Migrating to SAP Business One v10 and integrating with a cloud platform can bring numerous benefits to any company, such as improved efficiency, scalability, and enhanced security. However, ensuring a smooth transition and ongoing success, is not easy and it is therefore critical to plan the process carefully and engage with the right experts.

K2 wanted to provide a scalable, flexible cloud infrastructure that would adapt to its changing needs. An increasing number of business entities meant that K2’s reporting requirements had become more complex and, with certain limitations in the previous version’s query handling across multiple plug-ins, the company needed to generate reports and analyse data quicker and more efficiently.

While migrating, K2 wanted to look at moving its SAP ecosystem plug-ins onto a public cloud solution, that would deliver the scalability and flexibility the company needed, both for business growth and for enhanced functional performance.

Codestone implemented Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform with SAP Business One as a Service on Azure, moving K2 Partnering Solutions to the latest version of SAP Business One.

Valerio Lancia, Managing Director, Enterprise Technology at K2 says, “Codestone was already managing our SAP Business One solution in terms of support, maintenance and infrastructure. As they were also experts in Microsoft Azure, it made sense for us to work with them to move over to this cloud platform at the same time as migrating SAP Business One.”

Because the Business One as a Service (BOaaS) Azure platform supports all SAP ecosystem plug-ins and databases, K2 would have much more flexibility in supporting over 40 business entities globally with differing software plug-ins for e-invoicing and its other financial activities.

Deploying Business One as a Service on the Microsoft Azure platform has given K2 a high performance and efficient financial reporting process with scalability to increase users and entities as the business grows. The continuing relationship with Codestone to develop and manage the system will keep the Azure platform optimised and future-fit.

While the migration itself was not complex, the number of plug-ins meant that testing was critical in order to ensure that the implementation went smoothly. Codestone worked closely in conjunction with the client’s internal technical support specialist to deliver this successfully.