
## Challenge

Mygo, a leading SAP partner, had the significant task of showcasing the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA, including its cutting-edge features and the Fiori UX. But a myriad of challenges affected their demonstration process:

1. **Data quality constraints:** An optimal showcase of SAP S/4HANA requires systems replete with quality data. However, Mygo's systems, often used for testing, training, and development lacked this pristine state.

2. **Lack of system flexibility:** Each industry demands a unique system configuration. This limitation prevents a single system from being adaptable to multiple demos, hindering operational flexibility.

3. **Provisioning bottlenecks:** Despite the advanced nature of SAP S/4HANA, provisioning a new system was largely a manual process. This not only led to time inefficiencies but also escalated costs.

The sum of these challenges risked Mygo's ability to present SAP S/4HANA's capabilities in their best light, potentially missing out on business opportunities.


## Solution

To rectify this, Mygo partnered with Nuve to introduce automation into their demonstration processes:

1. **Tailored backups for S/4HANA:** With Nuve's automation technology, Mygo was empowered to maintain multiple industry-specific backups of SAP S/4HANA, ensuring every demo ran on a relevant system, optimized to display features like Fiori UX.

2. **Assured data quality:** Nuve's solutions helped each isolated system maintain its data quality, ensuring the true power of SAP S/4HANA and Fiori was evident during every demo.

3. **Automated provisioning:** Replacing manual processes with Nuve's automated solutions, the provisioning of new SAP S/4HANA systems became seamless, reducing setup times and associated costs drastically.

## Results

### Post automation

1. **Enhanced SAP S/4HANA demos:** Mygo's demonstrations began reflecting the true capabilities of SAP S/4HANA and the Fiori UX, offering a comprehensive view to clients without concerns over the underlying technical infrastructure.

2. **Elevated customer engagement:** The finesse in demos meant potential clients could see the exact benefits of SAP S/4HANA for their industry, boosting their interest and trust in Mygo.

3. **Operational and economic efficiency:** The automation streamlined Mygo's internal processes, and the savings from automated provisioning further justified their move towards automation with Nuve.

### The path ahead

In embracing automation for their SAP S/4HANA demos, [Mygo](https://mygoconsulting.com/en-us/) set a gold standard for SAP partners, optimizing client engagement and operational efficiency.

Mygo's journey to flawless demos with automation


## Challenge

Redfig has been leading the way for businesses looking for innovative SAP solutions. They offer full-service cloud software, using SAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP) to create modern, mobile-friendly web applications.

Redfig had a lot of experience with ECC systems, but moving to S/4HANA was a big step. They needed to get their team up to speed and transfer their applications from ECC to S/4HANA. Their goal was to deliver efficient solutions across different backend systems within just 30 days.

## Solution

Nuve came in to help Redfig meet this challenge. Here's what we did:

- **Quick system setup**: With Nuve, Redfig can now quickly set up both ECC and S/4HANA systems. This cuts down on setup times and lets them test across different SAP environments before going live with clients.

- **Training and transition support**: We provided comprehensive training for Redfig's team on S/4HANA, making sure they could smoothly transition from ECC. This helped them update their applications and take full advantage of S/4HANA's features.

- **Cost-efficient operation**: Redfig doesn't need to keep systems running 24/7. Using Nuve's adaptable platform, they only run SAP systems when needed. This approach helps them stay cost-effective.

- **Easy cloud integration**: Redfig's focus on modern, user-friendly interfaces is supported by Nuve's automation, which makes setting up cloud connectors quick and easy. This smooth integration helps Redfig enhance their cloud-based collaborations and ERP capabilities.

*"Nuve's on-demand SAP solutions brought about a revolution at Redfig. The financial advantages were clear, but the real success is in enhancing our agility and customer-centric focus."* - **Olavo Figueiredo**, Partner at Redfig

## Results

Working with Nuve has led to:

1. Greater operational flexibility, making it easier for Redfig's clients to use advanced cloud solutions.
2. A successful blend of modern technology with traditional ERP systems, evident in their innovative web applications.
3. Improved business workflows, ensuring everything runs smoothly, securely, and efficiently.



Redfig merges speed and efficiency with Nuve


At Neptune Software, IT departments and their developers are seen as the changemakers and heroes behind every business operation. This belief is fundamental to Neptune's mission: to simplify and streamline the developers’ tasks by equipping them with the leading low-code, SAP-centric enterprise app development platform – Neptune DXP SAP Edition. 

Neptune DXP is a powerful solution that empowers IT teams to conserve time and resources throughout the development, integration, and operation stages. Furthermore, it excels in digitizing and optimizing business processes and user interfaces, offering remarkable ease and scalability. Ultimately, it provides developers with the tools they need to make their visions a reality.

### Challenge

Despite these notable achievements, a significant challenge emerged. The deployment of Neptune DXP SAP Edition to new customers and updates to existing ones primarily relied on the transport import method. DXP SAP Edition is a powerful solution, fortified by a substantial code base, but it encountered complications due to the diversity of their SAP customer ecosystem. With its myriad of ERP versions and installed component types, the deployment and updating processes of the solution became a complex task.

