About Lemongrass
Lemongrass helps some of the world’s largest and most complex users of SAP migrate and operate their mission-critical SAP workloads on hyperscale cloud. With Cloud-focused services including end-to-end support for the entire customer lifecycle spanning planning, discovery, migration, operation, automation, innovation, and data analytics, Lemongrass helps customers execute strategic plans and achieve their desired outcomes by realizing the full benefits of running SAP on hyperscale cloud.
LCP is Lemongrass’s governance, management, and automation orchestration solution that leverages proven methods for onboarding to the cloud and enables optimized operations for SAP and its related workloads. Over 750,000 SAP users across the leading cloud platforms leverage LCP every day.
At-a-Glance
Lemongrass helps SAP customers leverage SUSE and hyperscale cloud platforms for greater agility, efficiency and reduced costs with their monolithic on-premises SAP landscape. Using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and SUSE Manager, Lemongrass enables customers to smoothly transition their SAP workloads from on-premises to the cloud.
Why Lemongrass
With over 8,000 successful SAP cloud migrations completed, Lemongrass stands as a trusted partner with unparalleled experience and expertise in the SAP on Cloud space. Leading enterprises across the globe have harnessed the firm’s deep understanding of SAP and hyperscale cloud platforms to migrate and operate their SAP workloads in the cloud with greater agility and efficiency.
Lemongrass differentiates itself from other providers with its team of highly experienced SAP specialists, who hold the highest certifications in the field, and cutting-edge solutions underpinned by LCP. These solutions include:
LCP Migrate
LCP Migrate is a migration solution that empowers organizations to seamlessly migrate their largest and most complex SAP environments to the Cloud with near-zero downtime. Unlike conventional approaches, LCP Migrate leverages automation and predefined workflows to ensure a smooth and non-disruptive transition to the Cloud. With this solution, organizations can migrate SAP environments with databases ranging from 10TB to over 150TB with only 4 to 12 hours of technical downtime, enabling them to quickly embrace the advantages of the Cloud and avoid business disruption during the migration.
Minimized Downtime Operations (MDO™) for SAP
MDO is a premium managed services solution that eliminates planned downtime for common SAP maintenance activities in the Cloud. Leveraging LCP’s object model, the solution streamlines SAP on Cloud operations, enabling the seamless execution of system upgrades, patching, scaling, and refresh. With MDO, organizations can realize greater system reliability, security, faster updates, and scalability, transforming their SAP operations in the cloud.
memory applications, such as SAP HANA.”
Why SUSE
Since Lemongrass’s inception in 2008, the company has been leveraging SLES for SAP Applications — both to support its own SAP usage and its customers’ workloads. There are two key reasons for this: first, the SUSE operating system is commonly used to develop SAP solutions; and second, it is certified to run mission-critical SAP workloads, including memory-intensive SAP HANA applications. These points exemplify the reliability SUSE delivers when running SAP landscapes of all sizes.
Furthermore, by providing a compatible platform for virtually all SAP systems, SUSE makes it easier for Lemongrass to transition customers from their legacy solutions to SAP HANA. Nearly all of large Lemongrass’ customers run on SLES for SAP Applications: “It’s the platform of choice, especially for in-memory applications, such as SAP HANA,” explains Kausik Chaudhuri, CIO of Lemongrass.
Aside from the technological advantages, Lemongrass also cites its working relationship with SUSE as a key benefit — Chaudhuri calls the relationship “dynamic and responsive.” In practice, SUSE maintains an open culture with Lemongrass, providing additional support when needed, helping Lemongrass develop new solutions, and even implementing recommendations based on feedback. Both Lemongrass and their customers benefit from this collaboration.
Hyperscale Cloud and SUSE Together
By combining SLES for SAP Applications and AWS, Lemongrass can alleviate much of the operational overhead that drives up costs for SAP customers. Chaudhuri explains, “If you look at what most organizations spend, typically 60-70% of the cost of an SAP solution is keeping the lights on-- keeping it up and running and maintaining the landscape.”
Furthermore, many large SAP customers run extensive SAP landscapes, consisting of countless production, as well as non-production workloads that need to be maintained even when they’re not in use. Operating in this manner creates costs that can be significantly reduced with Lemongrass’ solution leveraging SUSE and hyperscale cloud platforms.
Lemongrass focuses heavily on automating common SAP operations and procedures, and it implements DevOps practices built on hyperscale cloud automation capabilities, as well as tools provided by SUSE Manager — an open-source infrastructure management solution that works in tandem with SLES for SAP Applications. Using SUSE Manager, customers can manage and update their SAP HANA resources while incurring near-zero downtime.
The DevOps implementation by Lemongrass enables customers to:
- Spin up specific SAP systems in a self-service, on-demand manner with daily cost transparency.
- Recover SAP data and systems builds from a specific point in time via continuous backups.
- Work off the most recent and most accurate copies of production data.
- Automate business operations and thus, maintain and patch systems without having to shut them down.
- Ensure system security and compliance through SUSE's robust operating system platform, which offers enterprise-grade security features and compliance standards that are further enhanced by Lemongrass's tailored DevOps strategies for SAP environments.
Looking Forward
The combination of hyperscale infrastructure and SUSE also gives Lemongrass a reliable solution for running resource-intensive SAP systems, helping more and more enterprises move their large-scale SAP environments to the cloud.