Cisco Appliance for SAP BW Accelerator

• BWA is a add-on to SAP Business Warehouse (BW) HANA is a replacement of the SAP BW• Performance for HANA and BWA are similar because they use, in principle, the same in-memory technology• Why would a customer move to HANA  Early adoption of the future technology  Laying the groundwork for ERP on HANA  Already on release 7.3• Why would a customer stay with BW + BWA:  HANA requires a new license  BWA runs on cheaper CPUs than HANA  Customer wants to keep its existing database  BW must be upgraded to release 7.3 to be moved to HANA as DB• Start with Cisco BWA 2.0, and transition to HANA when ready, preserving up to 75% of hardware investment  Cisco’s BWA 2.0 and HANA appliances share the same architecture: Same chassis, Same fabric interconnects, Same switches, Same rack server, Same NetApp storage, Same automation software and benefits  The only components that need to be replaced are the blades, and they can be redeployed© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 2

For CIO’s Streamline installation and setup Fewer staff required to manage the appliance Field-upgradable from the smallest appliance to the largest Multiple BWA instances in the same appliance Minimizes down time Lower operating costs and streamline support Investment preservation in migrating to HANAFor Business Executives and Users The latest data is available when it’s needed Ensures that loads are performed without incident Maximizes performance and utilization Minimizes down time Dual 40 Blade Configuration© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 3

Cisco BI Appliance for SAPSAP Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA)BusinessObjects Explorer Cisco Unified Computing Hosted Mode Appliance Cisco IntelligentAutomation for SAP BWASSD and NetApp Storage© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 4

 Workload Monitoring: CPU, memory, average index read time, and more, at the blade level Cisco BI Appliance for  Automated maintenance, including hardware checks, SAP firmware updates and file system validation  Configuration management assurance for all applianceSAP Business Warehouse components Accelerator (BWA)  Data Services availability and error monitoring forBusinessObjects Explorer more reliable ETL (BOE)  Proactive monitoring for BWA subsystem components status. Cisco Unified Computing  Monitoring query execution response time. using the System (UCS) Server BWA index for the query execution BWA Query Response Time Cisco Intelligent  Executing sample query and records total executionAutomation for SAP BWA time and query component performance breakdown  Proactive monitoring of BWA blade TREX servicesSSD and NetApp Storage statistics based on thresholds  Alerting on CPU, Memory, or Throughput thresholds for TREX services  Automated configuration of RMA blades, so they become part of the cluster in minutes instead of days© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 5

Cisco BI Appliance for SAPSAP Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) ProductionBusinessObjects Explorer (BOE) Cisco Unified Computing Hosted Mode Appliance Vs. Testing Production Cisco Intelligent TestingAutomation for SAP BWA Development SSD & NetApp Storage Development© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 6

1 Reduced 2 Optimized 3 Consistent 4 Intelligent Cost Resources BI SLA’s Automation Standardize BWA Fewer staff Be ready for Automated Best support processes required for business needs Practices and appliance Info cubes loaded Automated Automated administration and optimized, Administration maintenance for frees up valuable Monitored for and Maintenance, reduce downtime resources to work Availability and High Performance, on other activities Performance Increased Availability© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 8

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Cisco Appliance for SAP BW Accelerator

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