Identify your first HANA Use Case and get started

Alison Bessho Director, HANA Solutions

•  Optimal Solutions At-a-Glance

•  What is HANA today ?

•  Highlights of the T-Mobile Use Case

•  How to find your first use case for HANA

•  Closing Thoughts

•  Contact Information

Agenda

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Analytics

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cases

What is HANA today ?

High-Performance Analytic Appliance: a column-oriented, in-memory database appliance that can support transactional processing and analysis of massive quantities of data in local memory. The results are available at your fingertips very quickly and business decisions can be executed without delay

•  Immediate Answers – with hundreds of times faster analytics •  Deeper Insight – interrogate more granular data •  Simpler and More Cost-Effective – manage large

data volumes while reducing IT complexity

2011: What was HANA ?

Custom Apps

Mobility BPC/EPM

CRM

SOH

Analytics

EIM

BW

Predictive Analysis

What is HANA today ?

T-Mobile Use Case

About T-Mobile: •  Annual revenue is more than $20 billion •  33+ million customers

Challenge: T-Mobile needed rapid analytical capabilities for marketing campaign refinement •  The marketing team wanted to collect,

analyze and report on results of targeted offers and campaigns very quickly and with great flexibility

T-Mobile SAP HANA Use Case

Project 1 (total duration 5.5 months)

•  Acquired a 1 TB SAP HANA appliance

•  Installed HANA, Data Services for Middleware and BO 4.0 (new version)

•  Designed/developed HANA database, data integrations and reports

T-Mobile Project Highlights

Project 1 (total duration 5.5 months)

Results:

•  Reporting runs 53 times faster than on legacy database

•  5.5 times improvement in data compression ratio

•  Business gains new insights quickly and fine-tunes marketing campaigns in real time

T-Mobile Project Highlights

How to Identify your first HANA use case and get started !

Find the Right Business Use Case Start with an initiative that will: •  Wow your customer!

•  Deliver significant improvement to a business challenge and provide new insights and knowledge

•  Introduce new capability that the business was unable to achieve previously

•  Introduce SAP HANA to the IT team and develop their skills and expertise

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Cases that Can Benefit Significantly •  Business Analytics, examples:

-  Customer and marketing data -  Product demand and inventory levels

•  BW on HANA for faster reporting, analytics, transactions

•  New SAP solutions + HANA: •  CRM •  BPC •  Predictive Analytics •  Business Suite on HANA (SoH)

•  Custom applications + HANA built by SAP or third-parties

•  Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) created to address a specific performance challenge or complexity

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Develop High-Level Architecture Leverage your IT partners to consider and determine: • Your existing IT landscape • Data sources • ETL tools • New applications (if applicable)

• Analytics tools (if applicable)

• Frequency and timing of: -  Data updates -  Data access

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Finalize the Environment Plan Several SAP HANA environment options: •  Consider a POC with a reliable integration partner

•  Partner with your preferred hardware vendor to deploy HANA in-house

•  Evaluate in-cloud solutions with Amazon or SAP

•  Think about the number of environments you need: -  Develop, test, produce

•  Remember disaster recovery or HA needs

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Determine Hardware Appliance Needs

Consider size of:

•  Production SAP HANA appliance

•  Development and test environments

•  HA and backup/recovery needs

•  Purge and Archiving strategy

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Determine Hardware Appliance Needs

Where do you begin?

•  Work with your SI and SAP to estimate the amount of data to be stored in HANA

-  Remember: aggregation tables not needed -  Only store data critical to business challenge -  Archive/purge non-critical data

•  Work with your HW partner to finalize the appliance architecture

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Contract for SAP HANA Software Work with your SAP account representative to determine software licensing needs.

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Identify Your Project Team Key positions may include: •  Project manager •  HANA architect /data modeler •  ETL team •  Data source extract developers •  New application developers •  Report/analytics developers •  HANA administrator •  Test team •  SAP members & SI partner members •  Business users for requirements, design & UAT

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Coordinate HANA Training for IT Team

Obtain training from SAP or your integration partner. Training is available in many formats: •  Online tutorials •  Classroom training •  Customized training

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Coordinate HANA Training for IT Team

Critical areas covered: •  Introduction to SAP HANA •  Data services: replication (SLT)

and integration •  SQL on HANA •  Data modeling •  BW on HANA •  Application training

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Identify Performance Metrics

Important to measure speed and capability of the HANA solution: •  Create queries or reports in legacy databases to

serve as a benchmark for HANA queries/reports

•  Monitor and record the processing time of similar IT services for comparison

•  Collaborate with the business to understand their expectations

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Identify Testing Methodology Think about test approach related to: • Quality and accuracy of data loaded into HANA

• Speed time of data load processes

• HANA processing speed … determine if any fine-tuning is needed for the data model

• Application functionality (if applicable)

• Data volume testing requirements

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Gather Business Requirements Meet with your business partners to gather organizational requirements: • Challenge business to think outside the box and focus on just what’s done today

• Remember: the power of SAP HANA lies in its ability to process data very quickly and introduce new, unexpected insights to the business!

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Alison Bessho Director, HANA Solutions Alison.Bessho@optimalsol.com Cell: 303-475-0649

Thank you!

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