Case Study: q.beyond AG achieves live S/4HANA migration in 48 hours and accelerates cloud transformation with NetApp

q.beyond delivers SAP in the cloud for medium-sized enterprises

q.beyond, a Cologne‑based full‑stack IT and cloud services provider for small and midsize enterprises, helps customers modernize legacy SAP landscapes as support for SAP ECC 6.0 winds down. Facing demands for high SAP transaction performance, availability, and fast cloud migrations—sometimes in “big bang” scenarios—q.beyond needed a reliable, high‑performance platform to move customers from on‑premises systems to SAP S/4HANA on the cloud.

q.beyond built a virtual private cloud using NetApp AFF storage, ONTAP data management (including Snapshot and SnapMirror) and Azure NetApp Files to deliver fast system copies, low RPOs, and seamless Azure integration. The solution enabled rapid dev/test cycles and protected hundreds of SAP HANA instances, and it powered a live 24 TB S/4HANA migration completed in 48 hours—reducing risk, cutting costs, and accelerating customers’ move to cloud‑native SAP operations.

q.beyond AG

Thomas Schenk

Head of Platform Infrastructure