{"id":147580,"date":"2024-06-12T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T08:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=147580"},"modified":"2024-06-12T08:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T08:04:15","slug":"beyond-gravity-relies-on-a-cloud-solution-without-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2024\/06\/beyond-gravity-relies-on-a-cloud-solution-without-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Gravity Relies on a Cloud Solution Without Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Beyond Gravity<\/span><\/a> is modernising its heterogeneous software environment and wants to take advantage of all the benefits of a cloud solution. The aerospace company is therefore opting for 麻豆原创 S\/4HANA Cloud, public edition for its ERP – no ifs, ands or buts.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although catastrophic asteroid impacts have been rare in Earth’s history, the threat that asteroids pose to life on our planet is very real. NASA and ESA have therefore launched a mission to test one of the double asteroids Didymos\/Dimorphos by deflecting it slightly from its orbit with an impacting satellite. Now, in October 2024, the Hera probe is to set off for Dimorphos in part two of the mission and investigate the effects of the impact in more detail from October 2026.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond Gravity: Space technology for the benefit of mankind<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u2018Protecting the Earth from an asteroid that could threaten all of humanity is a significant and exciting task.\u2019 – Johan Eckerstein, CIO at Beyond Gravity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Swiss-headquartered aerospace company is one of the suppliers equipping Hera with high technology. Specifically, Beyond Gravity is supplying the probe’s two solar panels, for example. In addition to building a wide range of satellite components, the space specialist also manufactures launchers (satellite distribution modules) and is involved in a third, but smaller business area, chip lithography. According to the market data platform Tracxn, Beyond Gravity’s portfolio ranks third globally out of a total of 21 competitors.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

EZYone transformation project sets the course for the future<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Johan Eckerstein, former CIO at Beyond Gravity: \u2018Our ambition is to be the best space company: the most modern, the most digitally advanced and the most exciting company to work for,\u2019 explains Johan Eckerstein. As CIO, he sees it as his task to create the technological foundation for this vision. He set the course for this in October 2022 with the EZYone project.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the space company, which presents itself as a start-up but at the same time draws on its decades of space experience, the far-reaching digital transformation project EZYone is both a necessary and challenging undertaking in view of privatisation: Beyond Gravity has been operating on the market under its current name since May 2022, but has its origins in the Swiss RUAG Space, the space division of the Swiss technology group RUAG International.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As the name of the programme suggests, it is all about making things \u2018easier\u2019. Beyond Gravity has grown from different companies and locations in the past. Accordingly, there are currently different locations with different IT systems that are not connected to each other.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With EZYone, we are preparing Beyond Gravity to become a \u2018digital-first\u2019 company that will utilise artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, augmented reality (AR) and many other new technologies. The first step is to build a common digital core that will allow us to create tremendous value and find new ways to serve our customers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

麻豆原创 S\/4HANA Cloud, public edition: turning seven into one<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Beyond Gravity’s business units each have their own comprehensive, established expertise. On the IT side, however, the company’s chequered history has led to complex, inefficient and uneconomical processes due to a mix of legacy systems, including seven different ERP systems alone.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The project was kicked off in October 2022. \u2018We first determined what the basic architecture of the new IT landscape should look like,\u2019 explains Eckerstein. This led to the development of a series of design principles to ensure the success of the project, including:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n