The SAP BTP Cloud
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Let Us Handle the Heavy Lifting on Your Cloud Journey.
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Navigating Challenges Together
We can help shave the hairy yaks, keep you moving forward, and ensure you’re on the right path.
We simplify SAP technology adoption by helping businesses overcome obstacles that often lead to technical debt. We quickly identify core issues and implement effective solutions, allowing your team to focus on their priorities and deliver business value. This leads to easier-to-support systems, improved productivity, and an efficient SAP cloud platform aligned with your business goals.
As player-coaches, we work alongside your team, sharing our expertise in managing diverse, disparate environments. We meet you where you are, navigating the intricacies of your technology landscape. Our aim is to equip your team with the skills needed to effectively manage and optimize your technology platform. This ensures you're better prepared for future challenges in your evolving business environment.
We provide access to senior technical expertise through adaptable engagement models. We offer principal, lead, and architect-level support in cloud technologies, software development, and SAP systems. This approach delivers cost-effective, specialized knowledge for critical decisions and complex problem-solving, ensuring you have the right expertise when needed, without the overhead of full-time hires.
What We Do
From Day 0 to Day 2 and Beyond.
Let's get you headed in the right direction.
SAP Platform Migration
Migrating complex SAP processes from legacy platforms to modern cloud solutions presents significant challenges. We have successfully assisted large enterprises in transitioning their SAP On-premise and NEO workloads to the Business Technology Platform and Cloud Foundry. Our detailed approach begins with in-depth technical analysis, followed by a tailored migration strategy. We guide the entire process, emphasizing knowledge transfer and change management to ensure minimal disruption and optimized performance in your new cloud environment.
Clean Core BTP Strategy
Long-term SAP customers face inertia and enormous technical debt from heavily customized systems. With ECC support ending in 2027, many feel forced to rush migration without addressing these issues. We have assisted large organizations in breaking this cycle through a detailed assessment of custom developments and integrations in their SAP systems. Our approach provides insights to prioritize customizations for standardization, retirement, or gradual migration to SAP BTP using ABAP Cloud. This enables a measured strategy that balances migration urgency with debt reduction, maximizing S/4HANA Cloud's benefits while aligning with your organization’s digital transformation goals.
Legacy Application Modernization
You have large legacy SAP applications which need modernizing. Our team has worked with complex, custom-developed systems that no longer meet evolving business needs. We begin with comprehensive analysis of all existing systems and custom code. Based on this, we determine the best modernization strategy - whether it's rehosting, refactoring, leveraging new cloud services, or rebuilding. We then guide you through the chosen modernization path, ensuring knowledge transfer and minimizing business disruption while optimizing for future scalability and performance.
DevOps Adoption
SAP teams often struggle with outdated practices, hindering their ability to fully leverage cloud benefits. We have successfully helped large organizations align their SAP operations with modern DevOps principles, enhancing automation, integration, and collaboration. Our approach streamlines development practices while maintaining robust governance and security. This enables faster, higher-quality code and more reliable deployments, ultimately reducing risks and improving ROI. By balancing agility with necessary controls, we ensure code readiness for frequent releases, all while preserving essential CAB and RAB processes for production deployment.
BTP Multitenant Product Development
Many Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are building scalable products on BTP to modernize their solutions and leverage SAP's ecosystem. However, they often face challenges with SAP-specific technologies, multitenant architectures, and service integration. This can lead to inefficient BTP usage and missed opportunities. We guide ISVs in developing multitenant applications, offering expertise in SAP Cloud Application Programming (CAP) and BTP service integration. Our hands-on approach includes knowledge transfer and practical strategies for secure tenant separation and effective resource optimization.
Application Performance Optimization
Post-go-live performance issues often arise in SAP systems when non-functional requirements are overlooked during implementation. We address this by implementing observability using logs, traces, and metrics to identify inefficiencies. This proactive approach, combined with performance testing tools, allows teams to anticipate issues, set up alerts, and gain system transparency. By analyzing observability data and load test results, we identify bottlenecks and teach teams to recognize these issues. This data-driven strategy empowers teams to optimize queries, streamline code, and balance resources, enhancing response times and user experience while aligning with organizational goals cost-effectively..
