Ávoris saw that migrating its SAP workloads to the AWS Cloud, offered more than just an opportunity to improve performance.
Ávoris saw that migrating its SAP workloads to the AWS Cloud, offered more than just an opportunity to improve performance.
About Ávoris: Ávoris, formerly Barceló Viajes and part of the Barceló Group, is a leading tourism business in Spain. The company offers a broad range of travel and tourism services, including holiday bookings and air travel. Ávoris operates 685 travel agencies across Spain, serves 2.2 million travelers a year, and has nearly 3,000 employees.
The on-premises SAP environment at Ávoris could no longer support the business. “Overnight reporting processes began running into the next working day, so staff couldn’t start working on their SAP-related tasks when they came into work and had to wait up to two hours for the process to end,” says Gabriel Ramis, head of IT at Ávoris.
Because SAP is such a business-critical solution—it controls all billing and invoicing at Ávoris—the delays couldn’t continue. “The main problem was that our SAP environment had outgrown the on-premises infrastructure,” says Ramis. “We’d gone from a business of 300 employees to almost 3,000 in the time the SAP platform had been in place. We knew the infrastructure needed updating, which made us look to migrate our SAP environment to the cloud.”
Ávoris already had experience with cloud infrastructures. Since 2014, the company had been running several systems in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, including the front-end and backend infrastructures supporting its websites and e-commerce operations. “The AWS Cloud gave scalability to our expanding e-commerce operation,” says Ramis. “It was also more cost-effective because we didn’t face the upfront costs of building an on-premises platform, and we only paid for the IT resources we used. There was no waste.”
Ávoris saw that migrating its SAP workloads to the AWS Cloud, offered more than just an opportunity to improve performance. Ramis says, “We saw it as a way to increase our reliability and scalability”.
Up to this point, we had never been able to build a satisfactory level of redundancy into the on-premises platform with acceptable costs, and increasing our capacity was not simple as we would like.” The company had also learned from previous experience that taking advantage of the cloud can reduce IT management time, and it wanted to bring that kind of a benefit to its SAP environment.
Ávoris decided to migrate its SAP systems to the AWS Cloud. “We engaged with AWS because it was the leader among cloud service providers,” says Ramis. “We looked at Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform, but we were not convinced by their service catalogues.”
AWS introduced Ávoris to Linke, as AWS Premier Consulting Partner, to support the SAP migration. “We told Linke that we had three months to complete the work.” says Ramis. “It had to be finished by June, when the travel season enters the busy summer period.”
Migration work was split into two phases:
“We completed the entire cloud migration of our SAP environment on schedule. It showed the great work of Linke and its willingness to collaborate closely with us for the best possible outcome.”
GABRIEL RAMIS, HEAD OF IT AT ÁVORIS
Ávoris’s infrastructure consists of:
“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. Using AWS, our SAP overnight reporting processes are more than 50 percent faster than they were with our on-premises platform.”
GABRIEL RAMIS, HEAD OF IT AT ÁVORISNous sommes une entreprise de Tech Consulting spécialisée dans les environnements SAP dans le cloud d'Amazon. Nous utilisons DevOps comme méthodologie de développement et nous avons développé nos propres outils et solutions qui révolutionnent le déploiement et le fonctionnement des systèmes SAP sur AWS.
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