloads
We know a key barrier to entry in the cloud is the ability to easily migrate from on-premises environments. Our cloud provides a safe path to help companies including Johnson Controls, PayPal, and Kaeser Compressor to digitize and solve large, complex business problems, reduce costs, scale without cycles of investment, and gain access to key services and capabilities that can unlock value and enable growth.
Singapore-based shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE) has become more agile by running their mission-critical SAP workloads on Google Cloud and using our data analytics to improve operational efficiency and make faster decisions. They have gone from an on-premises data warehouse solution that would take a full day loading data from SAP S/4HANA, to using our BigQuery solution that delivers business insights in minutes.
Since The Home Depot moved its critical SAP workloads to Google Cloud, the company has been able to shorten the time it takes to prepare a supply chain use case from 8 hours to 5 minutes by using BigQuery to analyze large volumes of internal and external data. This helps improve forecast accuracy and more effectively replenish inventory by being able to create a new plan when circumstances change unexpectedly with demand or a supplier.
Accelerating cloud benefits through RISE and LiveMigration
At Google Cloud, we have dedicated programs to help migrate SAP and other mission-critical workloads to our cloud with our Cloud Acceleration Program for SAP.
For SAP customers moving to Google Cloud, we provide LiveMigration to provide superior uptime and business continuity. LiveMigration eliminates downtime required for planned infrastructure maintenance. This means that your SAP system continues running even when Google Cloud is performing planned infrastructure maintenance upgrades thus ensuring superior business continuity for your mission critical workloads.
We are also proud to be a strategic partner with the RISE with SAP program, which helps accelerate cloud migration for SAP’s global customer base while minimizing risks along the migration journey. This program provides solutions and expertise from SAP and technology ecosystem partners to help companies transform through process consulting, workload migration services, cloud infrastructure, and ongoing training and support. To secure your mission critical workloads, SAP and Google Cloud can provide a 99.9% uptime SLA as part of the RISE with SAP program.
Many large manufacturers have taken advantage of RISE with SAP to forge a secure, proven path to our cloud, including Energizer Holdings Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of primary batteries, portable lights, and auto care products. Energizer has turned to RISE with SAP on Google Cloud to power its move to SAP S/4HANA. The company wants to automate essential business processes, improve customer service, and boost innovation. It had been using a private cloud solution but needed to gain flexibility while better containing costs.
“SAP S/4HANA for central finance will help us automate essential business processes, improve customer service, and fuel innovation that grows our company’s leadership position globally. We selected RISE with SAP to begin our journey to SAP S/4HANA and maintain the freedom and flexibility to move at our own pace,” said Energizer Chief Information Officer Dan McCarthy.
Another example is global automotive distributor Inchcape, which moved its mission-critical sales, marketing, finance, and operations systems and data to Google Cloud. With its diverse data sets now in a single, secure cloud platform, Inchcape is applying Google Cloud AI and ML capabilities to manage and analyze its data, automate operations, and ultimately transform the car ownership experience for millions.
“Google Cloud’s close relationship with SAP and its strong technical expertise in this space were a big pull for us,” said Mark Dearnley, Chief Digital Officer at Inchcape. “Ultimately, we wanted a headache-free RISE with SAP implementation and to unlock value for auto makers and consumers in all our regions, while continuing to have the choice and flexibility to modernize our 150-year old business in a way that works for us.”
A new intelligence layer for all SAP Google Cloud customers
When moving mission-critical workloads to the cloud, companies not only need to migrate safely, they also need to quickly realize value, which we enable with Google Cloud Cortex Framework — a layer of intelligence that integrates with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Google Cloud Cortex Framework provides reference architectures, deployment accelerators, and integration services for analytics scenarios.
Like many large e-commerce companies, Mercado Libre experienced skyrocketing transactions that more than doubled in 2020 as people sheltered at home during the pandemic, and they are anticipating more growth. The Google Cloud Cortex Framework is enabling Mercado Libre to respond, run more efficiently, and make faster, data-driven decisions.
Continued partnership to support organizations around the world
Our longstanding partnership with SAP continues to yield exciting innovations for our customers, and we’re honored to work with them to help customers address the ongoing impact of global supply chain challenges. We’re looking forward to sharing new insights and innovations at SAP Sapphire this week, and to listening and learning from you about your plans and challenges, and how we can best support your transformation to the cloud.
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Managing Change in an SAP World
Change is a constant for SAP customers. Now more than ever, SAP customers need solutions that provide them business agility, rock solid availability, enhanced security, and true economic value.
Learn how Google Cloud can guide your SAP journey to the cloud with simple and no cost migrations, powerful infrastructure, and innovation technologies that you can take advantage of today. Hear examples of SAP customers who have deployed on Google Cloud and the game changing results they are realizing.
The Cloud-First Imperative to Accelerate Digital Transformation in BFSI
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In a study of 60 business and technology decision makers and influencers from Indian BFSI organizations, conducted by Forrester Consulting, it is revealed that public cloud adoption in India is on the rise with 78% of the organizations intending to increase the number of secure or compliance-sensitive workloads in the cloud.
According to the study, public cloud platforms help BFSI organizations to:
- Improve customer experience
- Free up IT time to focus on core differentiators instead of commodity workloads
- Reduce reliance on legacy infrastructure
- Help to scale business faster and more easily
Download this infographic to understand why Indian BFSI organizations are adopting a cloud-first approach to accelerate digital transformation.
Cloud IoT Core Helps Businesses Leverage their IoT Data to Build a Competitive Edge
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The ability to gain real-time insights from IoT data can redefine competitiveness for businesses. Intelligence allows connected devices and assets to interact efficiently with applications and with human beings in an intuitive and non-disruptive way. After your IoT project is up and running, many devices will be producing lots of data. You need an efficient, scalable, affordable way to both manage those devices and handle all that information.
