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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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Foreword
Chapter 1: SAP HANA Overview
Chapter 2: SAP HANA Architecture
Chapter 3: SAP HANA Business Cases & ROI Model
Chapter 4: SAP HANA Applications
Chapter 5: SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse on SAP
Chapter 6: Data Provisioning with SAP HANA
Chapter 7: Data Modeling with SAP HANA
Chapter 8: Application Development with SAP HANA
Chapter 9: SAP HANA Administration & Operations
Chapter 10: SAP HANA Hardware Overview
Chapter 11: SAP HANA Projects and Implementation
Chapter 12: SAP HANA Resources
The rest of the story
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T he cover image is a European No Speed Limit sign. If youve ever driven on the Autobahn in Germany, this sign will immediately bring a smile
to your face because you can step on the accelerator and drive as fast as you want to or as fast as your car can go (which ever comes first). In
terms of SAP HANA, we selected this image because SAP HANA allows your company to run at top speed with no artificial limit to how fast it can
go. If you ever go visit SAP headquarters in Germany, youll see this sign about 2 miles south of the Frankfurt airport on the A5 and theres no
speed limit on your way to visit SAP.
Since this book is about the shift to real-time business, its fitting that weve been writing this book in real-time and will be delivering it in realtime. Basically, that means that we cant wait around for everything in the SAP HANA world to settle down and solidify before writing each chapter
and expect everyone to hold their breath until the entire book is finished and ready to print. And trust me, SAP HANA is moving extremely fast right
now and you could be holding your breath for quite a while waiting for that day.
Just like SAP HANA is disrupting the status quo in the database world and breaking lots of ossified rules of the game, well be doing much the
same with this book. Who says you have to wait till the whole book is written to release it? Who says you have to charge $$ for an extremely
valuable book? Who says it has to be printed on paper with ink and sold in a bookstore?
Weve decided to break all those traditional publishing rules and release the first chapters now (May 2012) and then release the remaining
chapters as they are completed, with quite a few of the technical chapters coming out near the SAP TechEd 2012 events in the fall. Since this is a
digital-only book, its important that readers keep connected to learn about the release of new chapters and content updates. Thats pretty easy:
Follow the book on twitter @EpistemyPress and @jeff_word, sign up for the email updates from the saphanabook.com website when you register
to download the ebook and keep watching experiencesaphana.com.
Table of Contents
1 SAP HANA Overview
2 SAP HANA Architecture
3 SAP HANA Business Cases & ROI Model
4 SAP HANA Applications
5 SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse on SAP
6 Data Provisioning with SAP HANA
7 Data Modeling with SAP HANA
8 Application Development with SAP HANA
9 SAP HANA Administration & Operations
10 SAP HANA Hardware
11 SAP HANA Projects & Implementation
12 SAP HANA Resources
Acknowledgments
Although were at the beginning of this journey, many people have already been phenomenally helpful in the scoping, content preparation and
reviewing of this book. Their support has been invaluable and many more people will be involved as the book progresses.
Many thanks to all of you for your support and collaboration.
Jeff
SAP Colleagues
Margaret Anderson, Puneet Suppal, Uddhav Gupta, Storm Archer, Scott Shepard, Balaji Krishna, Daniel Rutschman, Ben Gruber, Bhuvan
Wadhwa, Lothar Henkes, Adolf Brosig, Thomas Zureck, Lucas Kiesow, Prasad Ilapani, Wolfram Kleis, Gunther Liebich, Ralf Czekalla, Michael
Erhardt, Roland Kramer, Arne Arnold, Markus Fath, Johannes Beigel, Ron Silberstein, Kijoon Lee, Oliver Mainka, Si-Mohamed Said, Amit Sinha,
Mike Eacrett, Andrea Neff, Jason Lovinger, Michael Rey, Gigi Read, David Hull, Nadav Helfman, Lori Vanourek, Bill Lawler, Scott Leatherman,
Wolfram Kleis, Tom Kurtz, Jay Foard, Sebastian Speck
SAP Mentors
Thomas Jung (SAP), Harald Reiter (Deloitte), Vitaliy Rudnytskiy (HP), John Appleby (Bluefin), Tammy Powlas (Fairfax Water), Vijay Vijayasankar
(IBM), Craig Cmehil (SAP), Alvaro Tejada (SAP)
SAP Partners
Lane Goode (HP), Tag Robertson (IBM), Rick Speyer (Cisco), Andrea Voigt (Fujitsu), Nathan Saunders (Dell), KaiGai Kohei (NEC), Chris March
(Hitachi)
Production
Robert Weiss (Development Editor)
Roland Schild (Libreka)
Michelle DeFilippo (1106 Design)
T his book is designed to provide an introduction to SAP HANA to a wide range of readers, from C-level executives down to entry-level coders. As
such, its content is necessarily broad and not-too-technical. This book should be the first thing everyone reads about SAP HANA, but will provide
easy links to Level 2 technical content to continue learning about the various sub-topics in more detail. The content is structured so that everyone
can begin with the introduction chapter and then skip to the subsequent chapters that most interest them. Business people will likely skip to the
applications and business case chapters while techies will jump ahead to the application development and hardware chapters. In fact, it would
probably be odd if anyone actually read this book from beginning to end (but go ahead if you want to).
Although a great deal of this book focuses on living in a world without compromises from a technology and business perspective, weve
unfortunately had to make a few compromises in the scope and depth of the content in order to reach the widest possible audience. If we hadnt,
this would be a 10,000-page encyclopedia that only a few hundred people would ever read. Weve tried to make this book as easy to read as
possible to ensure that every reader can understand the concepts and get comfortable with the big picture of SAP HANA. Weve also tried to cover
as many of the high-level concepts as possible and provide copious links to deeper technical resources for easy access. Hopefully, you will enjoy
reading the chapters and find it quite easy to punch out to additional technical information as you go regardless of your level of technical
knowledge or business focus.
The knowledge you will find in this book is the first step on the journey to becoming a real-time enterprise, but in many ways, it is just the tip of the
iceberg. Were working on several Level 2 technical books on SAP HANA and are committed to providing as much technical and business
content as possible through the Experience SAP HANA website and other channels. Please refer to the last chapter to get a listing of additional
free information sources on SAP HANA.
Given the massive strategic impact of SAP HANA on the medium and long-term IT architectures of its customers, SAP felt that every customer
and ecosystem partner should have free access to the essential information they will need to understand SAP HANA and evaluate its impact on
their future landscape. SAP sponsored the writing of this book and has funded its publication as a free ebook to ensure that everyone can easily
access this knowledge.
SAP HANA is a rapidly evolving product and its level of importance to SAP customers will continue to increase exponentially over the next
several years. We will attempt to provide updated editions of this book on a semi-annual basis to ensure that you can easily access the most up-todate knowledge on SAP HANA. Please continue to visit the SAP HANA Essentials website to download updated and revised editions when they
are released (typically in May and November of each year). You can also follow @EpistemyPress on Twitter for updates.
Foreword
By Vishal Sikka, Ph.D.
Executive Board Member, SAP AG
T ime magazine picked The Protester as its person of the year for 2011, recognition of individuals who spoke up around the world from the
Arab countries to Wall Street, from India to Greece individuals whose voices were amplified and aggregated by modern technology and its
unprecedented power to connect and empower us. Twitter and Facebook, now approaching 800 million users (more than 10% of humanity), are
often viewed as the harbinger of social networking. But social networking is not new. A recent issue of the Economist described Martin Luthers use
of social networking, especially the Gutenberg press, to start the Protestant Reformation. During the American Revolution, Thomas Paine
published his Common Sense manifesto on a derivation of the Gutenberg press. Within a single year, it reached almost a million of the 1.5 million
residents of the 13 American colonies about two-thirds of the populace, and helped seed democracy and Americas birth.
I believe that information technologies, especially well-designed, purposeful ones, empower and renew us and serve to amplify our reach and our
abilities. The ensuing connectedness dissolves away intermediary layers of inefficiency and indirection. Some of the most visible recent examples
of this dissolving of layers are the transformations we have seen in music, movies and books. Physical books and the bookstores they inhabited
have been rapidly disappearing, as have physical compact discs, phonograph records, videotapes and the stores that housed them. Yet there is
more music than ever before, more books and more movies. Their content got separated from their containers and got housed in more convenient,
more modular vessels, which better tie into our lives, in more consumable ways. In the process, layers of inefficiency got dissolved. By putting 3000
songs in our pockets, the iPod liberated our music from the housings that confined it. The iPhone has a high-definition camera within it, along with a
bunch of services for sharing, distributing and publishing pictures, even editing them services that used to be inside darkrooms and studios. 3D
printing is an even more dramatic example of this transformation. The capabilities and services provided by workshops and factories are now
embodied within a printer that can print things like tools and accessories, food and musical instruments. A remarkable musical flute was printed
recently at MIT, its sound indistinguishable from that produced by factory-built flutes of yesterday.
I see layers of inefficiency dissolving all around us. An empowered populace gets more connected, and uses this connectivity to bypass the
intermediaries and get straight at the things it seeks, connecting and acting in real-time whether it is to stage uprisings or rent apartments, plan
travel or author books, edit pictures or consume apps by the millions.
And yet enterprises have been far too slow to benefit from such renewal and simplification that is pervading other parts of our lives. The IT
industry has focused on too much repackaging and reassembly of existing layers into new bundles, ostensibly to lower the costs of integrated
systems. In reality, this re-bundling increases the clutter that already exists in enterprise landscapes. It is time for a rethink.
At SAP, we have been engaged in such rethinking, or intellectual renewal, as our chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner challenged me, for the
last several years, and our customers are starting to see its results. This renewal of SAPs architecture, and consequently that of our customers, is
driven by an in-memory product called SAP HANA which, together with mobility, cloud computing, and our principle of delivering innovation without
disruption, is helping to radically simplify enterprise computing and dramatically improve the performance of businesses without disruption.
SAP HANA achieves this simplification by taking advantage of tremendous advances in hardware over the last two decades. Todays machines
can bring large amounts of main-memory, and lots of multi-core CPUs to bear on massively parallel processing of information very inexpensively.
SAP HANA was designed from the ground-up to leverage this, and the business consequences are radical. At Yodobashi, a large Japanese
retailer, the calculation of incentives for loyalty customers used to take 3 days of data processing, once a month. With SAP HANA, this happens
now in 2 seconds a performance improvement of over 100,000 times. But even more important is the opportunity to rethink business processes.
The incentive for a customer can be calculated on the fly, while the customer is in a store, based on the purchases she is about to make. The
empowered store-manager can determine these at the point of sale, as the transaction unfolds. With SAP HANA, batch processing is converting to
real time, and business processes are being rethought. Customers like Colgate-Palmolive, the Essar Group, Provimi, Charmer Sunbelt, Nongfu
Spring, our own SAP IT and many others, have seen performance improvements of thousands to tens of thousands times. SAP HANA brings these
benefits non-disruptively, without forcing a modification of existing systems. And in Fall 2011, we delivered SAP Business Warehouse on SAP
HANA, a complete removal of the traditional database underneath, delivering fundamental improvements in performance and simplification, without
disruption.
SAP HANA provides a single in-memory database foundation for managing transactional as well as analytical data processing. Thus a complex
question can be posed to real-time operational data, instead of asking pre-fabricated questions on pre-aggregated or summarized data. SAP
HANA also integrates text processing with managing structured data, in a single system. And it scales simply with addition of more processors or
more blades. Thus various types of applications, across a companys lines of businesses, and across application types, can all be run off a single,
elastically-scalable hardware infrastructure: a grand dissolving of the layers of complexity in enterprise landscapes. SAP HANA hardware is built by
various leading hardware vendors from industry standard commodity components, and can be delivered as appliances, private or public clouds.
While this architecture is vastly disruptive to a traditional relational database architecture, to our customers it brings fundamental innovation without
disruption.
Looking ahead, I expect that we will see lots of amazing improvements similar to Yodobashis. Even more exciting, are the unprecedented
applications that are now within our reach. By my estimate, a cloud of approximately 1000 servers of 80-cores and 2 terabytes of memory each,
can enable more than 1 billion people on the planet to interactively explore their energy consumption based on real-time information from their
energy meters and appliances, and take control of their energy management. The management and optimization of their finances, healthcare,
insurance, communications, entertainment and other activities, can similarly be made truly dynamic. Banks can manage risks in real-time, oil
companies can better explore energy sources, mining vast amounts of data as needed. Airlines and heavy machinery makers can do predictive
maintenance on their machines, and healthcare companies can analyze vast amounts of genome data in real time. One of our customers in Japan
is working on using SAP HANA to analyze genome data for hundreds of patients each day, something that was impossible before SAP HANA.
Another customer is using SAP HANA to determine optimal routes for taxicabs. The possibilities are endless.
Just as the iPod put our entire music libraries in our pockets, SAP HANA, combined with mobility and cloud-based delivery, enables us to take
our entire business with us in our pocket. Empowering us to take actions in real time, based on our instincts as well as our analysis. To re-think our
solutions to solving existing problems and to help businesses imagine and deliver solutions for previously unsolved problems. And it is this
empowerment and renewal, driven by purposeful technologies, that continually brings us all forward.
Dr. Vishal Sikka is a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG and heads the technology and innovation areas.
Chapter 1
Every industry has a certain set of rules that govern the way the companies in that industry operate. The rules might be adjusted from time to time
as the industry matures, but the general rules stay basically the same unless some massive disruption occurs that changes the rules or even the
entire game. SAP HANA is one of those massively disruptive innovations for the enterprise IT industry.
To understand this point, consider that youre probably reading this book on an e-reader, which is a massively disruptive innovation for the
positively ancient publishing industry. The book industry has operated under the same basic rules since Gutenberg mechanized the production of
books in 1440. There were a few subsequent innovations within the industry, primarily in the distribution chain, but the basic processes of writing a
book, printing it, and reading it remained largely unchanged for several hundred years. That is until Amazon and Apple came along and digitized
the production, distribution, and consumption of books. These companies are also starting to revolutionize the writing of books by providing new
authoring tools that make the entire process digital and paper-free. This technology represents an overwhelming assault of disruptive innovation on
a 500+ year-old industry in less than 5 years.
Today, SAP HANA is disrupting the technology industry in much the same way that Amazon and Apple have disrupted the publishing industry.
Before we discuss how this happens, we need to consider a few fundamental rules of that industry.
system, it was producing more and more data, which would then get dumped into the reporting system. Because the reporting system contained
more, broader data about the companys operations, more people wanted to use the data, which in turn generated more requests for reports from
the database under the reporting system. Of course, as the number of requests increased, the quantities of data that had to be pulled
correspondingly increased. You can see how this vicious (or virtuous) cycle can spin out of control quickly.
new SAP database was in an early experimental stage and the final product could seriously disrupt the market, the Tracker Project was strictly Top
Secret, even to SAP employees.
