Customer Background:
PT Fajar Surya Wisesa Tbk (FajarPaper) is one of the leading packaging paper manufacturers in Indonesia with a combined installed production capacity of more than 1.5 million tons per year with a range of products including Kraft Liner Board (KLB) and Corrugated Medium Paper (CMP) which are used as materials for making packaging boxes in the form of cardboard boxes, and Coated Duplex Board (CDB) which is used as a material for making packaging boxes for displays.
First established as a limited liability company on February 29, 1988, then the company's status changed to a public company after being listed on the Jakarta Stock Exchange since December 19, 1994 (FASW.JK).
FajarPaper is a company of the future, especially in terms of the forward-thinking way it applies in running its business, namely through energy and environmental conservation around the company. Every product produced comes from 100% recycled paper and all energy needs for paper machines can be met by the Company's own power plants.
Customer Challenges
As one of the public companies in Indonesia, they were required to expand their businesses and along the journey, they are required to move to a scalable infrastructure that were scalable and reliable. So, they started their journey to AWS for their small application, happy with the results they decided to migrate their SAP to AWS to achieve better performance.
The decision was also supported with their condition of their on-premises hardware that entering the obsolete phase, so they were required to migrate to a better environment to sustain their business system. While they also calculated the overall cost of hardware for the next 5 years will cost them greatly, not to mention it will also be capital expenses.
They also realized the maintenance of data center is not cheap, since they must provide manpower, electricity bill and maintaining the cooler system of the datacenter. If they could move from on premises, they could optimize the cost for business innovation.
Partner Solutions:
AWS has been running SAP workloads since 2008, much longer than with other cloud providers. More than 5,000 active customers have trusted AWS to run SAP, aligned with the broader Amazon brand, AWS always considers customer needs when developing new products.
Of the various public cloud vendors, AWS was chosen because it is the Leader SAP Cloud Infrastructure & Platform (based on ISG Research 2019), AWS - SAP alliance history since 2008, and most importantly Amazon EC2 provides built and fully certified instance types to run SAP workloads
Metrodata as AWS Partner proposed in building the infrastructure on AWS, we design the topology using AWS best practices to cover all aspects such as reliability, security, high availability for Fajar Paper SAP Infrastructure. Through their experiences in large migration with SAP workload, Metrodata has the right expertise to provide a resilient infrastructure with minimum risk for their SAP environment.
Metrodata proposed to use EC2 Services where it is already SAP certified for SAP Application, they also proposed VPN Site to Site for their connectivity from Thailand and Indonesia to their SAP application, where the connection is encrypted so they don’t have to worry about security.
Metrodata also proposes to use backup in different AWS Availability Zones, to ensure if a failure happens, the system will still on running in a matter of minutes. Through back up in 2 different Availability Zones, Fajar Paper could achieve High Availability by running their application in AWS.
Results and Benefits
“We adjust business strategies and see impact directly on customer behavior or sales performance. We have improved value our SAP system by integrating SAP with AWS technology because we can drive business in real time,” said CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of PT Fajar Surya Wisesa Tbk, Ishak Surjana.
“By moving to AWS, response times at SAP database are significantly faster and We also saw significant Increase in performance at the application server level.” continued Ishak Surjana.
"Migrating SAP to AWS has helped us save more on IT infrastructure and maintenance costs, since we are able to pay as what we need, while improving many cores business processes," said CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of PT Fajar Surya Wisesa Tbk, Ishak Surjana.
The project delivered in 2 months, since November 2023 to January 2024. With AWS Cloud and the help of AWS partner Fajar Paper have faster time to implement our mission critical system. Fajar Paper also improving their business continuity with minimum downtime and reducing data loss incase of disruption.PT Metrodata Electronics Tbk collaborating with Amazon Web Services, gain the trust of PT. Fajar Surya Wisesa, Tbk (Fajar Paper) to do SAP Workload migration to AWS Cloud, using Amazon EC2 Services technology.
Customers are usually conservative when making decisions on SAP infrastructure as they want to choose solutions that are proven and can minimize risks, Which Our Value customer can choose AWS as SAP platform with confidence, given that AWS has the best experience in executing SAP cloud transformations.
AWS has been running SAP workloads since 2008, much longer than with other cloud providers. More than 5,000 active customers have trusted AWS to run SAP, aligned with the broader Amazon brand, AWS always considers customer needs when developing new products.
Of the various public cloud vendors, AWS was chosen because it is the Leader SAP Cloud Infrastructure & Platform (based on ISG Research 2019), AWS - SAP alliance history since 2008, and most importantly Amazon EC2 provides built and fully certified instance types to run SAP workloads
One of the biggest Paper Manufacturing companies who has benefited from the utilization of the cloud is Fajar Paper, which is known as a company of the future in terms of its forward-thinking approach to business, energy conservation and the environment. Not only does every Fajar Paper products begin its life from recycled paper but also the company’s paper machines are powered by self-sufficient power plants. AWS Cloud has helped Fajar Paper to be able to optimize its business development plans.
Migrating SAP Workload on AWS using Amazon EC2 Services technology
Then, how to migration SAP on AWS which has become the backbone for business acceleration in Fajar Paper?
“We adjust business strategies and see impact directly on customer behavior or sales performance. We have improved value our SAP system by integrating SAP with AWS technology because we can drive business in real time,” said CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of PT Fajar Surya Wisesa Tbk, Ishak Surjana.
“By moving to AWS, response times at SAP database are significantly faster and We also saw significant Increase in performance at the application server level.” continued Ishak Surjana.
In addition, we choose to shift existing investments to reduce costs, modernize business processes with native AWS services the company also benefits from the shifting of CAPEX costs to OPEX, so that the company does not need to spend upfront cash for large investments at the beginning.
"Migrating SAP to AWS has helped us save more on IT infrastructure and maintenance costs, since we are able to pay as what we need, while improving many cores business processes," said CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of PT Fajar Surya Wisesa Tbk, Ishak Surjana.
To implement Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Fajar Surya Wisesa then collaborated with PT Metrodata Electronics Tbk, an AWS Advance Consulting Partner, registered in the Amazon Partner Network (APN) & collaborating with its subsidiaries, PT Soltius Indonesia, SAP platinum partner, can provide end to end, full SAP migration services in short period of time risk free" to deliver the project within the required timeframe for migration.
Business Challenges:
Solution
Perform design process & provision Amazon EC2 (compute) & Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Service to deliver a fully supported & certified cloud infrastructure to run SAP workload securely (isolated), with the highest uptime SLA in its class.
Allows Fajar Paper IT teams to focus on application development, as lower virtualization levels are managed by Amazon Web Services directly.
Benefits:
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