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The Performance Management ExchangeThursday November 24th 2016
The Hockey Hall of Fame
Re-Thinking Managing SAP BPCIs my Organization Ready?
Patrick Hickey, VP of Professional ServicesPerformance Analytics
SAP BPC Support Types
Manage the SAP Application
Functional Layer
Manage the OS, backup/recovery
as well as the H/W infrastructure
SAP Application Functional Layer
Infrastructure Layer
Application Technology Layer
Manages the DB, NetWeaver
and/or HANA application.
Managed Support Continuum
Customer Managed Partner Managed
SAP Application Functional Layer
Infrastructure Layer
Application Technology Layer
Fully Internally Managed
SAP Application Functional Layer
Infrastructure Layer
Application Technology Layer
Fully Partner Managed in Cloud
SAP Application Functional Layer
Infrastructure Layer
Application Technology Layer
HybridManaged
What’s Your Level of Service?
Costs of Self Sufficiency
Internal…
Consulting…0%
25%50%
75%100%
Internal Support Costs Consulting Support Costs
Costs
Customer Self Sufficiency
Costs of Self Sufficiency
0%25%
50%75%
100%
Internal Support Costs Consulting Support Costs
Costs
Customer Self Sufficiency
Issue with Fully Internally Managed Solutions
Why the Fully Managed Cloud for SAP BPC?
The Benefits Of Cloud
Pay as you Go
StopGuessing Capacity
Agility / Speed /
Innovation
Avoid Un-differentiated Heavy Lifting
Lower Overall Costs
Cloud ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
On
Premise
or
Hosted
X X X X X
Innovation = Failure is an Option
$250K
budget
Fund 6+ Ideas 1 Month
Fail Fast
Fail Cheap
WIN
Innovate
Revenue
Industry research finds that running SAP applications on
AWS provides infrastructure cost savings of up to 71%
compared to the same system running on-premises.
VMS AG TCO study 2013
Lower Overall Costs with SAP and Cloud
Cloud Provider Review
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
and Azure are the only Leaders
• Traditional Hosting Companies
are either becoming Niche
players or disappearing
• SAP HEC is not on the Quadrant,
PaaS focused only on SAP
2016 Magic Quadrant
Gartner Infrastructure as a Service - 2016
Cloud Provider Comparison
Amazon Web Services MS Azure SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
Scale Efficiencies
Innovations
Managed Services
Partner Ecosystem
SAP Centric
Canadian Residency
SAP Cloud Use Case
The Good News is that Cloud isn’t an ‘All or Nothing’ Choice
Capstone Corporate
Data Centres
On-Premises Resources
Cloud Resources
IntegrationERP BPC
Users
1
2
3
9
6
5
Project Planning & Sizing
Build Cloud Environment
Forklift copy BPC Test servers to cloud
Cloud Migration Plan - based on Forklift
7
8
Integration testing &
Business Validation
Production Go-Live
Forklift copy BPC Prod servers to cloud
4
Perform initial testPre-
Production Test
Forklift BPC Dev servers to cloud
Capstone Support Model
PAC to manage the SAP Application
Functional and Technical Layer
Azure to manage the physical
infrastructure (including the hypervisor)
Softlanding to manage OS, OS patching,
backup/recovery, Network, etc.
How do I get Started?
Roadmap to the Managed CloudHow to Get Started?
1. Understand your organization’s business drivers.
2. Understand your current IT environment.
3. Select “application” candidates to migrate to the cloud.
4. Investigate potential Cloud Providers.
5. Assemble the Team.
6. Create a detailed Project Plan & Execute
7. Finally, “Think Big and Start Small”
Patrick Hickey, VP of Professional ServicesPerformance Analytics
Re-Thinking Managing SAP BPC Is my Organization Ready?
Thank you!