1. Betrieb von SAP HANA-Lösungen in der Praxis
Harald Bolbach
SAP Principal / Associate Partner, IBM (Schweiz) AG
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2. Which Benefits does SAP HANA offer?
Dramatically improve analytics performance through in-
memory processing
Analyse operational data with close to no latency Scale
Speed
Speed through real-time data replication
Speed
Get fast results for complex analytical problems by
enabling real-time modification of analytical models
Flexibility
Gather new insights by facilitating analysis of very large
Scale amounts of data
Scale
Make analytics performance scalable through HANA's
technical architecture based on multicore processors
(shared nothing)
Reduce time-to-market for analytical applications
through online modification of analytical models
Flexibility
Flexibility Reduce reaction time by enabling fast ad-hoc analysis of
large volumes of critical transactional data (CRD, POS)
Integrate real-time analytics into operational business
processes
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3. SAP HANA technical Overview for the different Use Cases
e.g. Demographics e.g. SAP ERP: e.g. SAP ERP: CO-PA e.g. SAP BW -7.3 SP5-
& Google Maps Operational reporting on HANA
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4. Implementation Scenarios for SAP HANA – Applications’ Layer
Technology Platform Technology Customer specific
Platform development
Every readable content from a source system
Pure HANA
can be loaded into SAP HANA
Pure HANA
Data can be analyzed with MS Excel or BO Reports will be rebuilt in
Content HANA using SAP Business
frontend tools. Objects as frontend.
Content
Rapid Deployment Solutions can be used for Accelerate SAP business
Accelerated
fast start development suite functionality / with
applications HANA in a side car scenario
Available ERP operational reporting, CRM
pipeline analytics, Banking Analytics …
Development continues.
BW on HANA
BW on HANA
Accelerated applications
CO-PA (Material Ledger, General Ledger, In-Memory Existing applications
Protection of the strategic
Product Costing) Product investments
CRM Segmentation
In-Memory Product
BW 7.3 on HANA, BPC 10
Generation of new applications
Strategic Workforce Planning New applications which could
Appli-
Generation of
cations
Appli-
cations
Smart Meter new
not be delivered before
Native In-Memory
applications applications (Smart Meter)
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5. Implementation Scenarios for SAP HANA
1) SAP HANA as Technology Platform - Steps without RDS
Select ERP Tables
Understand the ERP Data Model
Locate all required Tables (TD, MD, Texts ..)
Load ERP Tables into HANA
Initial Load
Implement delta mechanism
Recreate Table relations in HANA
All master data modeling
Join conditions between tables
Create Analysis Authorizations
no import of users from ERP
Build Reports on top of data model
Will you do part of the modeling above HANA layer?
Select suitable reporting tool
(Excel, Explorer, WebI, Xcelsius, Crystal Analysis …
Create reports
Testing and set to production
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6. Implementation Scenarios for SAP HANA
2) SAP HANA Content – Rapid Deployment Solutions
Sales Purchasing Finance Shipping Master Data
Sales order Purchase orders Flexible customer Stock overview Vendor list
analysis analysis open item Outbound Customer list
Sales order item PO goods reporting Delivery Overview Material list
analysis movement Flexible vendor Outbound
Sales order time analysis open items Deliveries for
schedule analysis Returns analysis reporting Picking
Sales Order history Due A/R items Outbound
organization overview Days sales Delivery Items
analysis Logistics Invoice outstanding Overview
Fulfillment rate Analysis reporting Outbound
Credit memo New general Delivery Items for
analysis ledger line items Picking
Billing Document
List
Real-time analysis of the subledger for Accounts Payable (FI-AP) and Accounts Receivable (FI-
AR)
Flexible analysis of customer and vendor items based on the single line items from the back-end
ERP system
