Spicing it up with Cloud Comrade: Baba Products powers digital transformation efforts with successful migration to a cloud-based IT infrastructure

• By building a secure, scalable and
  high-performance cloud-based IT infrastructure, Cloud Comrade equips BABA’S
  with a strong foundation to support future growth while delivering greater
  efficiencies, significant cost and time savings.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 10 May 2021 – Malaysia’s leading manufacturer of spice powder, curry mixes and flour mixes, Baba Products (“BABA’S”)
has taken another giant leap forward in its digital transformation with the
successful deployment of a secure, scalable and robust cloud-based IT
infrastructure.

Ilaventhan Vijaya – Head of Finance, Baba’s Group of Companies

Singapore-based
cloud computing consultancy Cloud Comrade led the selection, planning and
execution of the migration from an on-premise infrastructure to Amazon Web
Services (AWS) as the preferred cloud provider.

Faster order processing, reduced cash cycle

In the first
phase of the migration, BABA’S implemented SAP’s future ready enterprise
resource planning system, SAP S/4HANA, on AWS and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
for SAP Applications.  By selecting AWS’s
on-demand infrastructure, BABA’S joins over 5,000 customers using SAP on AWS
today, to achieve faster time to value, the flexibility to adapt to changing
business requirements, and future proofing their SAP workloads with the ability
to scale up to 48 TB of memory for their S/4HANA database.  BABA’s is using Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (Amazon EC2), which
offers the broadest selection of SAP-certified, cloud native instance types,
offering the flexibility for BABA’S to support their current and future unique
growth requirements.  Amazon Elastic
Block Storage (Amazon EBS) is
used to provide high-performance block-level storage volumes, to keep up with
the performance demands of modern SAP workloads.  To protect BABA’S data, Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3) with
its designed for 99.999999999% (11 9’s) of data durability was selected, to
resiliently store backups.  Amazon
Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon
VPC) provides seamless integration between on-premises users and
systems, and SAP systems in Amazon VPC. Tools such as AWS Management Console and AWS CloudFormation are used to provide a simple and intuitive
web-based interface and to automate the deployment and management of AWS
resources.  Automation tools such as AWS
CloudFormation, the AWS Quick Starts for SAP, and AWS Launch Wizard for SAP,
deliver fully functional SAP applications on AWS, such as SAP S/4HANA.

Adopting SAP
S/4HANA on the AWS cloud, followed by the SAP Direct Store Delivery mobile app along
with its enhanced SAP CRM with photo-taking, has proven cost-efficient for
BABA’S, shortening their order processing and delivery times by 50 percent, and
reducing order-to-cash cycles by over 40 percent.

Laying a foundation for significant performance
improvement and future innovation

Cloud Comrade’s
Well Architected Framework also lays a strong foundation for significant
performance improvement and future innovation. SAP S/4HANA has helped BABA’S provide
real-time decision support to end users, saving processing time and enabling
the business to instead focus their resources on strategic growth efforts. As
this was a mission-critical application for BABA’S, it was deployed on SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, which is a reliable, manageable,
and highly available platform fully optimized for all SAP mission-critical
applications.

Speed, flexibility, innovation, and efficiency

To automate the
organisation’s HR operations, Cloud Comrade along with AWS helped BABA’s to
implement Orisoft’s HR software to offer a complete end-to-end suite of human
capital management and payroll solutions. The company also opted for the
feature-rich, end-to-end human capital management and payroll solutions offered
by SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Payroll due to the speed, scalability, accuracy,
efficiency, and compliance with local / regional HR regulations that it
delivered.

 

The automation
and ‘anytime, anywhere’ accessibility of the organization’s SAP SuccessFactors
enabled BABA’S to save HR staff costs and time, while increasing speed and
operational efficiency and ensuring highest levels of security and compliance.
Moreover, the real-time reporting and analytics capabilities allows for faster
decision-making. BABA’S is reaping the benefits of improved and more efficient
recruitment, talent management and employee engagement.

 

Moving to the cloud a strategic imperative

“We deemed moving
to the cloud as a strategic imperative to support our growth plans and
customer-centricity. Not only did we recognize the enormous savings in IT
infrastructure and manpower costs, but also the great impact of speed, scale
and security on almost every aspect of our business that the cloud offered,”
said Ilaventhan Vijaya, Head of Finance, BABA’S Group of Companies.

 

“In Cloud
Comrade, AWS and the foundation of SUSE Linux Enterprise, we found the right
collaboration and platform to help us make this pivotal transition and
transformation. The cutting-edge features, expertise and support during every
step of this process contributed to the ROI immediately; well-positioning us to
capitalize on new business opportunities.”

 

“Based on our
experience in migration and managed services and a thorough understanding of
BABA’S vision and business needs for the future, we were confident that the
bespoke cloud-based framework we have developed was the right choice for the
company,” said Andy Waroma, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of Cloud
Comrade. “It is heartening and immensely fulfilling to make a significant
positive impact on an already large and fast-growing organization like BABA’S
within a short period of implementation. We will always be driven by and
committed to enabling our clients get the best ROI on their IT deployments.”