The Tracker team was composed of the TREX/BWA engineers, a few of the key architects from the SAP MaxDB open-source database team,
the key engineers who built LiveCache, the SAP ERP performance optimization and benchmarking gurus, and several database experts from
outside the company. Basically, the team was an all-star lineup of everyone inside and outside SAP who could contribute to this big hairy
audacious goal of building the first in-memory database prototype for SAP (the direct ancestor of SAP HANA).
In the mid-1990s, several researchers at Stanford University had performed the first experiments to build an in-memory database for a project at
HP Labs. Two of the Stanford researchers went on to found companies to commercialize their research. One product was a database query
optimization tool known as Callixa, and the other was a native in-memory database called P*Time. In late 2005, SAP quietly acquired Callixa and
P*time (as well as a couple of other specialist database companies), hired several of the most distinguished database geniuses on the planet, and
put them to work with the Tracker team. The team completed the porting and verification of the in-memory database on a server with 64gb of RAM,
which was the maximum supported memory at the time.
In early 2006, less than four months after the start of the project, the Tracker team passed its primary performance and reality check goal: the
SAP Standard Application Benchmark for 1000 user SD two-tier benchmark with more than 6000 SAPs, which essentially matched the
performance of the two leading certified databases at the time. To put that in perspective, it took Microsoft several years of engineering to port
Microsoft SQL to SAP and pass the benchmark the first time. Passing the benchmark in such a short time with a small team in total secrecy
was a truly amazing feat. Suddenly, an entirely new world of possibilities had opened up for SAP to fundamentally change the rules of the game for
database technology.
Shortly after achieving this milestone, SAP began an academic research project to experiment with the inner workings of in-memory databases
with faculty and students at the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam in Germany. The researchers examined the prototypes from the
Tracker team now called NewDB and added some valuable external perspectives on how to mature the technology for enterprise
applications.
However, passing a benchmark and running tests in the labs are far removed from the level of scalability and reliability needed for a database to
become the mission-critical heart of a Fortune 50 company. So, for the next four years, SAP embarked on a bullet-proofing effort to evolve the
project into a product.
In May 2010, Hasso Plattner, SAPs supervisory board chairman and chief software advisor, announced SAPs vision for delivering an entirely
in-memory database layer for its application portfolio. If you havent seen his keynote speech, its worth watching. If you saw it when he delivered it,
its probably worth watching again. Its Professor Plattner at his best.
incredible database would be essentially useless if SAPs customers couldnt make the business case to adopt it because it was too disruptive to
their existing systems. The team spoke, under NDA, with the senior IT leadership of several of SAPs largest customers to obtain insights
concerning the types of concerns they would have about such a monumental technology shift at the bottom of their stacks. The customers provided
some valuable guidelines for how SAP should engineer and introduce such a disruptive innovation into their mission-critical landscapes. Making
that business case involved much more than just the eye-catching speeds and feeds from the raw technology. SAPs customers would switch
databases only if the new database was minimally disruptive to implement and extremely low risk to operate. In essence, SAP would have to build
a hugely disruptive innovation to the database layer that could be adopted and implemented by its customers in a non-disruptive way at the
business application layer.
classic illustration of changing the rules of the game.) I/O speed wasnt a significant concern for playing MP3s, so the cost per megabyte per
second calculation wasnt terribly relevant. By that measure, 5gb of disk for roughly the same price as 64mb of RAM was a huge difference. It
wasnt significantly faster than its competitors, but it was so phenomenally better and cheaper per megabyte (even at $399) that it became a
category killer.
In hindsight, Apple had to make several architectural compromises to squeeze that hard drive into the iPod. First, the hard drive took up most of
the case, leaving very little room for anything else. There was a tiny monochrome display, a clunky mechanical click wheel user interface, a fairly
weak processor, and, most importantly, a disappointingly short battery life. The physics needed to spin a hard disk drained the battery very quickly.
Despite these limitations, however, the iPod was still so much better than anything else out there it soon took over the market.
Fast-forward six years, and Apple was selling millions of units of its most current version of the classic iPod, which contained 160gb of storage,
32 times more than the original 5gb model. Significantly, the new model sold at the same price as the original. In addition to the vastly expanded
storage capacity, Apple had added a color screen and a pressure-sensitive click wheel. Otherwise, the newer model was similar to the original in
most ways.
By this time, however, the storage capacity of the hard drive was no longer such a big deal. Hard drives had become so enormous that nobody
had enough music to fill them. In fact, in 2001 people had been thrilled with 5gb of storage, because they could download their entire CD collection
onto the iPod. Meanwhile, Moores law had been in effect for four full cycles and 16gb of memory cost about the same as a 160gb hard drive. In
2007, Apple could build an iPod with 16gb of solid-state RAM storage which was only one-tenth of the capacity of the current hard drive model
for the same price as the 2001 model.
It was the shift to solid-state memory as the storage medium for iPods that really changed the game for Apple. Removing the hard drive and its
spinning disks had a huge impact on Apples design parameters, for several reasons. First, it enabled the company to shrink the thickness and
reduce the weight of the iPod, making it easier to carry and store. In addition, it created more room for a bigger motherboard and a larger display.
In fact, Apple could now turn the entire front of the device into a display, which it redesigned as a touch-screen interface (hence the name iPod
Touch). Inserting a bigger motherboard in turn allowed Apple to insert a larger, more powerful processor in the device. Most importantly, however,
eliminating the physical hard drive more than doubled the battery life since there were no more mechanical disks to spin.
These innovations essentially transformed a simple music player into a miniature computer that you could carry in your pocket. It had an
operating system, long battery life, audio and video capabilities, and a sufficient amount of storage. Going even further, Apple could also build
another model with nearly all of the same parts that could also make phone calls.
Comparison of Apple iPod Models
Once a large number of people began to carry a computer around in their pocket, it only made sense that developers would build new
applications to exploit the capabilities of the new platform. Although Apple couldnt have predicted the success of games like Angry Birds, they
realized that innovation couldnt be unleashed on their new platform until they removed the single biggest piece of the architecture that was
imposing all the constraints. Ironically, it was the same piece of technology that made the original iPod so successful. Think about that for a second:
Apple had to eliminate the key technology in the iPod that had made them so successful in order to move to the next level of success with the iPod
Touch and the iPhone. Although this might seem like an obvious choice in retrospect, at the time it required a huge leap of faith to take.
In essence, getting rid of the hard drive in the iPods was the most critical technology decision Apple made to deliver the iPod Touch, iPhone,
and, eventually, the iPad. Most of the other pieces of technology in the architecture improved as expected over the years. But the real game
changer was the switch from disk to memory. That single decision freed Apple to innovate without constraints and allowed them to change the rules
of the game again, back to the memory-as-storage paradigm that the portable music player market had started with.
SAP is convinced that SAP HANA represents a similar architectural shift for its application platform. Eliminating the disk-based database will
provide future customers with a faster, better, and cheaper architecture. SAP also believes that this new architecture, like the solid-state memory in
the iPod, will encourage the development of a new breed of business applications that are built natively to exploit this new platform.
Note: as of early 2012, Apple still makes and sells the classic iPod (160gb/$249), but it is a tiny fraction of their overall iPod sales. So, somebody must be buying the old iPods and
Apple must be making some money off of them, but do you know anyone whos bought a hard-drive based iPod in the last five years? Youd have to really need all that storage to give up
In-Memory Basics
Thus far, weve focused on the transition to in-memory computing and its implications for IT. With this information as background, we next dive into
the deep end of SAP HANA. Before we do so, however, here are a few basic concepts about in-memory computing that youll need to understand.
Some of these concepts might be similar to what you already know about databases and server technology. There are also some cutting-edge
concepts, however, that merit discussion.
Storing data in memory isnt a new concept. What is new is that now you can store your whole operational or analytic database entirely in RAM
as the primary persistence layer5. Historically database systems were designed to perform well on computer systems with limited RAM. As we
have seen, in these systems slow disk I/O was the main bottleneck in data throughput. Today, multi-core CPUs multiple CPUs located on one
chip or in one package are standard, with fast communication between processor cores enabling parallel processing. Currently server
processors have up to 64 cores, and 128 cores will soon be available. With the increasing number of cores, CPUs are able to process increased
data volumes in parallel. Main memory is no longer a limited resource. In fact, modern servers can have 2TB of system memory, which allows them
to hold complete databases in RAM. Significantly, this arrangement shifts the performance bottleneck from disk I/O to the data transfer between
CPU cache and main memory (which is already blazing fast and getting faster).
In a disk-based database architecture, there are several levels of caching and temporary storage to keep data closer to the application and
avoid excessive numbers of round-trips to the database (which slows things down). The key difference with SAP HANA is that all of those caches
and layers are eliminated because the entire physical database is literally sitting on the motherboard and is therefore in memory all the time. This
arrangement dramatically simplifies the architecture.
It is important to note that there are quite a few technical differences between a database that was designed to be stored on a disk versus one
that was built to be entirely resident in memory. Theres a techie book6 on all those conceptual differences if you really want to get down into the
details. What follows here is a brief summary of some of the key advantages of SAP HANA over its aging disk-based cousins.
Parallel Processing
Multiple CPUs can now process parallel requests in order to fully utilize the available computing resources. So, not only is there a bigger pipe
between the processor and database, but this pipe can send a flood of data to hundreds of processors at the same time so that they can crunch
more data without waiting for anything.
Compression
Because of the innovations in hybrid row/column storage in SAP HANA, companies can typically achieve between 5x and 10x compression ratios
on the raw data. This means that 5TB of raw data can optimally fit onto an SAP HANA server that has 1TB of RAM. SAP typically recommends that
companies double the estimated compressed table data to determine the amount of RAM needed in order to account for real-time calculations,
swap space, OS and other associated programs beyond just the raw table data.
Persistence Layer
The SAP HANA database persistence layer stores data in persistent disk volumes (either hard disk or solid-state drives). The persistence layer
ensures that changes are durable and that the database can be restored to the most recent committed state after a restart. SAP HANA uses an
advanced delta-insert approach for rapid backup and logging. If power is lost, the data in RAM is lost. However, because the persistence layer
manages restore points and backup at such high speeds (from RAM to SSD) and recovery from disk to RAM is so much faster than from regular
disk, you actually lose less data and recover much faster than in a traditional disk-based architecture.
Finally, SAP HANA comes with several ways to connect easily to nearly any source system in either real-time or near real-time.
These features are designed to make SAP HANA as close to plug-and-play as it can be and to make it a non-disruptive addition to your
existing landscape. Well spend a few moments here explaining these capabilities at a basic level. Well discuss them in much more technical
detail in the SAP HANA Architecture chapter.
SQLScript
The SAP HANA database has its own scripting language, named SQLScript, that offers scripting capabilities that allow application-specific
calculations to run inside the database. SQLScript is similar conceptually to stored procedures, but it contains several modern innovations that
make it much more powerful and flexible.
MDX Interface
The SAP HANA database also supports MDX (MultiDimensional eXpressions), the de facto standard for multidimensional queries. MDX can be
used to connect a variety of analytics applications like SAP Business Objects products and clients such as Microsoft Excel.
Engines
The core of the SAP HANA database contains several engines that are used for specific tasks. The two primary engines are the planning engine
and the calculation engine.
Planning Engine
The SAP HANA database contains a component called the planning engine that allows financial planning applications to execute basic planning
operations in the database layer.
Calculation Engine
What truly makes SAP HANA unique is that, in addition to its being a standard SQL database, it also natively supports data calculation inside the
database itself. By incorporating procedural language support C++, Python, and ABAP directly into the database kernel through a dedicated
calculation engine, it can achieve exceptional performance because the data do not need to be moved out of the database, processed, and then
written back in.
Libraries
The technical details of communicating with the SAP HANA database are contained in a set of included client libraries for standard platforms and
clients. The following client libraries are provided for accessing the SAP HANA database via SQL or MDX:
JDBC driver for Java clients
ODBC driver for Windows/Unix/Linux clients, especially for MS Office integration
DBSL (Database Shared Library) for ABAP
SLT replicator provides near-real-time and scheduled data replication from SAP source systems to SAP HANA. It is based on SAPs proven
System Landscape Optimization (SLO) technology that has been used for many years for Near Zero Down Time upgrade and migration projects.
Trigger-Based Data Replication using SLT is based on capturing database changes at a high level of abstraction in the source SAP system. It
benefits from being database and OS agnostic, and it can parallelize database changes on multiple tables or by segmenting large table changes.
SLT can be installed on an existing SAP source system or as an additional lightweight SAP system side-by-side with the source system.
Real-Time Replication with Direct Write/Write-back
SAP HANA also supports real-time replication with direct write using database shared library (DBSL) connection. Using DBSL, the SAP HANA
database can be connected as a secondary database to an SAP ECC system and provide accelerated data processing for existing SAP
applications. Applications can use the DBSL on the application server layer to simultaneously write to traditional databases and the SAP HANA
database.
Extraction (ETL) / Periodic Load
The ETL-based data load scenario uses SAP BusinessObjects DataServices to load the relevant business data from virtually any source system
(SAP and non-SAP) to the SAP HANA database. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services is a proven ETL tool that supports broad connectivity to
databases, applications, legacy, file formats, and unstructured data. It provides the modeling environment to model data flows from one or more
source systems along with transformations and data cleansing.
The Administration console provides tools to monitor the systems status, its services, and the consumption of its resources. Administrators are
notified by an alert mechanism when critical situations arise. Analytics and statistics on historical monitoring data are also provided to enable
efficient data center operations and for planning future resource allocations.
Backup & Recovery
The Administration console in the SAP HANA Studio supports the following scenarios:
Recovery to the last data backup
Recovery to both the last and previous data backups
Recovery to last state before the crash
Point-in-time recovery
In the event of disaster scenarios such as fires, power outages, earthquakes or hardware failures, SAP HANA supports Hot Standby using
synchronous mirroring with the redundant data center concept including a redundant SAP HANA system in addition to Cold Standby using a
standby system within one SAP HANA landscape, where the failover is triggered automatically.
User Provisioning
SAP HANA supports user provisioning with authentication, role-based security and analysis authorization using analytic privileges. Analytical
privileges provide security to the analytical objects based on a set of attribute values. These values can be applied to a set of users by assigning
them to user/role.
straightforward, but the deficiencies of the old database world made them unfixable.
You can access the videos listed below to listen to a few highly satisfied customers talking enthusiastically about their agile data mart scenarios
with SAP HANA.
Nongfu Spring
Medtronic
SAP provides a special licensing bundle to build an agile data mart use case with SAP HANA that includes the extractors and connectors
needed to obtain data from source systems and the front-end tools needed to build analytical applications on top of the data.
To illustrate severe system latency, lets consider the case of Hilti, the global construction tools manufacturer. Hilti used to generate a list of 9 million
customers from 53 million database records in its SAP ERP system in about three hours. A salesperson used to hit Enter and then return three
hours later to obtain the results. Significantly, 99% of the time the system took to generate that list came from simply retrieving the records off the
disk-based database. Once the data were conveyed to the SAP application, the algorithm only took a few fractions of a second to calculate. This
major and unnecessary delay was the epitome of latency.
