Issue

Recommendation

Background & Context

Assumptions

• The ERP Rebuild program aims to, where possible, deploy a single, global instance of every enterprise system in scope of the program. Separate instances for specific countries (e.g. China) are not being deployed, because a thorough investigation into the relevant legal, regulatory, strategic, and security aspects determined that adequate security controls could be attained in a single-instance system without physical separations. 
• There are no technical barriers which limit access of Syensqo staff to the jurisdictions being considered for hosting the enterprise systems. Specifically Syensqo users located in mainland China are able to access business systems, including SaaS systems, via Syensqo-managed VPN tunnels regardless of the physical location of these systems. See also Specific architecture for China. 

Constraints

• Due to the incumbency of the European Union as both the physical location for Syensqo's existing enterprise systems and data processing (e.g. by Shared Services staff in Portugal, management staff in Belgium and France), Syensqo do not have a comprehensive internal contractual framework for the export of various data from the EU to other jurisdictions. Scoping and implementing such a framework is a prerequisite for the implementation of enterprise systems outside of the EU. It may not be possible to fully implement the required contracts and processes within the timeline of the ERP Rebuild program. 

Impacts

Business Rules

Options considered

Option A: 

Option B: 

Option C: 

Option D: 

Evaluation

	Option A Located in USA	Option B Located in EU
Legal/regulatory requirements for data localisation	Pro Con	Pro Pro
Internal legal support, inc. data export and data processing agreements	Pro Con	Con
Availability of SaaS applications	Pro	Con
Depth and breadth of technology platform components
Network latency impact for end users
Carbon footprint

See also

List of SAP Data Centres for SAP Cloud Services

Change log

Workflow history