Lemongrass Cloud Platform
Migrating SAP to the Cloud isn't just about cost—it's about modernization. Customers want SAP systems that are agile, integrated, data-driven, and easier to manage. But the complexity of SAP often makes that vision difficult to achieve. That’s why we built the Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP)—to simplify and optimize how SAP runs in the Cloud and to give enterprises the agility, control, and performance they need.
LCP Overview
Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP)
A Better SAP Operating Experience in the Cloud
What is LCP?
Automation. Observability. Intelligence. Control.
LCP is an all-in-one governance, monitoring, and automation platform purpose-built to improve the way SAP workloads operate on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It streamlines everything from onboarding to optimization—turning complex manual tasks into simple, repeatable actions.
Key Capabilities
Cloud Abstraction & Simplification
Easily manage SAP on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud with a user-friendly interface and standardized operations.
Full Observability
Gain real-time insight across systems, cost, performance, and security—enabling fast, informed decisions.
Guided Innovation
Receive AI-driven recommendations to improve your SAP environment and unlock new Cloud-native capabilities.
Simplified Change Management
Make changes faster and with less risk using LCP’s automated controls and change workflows.
Reduced Downtime
Deploy updates and migrations with near-zero downtime—minimizing business disruption.
Cloud-native Data Integration
Accelerate analytics by connecting SAP and non-SAP data to native services like BigQuery, Synapse, or Redshift.
LCP Premium Services
LCP Migrate Premium Package
Automate and de-risk large-scale SAP migrations to the Cloud—guaranteed with minimal downtime.
LCP MDO™ (Minimized Downtime Operations)
Enable fast, reliable operations with prebuilt landing zones, templates, and automated maintenance for SAP on HANA and ASE.
LCP Migrate
Move your SAP workloads to hyperscale Cloud platforms with the industry’s shortest planned downtime and zero surprises.
LCP Migrate
Fast, Seamless SAP Migrations to the Cloud—At Scale
Large, complex SAP migrations don’t have to mean long downtimes and business disruption. With LCP Migrate, powered by Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP), you can move even the biggest SAP estates to the Cloud with near-zero downtime—safely, quickly, and without compromise.
Engineered for Complex SAP Landscapes
Traditional migration methods can take days—or even weeks—when dealing with SAP environments of 100TB+. LCP Migrate changes that. Using automation, orchestration, and predefined workflows, we migrate massive databases—10TB to 150TB+—within 4 to 12 hours of downtime.
No delays. No disruption. Just a smooth, predictable path to the Cloud.
How It Works
Most SAP downtime comes from transferring massive amounts of data. LCP Migrate solves this by:
The result? Up to 80% less downtime and a consistent, stress-free migration—even for the most demanding SAP systems.
Key Use Cases for LCP Migrate
Legacy to Cloud
Migrate from older platforms like HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and z/OS—without interrupting business operations.
Move to HANA
Execute a heterogeneous database migration to SAP HANA with <20% of the downtime typical of legacy methods.
Database Optimization
Reduce data size and improve performance during migration.
Secure Unicode Upgrades
Convert non-Unicode systems (e.g., R/3 4.0x/4.6x) while meeting security and compliance standards.
Upgrade + Migrate
Use LCP Migrate with SAP SUM-DMO to upgrade your SAP application and migrate to the Cloud at once—without long downtimes.
Intelligent Onboarding
Smarter SAP Cloud Onboarding, Powered by Lemongrass
Modern Cloud transformation begins with smart onboarding. Lemongrass’s Intelligent Onboarding, powered by the Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP), simplifies and accelerates how complex SAP environments move to the Cloud—ensuring a smooth start and a successful outcome.
Why Intelligent Onboarding Matters
Cloud success doesn’t start with the migration—it starts with how well you prepare. Intelligent Onboarding ensures your SAP systems are fully understood, optimized, and ready to run in the Cloud, with a clear plan under proven governance.
Lemongrass helps you:
Key Capabilities of LCP Intelligent Onboarding
System Automation Core
At its core, LCP is an automation platform. It captures, reuses, and orchestrates tasks across environments—creating repeatable, secure onboarding processes for any SAP workload on Windows or Linux.
Automation Factory
Lemongrass brings a library of automation blueprints tailored to your industry and Cloud platform. Whether advisory or hands-on, we embed automation into every phase of onboarding to accelerate delivery and reduce risk.
SAP Migration Workbench
From system analysis to execution, the SAP Migration Workbench automates discovery, builds migration-ready target systems, and ensures near-zero downtime for even the most complex SAP workloads.
Integration Discovery
Identify and catalog all inbound and outbound SAP interfaces—reducing risk and eliminating delays. LCP makes integration discovery simple and transparent, flagging hardcoded connections and tracking progress in real-time.