To eliminate this latency problem, Hilti set up an SAP HANA system next to their production SAP ERP system and then copied the relevant
tables into SAP HANA. The results? Hilti can now run the exact same report in about three seconds. In addition, installing SAP HANA was totally
non-disruptive. It required no changes to the algorithm, no changes to the production database, and no changes to the user interface. In fact, the
users didnt even realize there had been any change to the system until they ran the report for the first time. They expected the process to take
several hours as always so they got up from their desks to do something else. To their complete surprise, the completed report appeared on
their screen before they could get out of their chairs. Watch Hiltis SAP HANA story here.
Technically, there is very little that needs to be done to accelerate a few problematic transactions or reports in an SAP Business Suite
application. Well discuss this topic that in detail in the chapter on the Accelerated SAP Business Suite. In summary, SAP has already delivered the
content for most of the truly problematic transactions and reports as part of the latest service packs for the SAP Business Suite for free. Once
the relevant tables have been replicated to the SAP HANA system, there is a quick change in the configuration screen to redirect the transaction to
read from the SAP HANA database instead of the primary database and thats about it. Users log in as they normally do, execute the
transaction or report, and the results come back incredibly fast. SAP has also set up special fixed-price, fixed-scope SAP rapid deployment
solutions (RDS) to assist customers in the rapid implementation of these accelerated transactions and reports.
Quickly identify top customers and products by channel with real-time sales reporting. Improve order fulfillment rates and accelerate key
sales processes at the same time, with instant analysis of your credit memo and billing list.
Financial Reporting
Obtain immediate insights across your business into revenue, customers, accounts payable and receivable, open and overdue items, top
general ledger transaction, and days sales outstanding (DSO). Make the right financial decisions, armed with real-time information.
Shipping Reporting
Rely on real-time shipping reporting for complete stock overview analysis. You can better plan and monitor outbound delivery and assess
and optimize stock levels with accurate information at your fingertips.
Purchasing Reporting
Gain timely insights into purchase orders, vendors, and the movement of goods with real-time purchasing reporting. Make better purchasing
decisions, based on a complete analysis of your order history.
Master Data Reporting
Obtain real-time reporting on your main master data including customer, vendor, and material lists for improved productivity and
accuracy.
The power of SAP HANA dramatically enhances unified planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation processes. Powered by SAP
HANA, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0, version for SAP NetWeaver aims to increase agility by helping enterprises
harness big data to plan better and act faster with better insight into all relevant information and rapid write-back. The application is planned to
be the first enterprise performance management (EPM) application to support the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse component,
powered by SAP HANA announced last year. SAP intends to allow customers running the application that have invested in SAP HANA to
leverage the power of in-memory computing technology to boost performance by accelerating planning and consolidation processing.
SAP CO-PA Accelerator
SAP CO-PA Accelerator dramatically improves the speed and depth of working with massive volumes of financial data in ERP for faster and
more efficient profitability cycles. The solution helps finance departments to perform real-time profitability reporting on large scale data
volumes and to conduct instant, on-the-fly analysis at any level of granularity, aggregation, and dimension. Furthermore, finance teams can run
cost allocations at significantly faster processing time and be empowered with easy, self-service access to trusted profitability information.
This solution can also be implemented alongside the wider SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management solutions portfolio
to help organizations create a complete picture of their cost and profit drivers.
You can try the solution on your own with the SAP CO-PA Accelerator TestDrive and visit the website to discover how organizations are
generating significant business value with the solution.
SAP Finance and Controlling Accelerator
SAP Finance and Controlling Accelerator supports finance departments with instant access to vast amounts of ledger, cost and material
ledger data in ERP as well as easy exploration of trusted and detailed data. The solution offers four implementation scenarios Financial
Accounting Controlling Material Ledger and Production Cost Analysis, which can be implemented individually or in any combination.
The power of SAP HANA combined with SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) empowers financial professionals to perform faster
reporting and analyses, accelerate period-end closing, and make smarter decisions.
With SAP Sales Pipeline Analysis powered by SAP HANA, sales departments can get real-time insight into massive volumes of pipeline data
in CRM while performing on the fly calculations and in-depth analysis on any business dimension. Sales managers can now leverage the
power of SAP HANA combined with SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for complete and instant visibility of accurate and
consolidated pipeline data. They can react more quickly to changing sales conditions with real-time information, and accelerate deals through
the pipeline with powerful and user-driven analytics. As a result, best-run businesses can unlock hidden revenue opportunities as well as
significantly increase profits and sales effectiveness.
The SAP Customer Segmentation Accelerator helps marketing departments build highly specific segmentations on high volumes of customer
data and at unparalleled speed. Marketers can now work with large amounts of granular data to better understand customer demands,
behaviors and preferences targeting the precise audience with the right offers across every customer segments, tactics and channels. The
power of SAP HANA combined with SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) empowers marketers to maximize profits with highly
tailored campaigns, dramatically reduce the cost of marketing by targeting more easily high margin customers, and react quicker to optimize
campaigns and tactics.
You can view a demonstration of the solution and discover how organizations like yours are generating significant business value by
visiting this website.
layered third-party architectures. Because the entire database under the SAP BW system physically sits in memory, every activity not just
queries is executed orders of magnitude faster.
SAP released the 7.3 version of SAP BW in general availability in early 2011 and then released the SAP HANA-enabled version into general
availability in April 2012. All of the SAP HANA-specific enhancements were bundled into the SPS05 update, and customers who had already
upgraded to 7.3 could install the service pack and migrate to SAP HANA in a matter of days (seriously).
Red Bull was the first live customer of SAP BW on SAP HANA. They told the world about their amazing 10-DAY project to get up and running at
the Sapphire Now 2011 conference in Madrid, Spain. The whole effort was incredibly non-disruptive. SAP is seeing similar results with the other
customers in the ramp-up project. All of the changes on the SAP BW side are delivered under the hood in the service pack, and the database
migration can be performed without any changes to the SAP BW application. All of the customers content and configuration are completely
unchanged. Have a look at the end-to-end migration guide for a great overview of the SAP BW database migration process. You should also read
a great blog post by John Appleby, a consultant who performed one of the first SAP BW on SAP HANA migrations.
The speed and flexibility acquired by replacing the old database with SAP HANA reflect two fundamental benefits of keeping the entire database
in memory: (1) This architecture eliminates the need to send huge amounts of data between application and DB servers, and (2) it allows users to
execute performance-critical operations directly on the data in the database itself. Basically, running SAP BW on SAP HANA completely
eliminates nearly every one of the nasty things that historically slowed down the system, from both a user perspective and an administration
perspective. Well explore all of the technical enhancements in the SAP BW on SAP HANA chapter.
SAP offers a specific run-time only license option to utilize SAP HANA as the primary persistence layer for SAP BW. If you are already an SAP
BW customer, the company offers several options for license credits based on previous SAP BW and BWA licensing. Consult your SAP account
executive for the details. SAP has also set up a special migration fund to provide professional services credits to migrate to SAP BW on SAP
HANA.
This solution provides retailers with real-time access to critical information and allows nearly real-time interactive analysis, which is not
possible with traditional database technology. It offers prebuilt data models, key performance indicators (KPIs), role-specific dashboards and
customized reports to provide retailers with a deeper understanding of all factors influencing the merchandising life cycle. SAP
BusinessObjects Sales Analysis for Retail aims at providing the integration needed for improved scalability and performance for retailers
operating in separate sales, inventory and promotions systems. The new service provides Point-of-Sale (POS) analysis allow retailers to
assess performance and generate quick responses through the use of prebuilt dashboards, interactive reports and more than 70 KPIs and
inventory management to provide retailers with the ability to identify critical stock and margin issues through close inventory alignment.
SAP Smart Meter Analytics
SAP Smart Meter Analytics is a native-HANA application that was designed for utility companies facing an exponential increase in data
volume driven by their deployment of smart meters. This new application enables utility companies to turn massive volumes of smart meter
data into powerful insights and transform how they engage customers and run their businesses. With SAP Smart Meter Analytics, utility
companies can:
Instantly aggregate time of use blocks and total consumption profiles to analyze their customers energy usage by what neighborhood they
are in, the size of their homes or businesses, building type, and by any other dimension and at any level of granularity
Segment customers with precision based on energy consumption patterns that are automatically generated by identifying customers that
have similar energy usage behavior
Provide energy efficiency benchmarking based on statistical analysis so that utility companies can help their customers understand where
they stand compared to their peers and how they can improve their energy efficiency
Empower customers with direct access to energy usage insights via web portals and mobile devices connected to SAP Smart Meter
Analytics via web services
These capabilities delivered by SAP Smart Meter Analytics enable utility companies to increase adoption of service options such as
demand response programs, launch targeted energy efficiency programs, improve fraud detection capabilities, and develop new tariffs and
more accurate load forecasts.
SAP Sales & Operations Planning is a next generation planning application that is powered by SAP HANA and delivered in the cloud. The
solution enables:
Planning and real-time analysis with a unified model of demand, supply chain, and financial data at any level of granularity and dimension
Rapid, interactive simulation and scenario analysis, using the full S&OP data model to support demand-supply balancing decisions
Embedded, context-aware social collaboration enables rapid planning and decision-making across the organization
These capabilities enable companies to align demand and supply profitably, reduce supply chain costs, and drive revenue growth.
SAP Supplier InfoNet is a cloud-based solution, powered by SAP HANA, that enables companies to:
Minimize supply chain disruption by proactively monitoring and predicting real-time supply risks across a multi-tier supplier network
Drive stronger supplier performance by benchmarking supplier performance for your company against others in the business network and
identifying significant shifts and trends in supplier performance using leading-edge machine learning and statistical analysis
Manage your supply base by aggregating and transforming supplier data to deliver instant insights into the operational health of the supply
base.
Recalls Plus
Recalls Plus is SAPs first consumer mobile app that enables parents to proactively monitor recalls of their kids strollers, cribs, toys, and other
items for greater safety and peace of mind. Features of the app include:
Search recall history by brand or category
Create a personal watch list of items like car seats, cribs, strollers and so on
Track allergen related recalls
Share relevant recalls with others
Read and monitor recalls from all relevant US government agencies: CPSC, NHTSA, FDA and USDA
Recalls Plus is available for free and can be accessed via an iPhone app or a Facebook app:
iPhone app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/recalls-plus/id499200328
Facebook app: https://apps.facebook.com/recallsplus
This is where the Angry Birds analogy really starts to make sense. Once the SAP ecosystem of ISVs, SAP partners, and SAP customers starts
to unleash their innovation on top of SAP HANA, there literally is no limit to the amazing and game-changing applications they can build. It is
incredibly important for SAP to renovate its portfolio and build amazing new applications to exploit the vast potential of SAP HANA. It is even more
important, however, for the SAP ecosystem to do this, because there are millions of unrealized business ideas in their companies that SAP HANA
can bring to life.
In the long run, once the entire SAP portfolio has been HANA-fied,8 SAP will be able to deliver a vastly simplified landscape for its customers.
By merging OLAP and OLTP into a single SAP HANA instance, SAP can provide a massive reduction in layers and TCO in the landscape while at
the same time providing much more flexibility and business value through real-time access to all of the relevant data. It will take SAP several years
to engineer and deliver this vision to its customers. If the past five years of in-memory (r)evolution at SAP are an indication, however, the next five
years of this journey will be extraordinarily fast and exciting.
1 Markides, C. (2002). Strategic Innovation. In: E. B. Roberts (Ed.). Innovation. Driving Product, Process, and Market Change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
2 W oods , D. and W ord, J . (2004), S A P NetW eaver for Dum m ies , W iley P ublis hing Inc ., Indianapolis , IA .
3 W ith the SAP HANA RDS migration package customers can migrate in ~ 7 weeks, if they are already on BW 7.3 SP7, with Unicode, and 7.x data flows and authorizations.
4 Magal, S. and Word, J. (2011), Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems, John Wiley & Sons. Hoboken, NJ
5 People always ask if all the data is in volatile storage like RAM, what happens if the power goes out? Well talk about that in more detail later, but basically, SAP HANA has some very sophisticated backup tools to prevent data loss from disasters.
6 Plattner, H & Zeier, A. (2011). In-memory data management: an inflection point for enterprise applications. Springer.
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8 M eaning Power ed by SAP HANA and r enovat ed t o nat iv ely t ake advant age of SAP HANA.
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AP HANA is t he f ir st SAP solut ion t hat has been built t o be specif ic ally r un as an appliance and opt im iz ed f or a ver y specif ic com binat ion of pr ocessor , m em or y, and oper at ing syst em . This appr oach r epr esent s a depar t ur e f r om SAPs long his t or y of br oad plat f or m suppor t . SAP im plem ent ed t his new polic y t o st il pr ovide cust om er s wit h m ult iple choic es in har dwar e plat f or m s while avoiding t he TCO im plic at ions of m ult iple O S and pr ocessor suppor t com binat ions. I n or der t o under st and why, we need t o look back his t or ic ally at som e of t he har dwar e plat f or m changes t hat led SAP t o adopt t his polic y t his st r at egy and explor e why t his pat h of f er s SAP cust om er s t he best balance of br oad har dwar e par t ner opt ions and f ocused innovat ion ar ound a st able set of key com ponent s.
W hen SAP shif t ed f r om m ainf r am e t o client - ser ver ar chit ect ur e wit h SAP R/ 3, t wo of t he cr it ic al benef it s wer e t he lower cost s and t he m or e st andar diz ed opt ions associat ed wit h t he UNI X- based ser ver s t hat had just becom e available. W hen t he m ass- adopt ion of SAP R/ 3 t ook of f , cust om er s began asking SAP t o cer t if y m or e and m or e new com binat ions of oper at ing syst em and dat abase on var ious har dwar e plat f or m s. This m ade sense because m any com panies wer e em ploying exis t ing landscapes f r om a pr ef er r ed har dwar e vendor and had developed exper t is e in cer t ain ver sions of oper at ing syst em and dat abase t hat t hey want ed t o lever age f or t heir SAP envir onm ent .
SAP happily obliged, building out a r obust cer t if ic at ion labor at or y in it s headquar t er s t o const ant ly t est and validat e new har dwar e and sof t war e com binat ions t hat wer e being r eleased by it s par t ner s f or cust om er use. At t he t im e, SAP believed t hat pr oviding cust om er s wit h such a br oad choic e would help t hem achieve lower TCO of t heir SAP solut ions by r eusing t echnology and r esour ces t hat wer e alr eady in place. SAP als o f elt t hat being har dwar e and O S/ DB agnost ic would be t he best st r at egy t o set it self apar t f r om t he ot her ent er pr is e app vendor s. This t echnology- neut r al st r at egy wor ked ver y well f or SAP f or m or e t han 30 year s. At a cer t ain point in t he m id- 2000s, however , t he sm all num ber of com binat ions t hat SAP began wit h had exploded int o a t r uly diz zying collect ion. Cust om er s no longer benef it ed signif ic ant ly f r om such a br oad lis t of har dwar e and t echnology choic es, and t he cost s f or SAP and it s cust om er s of t his br oad cover age wer e becom ing unsust ainable.
Af t er SAP R/ 3 was r eleased, t he UNI X plat f or m began t o splint er int o m ult iple dialect s, wit h each har dwar e vendor put t ing it s ef f or t s behind it s pr ef er r ed var iant ( HPUX, AI X, Solar is , et c) . I n addit ion, x86 plat f or m s f r om I nt el and AM D began t o dis place t he RI SC- based plat f or m s of t he ear ly UNI X har dwar e vendor s due t o t heir lower cost s and t heir suppor t f or indust r y st andar ds. Lat er , Linux began t o dis place t he or iginal UNI X oper at ing syst em s due t o it s lower cost s and t he advant ages of open- sour ce code. Soon, t he Pr oduct Availabilit y M at r ix ( PAM ) f or SAP ERP exceeded 200 com binat ions of O S and dat abase, wit h a vast num ber of har dwar e plat f or m s f or t hose com binat ions. At a cer t ain point , choic e becam e a liabilit y f or SAP and it s cust om er s r at her t han t he benef it t hat it was or iginally int ended t o be.
So, when SAP began developm ent on t he pr ecur sor s of SAP HANA, t he com pany m ade a st r at egic decis ion t o avoid all of t he cost s and com plexit y of suppor t ing so m any var iat ions of har dwar e and t echnology plat f or m s. SAP was pr im ar ily concer ned wit h t he t hr ee pieces of t echnology t hat had t he gr eat est im pact on per f or m ance and would be t he lar gest dr iv er s of TCO r educt ion: oper at ing syst em ( O S) , RAM , and pr ocessor s. SAP decided t o bet on open- sour ce and indust r y st andar ds as t he cor e plat f or m f or SAP HANA. By suppor t ing only O NE com binat ion of O S and pr ocessor s, SAP could invest all it s developm ent and t est ing r esour ces int o a single plat f or m while st il allowing cust om er s t o choose whic h har dwar e vendor would deliv er and suppor t t he appliance.
SAP had been wor king wit h Novell/ SUSE f or m any year s t o suppor t Novell SLES Linux as a cer t if ied oper at ing syst em f or SAP applic at ions. Because Linux is so t echnic ally sim ilar t o UNI X, alm ost any UNI X engineer could t r ansit ion his or her skils easily . M or eover , because Linux was open- sour ce and easily suppor t ed by t hir d par t ies, it was clear ly t he lowest TCO opt ion f or r unning an SAP syst em .
I n addit ion t o select ing a single O S, SAP had t o set t le on a single pr ocessor f am ily f or t he new solut ion. Alt hough t her e wer e m any chips on t he m ar ket t hat could handle SAPs t r adit ional applic at ion- pr ocessing r equir em ent s, t her e wer ent any pr ocessor s t hat had been designed t o handle in- m em or y pr ocessing t asks ( because ent er pr is e- scale in- m em or y com put ing didnt exis t yet ) . The init ial SAP HANA conver sat ions t hat SAPs execut iv es held wit h anyone out side t he com pany wer e wit h I nt el because SAP r ealiz ed t hat shif t ing t o in- m em or y com put ing would r equir e a new br eed of pr ocessor s t hat wer e opt im iz ed f or t he new ar chit ect ur e, and I nt el has a long his t or y of innovat ing f or t he f ut ur e needs of t he ent er pr is e.
SAP laid out it s st r at egy f or t he shif t t o in- m em or y com put ing t o I nt els execut iv es, and t he t wo par t ies dis cussed t he level of co- innovat ion t hat would be needed t o joint ly engineer bot h an in- m em or y dat abase and opt im iz ed pr ocessor s t hat could handle t he unique needs of t his new ar chit ect ur e. The t op execut iv es f r om each com pany agr eed t hat t he t hey would have t o est ablis h a new level of co- innovat ion par t ner ship and st ar t ing in 2005, I nt el sent a t eam of t heir best sof t war e and chip engineer s t o SAP HQ t o begin t he wor k of joint ly opt im iz ing each successiv e ver sion of t he indust r y- st andar d I nt el Xeon chips f or t he needs of SAPs evolv ing in- m em or y dat abase. Since t hat t im e, SAP has benef it t ed f r om ear ly access t o each new gener at ion of Xeon pr ocessor f r om I nt el, and I nt el has incor por at ed SAPs unique in- m em or y pr ocessing r equir em ent s int o it s chip capabilit ies.
Joint r oadm ap enablem ent . Ear ly in t he design pr ocess, I nt el and SAP decis ion m aker s ident if y com plem ent ar y f eat ur es and capabilit ies in t heir upcom ing pr oduct s, and t hose insight s help t o dir ect t he developm ent cycle f or m axim um value.
Collabor at iv e pr oduct opt im iz at ion. I nt el engineer s locat ed on- sit e at SAP wor k wit h t heir SAP count er par t s t o pr ovide t uning exper t is e t hat enables SAP HANA and ot her sof t war e solut ions t o t ake advant age of t he lat est har dwar e f eat ur es.
Com bined r esear ch ef f or t s. Toget her , r esear cher s f r om I nt el and SAP cont inually explor e and dr iv e t he f ut ur e of business com put ing
As a r esult of t hese ef f or t s, cust om er solut ions achieve per f or m ance, scalabilit y, r eliabilit y, and ener gy ef f ic iency t hat t r anslat e int o f avor able RO I and TCO , f or incr eased business value.
Having cr eat ed an opt im iz ed cor e ( oper at ing syst em , RAM , and pr ocessor s) f or SAP HANA, SAP needed t o r each out t o t he ser ver m anuf act ur er s t o package t he sof t war e and har dwar e int o indust r y- st andar d appliances in a way t hat would r em ove as m uch conf igur at ion and int egr at ion wor k f r om t he cust om er s as possible ( again, lower ing TCO ) . SAP r ealiz ed t hat even t hough t he cor e com ponent s of t he SAP HANA ser ver s would be near ly ident ic al ( O S, RAM , and pr ocessor s) , t he har dwar e vendor s pr ovide a gr eat deal of addit ional value ni t he im plem ent at ion, m anagem ent and oper at ions of t he har dwar e. Plus, cust om er s t ypic ally have a pr ef er r ed har dwar e vendor f or t heir ent er pr is e landscapes. This is r eally wher e SAP f elt t hat cust om er choic e would have t he m ost value. So, t hey engaged seven of t heir pr im ar y har dwar e vendor s ( see t he next par agr aph) t o build cer t if ied SAP HANA appliances and cr eat e packaged ser vic es t o im plem ent SAP HANA quic kly and easily at cust om er sit es.
I n ear ly 2011, Cis co, Dell, Fujit su, I BM , and HP all jum ped on t he SAP HANA bandwagon and had t heir f lagship I nt el- based ser ver s cer t if ied and in pr oduct ion. Hit achi joined t he lis t lat er t hat year , and NEC was cer t if ied in ear ly 2012. This br oad suppor t f r om indust r y- leading har dwar e vendor s pr ovides cust om er s wit h a choic e of seven har dwar e par t ner s t o deploy t heir SAP HANA solut ion, each wit h unique ser vic e and suppor t of f er ings t o f it t heir cust om er s needs. SAPs st r at egy of solid cor e, m ult iv endor har dwar e suppor t f or SAP HANA has been r eceiv ed ext r em ely well by cust om er s because it elim inat es t he conf using num ber of har dwar e com binat ions and f ocuses on t he value- added solut ions t hat each vendor can of f er on t op of t he solid cor e.
No dat abase t uning, indexing or caching wer e needed t o achieve t hese r esult s. To put t hat in cont ext , t he closest com pet it iv e dat abase is r oughly 1000x slower in t he sam e benchm ar k and sever al t im es m or e expensiv e.
Hi gh Avai l abi l i t y
SAP HANA suppor t s cold st andby host s, m eaning a st andby host is kept r eady in t he event t hat a f ailover sit uat ion occur s dur ing pr oduct ion oper at ion. I n a dis t r ibut ed syst em , som e of t he ser ver s ar e designat ed as wor ker host s, and ot her s as st andby host s. Signif ic ant ly , you can assign m ult iple st andby host s t o each gr oup. Alt er nat iv ely , you can gr oup t oget her m ult iple ser ver s t o cr eat e a dedic at ed st andby host f or each gr oup.
A st andby host is not used f or dat abase pr ocessing. All of t he dat abase pr ocesses r un on t he st andby host , but t hey ar e idle and do not enable SQ L connect ions.
Di sast er Recover y
The SAP HANA dat abase holds t he bulk of it s dat a in m em or y t o ensur e opt im al per f or m ance, but it st il uses per sis t ent st or age t o pr ovide a f allback in case of f ailur e.
Dur ing nor m al dat abase oper at ions, dat a ar e aut om at ic ally saved f r om m em or y t o dis k at r egular save- point s. Addit ionally , all dat a changes ar e r ecor ded in t he log. The log is saved f r om m em or y t o SSD af t er each com m it t ed dat abase t r ansact ion. Af t er a power f ailur e, t he dat abase can be r est ar t ed in t he sam e way as a dis k- based dat abase, and it r et ur ns t o it s last consis t ent st at e by r eplaying t he log since t he last save- point .
Alt hough save- point s and log wr it ing pr ot ect your dat a against power f ailur es, t hey do not help if t he per sis t ent st or age it self is dam aged. Pr ot ect ing against dat a loss due t o dis k f ailur es r equir es backups. Backups save t he cont ent s of t he dat a and log ar eas t o dif f er ent locat ions. These backups ar e per f or m ed while t he dat abase is r unning, so user s can cont inue t o wor k nor m ally . The im pact of t he backups on syst em per f or m ance is negligible.
I f t he SAP HANA syst em det ect s a f ailover sit uat ion, t he wor k of t he ser vic es on t he f ailed ser ver is r eassigned t o t he ser vic es r unning on t he st andby host . The f ailed volum e and all t he included t ables ar e r eassigned and loaded int o m em or y in accor dance wit h t he f ailover st r at egy def ined f or t he syst em . This r eassignm ent can be per f or m ed wit hout m oving any dat a, because all t he per sis t ency of t he ser ver s is st or ed on a shar ed dis k. Dat a and logs ar e st or ed on shar ed st or age, wher e ever y ser ver has access t o t he sam e dis ks.
Bef or e a f ailover is per f or m ed, t he syst em wait s f or a f ew seconds t o det er m ine whet her t he ser vic e can be r est ar t ed. Dur ing t his t im e, t he st at us is dis played as W ait ing. This pr ocedur e can t ake up t o a m inut e. The ent ir e pr ocess of f ailover det ect ion and loading m ay t ake sever al m inut es t o com plet e.
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Joi nt r oadm ap enabl em ent . Ear ly in t he design pr ocess, I nt el and SAP decis ion- m aker s ident if y com plem ent ar y f eat ur es and capabilit ies in t heir upcom ing pr oduct s, and t hose insight s help t o dir ect t he developm ent cycle f or m axim um value.
Col l abor at i ve pr oduct opt i m i zat i on. I nt el engineer s locat ed on- sit e at SAP wor k wit h t heir SAP count er par t s t o pr ovide t uning exper t is e t hat enables SAP HANA and ot her sof t war e solut ions t o t ake advant age of t he lat est har dwar e f eat ur es.
Com bi ned r esear ch ef f or t s. Toget her , r esear cher s f r om I nt el and SAP cont inually explor e and dr iv e t he f ut ur e of business com put ing. As a r esult of t hese ef f or t s, cust om er solut ions achieve per f or m ance, scalabilit y, r eliabilit y, and ener gy ef f ic iency t hat t r anslat e int o f avor able RO I and TCO , f or incr eased business value.
O per at i onal Success and M anagem ent of Real - Ti m e Event s
I n- m em or y com put ing based on SAP solut ions on t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7 f am ily enables gr eat er business agilit y and innovat iv e usage m odels t hat let com panies r espond t o changing condit ions in r eal t im e.
Scenar ios such as m onit or ing cust om er and supplier act iv it y can gener at e pet abyt es of dat a, t he value of whic h depends on t he abilit y t o dis t il it int o act ionable int elligence.
SAP HANA and t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7 f am ily deliv er r apid dat a analy sis t hat dis cer ns pat t er ns and t r ends so you can adjust your just - in- t im e supply chain r apidly . You can als o m odel what if scenar ios t o st r uct ur e sales and pr om ot ions f or opt im al out com es based on t he lat est sales and pipeline inf or m at ion.
Feat ur es of t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7 f am ily such as 30M B of L3 cache, I nt el Q uic kPat h I nt er connect s, and quad- channel int egr at ed m em or y cont r oller s deliv er ext r aor dinar y capabilit ies f or businesses of all siz es t hat im plem ent SAP HANA f or f unct ionalit y such as business int elligence and dat a analy t ic s.
SAP HANA benef it s dr am at ic ally f r om high- speed I nt el Q uic kPat h pr ocessor - t o- m em or y int er connect s and t he lat est pr ocessor inst r uct ions, St r eam ing SI M D Ext ensions. Those f eat ur es elim inat e m any I / O bot t lenecks, so pr ocessor headr oom is available t o gener at e excellent t hr oughput and r esponsiv eness. SAP HANA is als o engineer ed t o t ake par t ic ular advant age of RAS ( r eliabilit y, availabilit y, and ser vic eabilit y) f eat ur es of t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7f am ily , especialy er r or cor r ect ion t hr ough M achine Check Ar chit ect ur e Recover y, f or m is sion- cr it ic al im plem ent at ions.
As a r esult of t he high level of per f or m ance opt im iz at ion f or ser ver s based on t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7 f am ily , SAP HANA can pr ovide businesses of all siz es super ior r esult s f or dat a war ehousing im plem ent at ions such as business int elligence and dat a analy t ic s.
Assur ed Per f or m ance w i t h M i ssi on- Cr i t i cal Advanced Rel i abi l i t y of t he I nt el Xeon Pr ocessor E7 Fam i l y
M achine Check Ar chit ect ur e Recover y, a r eliabilit y, availabilit y, and ser vic eabilit y ( RAS) f eat ur e built int o t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7 f am ily , enables t he har dwar e plat f or m t o gener at e M achine Check Except ions. I n m any cases, t hese not if ic at ions enable t he syst em t o t ake cor r ect iv e act ion t hat allows SAP HANA t o keep r unning wher e an out age would ot her wis e occur .
Har dwar e based on t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7 f am ily enables SAP HANA t o f ail over f r om one pr ocessor socket t o anot her in t he event of a pr ocessor f ailur e and t o handle m em or y er r or s wit h as lit t le im pact t o wor kloads as possible.
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As par t of t he Unif ei d Appliance Envir onm ent , Cis co has developed a f ull por t f olio of SAP HANA appliances based on Cis co Unif ied Com put ing Syst em
( Cis co UCS ) spanning f r om t he sm allest T- shir t siz ing, suppor t ing as low as 64 G B m em or y, up t o lar ge scale- out solut ions whic h can suppor t up t o 8 TB of usable m em or y. Depending on t he com pr ession f act or s, t he Cis co appliances can suppor t dat abases up t o 56 TB, t he lar gest cur r ent ly suppor t ed by SAP. However t he Cis co t echnology can suppor t up t o 20 TB of usable m em or y, whic h cor r esponds t o uncom pr essed dat abases up t o 100 TB or m or e.
The Cis co UCS solut ion t hat has been cer t if ied f or lar ge SAP HANA im plem ent at ions is a uniquely scalable appliance. I t allows cust om er s t o easily adapt t o t he gr owing dem ands of t heir indiv idual envir onm ent by incr em ent ally adding Cis co B440 M 2 blade ser ver s wit h 4 I nt el Xeon Pr ocessor s E7- 4870 ( 2. 4 G Hz) and up t o 512 G B usable m em or y each, as needed. For ever y f our Cis co UCS blade ser ver s, t he per sis t ency layer is pr ovided by an EM C VNX 5300 or a Net App FAS 3240, depending on cust om er pr ef er ence.
The basic conf igur at ion of t he Cis co scale- out of f er ing is m ade up of r edundant f abr ic int er connect s wit h em bedded inf r ast r uct ur e m anagem ent , a Cis co UCS C200 ser ver f or SAP HANA st udio, a Cis co 2911 f or secur e r em ot e m anagem ent , and one enclosur e wit h suppor t f or up t o 4 Cis co B440 blades. The basic conf igur at ion can easily scale by adding up t o 3 ext ension bundles each pr oviding an addit ional blade enclosur e f or up t o 4 m or e Cis co B440 M 2 blade ser ver s each and t he cor r espondent st or age f r om EM C or Net App.
Cust om er Success St or y
M edt r onic dr am at ic ally im pr oved r epor t ing per f or m ance, incr easing t he value of it s cust om er inf or m at ion, wit h t he SAP HANA plat f or m and Cis co Unif ied Com put ing Syst em ( Cis co UCS ) ser ver plat f or m .
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M edt r onic needed t o incr ease it s abilit y t o analy ze lar ge am ount s of dat a, such as cust om er f eedback. BI r epor t ing on it s f ast - gr owing dat a war ehouse was st r aining t he capabilit ies of t he com panys com put er inf r ast r uct ur e. Because em ployees couldnt gener at e som e t ypes of r epor t s ( par t ic ular ly using unst r uct ur ed dat a) , t heir abilit y t o dr aw conclusions f r om exis t ing dat a was lim it ed.
Sol ut i on:
The com pany deployed t he SAP HANA plat f or m on t he Cis co UCS ser ver plat f or m based on t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7 f am ily . I n pr elim inar y t est ing, user s of an un- t uned syst em obser ved quer y t im es just one- t hir d as long as t hose wit h exis t ing pr oduct ion syst em s. W it h t he f ully scaled and opt im iz ed im plem ent at ion now in place, M edt r onic hopes t o cut r esponse t im es even f ur t her .
Cust om er Benef i t :
BI oper at ions at M edt r onic wil use t he SAP HANA plat f or m t o r epor t on st r uct ur ed and unst r uct ur ed dat a, wher ever it r esides, whet her on SAP or non- SAP syst em s. The added per f or m ance, scalabilit y, and f lexibilt y of t his new ar chit ect ur e wil incr ease t he value of com pany dat a as it cont inues t o pr olif er at e, incr easing em ployee ef f ic iency and enabling sm ar t er decis ion m aking.
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Super i or t echnol ogy Dells Power Edge R910 is cer t if ied f or SAP HANA and includes ever yt hing needed t o suppor t your SAP HANA solut ion, including scalable m em or y and st or age. This all- in- one solut ion pr ovides f or seam less and int egr at ed im plem ent at ion and m anagem ent .
I nt egr at ed syst em m anagem ent Dells VI S Cr eat or and VI S Advanced I nf r ast r uct ur e M anager ( AI M ) t ools sim plif y m anagem ent of vir t ual and physic al ser ver , net wor k and st or age com ponent s. AI M int egr at es wit h SAP m anagem ent consoles such as Solut ion M anager or Adapt iv e Com put ing Cont r oller , t o add capacit y t o t he SAP landscape or m ove applic at ions bet ween physic al and vir t ual r esour ce pools based on dem and.
Lar ge- scal e ent er pr i se consul t i ng exper t i se Dell lever ages it s exper ience deliv er ing ent er pr is e I T and solv ing big dat a is sues f or global com panies t o pr ovide act ionable and r eal wor ld t echnology, st r at egies and solut ions. Dells Cent er of Excellence ( CoE) is well est ablis hed f or SAP HANA, BW A, and M obilit y.
Pr oven m et hodol ogy Dells I n- M em or y Com put ing and Analy t ic M et hodology ( DI M CAM ) im plem ent at ion ser vic es guides cust om er s by solv ing com plex pr oblem s f ast er .
Com pr ehensi ve ser vi ces Dells por t f olio of SAP f ull lif ecycle ser vic es lever age indust r y best pr act ic es t o deliv er bet t er business out com es f or SAP client s.
W or l d- Cl ass Suppor t Ser vi ces Dells wor ld- class Pr oSuppor t and M is sion Cr it ic al Ser vic es keep your SAP HANA solut ion r unning sm oot hly .
The com binat ion of Dells Power Edge R910 plat f or m and SAP HANA allows user s t o conduct analy t ic s, per f or m ance m anagem ent and oper at ions in a single syst em . Toget her , t he solut ions help enable a business t o r eact f ast er t o event s m
i pact ing oper at ions t oday. Thr ough t his , an or ganiz at ion can quic kly ident if y and analy ze t r ends and pat t er ns t o im pr ove planning, f or ecast ing and pr ic e opt im iz at ion. Ent er pr is e cust om er s t aking advant age of Dells SAP HANA plat f or m get a cost - ef f ect iv e, opt im iz ed in- m em or y com put ing solut ion t hat incr eases availabilit y and r educes r is k.
At Dell, we ar e cont inuously evolv ing our ser ver , applic at ion and ser ver por t f olio t o m eet evolv ni g ent er pr is e needs in t he vir t ual er a. I n Febr uar y 2012, we announced our Power Edge 12t h gener at ion ser ver plat f or m and Dell EqualLogic PS st or age ar r ays. O ur newest ser ver s pr ovide dr am at ic per f or m ance and m anagem ent gains f or high- power com put ing, colal bor at ion, dat abase ERP and business int elligence. Dell EqualLogic PS st or age ar r ays com bine t he indust r ys highest Et her net net wor king bandwidt h 10 G igabit Et her net ( 10G bE) wit h incr eased st or age capacit y in less space. W hile t hese solut ions ar e not yet SAP HANA cer t if ied, t hey show t he st r engt h of t he Dell har dwar e por t f olio and our com m it m ent t o innovat ion.
Per f or m ance and r el i abi l i t y in a scalable 4U, f our - socket ser ver allowing lar ge wor kload consolidat ion, m ax vir t ualiz at ion m achine densit y, and scale f or t he SAP HANA in- m em or y dat abase.
I nt egr at ed di agnost i cs wit h I nt el Advanced RAS ( Reliabilit y, Availabilit y, Ser vic eabilit y) Technology, int er nal dual SD m odules f or hyper vis or r edundancy, including design and com ponent qualit y pair ed wit h Dell Lif ecycle Cont r oller .
Robust i nf r ast r uct ur e in t he f or m of per f or m ance r esour ces, power ef f ic iency, I / O , and m em or y scalabilit y.
Pr ocessi ng pow er using t he highest per f or m ing Xeon 7500 Ser ies pr ocessor s, up t o 1TB of DDR3 m em or y, and 2 x 10G b O pt ional LO M wit h 10 PCI e slot s t o consolidat e inef f ic ient wor kloads.
Ener gy- ef f i ci ent syst em desi gn built wit h Ener gy Sm ar t t echnologies includes power m anagem ent f eat ur es enabling power capping, power invent or y, and power budget ing wit hin your specif ic envir onm ent . Logic al com ponent layout of t he int er nal com ponent s aids wit h air f low dir ect ion, helping t o keep t he ser ver cool.
The SAP HANA appliance f r om Dell is f ully cont ained in t he Power Edge R910 ser ver , m aking use of f ast int er nal dis ks f or st or age and Fusion ioDr iv e solid st at e car ds. The Fusion ioDr iv e f r om Dell pr ovides high I O Ps and low lat ency per f or m ance f or t he in- m em or y SAP HANA dat abase. W hile Fusion ioDr iv e is used t o m aint ain t he syst em s logs, a RAI D gr oup m ade up of int er nally held 15K RPM dis ks is used t o m aint ain a copy of t he dat a im age.
T- Shi r t si zes of f er ed
Dell of f er s sever al dif f er ent siz es of HANA appliances based on t he Dell Power Edge R910 plat f or m t o m eet your needs.
Hi gh Avai l abi l i t y
Built - in r eliabilit y f eat ur es at t he CPU, m em or y, har dwar e and hyper vis or levels
I nt el advanced r eliabilit y, availabilit y and ser vic eabilit y ( RAS) capabilit ies
Redundant power supplies
Rem ot e I DRAC6 connect iv it y
I nt egr at ed syst em s m anagem ent , Lif ecycle Cont r oller and em bedded diagnost ic s t o help m axim iz e upt im e
I nt er nal Dual SD M odule pr oviding super ior hyper vis or r edundancy
Dells f ocus on r eliabilit y st ar t s wit h pr oduct design and ends only when wev e deliv er ed a plat f or m t hat m eet s st r ic t t est ing and qualit y cont r ol st andar ds.
Fujit su, t he r ecipient of t he 2012 SAP Pinnacle awar d in t he Technology I nnovat or of t he Year cat egor y, has been r ecogniz ed f or it s engagem ent and excellence in developing ingenious SAP HANA inf r ast r uct ur e solut ions. The Fujit su por t f olio f or SAP HANA addr esses t he r equir em ent s of var ious cust om er segm ent s f r om specif ic t ur nkey appliances f or sm all and m idsiz e com panies t o cust om iz ed solut ions f or lar ge ent er pr is es. The end- t o- end of f er ing including consult ancy ser vic es, solut ion appliance, int egr at ion and m igr at ion ser vic es as well as t he ser vic es f or t he oper at ion and suppor t m akes t he Fujit su of f er ing unique.
The f ollowing aspect s under line t he st r ong posit ion of Fujit su in com binat ion wit h SAP:
M is sion- cr it ic al r eadiness is a t op pr ior it y r eached by t he com pr ehensiv e scale- out of f er ing and ext ensiv e high- availabilit y f eat ur es.
Fujit su is t he f ir st SAP par t ner wor ldwide t o of f er a cer t if ied plat f or m f or SAP Business O ne Analy t ic s power ed by SAP HANA.
Fujit su, a global player m anaged ser vic es, has capabilit ies t o of f er m anaged SAP HANA t o m ult inat ionals as well as local sm all and m edium ent er pr is es.
The Fujit su SAP HANA G lobal Dem o Cent er can be used r em ot ely by cust om er s who wis h t o t est and exper ience t he business im pact of SAP HANA. A host ed pr oof of concept ser vic e f or t est s wit h or iginal cust om er dat a is als o in place.
I n t er m s of TCO r educt ion t he Fujit su of f er ing scor es wit h:
Q uic k r et ur n on invest m ent suppor t ed by jum p- st ar t ser vic es f or f ast im plem ent at ion and an opt ion f or r apid deploym ent of SAP HANA wit h pr e- def ined use cases
Reduced downt im e via pr of essional solut ion m aint enance
Low oper at ion ef f or t s t hanks t o an easy adm inis t r at ion concept f or upgr ade and m aint enance
Fuj i t su SAP HANA Pr oduct Fam i l y
Fujit su SAP HANA inf r ast r uct ur e solut ions ar e based on indust r y- st andar d PRI M ERG Y ser ver s, whic h r epr esent a unique com binat ion of Japanese- st yle innovat ion and G er m an qualit y st andar ds. W it h r ock- solid r eliabilit y and independent ly pr oven leading pr ic e per f or m ance, one benef it s f r om f avor able lif ecycle cost s. O per at ional cost s ar e r educed t hr ough ser ver m anagem ent , benchm ar k pr oven ener gy ef f ic iency, and innovat iv e m ar ket - leading t echnology.
Fur t her m ajor building blocks of t he Fujit su SAP HANA inf r ast r uct ur e solut ion ar e Net App FAS3200 Ser ies st or age syst em s ( scale- out of f er ing) and Fujit su net wor k inf r ast r uct ur e.
T- Shi r t Si zes of f er ed
The Fujit su T- shir t siz e opt ions ar e based on PRI M ERG Y RX600 ser ver s. They r epr esent a TCO - opt im iz ed ent r y- level of f er ing, whic h pr ovides am ple per f or m ance and capacit y wit hout invest m ent in an ext er nal st or age syst em . The XS conf igur at ion can be upgr aded seam lessly t o t he M siz e m odel.
* All conf igur at ions ar e const ant ly r eviewed and t he lat est t echnology is validat ed and m ade available whenever applic able.
The single node conf igur at ions ar e ideal f or pr oof of concept / pr oof of value pr oject s, developm ent , t est s, qualit y assur ance, t r aining and init ial SAP HANA im plem ent at ions wit h a def ined scope. However , t hese syst em s can als o be included as building blocks in a m ult i- node envir onm ent .
Scal e- out of f er i ng
The Fujit su m ult i- node of f er ing f or SAP HANA is based on indust r y- st andar d PRI M ERG Y building blocks com bined wit h a shar ed Net App st or age syst em and high per f or m ance Br ocade Et her net Fabr ic swit ches as t he st andar d opt ion. Cust om er s can st ar t sm all and easily add and int egr at e PRI M ERG Y ser ver s and st or age capacit y as r equir em ent s gr ow. Today t he solut ion is cer t if ied f or m assiv e scalabilit y of up t o 16 nodes and 8 TB of m ain m em or y, however t he concept is alr eady dis posed t o f ur t her gr owt h.
Hi gh Avai l abi l i t y
Special at t ent ion was paid t o high availabilit y as a m ajor com ponent f or m is sion- cr it ic al r eadiness of t he over all SAP HANA solut ion. Thus high availabilit y is alr eady an int egr al par t of t he building block concept . O ne ser ver can be assigned as a f ail- over ser ver and quic kly t ake over in case a pr oduct iv e ser ver br eaks down.
