Case Study: McKesson modernizes SAP and migrates to Azure with Lemongrass

McKesson Migrating the Biggest SAP System in the World

McKesson Corporation, a major healthcare services leader, needed to migrate its massive SAP system—one of the largest in the world—to the cloud within a tight 10-month timeline. The challenge was to complete this complex modernization with minimal disruption to its critical operations, including migrating an instance over 200TB within a 48-hour window. They selected vendor Lemongrass and its LCP Migrate product to help execute this ambitious project.

Lemongrass implemented its near-zero downtime migration solution, leveraging automation to rapidly configure and build the SAP landscapes on Azure. This collaboration successfully migrated the environment on schedule, with the largest instance taking less than 20 hours of technical downtime. The results included a 72% reduction in resource consumption and significant performance improvements, providing McKesson with a modern foundation for advanced AI capabilities and future growth.

McKesson Corporation

Francisco Fraga

Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer