Florida Crystals Aligns Cloud Strategy with Sustainability Goals with support from Lemongrass

Lemongrass, the SAP on Cloud company, announces its collaboration with Florida Crystals Corporation (FCC), a vertically integrated cane sugar company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. A proven leader in the planning, migration, operation and automation of SAP in the hyperscale cloud, Lemongrass partnered with FCC to move its SAP estate to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The migration project, which began in 2021, is now complete and Lemongrass continues to provide ongoing support and innovation for their SAP landscape.

Florida Crystals is the only producer of certified organic sugar grown and milled in the United States, where it pioneered organic sugarcane farming and milling. Florida Crystals now has the distinction of owning the largest Regenerative Organic Certified™ farm in the U.S. and being the first U.S. grown sugar brand to earn distinctive ROC™ status. ROC is a revolutionary new certification for food, fiber, and personal care ingredients that assures shoppers that their purchase makes a positive impact at every level: environmentally, ethically, and socially.

FCC took a cloud-first approach for their enterprise applications and IT operations and chose to move to hyperscale cloud to deliver financial value and application consolidation while also setting a foundation for future innovations. By moving its SAP systems to AWS, the business can be more efficient and agile -- aligning the company’s IT strategy with its sustainability goals. “We always strive to be environmentally and socially conscious in our business decisions and moving from a hosted private cloud to the public cloud is consistent with this approach,” said Kevin Grayling, CIO at Florida Crystals. “Moving our SAP systems to AWS, with help from Lemongrass, will reduce our carbon footprint while saving us money. These savings can be diverted to fund projects and innovation that benefit our customers, employees and partners as well as the world we live in through our regenerative farming practices.”

Lemongrass, whose software-enabled platform and services provide clients with near-zero downtime migrations and operations for SAP and its related workloads, has significant experience helping enterprises make the move from on-premises SAP to the cloud. The company has over 8,000 SAP servers and over 400,000 SAP users under its management. FCC selected Lemongrass for its extensive expertise and impressive track record in migrating, running and optimizing SAP workloads on the cloud.

Lemongrass also set up monitoring, backups and disaster recovery for FCC in AWS using its well-defined migration methodology. FCC is now leveraging the following AWS services: Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, EBS and CloudEndure. Once SAP was up and running on AWS, FCC was then able to consolidate into it two other SAP environments, resulting in a single global instance.

“We are honored to work with a true industry pioneer like FCC, whose values around sustainability and business efficiency are setting a high standard for their industry,” said Mike Rosenbloom, CEO at Lemongrass. “We look forward to a continued partnership with Florida Crystals as the company expands its use of SAP on AWS.”