Digital wallet and payments platform provider PayPal Holdings Inc. leverages SAP S/4HANA for Financial Products Subledger (SAP FPSL) delivered on Google Cloud to process transactions at scale with high performance for large data volumes.
As part of a multi-year expanded partnership, PayPal is now in the process of migrating more of its core infrastructure and workloads to the Google Cloud Platform, including most of the online transactional data within its SAP S/4HANA database. In the press statement released, PayPal said:
“With the bulk of its online transactional data residing in its SAP S/4HANA database, PayPal was able to leverage SAP’s Financial Products Subledger, delivered at massive scale on Google Cloud, to quickly process transactions at high volume, as well as to analyse purchasing trends at volume with low latency.”
PayPal Holdings stated that it has launched the cloud-focused digital transformation project to scale up its global operations more easily and equip its developers with the tools they need to deliver new services and products to customers more quickly.
Additionally, the American e-commerce company was part of a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) by SAP and Google Cloud showcasing the cloud’s capabilities to run SAP FPSL at scale. Teams from the two tech companies performed comprehensive tests that used a total of 10 million current accounts with daily postings of 40 million business payment transactions, following a six-month deployment from April to September 2020.
The project, which yielded a wealth of hard data based on internal measurements, aims to demonstrate that the combination of Google Cloud and SAP FPSL running on SAP HANA can scale with high performance for very large volumes of data.
Leveraging SAP FPSL on Google Cloud to Deliver Performance, Scale, and Reliability
Together with SAP and Google Cloud, PayPal started a collaborative project towards shifting from a scale-up, on-premise landscape to a modern, scale-out architecture. Google Cloud delivered several critical capabilities used in the test configuration to support the massive scale-out workloads with SAP S/4HANA for FPSL. This includes a variety of Google Compute Engine VM instance types, as well as storage and network resources.
Key benefits and outcomes of the project include:
- Having a scalable platform that manages high volumes of data and hyper-growth
- Huge cost savings by shifting 78% of data into native storage extension with little performance impact
- Eliminating maintenance downtimes on infrastructure by ensuring business continuity with Google Live migration
- Reducing processing times for business users using performance improvements of the solution
Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure at Google, said:
“The SAP S/4HANA for financial products subledger solution on a 96 TB SAP HANA scale-out configuration brings the best of SAP and Google Cloud engineering together to deliver groundbreaking capabilities to PayPal. By combining Google Cloud’s expertise in building scalable, distributed systems with SAP’s relentless focus on delivering mission- critical business process automation, PayPal now runs one of the world’s largest scale-out clusters of SAP HANA, with room to scale even further.”
This finance system transformation project was submitted by PayPal as an entry to the SAP Innovation Awards 2021. It is one of the winners in the Transformation Champion category alongside AGL, Costain, Döhler, and Parkland.
Commenting on the collaboration with SAP and Google Cloud, Dan Torunian, Vice President, Employee Technology and Experiences at PayPal, further said:
“The technology, products, and services available through the SAP and Google Cloud partnership has given our Back Office significant agility and scalability. By moving to Google Cloud, we are positioning ourselves to keep pace with elevated transaction volumes, constant new financial product releases around the globe, and M&A integration activities requiring swift operations.”
