Cirrus SAP Cloud Computing Solution@DSAG congress in Leipzig/Germany

The annual congress of the DSAG (Deutsche SAP Anwendergruppe) themed: Meetingpoint “reality“ was a great opportunity for us to present our SAP Cloud Computing Solution. Together with one of our customers, the Competence Center SAP of the FOITT (Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication) we gave a lecture titled „Measures to support cost cutting in the Public Sector: SAP in the Cloud“.

Jürg Keust, division manager of the CCSAP, and Marcel Richard, innovator and strategic product responsible of the Cirrus SAP Cloud Computing Solution, presented facts and figures of two SAP Cloud applications in the FOITT.

Benefits of the SAP Cloud solution had been demonstrated impressively. The lecture gave concrete practical examples of the advantages of the use of non-business critical systems:

SAP Cloud platforms are project accelerators: they are up and running in 2-3 hours
Cirrus SAP Cloud platforms have unbeaten TCO: marginal investment and low operational cost related to use
Due to on demand services SAP Cloud platforms reduce resource bottlenecks
Gain in transparency: break down of costs; i.e. for organizational units and/or projects

The presentation (in German) is available for download.

Press-Release: SAP Platforms as a Service available to EMEA

Switzerland, August 2010

Swiss based Cirrus Group launches SAP applications as PaaS in the public cloud. There are no prerequisites to comply with to use the „on demand“ SAP platforms. You do not even need a contract or a partnership with SAP. Anybody in EMEA can use the Cirrus SAP Cloud Computing solution. As of now several different platforms including a monthly SAP demo system license can be installed directly and fully automated in the cloud via www.sapcloudcomputing.com.

The Cirrus Group transforms working with SAP platforms in a groundbreaking way: the SAP Cloud Computing solution offers to anybody in the SAP ecosystem the fastest availability of SAP platforms at unrivalled cost. The "on-demand" infrastructure is – as its name says – accessed on demand and is charged for according to the number of units used. You pay only for what you use.

The complete process from the sign up to the creation of you first SAP platform in the cloud is fully automated. Everything that leads you to the SAP platform installation takes place online. All formalities – including the SAP demo system license rental – can be executed directly on the website (www.sapcloudcomputing.com). Short contract durations for the rental of the SAP license are possible (minimum 1 month, no further obligations). All contracts are made on a bilateral basis between the Cirrus Group and the customer.

Primary benefit of the solution

The principal benefit of the Cirrus SAP Cloud Computing solution lies in the short term allocation of additional platforms for non business critical SAP applications. More precisely for systems that will be used for a limited period of time for development or educational, testing and demo purposes and become obsolete afterwards. Or you need a disposable SAP system to build up a prototype or a proof of concept that will be examined and used just for a few weeks.

The concept of the Cirrus SAP Cloud Computing Solution with its underlying motto “to create SAP platforms on demand in the public cloud“ is a perfect answer to the above exposed situation. Several SAP applications that cater for this need are available: SAP ERP 6.0 EhP 4, SAP ERP IDES 6.0 EhP 4, SAP BI 7.05, SAP Enterprise Portal 7.0 EhP 1, SAP Solution Manager 7.0 EhP 1 and SUSE Linux.

Cost

The Cirrus SAP Cloud Computing solution offers an unrivalled cost-performance ratio. The license for a complete SAP ERP demo system with all authorizations (SAP_all) costs only 45 US$ plus the monthly costs for infrastructure. The platform operation costs are calculated following the axiom: „pay only for what you use”.

Benefits

Users of the Cirrus SAP Cloud Computing solution interact merely with the self-explaining, user friendly Web Interface. Any user – even the ones without the least technology know-how – can install a SAP system in the cloud with only a few mouse clicks. While designing the solution special attention was paid to the following elements: absolute user friendliness, compliance with highest security standards, unconfined scalability and unlimited system availability.

The development of innovative IT-solutions has always been Cirrus Group’s credo and mission. Consistently aiming at the success of customers, Cirrus Group dedicates its passion to designing and implementing creative, new IT-solutions – mainly in an SAP context. Cirrus’ management’s early decision to dedicate particular attention to the whole Cloud Computing theme was nothing but a logical consequence. The result of this decision is the Cirrus SAP Cloud Computing solution: A solution that can change your approach to IT. You will no longer have to build up an SAP-system from scratch but can simply access public templates in the cloud that can be individually customized and modified.

You’ll find a detailed description of the solution and the actual pricelist of all available templates on: www.sapcloudcomputing.com

About Cirrus Group

Cirrus Group is an IT-consulting company based in Switzerland that stands for excellent services in IT to Business alignment. Cirrus Group celebrates its 20 year company anniversary in 2010. Cirrus Group’s mission is to enable its customers to master the challenges of today’s complex IT system landscapes. Cirrus Group (being industry neutral) has a vast portfolio of successfully realized SAP and HP Software projects in all of its strategic business fields.

Cirrus Group has about 70 highly qualified employees on the payroll and is a 100% self financed independent company.