IBM SAP on Azure

Assessment

Key Challenges

Challenge 2

- As usage and data size

increases, firms may need

to increase SAP HANA

Memory size and/or

number nodes which are

very expensive

Challenge 5

- Planning the right level of

hardware capacity and

pay for it upfront

Challenge 3

- No ‘pay for use’ pricing option for SAP licensing

Challenge 6

- High cost of overprovisioned hardware

Challenge 1

- Very high CapEx and

OpEx

Challenge 4

- Future upgrades are

expensive

Challenge 7

- High cost of physical

data center space

Key Challenges Faced by Clients

Needs of the Clients

Need 2

- Meet industry standard

compliance requirements

Need 5

- Meet business continuity

requirements to ensure

little downtime in case of

a disaster

Need 3

- Data privacy and security requirements as per industry standards

Need 6

- Seamless connectivity and integration requirements

Need 1

- Cloud first vision and

reduction in IT cost

Need 4

- Data protection

(backup/restore) and

retention policies as

per industry standards

Clients’ Needs

Offering Overview

The IBM SAP on Azure Assessment offering is a cloud transformation workshop designed to help clients accelerate transformation from a traditional on-premise, perpetual licensing business model to an Azure cloud model to

➢ Align core business applications with business initiatives around “cloud-first” strategy

➢ Improve productivity and lower costs

➢ Agility to adapt to fast-moving market demands

➢ Meet industry compliance requirements

on

Assessment

IBM SAP on Azure Assessment – Phases

Prepare Design ThinkingArchitecture

AnalysisRecommendation

• Determine the pain points, frustrations and inefficiencies in the current systems

• Evaluate SAP applications, server dependencies, third-party applications, and underlying infrastructure

• Identify and prioritize high level requirements

• Analyze the current architecture diagram

• Evaluate the opportunities to improve the existing system

• Pre-requisites and dependency analysis

• Recommend one of the following 5 approaches for migration: Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild & Replace

• Develop the best fit architecture layouts as per analysis

• Present final recommendation

• Project orgizational structure• Project kick-off meeting• SAP early watch report• Current SAP ECC and SAP

HANA details• Current SAP BW details

• Most important and highest impact objectives, measured in user and business outcomes, and according to the people that will most use or benefit from the Azure transformation

• Proposed architecture layouts• Future sizing• Future cost estimation• Approach for migration and

best practices

• Findings from current layout analysis

• List of opportunities for improvement

• Identify project objectives, scope and boundaries

• Define approach, time and activities plan

• Establish channels for communication

• Obtain and analyze pre-requisite documents

• Prepare and launch kick off

Deliverables

Assessment Workshop Duration - 2 Weeks

Prepare Phase

Identify project objectives, scope and boundaries

Obtain and analyze pre-requisite documents

Define approach, time and

activities plan

Prepare and launch kick-off

meeting

Establish channels for

communication

The Prepare phase acts as a kick-starter to launch or enhance your Cloud Transformation journey. A high-level Plan of action will be created that will integrate the appropriate capability improvements, with the specific business transformation aims, and will be presented to the Project Sponsor.

Design Thinking Phase

Identify and prioritize high level

requirements

Determine the pain points, frustrations and inefficiencies in

their experiences

Evaluate SAP applications, server dependencies, third-party applications,

and underlying infrastructure

The Design Thinking sessions are people focused design and problem-solving method to identify the most important and highest impact objectives, measured in user, customer and company outcomes. The Phase will determine the pain points, evaluate the current SAP systems and underlying infrastructure, and identify/prioritize the requirements.

Architecture Analysis Phase

Requirements, dependencies

analysis

Analyze the current architecture

Evaluate the opportunities to migrate and improve the future

end state

The Architecture Analysis phase provides an opportunity to perform SAP system rationalization. It involves analyzing the current application and underlying infrastructure which would act as an instrumental input for defining a solid architecture.

Requirements, Dependencies Analysis

Plan your costs

- Determine Azure region strategy

- Ensure that you don’t overprovision your virtual machines

Decide what can be replaced

Decide what data can be cleaned out

Prioritize workloads for migration, depending on

Business impact and Complexity

Analyze current configuration

Analyze on-premise to Azure connectivity

requirements

Gather and document current SAP applications, server

dependencies, third-party applications, and underlying

infrastructure

Decide what can be retired across all SAP

workloads

Recommendation Phase

Present final recommendation

Recommend the appropriate migration of SAP HANA

potential green field or brown field implementation

Develop the best fit architectural layouts as

per analysis

Based on the architecture analysis, a recommended approach for migrating SAP on Azure is proposed keeping in line with five pillars of excellence: cost, DevOps, resiliency, scalability, and security.

Migration Approaches

3

Migration Approaches

1

2

4

5

Rehost - “Lift and shift” your current solutions to VMs in the cloud

Refactor - Make minimal changes to your solution so it

works in the cloud

Rearchitect - Change how your solution works to

optimize it for the cloud

Rebuild - Rebuild your solution using cloud-native technologies to get the most from the cloud

Replace - Replace portions of your current solution with SaaS

Value Propositions – SAP on Azure Assessment

Value Proposition 2

- Build solutions using best

of breed solutions /

products / services

Value Proposition 5

- Integrated security,

monitoring and

management using Azure

Services

Value Proposition 3

- Easy to adopt and integrate with latest technologies

Value Proposition 6

- Leverage reporting

capabilities using new

age reporting tool

Value Proposition 1

- Increase business

agility

Value Proposition 4

- Low OpEx, predictable

cloud consumption

based on cost models

Key Benefits to Clients