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9 A guide to modernizing with SAP ECC-based systems on AWS Newmont, the largest gold mining company in the world, has realized significant value by moving its SAP ECC environment to Suite on HANA. In 2019, Newmont acquired Goldcorp, a gold production company based in Vancouver, Canada. This deal represented the largest acquisition in the history of the gold industry and is expected to deliver roughly $500 million in annual cash flow improvements. The Challenge After the acquisition, Newmont was left with significant SAP system redundancy, IT overhead, and inconsistent operations across the two companies' environments. To solve these challenges, Newmont sought to unify their own SAP ECC footprint with Goldcorp's existing systems. This effort would consolidate three data centers into a single AWS environment, which will eventually be an SAP S/4HANA instance. The Solution As they weighed their options, Newmont determined the most effective way to execute this project was to migrate to AWS and reduce their SAP ECC footprint to simplify a greenfield SAP S/4HANA upgrade downstream. As part of this effort, Newmont moved from an Oracle database to SAP HANA in order to begin leveraging the database's in-memory capabilities. Newmont realized immediate benefits — cost reduction, stronger security, and a more effective business continuity strategy. Now, they've begun their transformation to SAP S/4HANA. Results • $530k annual operational cost reduction • Improved business continuity and lower RTO/RPO • Stronger security posture Customer success story: Newmont "AWS migration was a significant milestone on our IT roadmap and important step towards integrating our systems in our journey to S/4HANA" – Luis Canepari, CIO, Newmont Corporation Upgrading to Suite on HANA to simplify SAP S/4HANA adoption