This document discusses how SAP systems often do not utilize their full hardware capacity during batch processing. It notes that ABAP code typically runs in a single process, limiting hardware usage to around 45% capacity. This results in batch jobs taking a long time to run. The document promotes Basis Technologies' Batch Accelerator, which breaks long-running ABAP programs into smaller chunks that can run concurrently in different processes. This allows jobs to finish sooner by making better use of available hardware capacity. It argues this is a better approach than adding more hardware or moving processes to the cloud without first optimizing existing resource usage.

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Tetris
play
in your SAP system

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Is your head
in the clouds?

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Everyone
is talking
about clouds…

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But before you go
all cloudy eyed
and start thinking about moving to
scalable cloud architecture…

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Are you sure
that your
existing hardware
is working hard
enough?

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Most SAP systems work
really hard to cope with
your business demands.
batch jobs
reports extracts
interfaces

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But during intensive batch processing
your SAP hardware rarely uses
more than 45% of its capacity.

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Meaning that you’ve paid for all
of this power that you don’t use.

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So, if you add even more hardware,
you’re wasting even more money.
Simply because of the way that your ABAP code runs on your hardware.

10. ABAP code runs in a single process
which limits the amount of hardware
capacity it can use…

11. Meaning that your batch jobs
run for a long, long, long time.
time

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Tetris
This is why you need to play
in your SAP system

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if you get basic decisions
In Tetris,
wrong, things quickly get
out of control.

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fill every available gap and make the
You need to work hard to
most of your resources.

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And the simpler
the shapes, the
easier they are
to fit into
available
gaps.

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But life doesn’t throw
simple shapes at you…

17. If you can break your
workload into smaller,
simpler chunks you can fill in
those capacity gaps.

18. Meaning your jobs
finish sooner and your
business runs faster.

19. Basis Technologies’
Batch Accelerator
dynamically breaks your
long running ABAP
programs to run in
smaller chunks.
* that run in different background processes
*

20. So that jobs like this…

21. Can run like this.

22. What’s more, you can
even increase the
processing power used
while jobs are running.
So if you’re running late,
you can use your
available capacity and
go a bit quicker.

23. Get your head
out of the
clouds…

24. Get
instead.

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