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February 22, 2022February 22, 2022

Why Should You Use AWS to Run SAP Workload?

Choosing a hyperscaler for your SAP environment is akin to selecting a business partner, and it’s a decision that will have a big effect on your company’s growth in the future. Numerous cloud providers give numerous benefits such as worldwide scale, knowledge, and creativity.

There are some factors to consider when selecting the correct hyper-scale for your business, including financial elements, business and technical assistance, security, and amount of customization. Most significantly, it must be constantly developing additional data centres and changing to match a company’s evolving needs.

Why Is Amazon Web Services (AWS) The Best Cloud Solution For SAP?

AWS provides a one-of-a-kind blend of flexibility, agility, safety, flexibility, and durability. According to a Forrester analysis, transferring SAP ECC to AWS EC2 can result in a 103 per cent return on investment in three years, $1.5 million in reduced data centre costs, and up to 500 per cent performance gains, among other advantages.

“When SAP was on-premises, certain recurring orders could take hours to generate during peak demand periods.” AWS generates the same orders in 30 to 45 minutes.” Consumer products IT director and enterprise architect

Amazon is already the cloud of choice for over 5000 SAP clients, and it is used by world leaders and cutting-edge startups to support a variety of operations such as data processing and warehousing, storage, and archiving.

The Top 6 Factors to Operate SAP on AWS, According to Activate

There are many reasons why AWS is the best cloud platform for SAP services; we’ll go over Winklix’s top six arguments:

Routine security checks are automated by AWS.
Effectiveness – Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a dependable cloud infrastructure.
Cost Savings That Have Been Confirmed
Scalability
Analyze – Discover Obtaining deep insights from your data
Services and Features Available

1. Security – AWS performs routine security checks automatically.

With its multilayer security controls and automated systems continuously monitoring, validating, and testing the environment’s defences, AWS security surpasses the security capabilities of any on-site data centre.

AWS offers 230 security, compliance, and governance services and capabilities, as well as a comprehensive range of cloud security tools. It complies with 90 security protocols and regulatory certifications, and all 117 AWS services that contain client data can be encrypted. AWS is built to meet the security requirements of the military, banks, and other high-profile businesses around the world.

Firms that offer a wide range of security services to complement and enhance the protections available in the basic AWS environment are also part of the AWS Partner Network (APN). AWS Direct Connect for secure data communications and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to limit data access to only authorized users are among the other AWS solutions available.

2. Reliability – AWS offers dependable cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has created several Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances tailored to certain workload requirements. In production environments on the AWS Cloud, SAP has certified X1 instances to run Business Warehouse on HANA (BW/4HANA), data mart solutions on HANA, Business Suite on HANA, and the next-generation Business Suite S/4HANA.

AWS monitors, updates, secures, and upgrades a company’s IT infrastructure, freeing up the tech group’s resources and time to focus on more strategic issues.

3. Cost Savings That Have Been Proven

By migrating SAP instances to AWS, businesses may boost their performance while lowering costs. Firms experience immediate savings in IT costs, hosting fees, and the operating costs of running data centres on-premise.

4. Scalability is number four.

AWS offers several computation and storage services that have been validated for SAP applications and SAP HANA workloads. SAP software running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can quickly scale up and down compute, storage, and networking infrastructure to fit variable loads and service level needs, as well as reacting to other circumstances.

5. Analytics – Uncover deep insights from your data with analytics.

Within a corporate data lake, AWS allows firms to integrate SAP data with non-SAP data and apply analytics. With the widest and most comprehensive machine learning services, it also adds insight to SAP applications.

By migrating SAP operations to AWS, you can save up to 70% on Amazon S3 prices and take advantage of Amazon S3 intelligent tiering.

6. Provides a Wide Range of Services and Features

AWS offers additional features and services than any other cloud provider, ranging from infrastructure providers like computation, storage, and databases to new technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and the Internet of Things. This makes moving your existing apps to the cloud and building practically anything that you can imagine faster, easier, and more cost-effective.

The list of reasons why we think you should consider AWS for your SAP systems goes on and on, so if you want to learn more and figure out how to take the next step and exploit AWS, schedule a free consultation with one of Winklix’s AWS and SAP specialists.

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

Digital invoicing via SAP Business One

The carrying of goods or commodities from one place to another is enabled by the filing of ‘E-Way Bills’ on the usual GST portal. Likewise, the GST Council is intending to execute a system of e-invoicing.

E-invoicing is not indicative that the company should make their invoice with the government’s software system. Rather, it implies that the company should provide information about their already produced invoice (from their ERP system) to the Invoice Registration Portal (IRP) and get the unique IRN (Invoice Reference Number) and a QR code from the portal, which requires to be showcased on their invoice.

E-invoice should chiefly follow the GST invoicing norms. Besides, it has to even make space for the invoicing system or rules adhered to by each industry or sector in India. Some information is essential and the rest is optional for businesses. And, every e-invoice needs to be registered personally and should not be processed together.

Following this system has become convenient thanks to SAP Business One. It provides two options to customers regarding the real solution deployment and use.

Two Options

File Download

With regard to this option, SAP Business One will permit your user to download all concerned information in the format and type of file needed by the government portals with just one click. As for E-invoicing, SAP Business One can produce the JSON file that can be transferred to the IRP (Invoice Registration Portal).

Unification with GSP (GST Suvidha Providers)

Over here, your SAP Business One system will be unified with the GSP’s software with the APIs for E-Invoicing. This computerised the procedure and your user can straight away print the sales invoice within SAP itself, which would possess the IRN and the QR code issued by the IRP. Customers can select to work with any GSP. We have built an automated solution that can be utilized with any GSP.