The second pilar of t he high availabilit y concept is t he ut ilz at ion of NFS ( Net wor k File Syst em ) and t he shar ed Net App FAS 3240 ser ies. The piv ot al idea of in- m em or y com put ing is t o st or e dat a in t he m ain m em or y of a com put er t o allow f ast access. The r is k of t his concept is t hat dat a st or ed in t he m ain m em or y is volat ile. O nce t he com put er is down, dat a kept in t he m ain m em or y is ir r et r ievably lost . The usage of NFS ensur es t hat all dat a is const ant ly m ir r or ed on t he Net App FAS syst em . I n case of a dat a loss in m ain m em or y, dat a can be copied back f r om t he st or age syst em . Besides, t he inclusion of an ext er nal FAS st or age syst em pr ovides t he classic al back- up and r est or e f unct ionalit ies.
Highest dem and concer ning syst em availabilit y can be m et by expanding t he inf r ast r uct ur e t o a t wo- sit e concept , whic h m eans t hat all inf r ast r uct ur e com ponent s and dat a ar e r ef lect ed in a second dat a cent er . This guar ant ees dis ast er r esilience wit h cont inuous oper at ion even in case of a t ot al dat a cent er br eakdown.
Ef f ic ient SAP HANA sof t war e m aint enance: init ial inst allat ion and upgr ade
Seam less int egr at ion int o t he cust om er s syst em s m anagem ent landscape
Easy r em ot e suppor t access as a key par t of t he solut ion m aint enance of f er ing ( Solut ionCont r act )
Syst em adm inis t r at or s especialy benef it f r om t he I M S com ponent when sof t war e updat es ar e r equir ed in m ult i- node envir onm ent s, as t he updat e only needs t o be st ar t ed once f r om t he I M S and is t hen aut om at ic ally dis t r ibut ed wit hin t he ent ir e ser ver envir onm ent .
Fuj i t su SAP HANA Sol ut i onCont r act ( Ser vi ces f or SAP HANA O per at i on)
Solut ionCont r act is t he m aint enance and suppor t ser vic e f or def ined Fujit su solut ions. I t r epr esent s a m ix of pr oact iv e and r eact iv e ser vic es, whic h ensur e t hat m alf unct ions ar e det ect ed and cor r ect ed bef or e t hey can have any im pact on oper at ions. The concept t akes int o account t hat Fujit su solut ions consis t of har dwar e, sof t war e and net wor k pr oduct s f r om dif f er ent vendor s. Fujit su is t he single point of cont act f or all inf r ast r uct ur e com ponent s of a Fujit su solut ion as well as t heir int er oper abilit y. Solut ionCont r act of f er s sever al ser vic e- level opt ions depending on indiv idual r equir em ent s. Not e: SAP Sof t war e suppor t is not par t of t his solut ion cont r act !
Cust om er Success St or i es
SAP Busi ness W ar ehouse M i gr at i on t o SAP HANA
A leading int er nat ional m anuf act ur er of aut om ot iv e com ponent s has t o dat e used an SAP Business W ar ehouse ( BW ) , but it t ook sever al hour s t o gener at e r epor t s m eaning t hat im por t ant inf or m at ion was of t en only available t he next day. To acceler at e t his pr ocess m anagem ent opt ed f or t he innovat iv e SAP HANA appliance sof t war e.
The com plem ent ar y por t f olio of SAP HANA inf r ast r uct ur e and ser vic es, joint ly of f er ed by Fujit su and TDS* , convinced t he m anagem ent t o ent r ust t his vit al pr oject t o t he t wo com panies in com binat ion. SAP exper t s at TDSs I T Consult ing business unit wer e t asked wit h design and im plem ent at ion, and wit h oper at ion and suppor t of t he pr oduct ion syst em and Fujit su cont r ibut ed t he cer t if ied SAP HANA inf r ast r uct ur e solut ion based on power f ul PRI M ERG Y RX600 r ack ser ver s.
* ( TDS a Fujit su com pany)
M i t sui
To pr om ot e t he gr owt h of M it suis businesses, it is essent ial t o have an I T plat f or m t hat f lexibly adapt s t o change and suppor t s r apid decis ion m aking. The object iv es of SAP HANA align wit h t hese needs. W e gr eat ly value Fuj i t su s ear l y l eader shi p i n suppor t of SAP HANA, as well as Fujit sus capabilit ies in pr oviding global suppor t f or our I T plat f or m s, and we int end t o cont inue t o wor k wit h Fujit su in t his ar ea in t he f ut ur e. W it h t he gl obal cooper at i on f r om t he t eam at Fuj i t su, we have alr eady begun im plem ent ing t his t echnology, and look f or war d t o cont inuing t o wor k wit h Fujit su t o achieve our m ut ual object iv es .
M r . Tor u Nakaj i m a
Associat e O f f ic er and G ener al M anager of
I nf or m at ion Technology Pr om ot ion Div is ion
M it sui & Co. , Lt d.
Pr edi ct abl e, Repeat abl e, Rel i abl e Resul t s: Pr e- validat ed r ef er ence ar chit ect ur es, pr e- packaged solut ions wit h ent er pr is e- class com ponent s acr oss t he ent ir e st ack, and t ar get ed pr ovis ioning t o help ensur e consis t ent , pr edic t able r esult s as or ganiz at ions ol ok t o m anage and st or e m assiv e volum es of f ast - changing dat a.
Except i onal Per f or m ance: High- densit y com put ing and t hr oughput wit h wide- st r iping t echnology f or enhanced ut ilz at ion. Cust om er s benef it f r om f lexible ser ver m anagem ent capabilit ies and scalable ar chit ect ur es.
Fast er Ti m e- t o- Val ue: Q uic ker , sim pler deploym ent of f er ed f r om a single sour ce f or or der ing and f or pr oviding ser vic es f or planning and im plem ent at ion. Pr e- conf igur at ion and SAP valdi at ion of key com ponent s dr ast ic ally r educes onsit e deploym ent t im e. I nt elligent aut om at ion of com plex t asks enables r apid pr ovis ioning of r esour ces wit h t he assur ance t hat t he appr opr iat e under ly ing inf r ast r uct ur e com ponent s ar e in place.
As addit ional applic at ions and business unit s use SAP HANA or dat a volum es incr ease, all t hr ee Hit achi Dat a Syst em s SAP HANA appliances siz es, Sm all, M edium , and Lar ge, of f er a sm oot h pat h t o easily scale syst em pr ocessing capabilit y wit hout f or klif t upgr ades or com plet e syst em over hauls .
St or age: AM S 2100 is designed f or high availabilit y, down t o t he dual bat t er y backup t hat pr ot ect s t he cache dur ing power out age. I t cont ains sym m et r ic act iv e- act iv e cont r oller s t hat self - balance wor kloads.
Bl ade Ser ver s: Hit achi Com put e Blade 2000 of f er s lar ge I / O capacit y and onboar d m em or y r equir ed f or ef f ect iv e im plem ent at ion of SAP HANA. Syst em s include 4- way x86 blade ser ver s wit h I nt el 10- cor e pr ocessor s.
SAP HANA:
SAP HANA Load Cont r oller 1. 0
SAP I M CE Ser ver 1. 0, Client , St udio
SAP Host Agent
Sybase Replic at ion Ser ver 15. 5 +ECDA
Hit achi Dat a Syst em s Conver ged Plat f or m f or SAP HANA Sm all, M edium , Lar ge m eet s var ying per f or m ance r equir em ent s. All t hr ee opt ions com e wit h Hit achi Dat a Syst em s AM S 2100 st or age subsyst em s and wit h SAP HANA pr e- loaded.
Hit achi suppor t s SAP HANA f r om t he sm allest conf igur at ion wit h a single Com put e Blade and 256G B of RAM t o t he lar gest conf igur at ion of 4 Com put e Blade 2000s and 1. 0 t er abyt es of RAM .
Ser vi ces
Hit achi Dat a Syst em s G lobal Solut ion Ser vic es ( G SS) of f er s exper ienced inf r ast r uct ur e consult ant s, pr oven m et hodologies, and com pr ehensiv e ser vic es f or Conver ged Plat f or m s t o help cust om er s f ur t her st r eam line t heir SAP envir onm ent s. The HANA I m plem ent at ion Ser vic e ensur es a sm oot h int egr at ion of t he Hit achi Conver ged Plat f or m f or SAP HANA wit h our cust om er s SAP landscapes.
M ult iple single node conf igur at ions ( XS, S, M , M +, L) based on indust r y- leading HP Pr oLiant DL580 and DL980 G 7 Ser ver s
An XL scale- 0out conf igur at ion, based on indust r y- leading HP BladeSyst em Ser ver s, wit h f ully aut om at ed f ail over f or high availabilit y
HP s Uni que Val ue Pr oposi t i on f or SAP HANA
HP has wor ked wit h SAP on in- m em or y t echnologies f r om t he beginning, and was t he f ir st SAP par t ner t o design and deliv er SAP Net W eaver Business W ar ehouse Acceler at or in 2006. Based on t hat exper ience, HP has developed t he cor e com pet encies t o deliv er successf ul im plem ent at ions of HP AppSyst em s f or SAP HANA, and of f er s a por t f olio of six conf igur at ions ( XS, S, M , M +, L, XL) t o m eet t he needs of any siz e business.
HP has im plem ent ed m or e t han 77, 000 SAP inst allat ions wor ldwide, and HP inf r ast r uct ur e r uns near ly half of all SAP inst allat ions in t he wor ld. I n f act , HP is a global leader in SAP oper at ions, suppor t ing 1. 7 m ilon user s in over 50 count r ies, and has developed a cor e com pet ency f or designing and building SAP appliance- based solut ions, successf ully im plem ent ing t hem on cust om er sit es, and of f er ing indust r y- leading suppor t ser vic es t o ensur e opt im al per f or m ance t hr oughout t heir lif ecycle.
Scal e- out of f er i ng
HP of f er s a unique scale- out of f er ing t hat pr ovides t he high availabilit y your business dem ands t oday, and a f ut ur e- r eady solut ion t hat can gr ow as your needs gr ow. This design signif ic ant ly r educes t he cost , dif f ic ult y and down- t im e associat ed wit h f ut ur e f ield upgr ades.
HPs scale- out solut ion is based on pr oven, indust r y- leading t echnology including:
HP Pr oLiant BL680c G 7 Ser ver Blades, t he blade solut ion t hat is ideal f or SAP HANA scale- out im plem ent at ions f or balanced com put ing t o handle t he m ost dem anding ent er pr is e class applic at ions.
The HP X9300 I BRI X Net wor k St or age Syst em is a unique st or age plat f or m t hat of f er s unlim it ed scale- out capabilit y and dis ast er t oler ant f eat ur es.
HP P6500 Ent er pr is e Vir t ual Ar r ays ( EVA) deliv er s high- t hr oughput , m is sion- cr it ic al, r edundant st or age f or dat a & log f iles, SYS f iles, conf ig f iles, t r aces and m or e.
HP net wor king solut ions lik e HP Vir t ual Connect f or sim plif ying and vir t ualiz ing t he connect iv it y bet ween t he HANA blade nodes, t he net wor k, and t he shar ed st or age.
High availabilit y is pr ovided t hr ough a st and- by blade wit h aut om at ic f ailover . Dis ast er t oler ance t echnology is als o included wit h HPs scale- out solut ion. W hen SAP cer t if ies a dis ast er t oler ant solut ion f or SAP HANA, HPs scale- out appliance design is alr eady equipped t o handle t his f unct ionalit y, so you can be assur ed it wil m eet your f ut ur e dem ands.
I m pl em ent at i on
Deliv er y of t he SAP HANA appliance is not t he f inal st ep. Beyond t he design and build of a SAP HANA solut ion, im plem ent at ion of t he solut ion int o your envir onm ent is equally , if not m or e, cr it ic al t o a successf ul exper ience wit h get t ing SAP HANA up and r unning. So HP includes inst allat ion, im plem ent at ion, and t r aining wit h ever y SAP HANA solut ion we deliv er . The basic f oundat ional ser vic e includes t he f ollowing:
The HP Business I nt elligence M ast er Plan Ser vic e is an over ar ching BI st r at egy developm ent ser vic e designed t o assis t you in t he def init ion of a BI st r at egy and t he design of a landscape t o enable t he r ealiz at ion of t hat st r at egy including a r oadm ap f or im plem ent at ion.
The HP I m pact Analy sis f or SAP HANA helps you under st and t he t echnic al f easibilt y of int r oducing SAP HANA t o m eet r eal- t im e and high- volum e dat a analy sis r equir em ent s, and is highly r ecom m ended f or each SAP HANA im plem ent at ion.
The HP Financial Assessm ent f or SAP HANA pr ovides gr anular inf or m at ion t o suppor t your decis ion pr ocess and is f or m at t ed t o be suit able f or use in suppor t ing budget ing pr ocesses.
The HP Solut ion Assessm ent f or SAP HANA is an engagem ent dur ing whic h HP consult ant s wil assess t he exis t ing inf or m at ion landscape in det ail, ident if y dat a set s f or use wit h SAP HANA, ident if y any gaps in t he cur r ent envir onm ent and cr eat e a solut ion bluepr int based on t he f indings.
The HP Landscape Pr epar at ion Ser vic e f or SAP HANA is designed t o ensur e t hat t he sur r ounding solut ion landscape is in place and opt im iz ed in or der t o allow f or t he inclusion of t he SAP HANA appliance and speed t im e- t o- value of t he SAP HANA solut ion. This includes t he upgr ade or inst allat ion of SAP and non- SAP com ponent s in t he landscape.
HP Fast St ar t Ser vic e includes r equir ed ser vic es t hat accom pany t he appliance t o ensur e t he appliance is pr oper ly inst alled, dat abase connect ions ar e m ade, and t he r eplic at ion and ext r act , t r ansf or m , load ( ETL) of dat a f r om t he sour ce syst em s have been t est ed and conf ir m ed as f ully f unct ional.
The HP I m plem ent at ion Ser vic e f or SAP HANA is a com plet e end- t o- end SAP HANA im plem ent at ion based on a solut ion bluepr int designed by a t eam of HP consult ant s. HP consult ant s f ollow t he HP G lobal I m plem ent at ion M et hodology f or Business I nt elligence f or all SAP HANA im plem ent at ion pr oject s
HP M igr at ion Ser vic es SAP HANA Appliance Sof t war e Ser vic e Pack 3 suppor t s t he deploym ent of an HP AppSyst em f or SAP HANA as t he dat abase f or SAP Net W eaver Business W ar ehouse. HP is of f er ing a m igr at ion package f or cur r ent SAP Net W eaver BW cust om er s t o assis t in m igr at ing f r om t heir exis t ing dat abase t o an HP AppSyst em f or SAP HANA. This m igr at ion package includes com plim ent ar y phone assessm ent ser vic es, asset r ecover y ser vic es, f inancial ser vic es and m igr at ion ser vic es:
O n- sit e m igr at ion assessm ent wor kshops
SAP Net W eaver BW upgr ade ser vic e
SAP Net W eaver BW 7. 3 m igr at ion t o a dat abase built on SAP HANA
SAP Net W eaver BW opt im iz at ion f or t he SAP HANA dat abase
Cust om er success st or i es
T- M obile select ed SAP HANA t o help t hem addr ess t he challenge of t r acking t heir cust om er pr om ot ions and of f er s in a t im ely m anner . W it h SAP HANA, t hey could pr ocess PO S dat a in r eal t im e t o evaluat e what of f er s wer e successf ul, and even m ic r o- segm ent t heir cust om er s f or m or e ef f ect iv e r eal- t im e pr om ot ions.
