Now that the SAP environment is in the cloud, it’s better able to support the Ávoris business. “Today, when people arrive at work, the SAP ERP workload has been processed and we are ready for our customers. We can handle up to 90,000 invoices,” says Ramis. “Using AWS, our SAP overnight reporting processes are more than 50 percent faster than they were with our on-premises platform.”

The company has also seen a significant improvement in performance during peak hours. Ramis says, “In the past, the average response time for dialog processes of our SAP ERP production system was 1.1 seconds, but on AWS that time has come down to 468 milliseconds—a drop of 57 percent.”

With the scalability of the AWS Cloud, there is no longer the risk of the SAP platform outgrowing its infrastructure. What’s more, because Ávoris can scale the platform up or down, the company has also made its IT more cost-effective. “We don’t pay for unused capacity,” says Ramis. “We can even scale down our AWS platform during quiet periods when activity on the SAP platform is less intense.”

By working with Linke IT, Ávoris successfully migrated its business-critical SAP environment to AWS in just three months. “Even with the short time frame, Linke IT had no problems helping us migrate our SAP workloads to the AWS Cloud,” says Ramis. “Linke IT brought a deep level of expertise in both AWS and SAP to the project.”

In addition, Ávoris has now reduced management time for the SAP environment, just as the company did for its website and e-commerce operations when it migrated them to the AWS Cloud in 2014. “Today, IT administrators don’t have to perform repetitive manual tasks related to the management of the SAP platform’s hardware,” says Ramis. “The platform is continuously optimized by AWS. We have also increased the reliability of our SAP environment because of the disaster recovery capabilities built into the AWS Cloud that ensures high uptimes day in and day out.”