q.beyond delivers SAP in the cloud for medium-sized enterprises
NetApp ONTAP and flash set the pace for cloud transformation and migrations from SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4HANA.
This long-time NetApp partner is helping SMEs prepare for a digital tomorrow. Their goal is to make customers faster, more efficient, and more competitive.
q.beyond is a provider of cloud services, SAP applications, and IoT technologies to enterprises, with an emphasis on integration. More than 1,100 professionals help SMEs with digitization. The company specializes in consulting with customers to solve their enterprise IT challenges through direct dialog.
Today, SAP transformation is a big IT topic for small and midsize enterprises, as support for SAP ECC 6.0 will end in 2027. For many q.beyond customers, switching from the classic SAP ERP to S/4HANA means replacing legacy hardware systems, moving to the cloud, and setting up new processes and operating models to complete the transformation.
More and more customers want to know what systems their applications are running on. NetApp is seen as a mark of quality.
Thomas Schenk, Head of Platform Infrastructure, q.beyond
Accelerating cloud transformation
NetApp flash performance, ONTAP data management, including Snapshot™ technology, and close integration with SAP are important elements of the q.beyond private cloud. q.beyond can efficiently manage and protect hundreds of SAP HANA instances.
Individual files or entire file systems are backed up as an image in seconds using NetApp Snapshot technology. These copies can be restored quickly, without having to restore database dumps. Because SAP systems can be copied and cloned at lightning speed, q.beyond can massively accelerate SAP dev/test and QA processes.
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q.beyond converted one of Europe’s largest retail establishments to SAP S/4HANA with a big bang by migrating a 24TB SAP system live in just 48 hours.
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