ibm sap on azure assessment
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IBM SAP on Azure
Assessment
Key Challenges
Challenge 2
- As usage and data size
increases, firms may need
to increase SAP HANA
Memory size and/or
number nodes which are
very expensive
Challenge 5
- Planning the right level of
hardware capacity and
pay for it upfront
Challenge 3
- No ‘pay for use’ pricing option for SAP licensing
Challenge 6
- High cost of overprovisioned hardware
Challenge 1
- Very high CapEx and
OpEx
Challenge 4
- Future upgrades are
expensive
Challenge 7
- High cost of physical
data center space
Key Challenges Faced by Clients
Needs of the Clients
Need 2
- Meet industry standard
compliance requirements
Need 5
- Meet business continuity
requirements to ensure
little downtime in case of
a disaster
Need 3
- Data privacy and security requirements as per industry standards
Need 6
- Seamless connectivity and integration requirements
Need 1
- Cloud first vision and
reduction in IT cost
Need 4
- Data protection
(backup/restore) and
retention policies as
per industry standards
Clients’ Needs
Offering Overview
The IBM SAP on Azure Assessment offering is a cloud transformation workshop designed to help clients accelerate transformation from a traditional on-premise, perpetual licensing business model to an Azure cloud model to
➢ Align core business applications with business initiatives around “cloud-first” strategy
➢ Improve productivity and lower costs
➢ Agility to adapt to fast-moving market demands
➢ Meet industry compliance requirements
on
Assessment
IBM SAP on Azure Assessment – Phases
Prepare Design ThinkingArchitecture
AnalysisRecommendation
• Determine the pain points, frustrations and inefficiencies in the current systems
• Evaluate SAP applications, server dependencies, third-party applications, and underlying infrastructure
• Identify and prioritize high level requirements
• Analyze the current architecture diagram
• Evaluate the opportunities to improve the existing system
• Pre-requisites and dependency analysis
• Recommend one of the following 5 approaches for migration: Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild & Replace
• Develop the best fit architecture layouts as per analysis
• Present final recommendation
• Project orgizational structure• Project kick-off meeting• SAP early watch report• Current SAP ECC and SAP
HANA details• Current SAP BW details
• Most important and highest impact objectives, measured in user and business outcomes, and according to the people that will most use or benefit from the Azure transformation
• Proposed architecture layouts• Future sizing• Future cost estimation• Approach for migration and
best practices
• Findings from current layout analysis
• List of opportunities for improvement
• Identify project objectives, scope and boundaries
• Define approach, time and activities plan
• Establish channels for communication
• Obtain and analyze pre-requisite documents
• Prepare and launch kick off
Deliverables
Assessment Workshop Duration - 2 Weeks
Prepare Phase
Identify project objectives, scope and boundaries
Obtain and analyze pre-requisite documents
Define approach, time and
activities plan
Prepare and launch kick-off
meeting
Establish channels for
communication
The Prepare phase acts as a kick-starter to launch or enhance your Cloud Transformation journey. A high-level Plan of action will be created that will integrate the appropriate capability improvements, with the specific business transformation aims, and will be presented to the Project Sponsor.
Design Thinking Phase
Identify and prioritize high level
requirements
Determine the pain points, frustrations and inefficiencies in
their experiences
Evaluate SAP applications, server dependencies, third-party applications,
and underlying infrastructure
The Design Thinking sessions are people focused design and problem-solving method to identify the most important and highest impact objectives, measured in user, customer and company outcomes. The Phase will determine the pain points, evaluate the current SAP systems and underlying infrastructure, and identify/prioritize the requirements.
Architecture Analysis Phase
Requirements, dependencies
analysis
Analyze the current architecture
Evaluate the opportunities to migrate and improve the future
end state
The Architecture Analysis phase provides an opportunity to perform SAP system rationalization. It involves analyzing the current application and underlying infrastructure which would act as an instrumental input for defining a solid architecture.
Requirements, Dependencies Analysis
Plan your costs
- Determine Azure region strategy
- Ensure that you don’t overprovision your virtual machines
Decide what can be replaced
Decide what data can be cleaned out
Prioritize workloads for migration, depending on
Business impact and Complexity
Analyze current configuration
Analyze on-premise to Azure connectivity
requirements
Gather and document current SAP applications, server
dependencies, third-party applications, and underlying
infrastructure
Decide what can be retired across all SAP
workloads
Recommendation Phase
Present final recommendation
Recommend the appropriate migration of SAP HANA
potential green field or brown field implementation
Develop the best fit architectural layouts as
per analysis
Based on the architecture analysis, a recommended approach for migrating SAP on Azure is proposed keeping in line with five pillars of excellence: cost, DevOps, resiliency, scalability, and security.
Migration Approaches
3
Migration Approaches
1
2
4
5
Rehost - “Lift and shift” your current solutions to VMs in the cloud
Refactor - Make minimal changes to your solution so it
works in the cloud
Rearchitect - Change how your solution works to
optimize it for the cloud
Rebuild - Rebuild your solution using cloud-native technologies to get the most from the cloud
Replace - Replace portions of your current solution with SaaS
Value Propositions – SAP on Azure Assessment
Value Proposition 2
- Build solutions using best
of breed solutions /
products / services
Value Proposition 5
- Integrated security,
monitoring and
management using Azure
Services
Value Proposition 3
- Easy to adopt and integrate with latest technologies
Value Proposition 6
- Leverage reporting
capabilities using new
age reporting tool
Value Proposition 1
- Increase business
agility
Value Proposition 4
- Low OpEx, predictable
cloud consumption
based on cost models
Key Benefits to Clients