What challenges did Cascades face before AI implementation?

Migrate a business-critical SAP environment with minimal downtime. Improve access to SAP data for reporting and planning across the company. Reduce downtime risk for manufacturing operations that depend on SAP availability.

What was the impact of the AI solution?

Improved SAP performance and a smoother user experience. Faster scalability by adding capacity more quickly. Reduced downtime risk for production-critical operations. Created a central repository in BigQuery for queries across employees.

Source

GCPEvidence: Low40/100

Cascades + oXya migrate SAP to Google Cloud using BigQuery for central analytics

Use case typeCloud migrationUpdated Jun 13, 2026

Cascades, a packaging, hygiene, and recovery solutions company, migrated its business-critical SAP environment to Google Cloud with partner oXya. The company also built an ETL pipeline to move SAP data into BigQuery so employees could use a central dataset for reporting, planning, and ad hoc queries.

Organization: Cascades
Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Canada
Published: June 2026

Reported outcomes

Strategic outcomes

Risk & complianceReduced downtime risk for operationsBetter decisions & insightCreated a central analytics repositorySpeed & agilityImproved scalability and capacity scalingCustomer experience & trustImproved SAP performance and user experience

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: Cascades
Provider: GCP
Maturity: Unknown
Linked source: Google Cloud Customer Stories

No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated

Primary read

Use case focus

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1Cloud migration
2Data integration
3Analytics modernization

Migrate a business-critical SAP environment with minimal downtime.
Improve access to SAP data for reporting and planning across the company.
Reduce downtime risk for manufacturing operations that depend on SAP availability.

Cascades partnered with oXya to migrate SAP ERP to Google Cloud.
The company built an ETL pipeline from the SAP database to BigQuery to centralize data for employee queries.
Google Cloud provided the hosting foundation for the SAP environment, improving availability and scalability.

Technologies

BigQuery Google Cloud SAP S/4HANA SAP ERP

Improved SAP performance and a smoother user experience.
Faster scalability by adding capacity more quickly.
Reduced downtime risk for production-critical operations.
Created a central repository in BigQuery for queries across employees.

Architecture

Cascades migrated its SAP ERP environment to Google Cloud with the help of oXya. It then used an ETL pipeline to transfer SAP data into BigQuery, creating a centralized analytics repository for employee queries and planning use cases.

Implementation partners1

oXya

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Low40/100Evidence strength