Project Planning & RAAID Control
LCP centralizes project planning and governance. Teams can collaborate securely, track every task, and manage Risks, Assumptions, Actions, Issues, and Decisions (RAAID) across hybrid teams with full visibility.
Asset Register
Gain real-time insight into your Cloud assets with a configurable, centralized register that supports control, compliance, and agility as your Cloud environment grows.
Built for Complex SAP Migrations
LCP Intelligent Onboarding is especially effective for SAP environments with large, complex databases. Using the SAP Migration Workbench, engineers can pre-analyze, validate, and configure systems for Cloud migration with minimal impact to end users.
Once ready, the Workbench connects to source systems, collects metadata, and validates migration readiness—all automated and integrated with LCP’s broader orchestration engine.
Intelligent Operate
Smarter SAP Operations in the Cloud—Built for Agility, Efficiency & Control
Once your SAP systems are in the Cloud, the real work begins: keeping them running at peak performance while controlling cost, ensuring uptime, and enabling innovation. That’s where Intelligent Operate from Lemongrass comes in.
Backed by the Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP), our Intelligent Operate service helps you manage SAP workloads in the Cloud with greater agility, automation, and cost control—without the overhead.
Cloud-Native Operations, Engineered for SAP
Over a decade of running SAP in the Cloud has taught us what works—and what doesn’t. We’ve embedded those lessons into Intelligent Operate to deliver a fully automated, continuously optimized Cloud experience.
Predictive Monitoring
Our multi-layered observability and predictive analytics detect and defuse issues before they disrupt your business. From disk usage spikes to system bottlenecks, we identify problems early—so you don’t have to.
Self-Healing Infrastructure
We build prevention into your system design from day one. LCP automates recovery actions and supports elastic architecture—so systems scale when needed and shrink when not, improving resilience and efficiency.
Action Library
Every manual and automated task is captured and standardized in our Action Library. This ensures consistent, high-quality operations—and lets us continually improve based on real-world experience.
Financial Control Built In
We don’t just help you run SAP in the Cloud—we help you run it smarter. LCP tracks all relevant Cloud cost data, providing clear insights that allow you to act quickly and stay on budget without compromising performance.
Custom Monitoring & Alerts
From day one, you’ll have full visibility into technical, financial, and operational metrics. Set your own alerts, or let Lemongrass manage it for you as part of our full-service Operate model.
Self-Service When You Need It
Want hands-on control? LCP enables users to start, stop, or manage entire SAP environments via a secure, role-based UI—giving your team autonomy without sacrificing governance.
A Smarter CMDB for SAP in the Cloud
We’ve taken Intelligent Operate even further by integrating the LCP System Automation Core with SAP Solution Manager. This creates a powerful, unified CMDB that links SAP system details with the underlying Cloud infrastructure.
Whether it’s checking support pack levels or tracing dependencies, our enhanced CMDB provides deep, fast visibility—accessible by engineers and automation scripts alike. It’s the foundation of true Intelligent Operations.
Intelligent Finance
Full Cost Control for SAP in the Cloud—Without Limiting Agility
Cloud offers significant cost advantages for SAP—but only if managed wisely. Many enterprises struggle to monitor and control spend while trying to unlock the agility Cloud enables.
Lemongrass Intelligent Finance, powered by the Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP), gives you full visibility, financial governance, and proactive control over your SAP Cloud costs—so you can move fast without overspending.
Cost Management That Enables Innovation
Running test environments on demand? Scaling workloads as needed? The benefits are huge—but so are the risks if left unchecked. LCP minimizes financial exposure from uncontrolled consumption while helping you fully realize the cost-efficiency potential of hyperscale Cloud.
Billing Data Lake
LCP continuously ingests and organizes billing data from your Cloud accounts—hourly and per environment. This creates a secure, customer-specific Finance Data Lake that feeds cost reporting, forecasting, and cross-account analysis.
Real-Time Financial Control
LCP tracks actual and amortized costs across all your environments, including support and discount program margins. It provides a single, real-time view of costs aligned with contract types, usage tiers, and hyperscaler programs like Savings Plans or Private Pricing.
Spend Prediction
Know what’s coming before it hits. LCP not only tracks historical spend but forecasts future costs using real-time usage patterns—giving you actionable insights to optimize consumption and reduce waste.
Executive Dashboards
LCP offers intuitive, mobile-ready dashboards that surface both current and forecasted spend. Easily manage budgets, set alerts, and apply access controls across business units or project teams, in any currency and with custom markups.
Financial Data You Can Trust
With LCP, cost data becomes meaningful. From understanding run-rate to evaluating the financial impact of infrastructure changes, you can make smarter decisions—faster. The platform connects technical changes to financial outcomes, delivering full traceability from strategy to savings.
Make Every Dollar Count
Cloud gives you agility. Intelligent Finance ensures you use it wisely. With Lemongrass and LCP, you get:
