Migration to Cloud: Start Here
Are you ready to take that next step in your digital transformation journey, but you aren’t quite sure where to start? Well, you are not alone. Recently, I had the pleasure to spend some time with Joseph Msays, global managing partner, EA Managed Services, IBM Consulting. to talk about the digital transformation journey, what IBM Consulting is showcasing at SAP Sapphire, May 16-17, and how companies can take that critical next step.
“We have been a partner of SAP for the last 50 years,” Msays explains. “I don’t know if you know this, but the three original founders of SAP were ex-IBMers and since then our relationship has been really close.”
At the SAP Sapphire event taking place this week, IBM is showing many of the critical capabilities that span from advisory, to implementation, to migration to cloud, to managed services, industry solutions, and more. He goes on to explain SAP has around 45,000 customers and now the focus is to move many of these clients to the cloud.
“(We want to) help our clients in their transportation journey by using ERP (enterprise-resource planning), which is basically the heart and lungs of any corporation,” he says.
IBM has multiple ways to help clients move to the cloud. The company can do lift and shift, migration with elective changes to some of their business processes, or complete transformation in one shot, just to name a few. Msays suggests it really comes down to the individual needs of each client.