AP Transco
High Availability for High-Voltage Operations
- Client: AP Transco
- Industry: Energy & Utilities – Power Transmission
- Region: India
Summary
APTRANSCO, a state-owned electricity transmission company, needed to migrate its large and complex SAP landscape from SAP HEC to Azure to achieve better scalability, reduced operating cost, and faster disaster recovery. Orane Consulting successfully executed a complete cloud migration of 33 servers—including S/4HANA, PI/PO, Solution Manager, GRC, ESS Portal, FLM, BI/BOBJ—within an aggressive timeline, ensuring stability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
Key Results
- Migration of 33 SAP servers from SAP HEC to Microsoft Azure
- Zero major disruption during transition
- 6-hour production downtime for complete migration
- 24×7×365 monitoring of entire Azure SAP landscape
- Migration completed in under 4 months
Client Snapshot
Employees: Large state workforce across multiple departments
Branches: Statewide presence across Andhra Pradesh
Solutions Delivered (Features):
- SAP HEC → Azure cloud migration
- SAP S/4HANA (PRD, QAS, DEV) migration
- GRC, ESS Portal, FLM module migration
- SAP PI/PO & BI/BOBJ migration
- Azure cloud readiness & architecture
- DR setup optimization
- 24×7 monitoring & managed services
Engagement Type: Cloud Migration + Managed Services
Implementation Duration: 4 Months (Migration) + Ongoing Support
The Challenge
APTRANSCO operated a large-scale SAP landscape running on SAP HEC with 33 servers supporting mission-critical operations. As part of their digital transformation roadmap, they needed to move to Azure to achieve stronger scalability, lower infrastructure costs, and improved DR performance.
Major challenges included:
- Migrating a large & complex SAP ecosystem with interconnected applications
- Ensuring minimum downtime for the mission-critical production system
- Re-establishing integrations across multiple SAP modules
- Implementing robust monitoring for the new Azure landscape
- Managing data, configurations, and dependencies across 33 servers
- Ensuring high system availability for statewide electricity transmission operations
The Solution
Orane delivered a comprehensive cloud migration program aligned with SAP and Azure best practices. The approach included:
- Detailed readiness assessment and architecture planning for all 33 SAP servers
- Migration of Production, Quality, and Development systems for SAP HANA
- Transition of key components including SAP GRC, ESS Portal, FLM, Solution Manager, PI/PO, and BI/BOBJ
- Setup of Azure-based high-availability & DR architecture
- Testing cycles for security, performance, DR, and integration readiness
- Seamless cutover execution with only 6 hours of production downtime
- Deployment of 24x7x365 monitoring, alerts, and managed services for all Azure-hosted systems
Business Benefits
- 33 servers successfully migrated from HEC to Azure
- 4-month end-to-end migration timeline
- 6 hours of production downtime during transition
- Up to 30–40% lower infrastructure cost (industry benchmark for HEC → Azure)
- Significantly faster DR performance and reduced RTO
- Higher system availability enabling uninterrupted power transmission operations
- Improved scalability for future SAP upgrades and analytics workloads
- Enhanced resilience through robust 24×7 monitoring & management across all systems
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