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Dear reader,

Welcome to the Google Cloud Hub for Sika, your personal website with a selection of valuable and inspiring information.

Using Google's innovative tools and solutions, you can achieve a smooth integration with MBCC Group. On this hub, you will find relevant articles that share insights into how migrating SAP to Google Cloud can help you to save costs and enhance operational excellence during this transition. You can also find out why several of our customers, such as Whirlpool and METRO, decided to partner with Google Cloud to further reduce costs and drive efficiency.

We look forward to continuing the conversation.

Best regards,
Kevin Delissy and the Google Cloud team

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11 best practices for operational efficiency and cost reduction with Google Cloud

As businesses consider the road ahead, many are finding they need to make tough decisions about what projects to prioritize and how to allocate resources. For many, the impact of COVID-19 has brought the benefits and limitations of their IT environment into focus. As these businesses plan their way forward, many will need to consider how to meet the needs of their new business realities with limited resources.

“Forrester: The Total Economic Impact of SAP on Google Cloud” Gives Your Business a Transformation Accelerator

Research by Forrester has found that after migrating their SAP infrastructure to Google Cloud, organizations had more flexibility to spin up new SAP instances; reduced cost and effort to maintain SAP systems; and improved reliability, processing speeds, and uptime for SAP applications.

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IDC: Business Value of Google Cloud for SAP Environments

In this IDC Business Value paper, you'll learn how organizations saw 46% lower cost of operations by running equivalent SAP environments on Google Cloud; enabled IT infrastructure, database, and security teams to work 56% more efficiently and effectively; and achieved three-year benefits of $4.8 million per organization based on infrastructure cost savings, staff efficiencies, and employee productivity and revenue gains as described.

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IDC reveals 323% ROI for SAP customers using BigQuery

IDC has found that the benefits that BigQuery offered organizations fall into three broad categories: increased business productivity, IT staff productivity, and reduced infrastructure costs. These three factors combined give enterprises speed, efficiency, and power that lead to improved business results.

Transforming the consumer goods industry with SAP on Google Cloud

Leading CPG companies are leveraging the power of the cloud to create digital enterprises. In doing so, they can unlock value through reduced operational costs, faster innovation, improved marketing ROI, and greater transparency and sustainability—among other benefits. For businesses that run on SAP, accessing these benefits requires creating a digital enterprise with SAP at its heart.

Solving for operational efficiency with Google Cloud

As businesses consider how to weather the road ahead, many are finding they need to make tough decisions about how to allocate resources. For most, it’s not simply about spending less, it’s about knowing which projects to prioritize, even if with limited funding, in order to maintain business continuity and ensure longevity

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Why Google Cloud for SAP

Be prepared for the future with intelligent insights, reduced risk, agile deployments, and sustainable operations.

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Google Cloud case

METRO

METRO moved 100 instances into the Google Cloud Platform. The global wholesaler wanted a partner they could collaborate and innovate with, and they found one in Google. With an SAP S/4HANA system running on GCP and the help of machine learning, METRO has been able to lower costs, increase efficiency, and improve its customer experience. Click on the logo to watch the video.

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Whirlpool

Whirlpool Corporation has expanded its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to deliver critical business systems and applications on Google Cloud’s secure, reliable, and sustainable infrastructure. The company, which rolled out Google Workspace to its employees in 2014, has now deployed its enterprise-wide SAP environment and applications on Google Cloud, providing its global teams with low-latency, secure access to SAP systems and data. Click on the logo to read more.

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ONE

Ocean Network Express (ONE), which owns the sixth largest fleet of containerships in the world, is working with Google Cloud to advance its digital transformation and data cloud strategy. The next-generation shipping company is enhancing its operational efficiency by running its mission critical SAP systems on Google Cloud, unlocking business insights and accelerating time to insight leveraging data analytics services like BigQuery, and enhancing employee collaboration with Google Workspace. Click on the logo to read more.

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Tapestry

Google Cloud announced a multi-year agreement with Tapestry, the parent company of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman, to migrate its SAP S/4HANA® environment to the cloud, modernizing its IT infrastructure and increasing overall operational efficiency. This partnership is a critical step to Tapestry’s broader acceleration program and furthers the company’s goal to drive growth and enhance profitability across its portfolio. Click on the logo to read more.