The challenge: T- M obile had an ext r em ely shor t t im eline t o get t heir SAP HANA solut ion up and r unning. They cont act ed HP and asked if we could get a HANA solut ion built , inst alled and im plem ent ed in less t han 3 weeks.
HP deliv er ed.
The T- M obile r equir em ent s wer e capt ur ed and an SAP HANA syst em was siz ed and built in HPs SAP HANA f act or y. HP t hen int egr at ed t he har dwar e; loaded sof t war e, cust om er net wor k and host set t ings; all deliv er ed wit hin 2 weeks. W it h HP Fast St ar t Ser vic e im plem ent at ion, T- M obile was loading dat a, t est ing t he r epor t ing use case scenar io wit hin t he 3- week t im eline r equir em ent .
The T- M obile SAP HANA pr oject is just one exam ple of how cust om er s can r ely on HP t o pr ovide r eliable, high- per f or m ance t echnology f or SAP HANA, and t he ser vic es r equir ed t o design, build, im plem ent , and suppor t f or a successf ul im plem ent at ion.
SAP HANA, deliv er ed on I BM eX5 ent er pr is e ser ver s wit h f if t h- gener at ion I BM Ent er pr is e X- Ar chit ect ur e t echnology ( eX5) , helps t r ansf or m t he ent er pr is e by addr essing cur r ent needs while deliv er ing t he r obust scalabilit y and per f or m ance needed t o accom m odat e gr owt h. SAP HANA r unning on power f ul I BM eX5 ent er pr is e ser ver s wit h t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7 f am ily com bines t he speed and ef f ic iency of in- m em or y pr ocessing wit h t he abilit y t o analy ze m assiv e am ount s of business dat a enabling com panies t o elim inat e bar r ier s bet ween r eal- t im e event s and r eal- t im e business decis ions.
I BM is t he f ir st t o decouple m em or y and input / out put ( I / O ) f r om t he pr ocessor m oving pr ocessing power f r om what s t heor et ic ally possible t o what s act ually possible. I BM Syst em x ser ver s wit h f if t h- gener at ion I BM eX5 t echnology enable SAP HANA cust om er s t o benef it f r om a shar ed vis ion t hat deliv er s sim plic it y and aut om at ion designed t o help or ganiz at ions acceler at e business out com es while lower ing TCO .
I BM eX5 ent er pr is e ser ver s wit h I nt el Xeon pr ocessor s of f er ext r em e m em or y and per f or m ance scalabilit y. W it h im pr oved har dwar e econom ic s and new t echnology of f er ings, I BM is helping SAP r ealiz e a r eal- t im e ent er pr is e wit h in- m em or y business applic at ions. I BM eX5 ent er pr is e ser ver s deliv er a long his t or y of leading SAP benchm ar k per f or m ance.
These Syst em x ser ver s ar e equipped wit h pr ocessor s f r om t he I nt el Xeon pr ocessor E7 f am ily , whic h com bine except ional r aw com put e power wit h incr eased m em or y bandwidt h and suppor t f or signif ic ant ly gr eat er m em or y capacit y t o deliv er super ior per f or m ance t o pr evious- gener at ion pr ocessor s. W it h up t o t en cor es in each pr ocessor , t he f our - socket x3850 X5 can be scaled t o 40 cor es and 80 t hr eads wit h t he use of I nt el Hyper - Thr eading Technology. O r ganiz at ions can achieve ext r em e scaling wit hin each node f or r unning dem anding wor kloads on a com pact syst em .
SAP HANA is a business- cr it ic al t echnology and r equir es a r obust and r eliable ent er pr is e com put ing plat f or m . Sophis t ic at ed eX5 f eat ur es such as Pr edic t iv e Failur e Aler t s war n ahead of pot ent ial har dwar e f ailur es, t r igger pr eem pt iv e act ion, and help m aint ain applic at ion availabilit y. I n addit ion, eX5 f eat ur es such as eXFlash solid- st at e dis k t echnology can yield signif ic ant per f or m ance im pr ovem ent s in st or age access, helping deliv er an opt im iz ed syst em solut ion f or SAP HANA. St andar d f eat ur es in t he solut ion such as t he High I O PS M LC Duo Adapt er f or I BM Syst em x can als o pr ovide f ast access t o st or age.
These m ult i- node scale- out conf igur at ions do not r equir e an ext er nal St or age Ar ea Net wor k ( SAN) or m ult iple SANs. The I BM G ener al Par allel File Syst em
( G PFS ) sof t war e in t hese conf igur at ions has t he unique capabilit y t o use t he st or age cont ained wit hin each node helping t o sim plif y t he inf r ast r uct ur e r equir ed f or SAP HANA. O nly I BM has a High- Availabilit y concept whic h allows cust om er s t o seam lessly ext end t heir inst allat ion t o enable High Availabilit y using G PFS r eplic at ion and an addit ional st and- by node.
G PFS , wit h it s high- per f or m ance ent er pr is e f ile m anagem ent , can help m ove beyond sim ply adding st or age t o opt im iz ing dat a m anagem ent f or SAP HANA. High- per f or m ance ent er pr is e f ile m anagem ent using G PFS giv es SAP HANA applic at ions:
Per f or m ance t o sat is f y t he m ost dem anding SAP HANA applic at ions
Seam less capacit y expansion t o handle t he explosiv e gr owt h of dat a SAP HANA envir onm ent s
High r eliabilit y and availabilit y t o help elim inat e pr oduct ion out ages and pr ovide dis r upt ion- f r ee m aint enance and capacit y upgr ades
Seam less capacit y and per f or m ance scaling along wit h t he pr oven r eliabilit y f eat ur es and f lexible ar chit ect ur e of G PFS help your com pany f ost er innovat ion by sim plif ying your envir onm ent and st r eam lining dat a wor kf lows f or incr eased ef f ic iency f or SAP HANA applic at ions.
I BM I nt elligent Clust er int egr at ed packaging and assem bly can help speed inst allat ion and deploym ent of m ult i- node scale- out HA conf igur at ions as well as r educe im plem ent at ion r is k if you r equir e all of your HANA ser ver nodes pr eassem bled and packaged in a r ack.
By im plem ent ing SAP HANA on eX5 ent er pr is e ser ver s wit h G PFS, you can r ealiz e f ast er per f or m ance, less com plexit y and gr eat er ef f ic iency f r om a power f ul and pr oven conver ged inf r ast r uct ur e envir onm ent of int egr at ed t echnologies. These wor kload- opt im iz ed solut ions f or SAP HANA can help sim plif y oper at ions, consolidat e r esour ces and dynam ic ally m igr at e f unct ionalit y as business changes, while deliv er ing t he abilit y t o quic kly change t he way user s look at m ass am ount s of dat a wit hout com pr om is ing dat a int egr it y or secur it y.
For m or e inf or m at ion about t he I BM Syst em s solut ion f or SAP HANA and t he I BM Syst em x W or kload O pt im iz ed Solut ions f or SAP HANA, please r ead t he I BM Redpaper : SAP I n- M em or y Com put ing on I BM eX5 Syst em s
Com bining t he st r engt hs of G BS wit h I BM Syst em x W or kload O pt im iz ed Solut ions f or SAP HANA allows our cust om er s t o gain t he m axim um benef it s of t heir invest m ent in SAP HANA and t o br ing t hose solut ions t o lif e t o addr ess im m ediat e inf or m at ion needs and ident if y t he t r ansf or m at ional oppor t unit ies t hat can br ing t he or ganiz at ion t o t he highest levels of insight and act ion.
I BM can al so of f er f i nanci ng opt i ons hel pi ng cl i ent s t o acqui r e I T sol ut i ons t hat ar e t ai l or ed t o t hei r i ndi vi dual goal s and budget .
For m or e i nf or m at i on
To lear n m or e about t he I BM Syst em s and Ser vic es solut ions f or SAP HANA and I BM eX5 W or kload O pt im iz ed Syst em s, please cont act your I BM m ar ket ing r epr esent at iv e or I BM Business Par t ner , or vis it : www. ibm - sap. com / hana.
All t he NEC SAP HANA appliances ar e const r uct ed on t he Expr ess5800 Scalable Ent er pr is e Ser ver t hat of f er s upwar d scalabilit y t o 8 socket s and 2TB m em or y, f ault - m anagem ent f unct ionalit ies t hr ough EXPRESSSCO PE Engine SP2, and Vir ident TM FlashM ax devic e f or high- wor kload envir onm ent s.
O ne not ewor t hy har dwar e f eat ur e is it s EXPRESSSCO PE Engine SP2, a uniquely developed devic e by NEC based on our exper ience in UNI X ser ver s, enables t o m onit or and cont r ol Expr ess5800/ A1080a and A1040a wit h r em ot e and cent r aliz ed int er f ace r egar dless of t he power st at us of ser ver s. I t signif ic ant ly incr eases m aint ainabilit y and r educes downt im e of SAP HANA.
Suppor t Ser vi ce
For m or e inf or m at ion, please cont act NEC sales r epr esent at iv e in your r egion.
Chapt er 11
I nt r oduct i on
So, youv e decided t o m ove f or war d wit h SAP HANA. G r eat ! But how do you get st ar t ed? SAP HANA is a new t echnology, so your or ganiz at ion m ay lack t he in- house exper t is e t o im plem ent it on t heir own. For t unat ely , what ever your sit uat ion, exper t pr oject planning, im plem ent at ion, and developm ent ser vic es ar e available t hat can help ensur e t hat you get t he m axim um business value f r om SAP HANA, as quic kly as possible.
I t Al l St ar t s w i t h G ood Pl anni ng
The m or e at t ent ion you devot e t o planning your im plem ent at ion, t he m or e you wil benef it f r om your SAP HANA invest m ent . Fir st and f or em ost , a good im plem ent at ion par t ner should help you develop a com pr ehensiv e r oadm ap det ailing how ni - m em or y com put ing can help your com pany r un at m axim um speed and solv e specif ic business pr oblem s. To accom plis h t hese goals , t hat par t ner m ust ask t he cr it ic al quest ions t hat m ean t he dif f er ence bet ween success and f ailur e and be able t o answer t hese quest ions cor r ect ly .
Alt hough t he specif ic quest ions wil var y by engagem ent , you should st ar t by ident if ying t he r ight business use case f or SAP HANA in your com pany. At SAP, we of t en dis t inguis h bet ween business int elligence and t echnology int elligence. The best t echnology in t he wor ld wil not necessar ily cr eat e value if it is nt aligned wit h t he pr oper business scenar io. Thus, t he f ir st quest ion t o consider is : W her e can an in- m em or y solut ion cr eat e t he m ost value f or t he least invest m ent in t he shor t est t im ef r am e, wit h t he least dis r upt ion f or business user s? The answer t o t hat quest ion wil help you align desir es ( what you want ) and needs ( what you act ually need) . At t hat point you can begin m apping t he solut ion back t o a t echnic al landscape.
W ev e just dis cussed t he im por t ance of select ing a qualif ied solut ion im plem ent at ion par t ner . The next st ep is t o det er m ine how best t o use SAP HANA wit hin your cur r ent envir onm ent t o deliv er m axim um value in your or ganiz at ion.
Agile dat a m ar t s
SAP Business Suit e acceler at or
Pr im ar y dat abase f or SAP Net W eaver Business W ar ehouse
Cust om applic at ion developm ent
Agi l e Dat a M ar t
O ne way t o quic kly get t he m ost value f r om in- m em or y t echnology is t o use SAP HANA as a st andalone dat a m ar t f or a specif ic use case. I n t his scenar io, SAP HANA act s as a cent r al hub, collect ing sour ce- syst em dat a f r om m ult iple sour ces via in- m em or y t echnology and t hen dis playing f ocused r epor t s and analy t ic s via a r epor t ing f r ont end. The dat a can t hen be used in m ult iple ways, depending on t he or ganiz at ions r epor t ing r equir em ent s and f or m at s.
This ar r angem ent has t he advant age of pr oviding a f ocused solut ion t o an im m ediat e business pr oblem while m inim iz ing dis r upt ion t o t he exis t ing landscape. Such pr oject s ar e usually com plet ed quic kly : The business pr oblem is under st ood, and t he r equir ed dat a and sour ce syst em s ar e easily ident if ied. Such inst allat ions of f er inst ant value m aking pr eviously dif f ic ult and t im e- consum ing t asks f ast and easy.
SAP ERP Rapid Deploym ent solut ion f or acceler at ed f inance and cont r olling wit h SAP HANA
SAP ERP r apid- deploym ent solut ion f or pr of it abilit y analy sis wit h SAP HANA
SAP Rapid Deploym ent solut ion f or cust om er segm ent at ion wit h SAP HANA
SAP is cont inuously adding m or e Rapid Deploym ent solut ions. To see what s available t oday, vis it : www. sap. com / solut ions/ r ds.
Now t hat wev e r eviewed t ypic al im plem ent at ion scenar ios, let s r eview what a successf ul im plem ent at ion r equir es.
1. Cust om er educat i on. Educat ion is especialy im por t ant f or an SAP HANA pr oject . The t echnology is new, so t he r elevant knowledge is not yet widespr ead. The t echnology is als o r apidly evolv ing, wit h new use cases being cr eat ed alm ost daily . Bot h t he pr oject t eam and t he execut iv e sponsor s m ust be educat ed so t hey under st and what SAP HANA can do and how it wor ks. ( Hint : G iv e t hem a copy of t his book! )
2. Use case i dent i f i cat i on. W or kshops can help det er m ine wher e t o apply t he power of SAP HANA wit hin t he or ganiz at ion. Ask your self : W hat ar e t he possible scenar ios f or SAP HANA, and wher e m ight t he com pany m ake im pr ovem ent s? W her e could t he t echnology have t he biggest im pact on cor por at e object iv es or unlock deeper insight s int o t he r epor t ed dat a? O nce you have def ined a use case, you should per f or m a com pr ehensiv e r equir em ent s gat her ing t o ensur e t hat t he end solut ion addr esses all of your com panys needs and m aps back t o your or iginal use case expect at ions.
