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Building the Business Case for SAP HANA
The document outlines a session on building a business case for SAP HANA and S/4HANA, emphasizing the digital transformation and potential benefits of migrating SAP systems to the HANA platform. Key topics include strategies for rapid migrations, quantifying business benefits, and overcoming challenges in adoption. It also highlights the importance of executive sponsorship and structured planning to ensure successful implementation.
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Building the Business Case for SAP HANA
- 1. Produced by WellesleyInformation Services, LLC, publisher of SAPinsider. © 2014 Wellesley Information Services. All rights reserved. Building a business case for SAP HANA and S/4HANA John Appleby Bluefin Solutions Inc. Sponsored Educational Session
- 2. 2 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
- 3. 3 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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- 5. 5 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
- 6. 6 SAP HANA in-memoryplatform Transact | Analyze | Deliver Processing Engine Spatial l Events Stream | Planning | Calculation | Predictive | Graph Application Services Application Server | UI Integration Services | Web Server Database Services Transactions | Analytics | Partitioning Compression | Availability | Encryption | Virtualization Integration Services Mobile | 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
- 7. 7 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
- 8. 8 The HANA businesscase 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 by customers buying BW on SAP HANA Cost reduction! Source: ASUG survey June 2014
- 9. 9 Typical BW onSAP HANA deployment • 6TB any DB Page Compressed • BW modules Finance Logistics HR Sales • 43k employees 2k BW users • $14bn revenue TCO: $6.1m over 3 years
- 10. 10 IT spending in2014/2015 Source: http://www.gartner.com/technology/metrics/ IT spending as a percentage of revenue, by industry Source: IT Key Metrics Data 2014, Gartner Benchmark Analytics
- 11. 11 Components of abusiness case Tip: try to move benefits from Observable Measurable Quantifiable Financial
- 12. 12 Quantifying benefits Remember: tryto move benefits from Observable Measurable Quantifiable Financial
- 13. 13 Business benefits matrix Doingnew 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
- 14. 14 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
- 15. 15 Rapid Migrations • BusinessCase 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
- 16. 16 Challenges of aRapid 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
- 17. 17 How to AccelerateAdoption? • Consider a PoC / Pilot • A well-run PoC: Increases Confidence Validates Sizing Confirms Project Approach Gains Project Momentum • Accelerates Adoption!
- 18. 18 How to doa 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
- 19. 19 How to doa Rapid Migration? (cont) • Create 3 plan levels High Level (Week/System) ~ 20 lines Mid Level (Day/Activity) ~100 lines Detailed (Technical) ~ 500 lines
- 20. 20 How to doa 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
- 21. 21 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
- 22. 22 Where to FindMore Information • http://bluefinsolutions.com/Blogs/John-Appleby/ • http://scn.sap.com/people/applebyj/content • https://blogs.saphana.com/author/john-appleby/
- 23. 23 7 Key Pointsto 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!
- 24. 24 Your Turn! How tocontact me: John Appleby john.appleby@bluefinsolutions.com @applebyj Please remember to complete your session evaluation
- 25. 25 Disclaimer SAP and otherSAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. Wellesley Information Services is neither owned nor controlled by SAP SE.