i IN THE SKY is the world’s first total solution for SAP^® on i customers requiring an enterprise-ready SAP cloud, architected on the (AS/400^®) platform.

By moving SAP on i operations to Symmetry’s SAP cloud environment, organizations can achieve unparalleled business agility and gain a strong competitive advantage.

• Reduce total cost of operations with lowered maintenance costs and data center overheads.
• Reduce capital expenditure by only paying for required resources.
• Streamline change control processes.
• Scale environments on demand to keep pace with projects and resource intensive business initiatives.
• Reduce the complexity of environments.
• Eliminate database licensing costs if migrating from another platform.

Strategy, Design, Migration, Support - A Total SAP Cloud Solution

As a total SAP cloud solution on the AS/400, i IN THE SKY provides the strategic guidance and technical support to:

• Establish and optimize architecture requirements to take advantage of modern, Power7^® hardware.
• Achieve improved security compared to in-house datacenters
• Move to the cloud in a safe, secure, downtime-minimized manner with Symmetry’s proven Passport^TM methodology
• Maintain an optimized, high-performing SAP environment with expert  management of your systems.

SAP on i Expertise

SAP is not just another application on the internet; it is the heart of your organization’s business operations and requires a cloud solution able to consistently meet enterprise level performance expectations. With 15 years of industry experience supporting SAP on i,  Symmetry brings the platform and application expertise essential to architecting and managing an enterprise level cloud tailored to meet the requirements of an SAP on i environment.