IoT Core is a fully managed service for managing IoT devices. It supports registration, authentication, and authorization inside the Google Cloud resource hierarchy as well as device metadata stored in the cloud, and the ability to send device configuration from other GCP or third-party services to devices.
Main components
The main components of Cloud IoT Core are the device manager and the protocol bridges:
- The device manager registers devices with the service, so you can then monitor and configure them. It provides:
- Device identity management
- Support for configuring, updating, and controlling individual devices
- Role-level access control
- Console and APIs for device deployment and monitoring
- Two protocol bridges (MQTT and HTTP) can be used by devices to connect to Google Cloud Platform for:
- Bi-directional messaging
- Automatic load balancing
- Global data access with Pub/Sub
How does Cloud IoT Core work?
Device telemetry data is forwarded to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic, which can then be used to trigger Cloud Functions as well as other third-party apps to consume the data. You can also perform streaming analysis with Dataflow or custom analysis with your own subscribers.
Cloud IoT Core supports direct device connections as well as gateway-based architectures. In both cases the real time state of the device and the operational data is ingested into Cloud IoT Core and the key and certificates at the edge are also managed by Cloud IoT Core. From Pub/Sub the raw input is fed into Dataflow for transformation, and the cleaned output is populated in Cloud Bigtable for real-time monitoring or BigQuery for warehousing and machine learning. From BigQuery the data can be used for visualization in Looker or Data Studio and it can be used in Vertex AI for creating machine learning models. The models created can be deployed at the edge using Edge Manager (in experimental phase). Device configuration updates or device commands can be triggered by Cloud Functions or Dataflow to Cloud IoT Core, which then updates the device.
Design principles of Cloud IoT Core
As a managed service to securely connect, manage, and ingest data from global device fleets, Cloud IoT COre is designed to be:
- Flexible, providing easy provisioning of device identities and enabling devices to access most of Google Cloud
- IThe industry leader in IoT scalability and performance
- Interoperable, with supports for the most common industry-standard IoT protocols
Use cases
IoT use cases range across numerous industries. Some typical examples include:
- Asset tracking, visual inspection, and quality control in retail, automotive, industrial, supply chain and logistics
- Remote monitoring and predictive maintenance in oil & gas, utilities, manufacturing, and transportation
- Connected homes and consumer technologies.
- Vision intelligence in retail, security, manufacturing, and industrial sectors
- Smart living in commercial, residential, and smart spaces
- Smart factories with predictive maintenance and real-time plant floor analytics
For a more in-depth look into Cloud IoT Core check out the documentation.
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Increasingly, technology, data, and human interactions will follow a new model of real-time inputs, enabling change without interruption and positive iteration. Cloud computing powers an important shift for information technology, and it will usher in new and better ways to serve customers, make discoveries, and build great products and services.
As part of this transformation, technology models will become more flexible, interoperable, and open; office cultures will shift toward transparency, collaboration, and constant learning. That means innovation and team building – the best parts of work – can happen more frequently and efficiently. Customer focus can sharpen and become more responsive. Corporate knowledge gained over decades of competing and innovating can be brought to bear more easily and meaningfully.
To compete effectively in this changing landscape, business and technology leaders must find ways to embrace the potential of cloud computing – whether in the tools and systems they choose, the institutional cultures they create, or the business strategies they prioritize. Today’s enterprises can set the stage for future success by infusing their unique assets – such as customer relationships, excellent service capabilities, strong partnerships, market knowhow, and technology investment – with the power of innovative IT.
Google Cloud and StartEd Join Forces to Boost EdTech Startups
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Over the past few years, as the education sector was going through transformative change, EdTech startups rose to meet the demand of learners and help address some of the biggest challenges in education. At Google Cloud, we’re inspired by how EdTech startups continue to solve challenges with agility, innovative technology, and determination. We’re proud to help EdTechs make learning more personal, safe, and accessible, and we’re working to connect EdTech startups with the right people, products, and best practices that will help them grow
Announcing a new partnership with StartEd
Google Cloud is excited to announce a partnership to offer mentor-based programming for EdTechs with StartEd — an organization that accelerates education innovators addressing Early Childhood, K-12, HigherEd, Workforce, and Adult Learning.
Founded by entrepreneurs nearly ten years ago, StartEd is on a mission to attract and develop a network of innovators working to ensure equitable, quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all. The company trains and connects thousands of diverse entrepreneurs, educators, and investors at for-profit and not-for-profit organizations each year, working alongside corporations, foundations, and higher education institutions across the United States.
StartEd has helped grow more than 2,500 companies and built a mentor network of over 800 senior leaders with deep expertise in early-stage EdTech companies. The StartEd community now numbers more than 25,000 members.
“I am thrilled to embark on this transformative partnership with Google Cloud,” said Ash Kaluarachchi, StartEd CEO and managing director. “This alliance not only amplifies our mission to empower and nurture the world’s education innovators at every point in their journey, but it also unlocks unprecedented potential for the entire EdTech ecosystem. Together, we’re poised to redefine the future of education and work and to create lasting, positive impact for generations to come.”
Mentoring and networking opportunities for EdTech startups
Through this partnership, U.S.-based EdTech startups can apply to a new program, StartEd sponsored by Google Cloud. The program offers startups access to personal coaching, hands-on training, business support, and a large network of industry experts to help them accelerate their growth and transform education. Beyond the benefits from StartEd, startups will gain access to cloud credits, technical support from Google Cloud, and coaching from Google’s education leadership.
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