Case Study: Acea Group achieves scalable data agility and cost savings with SAP HANA Cloud

Acea Group Scales by Migrating to SAP HANA Cloud

Acea Group, an Italian multi‑utility serving about 9 million residents and handling large volumes of water, energy, lighting, and waste data, faced rapidly growing, heterogeneous data from SAP and non‑SAP, on‑premise and cloud sources. Their existing SAP HANA Service on Cloud Foundry landscape (eight apps, ~250 GB) couldn’t easily scale storage and compute without upfront investment, limiting cost optimization, application agility, and future growth.

Migrating to SAP HANA Cloud gave Acea a fully managed, pay‑as‑you‑use platform with separated compute and storage, a built‑in data lake, and a developer‑friendly environment; eight applications were migrated with zero business disruption. The result: better scalability and performance, lower operational and infrastructure costs, increased IT agility to focus on strategic work, and a future‑proof data landscape for centralizing on‑prem and cloud data.

ACEA

Daniele Giannini

Enterprise Architect Specialist