New Way Now: Orica unearths data-driven success with Google Cloud and SAP

*Featured in this video:* Rachael Sandel, Chief Information Officer at Orica *Executive summary:* Orica, a global leader in mining and infrastructure solutions, set out to simplify and modernize its IT infrastructure, migrating its extensive SAP enterprise resource planning system to Google Cloud in just 18 weeks. Orica also seized the opportunity to redesign its backup processes with Backup and Disaster Recovery Service, improving the resilience of its environment. The move has already delivered significant results: 18.5% faster response times across business-critical SAP applications and databases, reduced backup times from 16 hours to 20 minutes, and other performance improvements — one monthly business planning job now takes 50% less time, eliminating the need to schedule it on weekends. In addition, Orica can now tap Google Cloud’s powerful ecosystem to support its data transformation journey, including building an enterprise data warehouse on BigQuery and using Vertex AI to train custom models on SAP data to enable faster insights and better decision-making. *Challenge:* Despite consolidating and standardizing its global SAP processes on a single S/4 HANA instance in 2020, Orica faced increasing challenges with its existing environment, including performance issues, high costs, and scalability. Orica sought to modernize its infrastructure to better support evolving reporting demands from the business and extract greater value from its SAP data. *Solution:* With Google Cloud and SAP’s partnership to build open data and AI for enterprises, Orica saw an opportunity to not only modernize but also improve its resilience and bring advanced analytics to its SAP data. Orica migrated its extensive SAP enterprise resource planning system to Google Cloud in just 18 weeks. With SAP-certified infrastructure on Google Cloud, Orica can now easily scale to meet its needs while running its SAP workloads more reliably, securely, and cost-effectively. With Backup and Disaste