The GEA Group is one of the largest system providers
for the food processing industry and many other sectors.
GEA employs 18,000 people in over 60 countries.
About one quarter of the milk processed worldwide
passes through GEA plants,
one in two litres of beer is brewed using GEA equipment,
and one in three coffee processing lines is made by GEA.
GEA is a group that has grown very locally.
With some 300 locations, we operate all around the globe.
In all these locations we have collected about 3,000 servers currently
where we run about 120 SAP systems,
100 other ERP systems, and thousands of business applications.
Obviously, this can hardly be maintained from a central perspective.
Also, for future growth it is vital to further standardize here.
Now we are bringing these structures under control.
We migrate our whole server farm and the SAP environment to the Azure platform.
In eight months, we have migrated 120 SAP systems onto Azure
without any significant business impact.
During this process, we have transformed large systems to HANA databases
and have always used new open source operating systems and new databases.
Parallel to this, we have already migrated around 800 server workloads
onto the Microsoft Azure platform.
The migration was incredibly quick.
We designed the cloud architecture within three months,
but we did not plan individual workloads in advance.
Instead, we changed the selection of the machines
and used the latest features in the Azure portfolio.
The transformation of server infrastructure to cloud services
is in line with our IT strategy.
We also let the cloud services be managed
by our global IT outsourcing provider.
We do all of this to relieve the GEA IT employees from administrative work.
We believe that Microsoft Azure is the leading cloud platform
for uniform hybrid cloud environments.
Azure meets the most demanding requirements in order to operate
the SAP environment, as well as applications
relevant to the production, in a stable manner.
Here, the scalability of solutions plays a huge role.
With the move to Microsoft Azure, GEA has also reduced its costs.
By going into the Microsoft cloud,
we have gained full control of our IT infrastructure.
In the future, we will be able to test and deploy Industry 4.0
and artificial intelligence applications in the cloud.
This, and the integration with Office 365, were the key factors
for choosing Microsoft as GEA's strategic partner for cloud.
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