SAP Cloud Strategy

SAP Cloud Strategy - Timeless Software
Frank Stienhans on behalf of Kaj van de Loo
SAP

Decades-Long RelationshipsWith the World’s Largest Enterprises
Trading Industries
Consumer Industries
Financial Services
85% of the Forbes 500
Process Manufacturing
Services
PublicServices
DiscreteManufacturing
SAP is in a unique position to transform change into an opportunity for our customers

Our Basic AspirationWhat we want to Achieve
Business Solutions that create
INSTANT VALUE TO PEOPLE EVERYWHERE
To deliver this, we need the ability to
Build diverse application content across roles, industries, geographies
Maximize its reach across all kinds of consumers
Deliver this in containersthat span multiple technology generations
Maximize the easeand efficiency and minimize the costand disruption of its construction, deployment, integration, support, change
While preserving the promise and integrity of our relationship to customers
Across generations of change
Our endeavor is to deliver Timeless Software
© SAP 2009 / Page 3

Evolving System LandscapesBeyond SOA
From system centric…
…to layered
?
Co-Existence
Harmonization, Adaptation, Integration, Unified Lifecycle Mgmt
On Demand
BusinessApplications &
Services
On Premise Business Applications
and Services
Virtualization
Dedicated
Resources
Shared
Resources
Cloud
Focus on individual systems
On premise only
Central ITonly
Each system has its own stack
Integration is mainly point-to-point
Models are solely descriptive
Each system has own lifecycle
Focus on business needs
Any deployment model
Reaching out to Lines of Business
Systems can share infrastructure
Integration is logicallycentralized
Models are executable
Lifecycle and change managed cross-system
© SAP 2009 / Page 4

Harnessing the CloudFor the Benefit of our Customers
Extend the reach of SAP systems through cloud based access, ultimately reaching everybody everywhere in entirely new ways
?
Co-Existence
Offer a portfolio of valuable On Demand applications, ultimately leading to the next generation Networked Solutions with hybrid deployment models
On Demand
Services
and Services
Virtualization
Dedicated
Resources
Shared
Resources
Cloud
Leverage cloud infrastructure to increase the business agility and to lower the TCO of our customers, ultimately enabling new types of applications

SAP ActivitiesOn Premise Applications on On Demand Infrastructure
?
Co-Existence
On Demand
Services
and Services
Customers
Cloud infrastructures promise lower IT costs and higher business agility – very relevant attributes for SAP On Premise Solutions
First adopters experiment with SAP solutions in the cloud. POCs with selected customers.
Market
The cloud ecosystem is rapidly evolving. New cloud infrastructures and tools are appearing on the market.
Cloud infrastructures can be used today for non-mission critical use cases.
The offerings need to mature in the domain of IT Integration and SLA qualities, before being leveraged for mission critical scenarios
SAP
Since 2007 SAP is validating the usage of SAP solutions in cloud infrastructures, starting with Amazon.com
Management solutions for virtualized SAP landscapes, including cloud deployment, in development
Virtualization
Dedicated
Resources
Shared
Resources
Cloud

SAP ActivitiesOn Demand Infrastructure Technology and IaaS
?
Co-Existence
On Demand
Services
and Services
Partnerships with Technology Providers
SAP is working with infrastructure technology providers to further the development of On Demand infrastructure technology suitable for deployment of SAP applications
Partnerships with Service Providers
SAP is working with providers of infrastructure On Demand to further the availability of low TCO infrastructures for SAP applications
Standardization
Standardization of interfaces to On Demand infrastructure is in our customers’ and SAP’s best interest
SAP is among the original supporters of the Open Cloud Manifesto
Virtualization
Dedicated
Resources
Shared
Resources
Cloud

SAP ActivitiesOn Demand Business Applications, Tools, and Services
?
Co-Existence
On Demand
Services
and Services
Business ByDesign
Full extended business suite for SME provisioned On Demand by SAP
Large Enterprise On Demand
Native On Demand LOB applications for established markets (eSourcing, CRM…)
Business Intelligence On Demand
BI tools offered On Demand by SAP, e.g. crystalreports.com
Information On Demand and other Services
Information and data such as benchmarks offered On Demand by SAP
Data quality services such as address cleansing offered On Demand by SAP
Business Communications Management
Contact center solution (from WICOM acquisition) offered On Demand by SAP
Other/Future
Virtualization
Dedicated
Resources
Shared
Resources
Cloud

SAP OpportunityHybrid Deployment Models
?
Co-Existence
On Demand
Services
and Services
Obvious opportunity for SAP: Complement On Premise offerings with integrated On Demand offerings
Suite/ERP for subsidiaries or business partners
Complementary applications, especially “cloud native” ones
Tools and services, especially “cloud native” and highly data dependent ones
Provided by SAP or partners
Extend qualities of On Premise solutions to the On Demand world
Lifecycle management
Compliance
Integrated processes
Master data management
Ultimately leading to Networked Solutions combining On Premise and On Demand components into a holistic solution
Virtualization
Dedicated
Resources
Shared
Resources
Cloud

SAP ActivitiesCloud Based Access
?
Co-Existence
On Demand
Services
and Services
Customers
Many SAP customers offer their customers, partners, and others access to their SAP systems, usually indirectly, to a very limited set of data/functionality, and not for a fee
BPO Offerings
SAP is not a BPO provider, but rather powers and supports BPO providers offering services on top of SAP applications
Portfolio includes Human Resources Outsourcing based on ERP HCM, Finance and Accounting/Procurement Outsourcing based on ERP and SRM, B2B Collaboration, and others such as Utilities and Real Estate Management
BPO providers typically offer cloud based access to their systems
SAP Opportunity
Increase the reach and usage of our applications by making cloud based consumption easier
Virtualization
Dedicated
Resources
Shared
Resources
Cloud

SAP ActivitiesWhat about PaaS?
?
?
Co-Existence
On Demand
Services
and Services
No current offering
An SAP platform should have the purpose of extending and complementing applications, not exist in isolation
Platforms one could imagine include:
Platforms to extend horizontal applications
Vertically oriented platforms, including industry specific frameworks and services
Platforms offered by one company, such as a bank, to its ecosystem of partners and customers
Virtualization
Dedicated
Resources
Shared
Resources
Cloud

Achieving Timeless SoftwareSAP‘s next steps in a nutshell
Enabling
Enabling change and integration
Enable our portfolio for key forms of external consumption
Extend end to end lifecycle management from on premise SAP to other vendors, legacy, custom, on demand, …
Manage the change of all containers and content: Different layers of the software stack, configuration and policies, master data and identity, processes, …
Provide better support for automated and integrated testing of all changes
Ensure compliance when implementing changes across systems
Evolve programming model
Enable dramatically higher efficiency and coherence across different types of content construction and different existing programming models
Evolve runtime
Enable application-optimized data management
Flexible deployment and optimizations across layers
Innovating
© SAP 2009 / Page 12

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