3. Sol ut i on appr oach. The SAP HANA solut ion m ust be designed and docum ent ed so t hat if your per sonnel or solut ion par t ner s change, t he new r esour ces wil under st and how t o suppor t t he solut ion. M ost lik ely , t his wil be an it er at iv e pr ocess, looking closely at use cases and t heir suppor t ing inf r ast r uct ur e. As new inf or m at ion becom es available, t he solut ion appr oach wil evolv e int o a com pr ehensiv e deliv er able.
4. M odel i ng / Devel opm ent A key t ask t o im plem ent your SAP HANA solut ion is cr eat ion of t he dat a m odels and t he dif f er ent views t o it . These m odels ar e adapt ed, m odif ied, and enhanced t o im pr ove per f or m ance. For packaged applic at ions t his cont ent is deliv er ed by SAP, but can be adapt ed t o your specif ic needs. Cust om developm ent pr oject s wil include bot h t r adit ional applic at ion developm ent and m odeling aspect s.
5. Q A/ t est i ng. This is t he f inal t est of all f r ont - end r epor t ing, dat a qualit y, dat a int egr at ion, and per f or m ance. The pr oduct ion syst em is up and r unning, and business pr ocesses begin t o oper at e in t he new SAP HANA envir onm ent . Q ualit y assur ance cont inues, along wit h end- user t r aining and suppor t .
6. G o l i ve. SAP HANA is deliv er ed as a pr oduct ion solut ion.
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I f changes ar e r equir ed f or f r ont - end r epor t s or analy t ic s, t hen expect at ions m ust be m anaged. O f t en, as a r esult of dependencies, even sm all changes t o a r epor t can have a lar ge im pact on under ly ing syst em s; f or inst ance, a change t o a f ield m ay r equir e changing a dat a m odel.
Because of t his f act or , it is im por t ant t o f ully def ine r equir em ent s and t o ask about any pr oposed r epor t m odif ic at ions. Reviewing t he or iginal f or m of a cur r ent r epor t can be ver y helpf ul because you can see what t he business user is accust om ed t o seeing, as well as how it m ight be im pr oved. You should als o per f or m a pr oper dat a decom posit ion t o docum ent how t he cur r ent r epor t is built and how it is wor king. I n addit ion, ident if y any cust om code wit hin t he business r ules t hat m ay be dif f ic ult t o r eplic at e inside t he SAP HANA m odeler . Finally , m ap t he sour ces f r om whic h t he dat a ar e dr awn, and how t he dat a ar e im por t ed int o a f or m al deliv er able f or signof f .
The r ight ser vic es par t ner can pr ovide t he needed level of due diligence in t his ar ea dur ing planning.
Af t er youv e out lined a syst em at ic appr oach t o im plem ent at ion, you need t o ident if y t he key t im elines and act iv it ies f or your SAP HANA im plem ent at ion.
Cur r ent t echni cal l andscape. Depending on t he cur r ent landscape, t he cust om er m ay have t o consider pr er equis it es f or deliv er ing in- m em or y solut ions. For exam ple, dat a qualit y m ay need t o be addr essed, or t he or ganiz at ion m ay f ir st need t o upgr ade som e applic at ions t hat wor k in conjunct ion wit h SAP HANA.
Expect at i ons f or i n- m em or y f unct i onal i t y. As cust om er s lear n m or e about t he capabilit ies of in- m em or y solut ions, t hey m ay want t o int r oduce addit ional f unct ionalit y. I t is im por t ant t o m anage t his need and t o consider it dur ing t he init ial r equir em ent s phase.
O r i gi nal r equi r em ent s per use case( s) i dent i f i ed dur i ng assessm ent . A key com ponent of t he successf ul deliv er y of SAP HANA is ensur ing t hat t he f inal solut ion m eet s t he com panys r equir em ent s and expect at ions, as ident if ied in t he or iginal use case scenar io.
I n addit ion t o def ining an im plem ent at ion m et hodology, youl need t o ident if y t he key skils r equir ed t o ensur e your im plem ent at ion of SAP HANA is a success.
The f ollowing r oles ar e specif ic t o agile dat a m ar t use case im plem ent at ions:
Syst em ar chi t ect / syst em adm i ni st r at or . This r esour ce is r esponsible f or t he physic al SAP HANA landscape, including CPU, m em or y, and dis k usage. He or she per f or m s m aint enance and syst em m onit or ing, along wit h conf igur at ion and applic at ion of any necessar y pat ches. The syst em ar chit ect als o per f or m s SAP sour ce syst em conf igur at ion and r eplic at ion, and m anages t he SAP Landscape Tr ansf or m at ion ( SLT) r eplic at ion ser ver . Finally , he or she ensur es t hat t he SAP HANA dat abase is backed up r egular ly , and als o m onit or s and pr ocesses backup log f iles.
Sol ut i on ar chi t ect . As t he nam e im plies, t he solut ion ar chit ect is r esponsible f or solut ion design. He or she gat her s r equir em ent s f or t he use case( s) and cr eat es t he t echnic al design docum ent at ion.
SAP HANA dat a m odel er . The SAP HANA dat a m odeler is r esponsible pr im ar ily f or m odeling solut ion design and developm ent and unit t est ing of all SAP HANA m odels . He or she als o per f or m s SAP HANA m odel lif ecycle m anagem ent , whic h includes t he var ious st eps cont ained in t he pr ocess of m oving f r om developm ent t o pr oduct ion.
Dat a ser vi ces/ SLT devel oper . The dat a ser vic es developer is r esponsible pr im ar ily f or design and developm ent of jobs t o ext r act , t r ansf or m , and load dat a int o SAP HANA via dat a ser vic es or SLT. The developer als o per f or m s lif ecycle m anagem ent , whic h includes st eps cont ained in m oving f r om developm ent t o pr oduct ion.
Two ot her r oles ar e specif ic t o im plem ent at ions of SAP BW power ed by SAP HANA.
SAP t echnol ogy consul t ant . This exper t on SAP HANA t echnology collabor at es wit h t he pr oject m anager t o plan t echnic al r equir em ent s f or t he pr oject . He or she t hen im plem ent s t hese r equir ed t echnic al t asks wit hin t he syst em .
Cer t i f i ed O S/ DB m i gr at i on consul t ant . This indiv idual is r esponsible f or t echnic al planning and design of t he in- m em or y inf r ast r uct ur e, including dat abase planning, pr oject or ganiz at ion, design, audit , and pr oject r eview.
I f you per f or m a cust om developm ent , you wil need addit ional developm ent skils :
SAP HANA devel oper . This exper t builds your applic at ions beyond pur e dat a m odeling using t he dif f er ent developm ent capabilit ies of SAP HANA ( SQ LScr ipt , Business Funct ion Libr ar y, et c. ) .
Depending on t he specif ic scope and ar chit ect ur e of your pr oject , you m ay need developm ent exper t s in t he specif ic applic at ion dom ain and advanced t echnologies, such as pr edic t iv e analy t ic s, scr ipt ing languages, et c.
I m plem ent ing SAP HANA is a m ajor st ep in dr am at ic ally im pr oving your abilit y t o obt ain opt im al value f r om your big dat a. W it h t he r ight ser vic e pr ovider , use case, im plem ent at ion m et hodology, and skiled r esour ces, youl be able t o enjoy t he power , speed, and per f or m ance of SAP HANA. Let s conclude t his dis cussion by exam ining som e t r uly st ellar exam ples of successf ul SAP HANA im plem ent at ions.
1. M ake cer t ain t hat business r equir em ent s ar e com plet ely under st ood and t hat t he use case com plem ent s t he t echnic al r equir em ent s. Rem em ber , t echnology int elligence doesnt necessar ily equal business int elligence!
2. Est ablis h RO I m et r ic s ear ly in t he scoping pr ocess. Build t hem int o t he pr oject / solut ion t o ensur e t hat success can be pr oper ly m easur ed and quant if ied.
3. Ensur e pr oper collabor at ion acr oss applic at ion deliv er y t eam s ( EPR, BW , CRM , r epor t ing, et c. ) , depending on pr oject r equir em ent s.
4. St ar t wit h a f ocused use case t o dem onst r at e business value, and t hen expand acr oss ot her f unct ional ar eas of t he business. Est ablis hing a quic k win helps wit h sponsor ship and f unding f or addit ional in- m em or y pr oject s.
5. M ake sur e t hat dat a qualit y is consider ed as par t of over all SAP HANA solut ion planning. Acquir ing dat a quic kly cant help t he business if t he dat a ar e not accur at e.
6. Def ine ( or r edef ine) specif ic in- m em or y t er m inology wit h all user s t o m ake cer t ain t hat each t er m is under st ood by and m eans t he sam e t hing t o I T, developer s, business user s, and execut iv e sponsor s. Sm all clar if ic at ions on such t er m s as r eal- t im e and self - ser ve can go a long way t owar d pr event ing m is under st andings concer ning bot h t he f unct ionalit y t o be deliv er ed and t he value it br ings.
7. Bonus Advic e: Encour age ever yone involv ed wit h t he pr oject ( Technic al & Business) t o download and r ead a copy of t his book. I t r eally helps get ever yone on t he sam e page and ensur es your e all speaking t he sam e language.
For m or e inf or m at ion about SAP HANA ser vic es of f er ings, subscr ibe t o SAPSer vic es on Twit t er band r eview t he det ails on t he SAP HANA ser vic es websit e.
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Find t he best dat a m odeler you can f or your SAP HANA pr oject s. That is t he m ake- or - br eak is sue f or m ost SAP HANA pr oject s.
Do not jum p int o a PO C ( Pr oof - of - Concept ) just t o pr ove loading/ r epor t ing wor ks f ast er in a dat a m ar t . SAP or I BM can easily show you how quic kly t heir syst em s can r epor t and load dat a.
Spend a lot of t im e r ef ining your use case of f line bef or e you st ar t t he pr oject . An im por t ant par t of t his st ep is t o accur at ely def ine success up f r ont . This helps r educe wast ef ul scoping ef f or t s dur ing t he pr oject , and it wil help t he pr oject t eam f ocus on specif ic t ar get s.
Siz e t he har dwar e cor r ect ly . I f you do not , t hen you wil not see t he expect ed r esult s. Even if you want t o scale out and buy new boxes, you should be awar e t hat t hese boxes ar e not available of f t he shelf . Consequent ly , t hey wil r equir e som e lead t im e t o acquir e.
Each HW vendor has som e secr et sauce on what m akes t hem special f or SAP HANA. M ake sur e you under st and t hat bef or e invest ing in HW .
Check SAP HANA per f or m ance under a var iet y of sit uat ions r epor t ing per f or m ance while heavy loads happen, while m ult iple people ar e wor king on syst em , logging on f r om dif f er ent par t s of net wor k, et c.
Engage closely wit h your SI ( syst em int egr at or ) and SAP while t he pr oject is going on. SAP HANA is f air ly new, and it wil pr obably need a f ew wor kar ounds. Your SI and SAP wil pr obably have seen your is sues bef or e, and t hey can advis e you and help m inim iz e t im e spent r einvent ing t he wheel.
I f you ar e going t o m igr at e t o SAP Net W eaver Business W ar ehouse on SAP HANA, t est as you go when m igr at ing object s t o t heir in- m em or y ver sions so t hat you can spot challenges sooner . Def init ely consider r e- engineer ing t he design of SAP BW t o t ake advant age of SAP HANA and avoid doing only an en- m asse m igr at ion and leaving it at t hat .
SAP HANA secur it y/ adm inis t r at ion is a specializ ed skil, and a good design is needed t o m ake it wor k f or all your use cases consis t ent ly . Plan t o spend t im e r ef ining t he m odel.
Last but not least poor dat a qualit y is even m or e dam aging when t he dat a com e at you in light ning speed. G ar bage I n/ G ar bage O ut st il applies. Pr of ile t he dat a, and f ix t hem at t he sour ce or as close t o t he sour ce as possible bef or e sending t hem t o SAP HANA.
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1. Accept not hing less t han excellence f r om your pr oject t eam and par t ner s
a. Technology m akes t hings f ast er , bet t er , and cheaper ; but t echnology it self is st il just a t ool. M ake sur e you assem ble an excellent t eam : business, pr oject t eam , par t ner s, and SAP suppor t .
2. Under st and t he t echnology
a. I f you ar e r eading t his book, you ar e alr eady on t he r ight t r ack.
3. Think about det ails , but always consider t hem in t he cont ext of t he big pic t ur e
a. The devil is in t he det ails , so t hink t hem t hr ough. At t he sam e t im e, however , never lose sight of t he com plet e pic t ur e of wher e all t he det ails f it int o.
4. O pen your m ind t o t he New W or ld
a. Q uest ion your old habit s; f or get about your 15 year s of t echnic al/ pr oject exper ience under t he belt . O ld t echniques do not necessar ily wor k well or at all wit h new par adigm s.
5. Dont build t he solut ions f or G o Liv e
a. Your solut ion wil liv e a long t im e af t er t he go- liv e dat e and wil need t o accom odat e new r equir em ent s, unexpect ed cases, and a sur r ounding envir onm ent t hat is in const ant t r ansit ion. Build f or t he long r un.
9 G ar d Lit t le and Elaina St er giades, I DC, Help Ret hinking t he Ar t of t he Possible wit h SAP HANA Ser vic es, M ar ch 2012.
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have been m ade available. I t wil be cont inuously updat ed as new chapt er s ar e com plet ed and cont ent r evis ions ar e added.
Please shar e t he websit e and voucher code wit h your colleagues so t hey can benef it f r om t he inf or m at ion in t his book as well.
Jef f r ey W or d, Ph. D.
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His next book, Busi ness Pr ocess I nt egr at i on w i t h SAP ERP, wil be r eleased in Fall 2012. He is als o t he co- aut hor of t he best selling books, I nt egr at ed Busi ness Pr ocesses w i t h ERP Syst em s ( 2011) , Essent i al s of Busi ness Pr ocesses and I nf or m at i on Syst em s ( 2009) , Busi ness Net w or k Tr ansf or m at i on: St r at egi es t o Reconf i gur e Your Busi ness Rel at i onshi ps f or Com pet i t i ve Advant age ( 2009) and SAP Net W eaver f or Dum m i es ( 2004) .
O ver t he last 13 year s at SAP, he has wor ked on t echnology st r at egy wit h f ocus on cor por at e innovat ion init iat iv es and ent er pr is e ar chit ect ur e design. Pr ior t o joining SAP, he wor ked in t he high t ech indust r y f or sever al har dwar e and sof t war e vendor s t hr oughout t he Am er ic as and Eur ope in a var iet y of leader ship r oles.
Dr . W or d ear ned his PhD in I nf or m at ion Syst em s at M anchest er Busi ness School in England. His r esear ch f ocus was on event - dr iv en business pr ocess design and next - gener at ion ent er pr is e ar chit ect ur e. He als o ear ned an M BA in I nt er nat ional M anagem ent f r om t he Thunder bi r d School of G l obal M anagem ent and a BA in Eur opean St udies/ Spanis h f r om t he Uni ver si t y of O kl ahom a.
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