Other GST Solutions

We even have solutions for handling your GST reports, returns & E way Bill as well, apart from E-invoicing.

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020

How Winklix Enables Delivering Results With Fully Remote Team

With recent outbreak of Coronavirus worldwide , almost all companies have moved towards remote workforce . If you or your team is among one who is not familiar with remote collaboration , then this might be the difficult time for you . Winklix has already well experienced with remote work force as we are six year old agency , and at every stage of work of being professional , we found effective remote work function gives best result with proactive and thoughtful planning .

We want to share the ways we can define our success journey with our clients – particularity at the time of social distancing with the help of different tools which only focuses on clear result in paramount . Below given are some of the steps which Winklix take to provide you with great experience and successful outcomes for ourself and our clients .

Project Initiation

Setup is key to successfully carry on the work and organisation is gold . Every project is successful if you follow who , what and how approach . At initial stage , we closely take our client requirement in order to start their project . These requirement includes planning of key project events , creation of project schedule , project tools definition , collaboration plan creation that takes everyone on same phase . We use tools for conversation which we are already in use or even use tools that our client teams are confirmable with .
All the above given activities have been made possible by using tools for web meeting , polling softwares , group / individual chat applications . We are familiar with Zoom for video conferencing and Slack for real time communication with our internal team and clients . For further team work we use Google Drive , Microsoft 365 and Confluences .

Participants

The Winklix project manager works closely with client team lead which facilitates updates regarding planning activities from time to time .

Project Discovery

During project discovery phase , our team and our clients team come closer to discuss existing functionality as well as brainstorming on what’s else new can be implemented . We firstly focuses on pain points of our clients and then our business development manager come up with innovative plan to steer entire project with right framework and solutions needed to build perfect solution .

Participants

Winklix in house team compromise of SMEs , designers , programmers , testers , managers , team leaders and more in discovery phase . Whereas on client side , in general product owners , business leads , products experts and technical team is present to discuss unique needs .

Remote Discover Success Tips

In order to get best result of discovery phase onsite meeting is always preferable with clients and clients personnel , however their might be a situation that not all clients may get present onsite and in that case remote discovery phase is what all is required . We have years of experience in conducting remote discovery with team of many sizes .
Here is Winklix’s key to make you successful in remote discovery phase :

Quick Meeting : Conduct a quick video meeting with Winklix and clients team wherein the aim will be to introduce everyone , make them understand what all the project is about , how will each person will get involved individually and collectively and future planned activities .
Pre-reads / pre-work : Both teams are equally responsible to provide the necessary documentation in relation to project to be read in advance that helps in gaining insights about discovery phase .
Agendas : Always try to crystal clear the agenda in advance so that every participants can prepare themselves in advance for discovery phase . Always try to consider different time zones and remember that we are humans , and it is quite obvious to have breakthrough of mistakes .
Duration : This said , if you have a meeting which last longer than 90 minutes , try to break them into sessions of smaller minutes . Try to also give clear break during meeting and finding engaging ways for persons who are present in meeting .
Audience : Although their may be times you may require many people to be part of audience in order to gain interaction and participants for given agenda , however you can on the basis of priority can invoice the audience .
Material & Preparation : As all team members might not be present all the time in future , always try to provide them with relevant material , flow , software requirement sheet and more during meeting only .
Technology : Winklix after listening to client requirement , tries to make familiar the client with the technology we are going to use which best suits their requirement .

Project Build

Project building phase requires both client and Winklix team to work closely , all together . We try to facilitate all our works remotely by using different tools and with our active client participation , as after all we are making the products as per their demand .
At Winklix , we dynamically change ourself as per client requirement . We use to collect feedback and adjust between sprints . Some of the major benefits of getting into virtual environment is we saves travel time , can experience face to face meeting and can start direct conversation using Slack , setting reminders in calendar and more . By this way people closely focuses on their work , rather than wasting time on other non sense things .

Validation

Validation is the time wherein we validate with our clients for the solution that is made by us for them in relation to awesome user experience and satisfying business needs . In order to complete this phase , we make use of different tools like Jira , SalesForce DX and Circle CI to carry on our testing , revision and easily push adjustments from time to time .

Training

As training is equally important as delivering the software solution to our clients , we help to strive companies empower end users with platform knowledge that can set team for success . We create various training material why is easily accessible like Trailheads , videos , knowledge article in Salesforce and more so that it can be used by present staff as well as remote staff who was present during training session .

Project Launch

A project is said to be really launched , when our clients begin real use fo software and started gaining value from it . For almost all of our project , we use to launch it remotely . This helps our clients to enjoy the benefit of fully remote enablement . And then at last we work with our client to create a launch plan which includes final testing , acceptance and user enablement .

Support After go-live

If you are adopting to anything new , you will always have sets of questions in your mind . Thereby it is important for us to answer every question that may arise after launch of software to enable our clients to effetely evolved with software along with their team . At Winklix , our project development is not one time thing , rather we treat it as ongoing relationship that can take on various forms and we always try to support our clients at every point of time during their journey .

End To End Support Irrespective Of Geological Boundaries

Although we only have presence on some countries of the world , we provide support services on global scale irrespective of different time zones . We have experience on Salesforce Technology , SAP Technology , Microsoft Dynamic 365 and remote delivery .

So in case you are in need of support services or want to fully switch to remote operations due to COVID-19 or want assistance in maintaining your Salesforce org at distance , contact us .