Security and Compliance Readiness
BTP environments are often set up quickly, with organizations leveraging free credits gung ho without prioritizing security, leading to vulnerabilities. Our reviews frequently uncover security issues in these systems. We provide assessments of custom code, configurations, and access controls, delivering detailed reports that outline your security posture and highlight areas needing attention. We equip you with practical tools, knowledge, runbooks, and automation for immediate remediation and ongoing security management. This approach enables alignment with your enterprise security strategies and DevSecOps practices, ensuring security integration throughout your development lifecycle.
Technical Rescue
Teams supporting applications or using new technologies often face blocked systems and outdated practices that hinder business operations. We step in when these teams are stuck, providing fresh perspectives and years of problem-solving experience. Our technical assessments identify immediate fixes and long-term improvements to restore operations and enhance efficiency. This proactive approach helps teams shift from constant firefighting to streamlined application support, aligning with organizational goals and delivering business value.
Consulting Partner Oversight
Many organizations find consulting partners often underdeliver, using bait-and-switch tactics or delivering solutions only they can support. These issues stem from consultants' inexperience with technology, leading to shortcuts and compromises. As a result, projects veer off track, lose sight of key objectives, and fail to deliver expected value. We provide expert oversight on consulting engagements, ensuring efforts meet intended goals. Our approach uses industry best practices, offering early and frequent feedback to prevent 'watermelon' reporting. This helps deliver successful outcomes aligned with organizational objectives, avoiding common pitfalls in technology-driven projects.
Team Recruitment
Assembling the right team is crucial for achieving BTP business case objectives. Hiring the wrong team wastes time and money. Often, managers focus on perceived skills gaps rather than actual needs, leading to misaligned hires. We improve job descriptions and assist with interviews, asking questions to identify the right problem solvers for each role. Our method considers skills, team fit, and growth potential. This ensures your team delivers maximum value and effectively meets BTP objectives, avoiding costly hiring mistakes and aligning with your business goals.
What They Say
Words from real customers
" It felt inspiring to watch you cut with ease through complexity, really enjoyed working with you. "
Enterprise Architect
Fortune 500 Company
" I'm not sure if you have any idea how much you've helped the team. I've definitely learned a lot from you even from the limited time we've worked together. "
Product Owner
Technology Firm
" Without your team's input and knowledge, we would not be on the road to improvement. "
Business Solution Owner
Global Enterprise
" I really appreciated the way you always gave us the realities of what we are doing and where we headed, good bad or indifferent. "
Product Owner
SAP-Centric Organization
" You really helped us through a very tough time. True leaders always share the knowledge and are willing to help. "
Software Developer
Large-Scale SAP Implementation
" Nothing was too much trouble, and the scrum teams had positive interactions, always complimenting the leadership and expertise. Second Phase is an asset to any technical build or team requiring strategic direction. "
Scrum Master
Complex SAP BTP Landscape
Who We Are
About Second Phase Solutions.
Founded in 2013 by SAP Mentor alum John Patterson, we are a cooperative of like-minded associates dedicated to modernizing SAP development.
Global Reach
We assist blue-chip companies and government agencies in Australia and worldwide, helping them adopt cutting-edge SAP technologies and overcome technical challenges.
Strategic Partnerships
We collaborate with industry leaders like SAP, Accenture, NTT Data, and DXC on presales, product development, and project implementation.
Recognized Authority
John Patterson is a recognized authority in the SAP community, sharing his experiences on cloud programming, DevOps at scale, and migrating to cloud platforms through engaging talks.
Industry Expertise
Our team regularly publishes articles on various SAP topics, including analyses of SAP's open-source initiatives.
Innovative Solutions
We provide strategic insights to help clients optimize their SAP environments and successfully navigate their cloud journey.
Let's talk about your problems.
How Can We Help?
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