Shortfacts - June 2016

RWE moves SAP HR system to AWS

RWE Ceská republika (CZ) belongs to RWE East and is a wholly owned subsidiary of RWE AG. The company has just migrated its SAP HR system to the Amazon Web Services Cloud. Until recently, the solution was hosted on-premise in the data center in Brno.

The migration is part of the future strategy that Michael Neff, Managing Director of RWE IT, presented back in 2013. It provides for two basic principles for the internal transformation of IT: "Manage - not make" and "Cloud - first". As part of this strategy, RWE decided to no longer provide basic IT infrastructure services.

As a result, RWE will probably shut down the data center in Brno by the end of 2016. Although the SAP HR system is not one of the core business applications, it is nevertheless of central importance. The application was therefore the first to be designated for migration to the cloud.

RWE chose the application for a flagship project to promote the cloud migration of non-core applications throughout the company. With the switch, RWE aimed to reduce the resource requirements of the system in the Brno data center. In addition, the operating costs for the SAP HR solution were to be reduced by ten percent.