Let's Google It: How To Transform Your Business With Google Cloud

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How to Transform Your

2021/22

Business Fast with Google Cloud Improve operational efficiency, establish cutting edge data capabilities, and cost-optimise on Google Cloud.

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Operational Efficiency: It’s a Capability Conversation PAGE 4

Migrate Your

2.1 Migrate SAP and VMs to drive ROI and reduce costs

Infrastructure

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PAGE 6 2.2 Migrate Hadoop clusters to streamline cost management PAGE 8

2.3 Run Oracle workloads in the Cloud to decrease reliance on-premises PAGE 9

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Modernise your

3.1 Leverage Anthos to unlock agility and reduce IT costs

Applications and

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Data Platforms PAGE 10

3.2 Unlock increased scalability and advanced data analytics PAGE 10

3.3 Embrace a truly modern architecture for sustainable growth PAGE 11

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Innovate on

4.1 Embrace AI and enhance the customer experience

Google Cloud

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PAGE 12 4.2 Boost cloud cost visibility and control through purpose-built tools PAGE 12

4.3 Transform team collaboration with Google Workspace PAGE 13

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Paving the Way for a Dynamic Future on Google Cloud PAGE 14

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1. Operational Efficiency: It’s a Capability Conversation As businesses consider how to

This is easier said than done, with organisations

weather the road ahead, many

facing key challenges, including:

need to make tough decisions about how to allocate resources.

For most, it’s not simply a case of spending less; it’s about ensuring you have the capabilities in place to maintain business continuity, drive revenue, and

Unpredictable Business Conditions Businesses must keep pace with dramatically changing requirements to survive and thrive. To innovate quickly, IT teams need solutions that decrease time to market, while providing the agility and scalability to address any requirements thrown their way.

ensure business growth at scale.

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New Investment Needs Organisations must adapt to new business models while ensuring teams have the tools needed to maintain optimum productivity outside of the office. IT must now prioritise projects that weren’t in the budget to ensure your business can pivot and survive.

Limited Visibility and Control Not all businesses have a complete picture of their IT spend to make educated decisions about where and how to reduce costs - or whether to reinvest in other strategic areas. IT needs granular visibility and intelligent services that remove the guesswork from cost and resource optimisation, while providing robust governance to prevent overspending.

In the current global climate, it’s crucial to be armed with the knowledge, understanding and tools to ensure your organisation can prioritise its investments, foster cutting edge capabilities at scale, and optimise costs for long-term business success.

In this white paper, you’ll discover the key areas your business needs to prioritise to uncover operational efficiencies, establish cutting edge capabilities, and optimise costs on Google Cloud.

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2. Migrate Your Infrastructure The Cloud offers enterprises a wealth of benefits,

Encountering scalability and concurrency

from cost efficiencies and access to managed services,

constraints is becoming increasingly common,

to more Agile development. Plus, not owning or

while others are looking for cost reduction

operating your own data centres, or paying for an

opportunities; this can include migrating non-

additional virtualisation layer significantly reduces

production workloads like disaster recovery, test,

costs. Nevertheless, many businesses naturally find

and development to pay-per-use models.

the process of migrating SAP and VMs daunting.

2.1 Migrate SAP and VMs to drive ROI and reduce costs

Moving to the Cloud offers a way to solve all of these challenges and pave the way for greater business agility. In many cases, a simple ‘lift and shift’ of SAP infrastructure to Google Cloud can be accomplished in as little as six to eight weeks.

SAP can be among the most business-critical applications in the enterprise - and the most

Did you know? Our approach to migrating

costly. Businesses in industries such as consumer

systems of record like SAP to the Cloud can result

products, retail, and distribution are depending

in a 46% lower three-year cost of operations.

on their SAP systems more than ever, especially for e-commerce and supply chain analytics.

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IDC, June 2020

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To understand the cost benefits of moving to the Cloud in more detail, why not request a free IT cloud cost assessment to receive your own customised report?

When it comes to VM migration, there are two

2. To migrate your VMs and run them directly

simple ways to migrate your VMs to Google Cloud:

in Google Compute Engine, try Migrate for

1. If you want to purely lift and shift your VMware VMs, you can migrate to a fully managed VMware environment on Google Cloud using VMware Engine. This allows you to run VMware natively in

Compute Engine at no additional cost, which can migrate your VMs from on-premises or other clouds directly into Compute Engine. This delivers a fast and frictionless migration.

the Cloud, just like you do on-premises. This means

Google Cloud VMs are billed on a per-second

your existing VMware-based workloads can benefit

basis with no upfront costs or termination fees,

from the Cloud’s performance, scale, and security

saving you more even as your needs grow. With

without having to refactor them when you migrate.

automatic, app-specific sizing recommendations

With Google Cloud, you can provision your VMware environment in minutes and migrate your VMwarebased environments without major modifications.

