PICK N PAY
“ You have to imagine that all of your integration points now change to somewhere in the cloud . Partners and suppliers all want to communicate with your systems , so you have to coordinate your efforts with them in cutting over .
“ We had an integration catalogue that we lived and died by , and it worked very well for us .”
Cloud latency largely a ‘ non-event ’ Cloud latency was , quite rightly , a big cause for concern prior to the migration . When Pick n Pay wanted to move over to cloud computing , the nearest hyperscale data centres were more than 7,000 miles away in Europe .
However , for developers and users it was – as Heneke puts it – a “ non-event ”. Some disruption , for example , was only experienced in customer-facing and realtime applications , especially scanners .
“ At a SAP conference , I said we intended to go to the cloud with our whole environment – and I was made out to be mad ”
ROBERT HENEKE HEAD OF CLOUD , SAP TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT , PICK N PAY
“ Our distribution centres typically work with a lot of hand-held scanners and they can ’ t wait for those additional
208 April 2023