Chobani Migrated to SAP on Microsoft Azure to Enhance Innovation in an IT Environment
Microsoft enabled Chobani to create a landscape of digital transformation along with enhanced operations
Challenges
Chobani is a food manufacturing company that grew popular within a very short period of time due to its production of delicious and accessible food. The company started as one man’s dream to the best Greek yogurt and has now expanded into producing oats milk, ready-to-drink cold brew coffee, dairy creamers, and other products. As the company rapidly grew, it acquired different technology tools to meet short-term needs. It operated as a startup and often moved ideas from concept to market in just six to eight months. But to integrate its IT systems and improve visibility and operational effectiveness, Chobani began with its digital transformation process.
Chobani wanted to run its ERP on a single global instance, starting with its North American business and eventually adding Australia. The company needed to select the best cloud platform for its SAP environment. So, the enterprise team chose Microsoft Azure solutions for its agility, pay-as-you-go infrastructure, and easy interoperation with its existing environment.
Initiatives
Adopting Azure fits with Chobani’s business objectives such as building true disaster recovery capabilities, supporting SAP analytics without impacting production servers, and improving productivity. Having decided to run SAP on Azure, Chobani set out to deploy SAP S/4HANA, SAP Process Orchestration, SAP Document Service, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), and SAP Business Object Data Services on Azure.
Chobani’s digital transformation goals included high availability and fast, efficient disaster recovery. The company also wanted access to real-time operational analytics directly from SAP S/4HANA. So, the company worked with Khoj Information Technology, which is also an SAP silver partner and a Microsoft Gold partner. Using Azure Site Recovery and HANA System Replication, Khoj helped Chobani test the reliability and availability of the company’s SAP environment on Azure.
Results
After moving to Azure, Chobani was able to easily spin up the SAP S/4HANA instances it needs without upfront costs. The company has the flexibility to maintain its fast pace of business because it can test application performance and scale up or down before committing to a long-term arrangement. By spinning up virtual machines for disaster recovery testing and then removing them after the test, Chobani saved costs of added hardware. The company also continues to prepare for the future by exploring AI, machine learning, and Azure Logic Apps. So, it is quite safe to say that Chobani’s digital transformation initiatives have been successful with Microsoft Azure technology platforms.