Plus, you’ll benefit from Google Cloud’s management, networking services, operating platform and backend infrastructure at scale.

and custom machine types, VMs on Google Cloud give you exactly what you need and boot in a matter of seconds. Running them in Compute Engine makes them easier to modernise into containers, for example, running on Google Kubernetes Engine using Migrate for Anthos.

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How do your business’ data capabilities stack up?

Access our free Data Maturity Calculator today to find out.

2.2 Migrate Hadoop clusters to streamline cost management Popular data processing tools like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark require a careful balancing act between cost, complexity, scale and utilisation.

Unfortunately, this means focusing less on your data, and more on the cluster processing it.

Dataproc, Google Cloud’s managed Apache Spark and Hadoop cloud service, rectifies that imbalance.

ESG research shows that hosting the same

their big data workloads to the Cloud to gain cost

data using Dataproc is 57% less expensive

advantages with per-second pricing, idle cluster

than using on-premises servers.

deletion, autoscaling, VM flexibility and more.

These purpose-built, short-lived clusters allow data

Dataproc is a fast, easy to use, fully managed cloud

engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to quickly

service for running managed open source clusters

spin up and down resources without larger upfront

in a simpler, more cost-efficient way. Not only

IT costs, accelerating analytics development.

is Dataproc easier to manage, but many Google Cloud customers have successfully migrated

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Our Bare Metal Solution consists of all the infrastructure you need to run your specialised workload, such as Oracle Database, close to Google Cloud. This infrastructure is connected with a dedicated, low-latency, and highly resilient interconnect, and connects to all native Google Cloud services.

By deploying Oracle workloads on Bare Metal Solution, you can reduce up to 50% of your licensing cost compared to other public cloud vendors. How,

2.3 Run Oracle workloads

you ask? The hardware for Bare Metal Solution is located in a colocation facility close to a Google

in the Cloud to reduce

data centre. As a result, you can continue to pay the same on-premises licensing costs rather

reliance on-premise

than cloud licensing costs and leverage cloud-like

Many businesses want to embrace the Cloud without

features like no upfront hardware investment.

disrupting their existing IT landscape or upgrading all

Many of the workloads that run on Bare Metal

their legacy applications. This presents a conundrum,

Solution have demanding CPU and I/O requirements.

as most legacy applications weren’t designed to run

Bare Metal Solution provides a cost-effective and

in the Cloud. At Appsbroker, we can help you craft a

scalable architecture based on state of the art x86

migration strategy that lets you run what you want,

servers and high-performance, resilient storage.

where you want, how you want on Google Cloud.

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3. Modernise your Applications and Data Platforms 3.1 Leverage Anthos to unlock agility and reduce IT costs In times of uncertainty, you need an architecture

today’s explosive data growth - and aren’t optimised to run advanced analytics or scale quickly and efficiently.

According to the IDC, the amount of data will grow from 33 ZB in 2018 to 175 ZB by 2025.

that gives you the agility and flexibility to help you weather change - and even take advantage of it.

New, container-based cloud-native tools help to serve this need. However, enterprises need solutions from a trusted company that truly understands these technologies. These solutions can help you get started without any infrastructure change, enabling you to develop, secure, and manage apps at scale across growing hybrid cloud environments.

Anthos is Google Cloud’s application modernisation platform for hybrid and multicloud environments.

It includes a packaged and integrated set of cloudnative tools and services based on leading open source technologies that aim to simplify and accelerate app modernisation both on-premises and in public clouds. Anthos helps you cut licensing and training costs and increase development speed and enhance operational efficiency.

They’re also extremely expensive to purchase and maintain, and easily run out of capacity, leaving them unable to keep up with increased business analytics demands. Data warehouse modernisation allows you to solve for today’s growing analytics needs by increasing agility and efficiency with serverless analytics - all at a reduced cost.

Cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery drive insights and actions faster as consumer behaviour rapidly shifts in today’s climate, which will help you make smarter, informed decisions and improve business operations. The rest of Google Cloud’s smart analytics platform makes it easy to ingest data from various sources in the most cost efficient way for your business; it also provides easy access to advanced analytics through AI and machine learning.

To learn more, take the data warehouse

Forrester Research suggests that the total economic benefits of Anthos range from $15.3 million to $42.8 million over three years.

maturity assessment, or find out more about Google Cloud’s data warehouse migration offer to start your modernisation journey.

To get the most value out of your data while controlling

To find out more, check out Forrester’s New Technology Projection: The Total Economic Impact of Anthos report.

3.2 Unlock increased scalability and advanced data analytics Legacy data warehouses such as Teradata, built for a

costs, your organisation must leverage its infrastructure to connect people with data in new and smarter ways.

