SAP Cloud Platform – Streamline your operations

The SAP Cloud Platform enables organisations to rapidly and cost effectively deliver innovative products and services – underpinning SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise vision. A computing service built to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the underlying infrastructure, SAP Cloud Platform is a true Platform as a Service (PaaS).

Keytree was an early adopter of the SAP Cloud Platform with a range of successful projects and deployments in the field and was acknowledged as a market leader when presented with the SAP EMEA Excellence Award for the SAP Cloud Platform 2017 and named a finalist for the Global SAP Pinnacle Award for the SAP Cloud Platform Partner of the Year 2017. As a leading SAP partner Keytree is ideally placed to ensure customers maximise the benefits available on this platform.

SAP Cloud Platform provides the following:

  • Application containers, storage and databases for robust deployment of innovative apps
  • SAP Cloud Platform Functions for cost efficient serverless deployment
  • A toolkit of hosted microservices providing ready to go business functions to incorporate into apps
  • Development and integration tools to connect disparate systems together
  • Specialist services such as Internet of Things and API management
  • Big data and analytics
  • Uses open source standard technologies to avoid vendor lock-in
  • Deployment to multiple infrastructure providers including SAP, AWS, Google and Microsoft providing a global reach

Why Keytree?

  • We are one of the first in the world to put a product live on SAP Cloud Platform. We built Matrix Booking on SAP Cloud Platform, and rely on it daily for our internal products
  • Successful SAP Cloud Platform adoption is not just about the deployment of the platform – it’s a digital solution that facilitates the delivery of portals, and the enablement of Enterprise Digital and Keytree is a market leader in the provision of Portals and Enterprise Digital
  • Our unique strengths in the areas of research, design, integration and platform deployment place us at the forefront of SAP Cloud Platform adoption
  • We have a dual focus on consulting skills and technical ability
  • We are an agile company that will respond quickly and flexibly to your SAP Cloud Platform requirements
  • We possess a suite of tested tools and DevOps processes to support efficient SAP Cloud Platform development

SAP Cloud Platform benefits

  • Apps delivered as a native mobile app or a HTML5 app accessed via a browser
  • SAP Cloud Connector provides a bridge between on-premise and public cloud
  • No infrastructure set-up or management
  • Easy access to SAP ECC functions from a web-facing application
  • Combine cost-effectiveness and the rapid delivery provided by SaaS with the flexibility traditionally only associated with on-premise
  • A drag and drop development environment for integrations
  • Integrate and manage Internet of Things devices
  • Building blocks provided ‘out of the box’
  • Single sign-on (SSO) integration with Cloud solutions

Extending on-premise

We help organisations to quickly provide new digital services and apps to their customers, partners and employees.

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Extending cloud

We provide clients with the ability to add additional functionality to existing Cloud services via SAP Cloud Platform.

Integration

By utilising SAP integration packages, we seamlessly integrate a broad range of solutions including the full suite of SAP C/4HANA services.

Building new apps

We have a strong track record of creating and delivering apps following the extend not customise mantra.

“Working with the Keytree team, and drawing on their expertise in SAP Cloud technology, proved invaluable as we moved away from on premise applications. The Keytree delivery methodology enabled BP to migrate a selection of apps to SAP Cloud Platform quickly and efficiently.”

Ed Alford – Vice President of Enterprise Systems at BP

Case Studies – SAP Cloud Platform

  • pladis Global

    Keytree used SAP Cloud Platform to deliver enhanced warehouse management at plaidis Global – part of a business transformation programme that was aligned with a strategic decision made by pladis to drive a new consumer-centric operating model. The biscuit, chocolate and confectionery company was on a journey that would streamline operations, and enable profitable growth by implementing a new digital technology platform.

    Keytree was selected as the SAP partner of choice to handle the implementation and rollout of S/4HANA but during delivery, a requirement for “bin level” warehouse management was identified.

    Following an extend not customise implementation philosophy for Cloud ERP, Keytree built a new improved mobile app using the SAP Cloud Platform for app backend services, which is now used on specialist ruggedised devices suitable for the warehouse. The new warehouse management app provides full bin-level stock management function, scanning, printing and reporting – all delivered in less than ten weeks.

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  • JLR Experience

    SAP Cloud Platform allows Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to provide individual and corporate customers with the opportunity to undertake exhilarating experiences in their vehicles to showcase their unique capabilities. This online journey aims to guarantee customers get an online experience that befits the JLR brand.

    Before working with Keytree, JLR Experience had a minimal online presence. Customers would need to call the experience centres to enquire about the types of experiences available before discussing availability and price. In turn, this meant staff spent a lot of time on the phone – neglecting visitors to the centre and also promoting a very reactive environment.

    SAP Cloud Platform gives JLR Experience a powerful branded marketing tool, which gives customers a much more visual flavour of the Experience Day and provides them with all the information they need to tailor the day to their requirements. For the first time, booking a JLR Experience can now be completed via the JLR website.

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  • BP

    BP developed, with its partners, a series of mobile apps that enable staff to complete tasks and operations efficiently – developed on the on-premise SAP Mobile Platform.

    As BP shifts to more flexible cloud-based platforms, it chose SAP Cloud Platform as the PaaS for the new era of apps, and Keytree was instrumental in helping BP to switch over 25 apps to SAP Cloud Platform.

    To enable rapid delivery of the migration, the project followed a “no change” mantra. Given its scale, BP has a complex internal system landscape with many different versions of backend systems and several different ‘sign on’ mechanisms; therefore, Keytree built a ‘pattern’ approach to enable the apps to be grouped and migrated efficiently.

    Keytree deployed ‘technical proving’ (for each app); a series of tests to check ‘sign on’ from the cloud through to all the backend systems – this approach allowed Keytree to ‘prove’ it functioned as required. Only a few minor changes were made to the apps, with no impact on the end user.

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