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Building a business case for SAP HANA and S/4HANA
John ApplebyBluefin Solutions Inc.
Sponsored Educational Session
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In This Session
• You will…• Gain insight into the value derived from migrating 50TB of SAP
ECC on SAP HANA and find out how to:• Develop a compelling business case across any SAP HANA
solution• Successfully architect a 100TB SAP HANA environment for SAP
ECC, SAP CRM, SAP BW and SAP APO• Solve the retail analytics conundrum and leverage SAP HANA as a
platform to revolutionize pricing• Achieve SAP BW on SAP HANA migrations quickly with little risk
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What We’ll Cover
• The Digital Transformation• The SAP HANA Platform• Building the Business Case for SAP HANA• Rapid Migration of BW on SAP HANA Systems• Wrap-up
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Digital Transformation
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What We’ll Cover
• The Digital Transformation• The SAP HANA Platform• Building the Business Case for SAP HANA• Rapid Migration of BW on SAP HANA Systems• Wrap-up
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SAP HANA in-memory platform
Transact | Analyze | Deliver
Processing EngineSpatial l Events Stream | Planning | Calculation | Predictive | Graph
Application Services Application Server | UI Integration Services | Web Server
Database ServicesTransactions | Analytics | Partitioning
Compression | Availability | Encryption | Virtualization
Integration ServicesMobile | XaaS | High-volume Replication | Real-time Replication | Hadoop
Rules | Text Mining | Search | Application Function Libraries
Industry | LoB | Consumer | Analytics | Social | Cloud | Mobile
Developers Data Scientists Business Users ConsumersExecutives
Source: SAP
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What We’ll Cover
• The Digital Transformation• The SAP HANA Platform• Building the Business Case for SAP HANA• Rapid Migration of BW on SAP HANA Systems• Wrap-up
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The HANA business case paradox
4000 SAP HANA customers 1500 BW on SAP HANA customers
BW on SAP HANA the #1 deployment option 60% of SAP HANA installed-based
customers deployed BW
#1 problem cited by customers in buying BW on SAP HANA Building the business case
Biggest benefit cited bycustomers buying BW on SAP HANA Cost reduction!
8Source: ASUG survey June 2014
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Typical BW on SAP HANA deployment
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• 6TB any DB Page Compressed
• BW modules Finance Logistics HR Sales
• 43k employees 2k BW users
• $14bn revenue
TCO: $6.1m over 3 years
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IT spending in 2014/2015
10Source: http://www.gartner.com/technology/metrics/
IT spending as a percentage of revenue, by industry
Source: IT Key Metrics Data 2014, Gartner Benchmark Analytics
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Components of a business case
11Tip: try to move benefits from Observable Measurable Quantifiable Financial
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Quantifying benefits
12Remember: try to move benefits from Observable Measurable Quantifiable Financial
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Business benefits matrix
Doing new things Doing things better Stop doing things
Financial
• Reduction in annual maintenance costs of hardware and infrastructure
• One time reduction in stock
• Increase total shopping cart size and value
• Reduced overtime due to less integration pressures
• DBA Tasks
Quantifiable
• Reduced project costs
• Reduction in SLA misses for data availability
Measurable
• Increased adoption
• Shorter development time due to simplification of the architecture
• Simplification of the solution stack as BWA Blades removed
Observable
• Mix non-SAP and SAP data into one data model in real-time
• Ability to navigate from company level to document level in one report
• 30x Improved average query time leads to faster and better decision making and support
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What We’ll Cover
• The Digital Transformation• The SAP HANA Platform• Building the Business Case for SAP HANA• Rapid Migration of BW on SAP HANA Systems• Wrap-up
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Rapid Migrations
• Business Case is predicted on using a new asset Hardware Depreciates on balance sheet Software and Hardware carry support cost Benefits cannot be realized until asset is live Hardware/Software cannot be capitalized until go-live
• And Yet… Many organizations buy SAP HANA and delay implementing
• … Leading to… Reduced value of stated business case Stagnation Reduced Adoption
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Challenges of a Rapid Migration
• Release Management Process Other projects
• Change Management Process Governance Test Management
• Dependencies Other Projects Upgrade / Unicode Conversion / 3.x Authorizations etc.
• Skills Gaps New Versions New Software/Hardware
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How to Accelerate Adoption?
• Consider a PoC / Pilot• A well-run PoC:
Increases Confidence Validates Sizing Confirms Project Approach Gains Project Momentum
• Accelerates Adoption!
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How to do a Rapid Migration?
• Gain Executive Sponsor Should be one for every SAP HANA Project Use Exec Sponsor for business communications
• Consider Working Outside a Major Release Releases constrain technical migration projects
• Increase Technical Project Scope Upgrade, Migration, Unicode-Conversion etc. Test Management is the most time-consuming Larger technical project scope goes live faster
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How to do a Rapid Migration? (cont)
• Create 3 plan levels High Level (Week/System) ~ 20 lines Mid Level (Day/Activity) ~100 lines Detailed (Technical) ~ 500 lines
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How to do a Rapid Migration? (cont)
• Align All Stakeholders into one War Room Network, Infrastructure, Basis, Application, Project
• Focus on Test Management early Automate where possible Focus on high-priority functional areas
• Use Modern Tooling DMO can do Upgrade/Migration/Unicode Conversion Uses in-memory PIPE Leaves App Servers in Place
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What We’ll Cover
• The Digital Transformation• The SAP HANA Platform• Building the Business Case for SAP HANA• Rapid Migration of BW on SAP HANA Systems• Wrap-up
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Where to Find More Information
• http://bluefinsolutions.com/Blogs/John-Appleby/
• http://scn.sap.com/people/applebyj/content
• https://blogs.saphana.com/author/john-appleby/
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7 Key Points to Take Home
• HANA is now mainstream, stable and extremely powerful• Take a structured approach to the business case• Consider a Pilot/PoC to accelerate the program• Plan to go live quickly and successfully• Invest in training and development• Spend time on program communications strategy• Good Luck!
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Your Turn!
How to contact me:John Appleby
[email protected]@applebyj
Please remember to complete your session evaluation
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