General ledger reporting that allows a 360–degree view on the general ledger accounts
Calculation and analysis of the days sales outstanding (DSO)
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7. Implementation Scenarios for SAP HANA
3) HANA-accelerated applications - Example: SAP ERP Profitability
Analysis (CO-PA) with SAP HANA as second data base
Accelerated month-end closing
ERP BoBj
Accelerated CO-PA Reporting
Accelerated ERP CO-PA Allocations
CO-PA Reporting
CO-PA Reporting BO BI Reporting
Improved Reporting
Business user driven data analysis
Instant response times
SAP ECC 6.0
SAP ECC 6.0 Eliminated data boundaries
No pre-defined data aggregation levels
Complete life-time, line-item analysis,
including archived data
Traditional DB
Traditional DB SAP HANA 1.0
Deeper Insight
High-volume and ad-hoc data queries
SAP HANA No limitations to reporting dimensions
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8. Implementation Scenarios for SAP HANA
4) Business Intelligence Platform using SAP HANA as database
Superior Reporting Performance
Excellent query performance as proven with BWA
Query acceleration on BW DataStore Objects (DSO)
Real-Time Data Access
Consume Analytical or Calculation Views Built in SAP HANA Enterprise
on real-time replicated data seamlessly with your SAP BW
SAP Data BI
environment
ECC Warehouse
Simulate More and Plan Faster! SAP BW
Performance boost for planning capabilities
Simplified Maintenance
No special efforts (indexes, statistics, etc…) to guarantee
fast reporting on any DB object BI
Column based storage with highly compression rates SAP
Unified Instance (over BWA and relational DBMS)
Trad. DB HANA1.0
Reduction in materialized layers (no aggregates) In-
SP05
Memory
Reduced Load Windows
In-Memory optimized DSOs Apps
New In-Memory optimized InfoCubes
Modeling Flexibility
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9. 4) Architectural Overview of the SAP BW based on HANA
Scaleout w/ High Availability & Disaster Recovery available since 12.2012
s. SAP Hinweis 1755396
Productive SAP BW system Test SAP BW system
SAP BW 7.3 SAP BW 7.3
SAP BW SAP BW SAP BW SAP BW SAP BW SAP BW SAP BW SAP BW
LPARs ASCS PAS JAVA SCS PAS LPARs ASCS PAS JAVA SCS PAS
Synchronous replication to second site in metro distance
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10. Implementation Scenarios for SAP HANA
5) Generation of new In-Memory-Driven applications
SAP ERP Rapid-Deployment Operational Reporting:
24 report models for A/P, A/R, purchasing, sales, and shipping
SAP CO-PA Accelerator:
Real-time profit analysis; faster analysis of cost and profit
SAP Finance and Controlling Accelerator:
Accelerate month-end close and improve financial performance
SAP Sales Pipeline Analysis:
CRM: Analyze sales pipeline; quotes, opportunities, contracts
SAP Customer Segmentation Accelerator:
CRM: Identify target groups for campaigns through data mining
SAP Smart Meter Analytics:
IS-U: Plan and deliver real-time load-management services
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11. IBM's cross-brand offerings for SAP HANA
Plan
Plan Build
Build Run
Run
SAP HANA
SAP HANA
SAP HANA Business
Business SAP HANA
SAP HANA
SAP HANA Value --
Value Analytics
SAP HANA
SAP HANA Application
Analytics SAP HANA
SAP HANA Application
Applications
Applications Identi-
Identi- Jumpstart
Realization
Realization Management
fication Jumpstart SAP HANA
SAP HANA Business
Business Management
fication
Turnkey
Turnkey Proof of
Proof of
Solution
Solution Concept
Concept
Setup
Setup
SAP HANA
SAP HANA SAP HANA
SAP HANA
Software
Software Revision
Revision
Updates
Updates
SAP HANA
SAP HANA SAP HANA
SAP HANA
OS FS
OS FS Technical
Technical SAP HANA
SAP HANA & Patching
& Patching
SAP HANA
SAP HANA Technical
Technical Infra-
Infra-
Network Architecture
Architecture Basic
Basic
Network Blueprint
Appliances
Appliances Installation
Proof of
Proof of Linux,
structure
structure
Blueprint Installation Concept Linux, Management
Concept GPFS, Management
GPFS,
Hardware Firmware
Firmware
Hardware Updates
Updates
Business Services Technology Services Hard- & Software
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