Water Corporation:
Innovative SAP cloud migration with watsonx and Red Hat

Orchestrating the flow of life with watsonx

Everything in flux: As the guardian of Western Australia's vast network of pipelines, Water Corporation had to keep the water flowing while migrating its mission-critical SAP architecture to the cloud in record time with IBM Consulting.

Mastering SAP migration to the cloud on stormy seas

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Sustainability matters: Water Corporation opted for a cloud-based approach for the migration of their outdated SAP architecture. With this shift, the company was able to cut its carbon emissions by roughly 150 metric tons per year.

A hefty task that came with some challenges: To move the impressive amount of over 50 TB of data, the project team had to decouple and recouple over 100 SAP systems and even more integrations. To do so, the team had to come up with a waterproof plan to eliminate any risk of compromising data. Stakeholder coordination, changes in the project timeline and ensuring data integrity further added to the complexity of the project.

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With additional support from AWS and SXiQ, the team employed an agile and automation-first strategy to accelerate migration efforts and reduce manual labor. This included using IBM watsonx Code Assistant technology, Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, and AWS CloudFormation templates to automate infrastructure as code, configuration, provisioning, and deployment.

The cloud infrastructure architects leveraged the IBM watsonx Code Assistant technology to convert natural language into code recommendations for automation and upkeep of the new SAP environment. They subsequently bundled these operations into Ansible playbooks to automate repetitive tasks.

Water Corporation taps into efficiency and reduces its carbon footprint

The project concluded bubbling over with benefits: In addition to the 150 metric tons of carbon emissions saved per year, Water Corporation was able to cut cloud-related operating costs by over 40%, saving approximately 1,500 hours of manual labour per year. The creation of Ansible playbooks was accelerated, reducing associated development costs by 30%. The successful outcome showcases the important role of cloud adoption, automation and sustainability play when it comes to achieving business goals.

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