This requires a new approach to BI, analytics, and data processing. Looker is the analytics layer that leverages BigQuery to help businesses go beyond traditional reports and dashboards to fully harness their data. With Looker and BigQuery together, data teams can leverage the power of a Modern Data Platform to put data in the hands of those who

batch processing paradigm, weren’t designed to handle

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need it. Using Looker and BigQuery together will

At Appsbroker, we’ll help you conduct an assessment

enable your organisation to optimise costs, manage

on your entire mainframe environment and then

demand, and drive better business outcomes.

present a view of your system with logical clusters that highlight your organisation’s services. Based

To learn how you can get insights faster

on this outcome, you’ll be able to create a roadmap

and cut your analyst workload by 70% using

to a modern services architecture, making it

a centralised data model, visit Looker &

easier than ever to plan your cloud journey.

BigQuery: A match made for the Cloud.

You can convert legacy languages to cloud-

3.3 Embrace a truly

enabled programming languages like JAVA or

modern architecture for

Google Cloud’s open source and highly performant

sustainable growth

applications for modern environments.

.NET, as well as legacy database technology to cloud database technologies to prepare your

Plus, automated data migration means you can

For decades, companies relied on a mainframe architecture to run their mission-critical workloads.

However, in the current environment, many are growth - and a shrinking talent pool to operate them.

its mainframe environments by breaking down

value and drive new and innovative use cases in data analytics and data warehousing.

seeing a growth in costs that outpaces revenue

Google Cloud can help your business optimise

easily move your mainframe data to unlock its

How do your business’ data capabilities stack up? Access our free Data Maturity Calculator today to find out.

mainframe code and offloading processes into cloud-native services with minimal risk to ensure business continuity.

Organisations that use data effectively are: 2.3x more likely to succeed during industry disruptions (Forrester, 2019)

6x more likely to retain customers

19x more likely to be profitable (McKinsey Quarterly, 2016)

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4. Innovate on Google Cloud 4.1 Embrace AI and

4.2 Boost cloud cost

enhance the customer

visibility and control

experience

through purpose-

As entire industries have shifted to

built tools

meet customer needs in new and unexpected ways, many organisations

Once you’ve migrated to the Cloud, having a

are experiencing dramatic spikes in

complete picture of your costs, plus controls

customer queries and support requests.

in place that help you optimise resources,

Applying AI speech and language

can help you drive greater efficiency.

understanding models can help your

To help with this, Google Cloud provides

businesses answer simple questions

a robust set of no-cost billing and cost

promptly, freeing up contact centre agents

management tools that can give you

to focus on more complex customer needs.

the visibility and insights you need to

Contact Centre AI was designed to do

keep up with your cloud deployment.

exactly that, providing a first line of

Billing reports can give you an at a glance

response through 24/7 conversational

view of your costs, and you can use labels to

self-service support via chat or over

attribute costs back to departments or teams

the phone. Organisations can stand

and build your own custom dashboards for

up new chatbot-based services within

a more granular view of your costs. You can

two weeks to help respond to their

also use quotas, budgets, and alerts to closely

customers more quickly and efficiently.

monitor current cost trends and forecast them over time to prevent overspending.

To learn more, try out the Google Workspace business value calculator for free.

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To learn more about Google Cloud Cost Management

But keeping teams connected and productive

tools and resources, see Google Cloud’s Guide to Cloud

outside the office has never been more challenging.

Billing and watch their Beyond Your Bill video series.

For many businesses, this has meant needing to

What’s more, built-in cloud operations tools like Cloud Monitoring and Logging let you view performance,

quickly shift to cloud-based collaboration tools to support effective remote work and collaboration.

uptime, and health metrics, with flexible alerting

Google Workspace is a complete, cloud-based

and reporting options. Cloud Monitoring also lets

productivity solution that includes video meetings,

you easily see multiple cloud sources with support

group chat, and document collaboration apps that

for AWS and on-premises apps and systems.

were built in the Cloud from day one and are trusted by six million companies and organisations worldwide.

4.3 Transform team

To help everyone in your organisation stay connected,

collaboration with

and collaborate remotely, no matter where they’re

Google Workspace

Google Meet enables employees to keep in touch working from; all you need is a Gmail account.

Adopting Google Workspace can also pay dividends

Migrating to the Cloud is only one piece of

elsewhere; many businesses have seen revenue

the operational efficiency puzzle; your teams

growth, increased efficiency, risk reduction, and

also need tools that allow them to collaborate

cost savings by switching to Google Workspace.

seamlessly and work from anywhere.

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5. Paving the Way for a Dynamic Future on Google Cloud Digital transformation is inevitable, and so for the majority of organisations, moving to the Cloud is not an ‘if’ conversation, but ‘when’. While the benefits of moving to the Cloud are wellknown, many businesses still find the prospect daunting.

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Remember that every business is unique; your cloud migration journey will be too. No matter your timeline or objectives, at Appsbroker, we can help you pave the way for a dynamic future on Google Cloud by:

Assessing your

Helping to develop

Supporting you

existing portfolio

your cloud roadmap

at every stage of the process

Unlocking advanced

Optimising your

Upskilling your

capabilities to

cloud environment

teams during and

drive revenue

for longevity

post-migration

How do your business’ data capabilities stack up? Access our free Data Maturity Calculator today to find out.

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