Case Study: Cintas achieves a faster, more secure SAP data platform with Lemongrass

Cintas migrates 212 SAP applications with Lemongrass and cuts database size by 60%

Cintas Corporation, a provider of business supplies and services, faced challenges with its on-premises SAP ECC system, which was hosted on costly and inflexible legacy hardware. This infrastructure led to overspending on unused capacity and limited the company's ability to connect to its analytics data lake. With their hosting contract up for renewal, Cintas partnered with Lemongrass to migrate to a more modern and cost-effective cloud platform.

Lemongrass implemented a solution using the Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP) to migrate Cintas's massive SAP environment to Google Cloud. Instead of a simple lift-and-shift, Lemongrass executed a heterogeneous migration, moving the database from Oracle to DB2. This compressed the database size by 60%, significantly lowering overhead costs. The result was a faster, more secure, and stable data management platform, achieved with zero downtime over a nine-month project that moved 212 applications.

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