Neptune's goal was to ensure a seamless solution deployment. This required testing of releases in a minimal SAP environment and the capacity to simulate repetitive imports, facilitating the early identification of transport import issues. Unfortunately, the traditional test method was labor-intensive, inefficient, and prone to errors.

Given the thousands of development objects in their solution, it was essential to locate and rectify these discrepancies systematically prior to customer delivery.

### Solution

To address these challenges, Neptune turned to Nuve and its cutting-edge development platform. Nuve offered a comprehensive solution that allowed Neptune to create clean systems and test their transport import process within minutes, drastically boosting their testing efficiency.

### "Thanks to Nuve's systems, we're now able to anticipate and resolve issues before they reach our customers. The on-demand environments provides us with a level of flexibility previously out of our reach, enabling us to refine our solutions further. This undoubtedly enriches the quality of our product."
&ndash;	 Thorsten Wolf, **Chief Architect Neptune DXP**

When issues were identified, Nuve's system acted as a sandbox, enabling Neptune to experiment and quickly address inconsistencies. This ability, coupled with the capacity to manage thousands of SAP objects, empowered Neptune to detect and correct these inconsistencies pre-delivery, thereby enhancing the quality of their product.

A key advantage of Nuve's solution was the use of isolated development environments for testing, thereby maintaining Neptune's central SAP system's integrity. This ensured their infrastructure stayed undisturbed while facilitating an advanced and thorough product development process.

### Results

Nuve's implementation led to transformative improvements in Neptune Software's release and deployment process. Their ability to identify and eliminate transport inconsistencies during the import phase greatly elevated the quality of their solution. This, in turn, resulted in a substantial reduction in error rates and an evident enhancement in the final product delivered to customers.

Nuve's streamlined development process not only boosted efficiency but also enabled Neptune's team to dedicate their efforts to other value-added tasks.

Nuve's solution dramatically improved Neptune Software's release and deployment processes, illustrating the immense potential of utilizing the right tools to increase efficiency, elevate output, and heighten customer satisfaction.


### About Neptune Software
Neptune Software offers with its Neptune DXP a leading low-code, SAP-centric, enterprise app development platform to digitize and optimize business processes and user interfaces – at scale and with ease.

### About Nuve
Nuve, a revolutionary provider of on-demand SAP systems, is changing the dynamics of the SAP development landscape. Nuve Platform, which can deploy systems in under ten minutes, is founded on agile principles and mirrors the success-enabling workflows adopted by the top 1% of IT teams. Nuve incorporates advanced infrastructure automation with tried-and-true DevOps methodologies, bringing SAP to the forefront of modern development. Nuve's commitment to innovation has earned the trust of SAP teams worldwide, as they help accelerate their journey from concept to deployment, boost team productivity, and minimize operational risk.


Neptune Software transforms deployment process with Nuve


# Accelerating SAP Development at Heliconia Labs with Nuve

## Challenge

Heliconia Labs, under the expert leadership of renowned SAP developer Lars Hvam Petersen, offers a broad range of specialized SAP services. However, setting up and maintaining the infrastructure for an SAP system posed a significant challenge. This task was not only time-consuming but also demanded in-depth knowledge of the Linux operating system, leading to an inefficient allocation of time that diverted focus away from core SAP development tasks.

## Solution

Nuve’s platform emerged as the game-changing solution for Heliconia Labs. With Nuve, Lars could spin up his SAP development system in just a few minutes whenever needed, thus entirely bypassing the intricate and time-intensive process of managing the infrastructure. This shift in responsibility to Nuve enabled Lars to reallocate his efforts towards his passion and area of expertise – SAP development.

## Results

The integration of Nuve’s platform into Heliconia Labs’ operations brought about immediate and tangible benefits. With the burden of infrastructure management lifted, Heliconia Labs saw a significant increase in productivity. More importantly, it brought peace of mind to Lars, who no longer had to worry about infrastructure.
Nuve’s cloud-based system further enhances flexibility, enabling access to the development system from any machine without compromising performance. And, because the system only operates when required, the costs are efficiently managed and remain very reasonable. This seamless transition to Nuve has empowered Heliconia Labs to optimize their SAP development process, streamlining workflows and effectively maximizing their resource utilization.


### About Heliconia Labs
To learn more about Heliconia Labs, visit [https://heliconialabs.com/](https://heliconialabs.com/).


Accelerating SAP Development at Heliconia Labs with Nuve


## Challenge: Developing in SAP is slow, expensive, and risky. 

Most SAP systems are used for critical business tasks, so any changes must be thoroughly tested before release. Creating replica environments for development and testing can also be costly, meaning multiple developers share a single system. Consequently, managing dependencies and version control between changes to the system poses a significant challenge.

In addition, introducing organizational changes can be challenging since workflows are typically well-established. Changing these workflows while maintaining high-release quality can seem daunting.

Interestingly, these are the same challenges developers at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon faced almost two decades ago. However, they found some innovative solutions to overcome these obstacles.

### Status Quo

Waterfall development on a shared development environment with significant manual dependency management.

