Bauer Hockey Scores by Adopting Cloud

"Bauer Hockey has always focused on exciting technology advancements to improve the game and the safety of its athletes with our equipment. Now, our business runs on that same level of technology with Protera and AWS."

~ Cathie Paradee, Director of IT

Challenge

Facing a tight deadline to move their enterprise workloads out of a closing data center, the Bauer Hockey IT team found themselves with an opportunity to modernize the delivery of SAP and enterprise applications. The team sought the flexibility and availability of the cloud, and required a trusted partner to assess, design, migrate and manage their SAP and non-SAP workloads on the cloud in eight months.

Owing to a strong reputation and exceptional references, AWS was selected as the cloud along with advanced tier AWS APN partner Protera to migrate and manage all workloads, as well as include a disaster recovery solution with annual testing.

Solution

Along with the mission critical workloads, SAP ECC, BW on HANA, SAP R/3 and SAP BPC, Bauer Hockey had a variety of industry specific applications and utility servers to be architected for the cloud. Protera collaborated in a multi-partner environment as the master migration project management team to deliver the migration ahead of schedule.

“During the migration, the Protera project management and PO group had the level of cloud expertise and resources available to step up and deliver go-live two months ahead of schedule,” says Cathie Paradee, Director of IT at Bauer Hockey.

Looking into the future

Now live on AWS with Protera managing the modern cloud environment as well as ongoing SAP Basis support, the Bauer IT team can focus on exciting initiatives that add value up the stack and extend to athletes around the globe. “Bauer Hockey has always focused on exciting technology advancements to improve the game and the safety of its athletes with our equipment,” says Paradee. “Now, our business runs on that same level of technology with Protera and AWS.”