smartShift Technologies, the world’s leading provider of Intelligent Automation for SAP transformations, announced that Direct Wines, an international wine merchant headquartered in Reading, Berkshire, has selected smartShift as its preferred provider for modernizing and migrating their SAP environments to the Amazon Web Services cloud. Upgrading their business-critical SAP system and moving it to AWS will give the Direct Wines team a more robust platform for ongoing operations, re-enable IT’s ability to develop enhancements for faster innovation, and ultimately provide a better experience for their customers.
“Our engagement with Direct Wines started with an outcome-driven, risk-free phase-zero approach for the customer,” said Matt Aucella, Chief Sales Officer, smartShift. “We developed a migration methodology powered by our Intelligent Automation™ to address all key components of the SAP upgrade and move to the cloud. Additionally, we ticked off all the success criteria defined by Direct Wines for the Phase Zero and are now excited to implement the full project.”
“Our version of SAP required upgrading the application by several releases, in addition to a heterogeneous migration. All of this needed to be achieved with a small SAP practice that was busy with business initiatives. We searched for a partner that could support this migration and had experience with Public Cloud. For a small practice we needed as much automation as possible to reduce development demands. smartShift impressed both in terms of their SAP Automation and knowledge, but importantly the culture and professionalism of the team,” said Leighton Francis, Head of Architecture, Direct Wines.
“What stands out about smartShift is their flexibility. Our older SAP landscape required modernizing and migrating to the cloud while still being able to support connected systems some of which had legacy constraints. smartShift gave us a well-balanced solution that ensures future support while we work on our long-term roadmap. This is a complex project and we needed to validate the approach. smartShift shared the financial risk with a ‘Phase Zero’ implementation, initially investing their own effort upfront before subsequently following up with sensible payment milestones. We’re confident that this implementation will be an important evolutionary step for our business,” said David Ives, CIO, Direct Wines.
“Working with SmartShift to migrate the SAP workload to AWS cloud will give Direct Wines much greater agility than before. Direct Wines can make changes much faster and respond quicker to requests from the business and give strategic choices going forward,” said Jonathan Lake, SAP Business Manager, AWS.
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