<img src="/images/customer-stories/future-of-sap-development/status-quo-waterfall.png" alt="Status Quo Waterfall Methodology" />

## Solution: Apply Development Best Practices to SAP Systems

What if the development practices used by companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon were available to SAP developers?

That seemed impossible a few years ago, but with the advent of infrastructure-as-code tools, it is now possible to:

* Set up an isolated SAP development system in less than 10 minutes
* Attach that system to anonymized data or a snap-shot of production data
* Make changes to that system via a modern version control system like GitHub or Bitbucket
* Create and run automated tests on those changes
* Merge into the main branch for release to QAS or PRD

All in parallel, with systems that cost less than a cup of coffee per hour. ☕️

### Now Possible

Each developer runs their own instance and can update their system with changes made by other developers.

<img src="/images/customer-stories/future-of-sap-development/now-possible-modern-architecture.png" alt="Modern workflow with Nuve Platform" />

### Parallel Development

Each developer runs their own container. Git manages discrete changes with version control history.

### Deploys

The main code repo (with the latest changes) can be deployed to QA after automated tests pass and to PRD after UAT passes.

### Continuous Integration

Automated tests, static analysis, and code reviews can all be completed using the same techniques that modern tech companies employ.

## Results: Faster Deploys and Lower Risk

With Nuve Platform's automated development system setups and our modern git workflows, it's now possible to develop on top of SAP in the same ways that Google, Microsoft, and Amazon build their systems.

You can empower your developers to work in parallel, write their own tests to make code more robust, and manage dependencies between changes like the best software companies in the world do.

And we can help you roll it out in a way your organization can digest, generating quick wins and building buy-in along the way. There's no need to do everything at once.

We know how development should work, so let's make it happen together.

If you’d like to see how this can work for your team, [reach out to schedule a call](/learn-more-about-nuve-platform).

### Credits

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Leverage best practices of the last two decades

The Future of SAP Development


## Challenge: Demo Systems Are Expensive Or Messy

We hear the same thing from SAP Partners over and over again: They want to show S/4HANA to prospects with custom data that is relevant to the prospect’s business.

Unfortunately . . .

* Trying to run multiple demos on a single S/4HANA system leads to messy data
* Hosting S/4HANA systems long term, just for demos, is too expensive
* Basis resources are too scarce to manage demo systems

We understand these issues well, and there is a solution.

## Solution: On-Demand Custom Demo Systems

It turns out there’s now a way to customize demos for prospects while keeping costs low.

Here’s how the most innovative Partners do it with Nuve Platform.

**Start from a Blank Template**

Nuve can provide partners with a working S/4HANA system within a few days.

But this isn’t a normal stand-alone S/4HANA system. It’s more like a template. Users can start up as many replicas of this system as they like, and each one is isolated from the others. This means that teams can create one replica for Prospect A’s demo and a separate one for Prospect B’s. Changes to Prospect A’s demo system don’t affect Prospect B’s system, and visa versa. So data stays clean.

The best part: The start-up time for each system is less than 10 minutes.

**Save Backups of Customized Systems for Demo Day**

Nuve Platform allows Partners to save changes to systems as they go, then shut them down to save compute costs. This generally leads to savings of more than 66% over long-term hosted solutions.

The workflow is essentially:

* Start up the demo system for Prospect A at 9:00am
* The team makes customizations throughout the day
* Back up Prospect A’s system at 5:00pm and shut it down to save compute costs
* Re-start the system from the backup the next morning, picking up where they left off

Once the system is customized to spec, the team can create a final backup that is ready for demo day.

**Rehearse the Demo, Roll it Back, and Rehearse Again**

Once the final backup of the demo system is ready, the team can walk through the demo as many times as they like. When they’re done with the rehearsal, they can roll the system back to its pre-demo state. This enables a well rehearsed demo with no surprises on demo day.

**Run the Demo on Demo Day**

Fast forward to demo day. The team has rehearsed multiple times and they know it cold. A few hours before the presentation, the team can spin up a demo system from the final backup - with all the prospect’s customizations included - and they are ready to present.

Final checks can be done prior to the demo. If anybody makes a mistake or changes data in a way that can’t be reversed before the final demo, the team has confidence that they can start up a fresh demo instance in less than 10 minutes.

## Results: Custom Demos at Reasonable Costs

The workflow shared above provides an overview of how Partners can create custom S/4HANA demo systems for prospects at a very reasonable cost.

In summary, they:

* Start from a blank S/4HANA system
* Customize it for the prospect and save a backup that is ready for demo day
* Only run the system while customizing, rehearsing or demoing, to save costs
* Run a well-practiced demo on demo day based on a known backup of a system

If you’d like to see how this can work for your team, [reach out to schedule a call](/learn-more-about-nuve-platform).


Customer Stories

Mygo's journey to flawless demos with automation

Redfig merges speed and efficiency with Nuve

Neptune Software transforms deployment process with Nuve

Accelerating SAP Development at Heliconia Labs with Nuve

The Future of SAP Development

Customized SAP Demos for Prospects