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6276 - IBM Cloud for SAP - Features, benefits, roadmap, and the 2027 deadline to move to SAP HANA—Bradley KnappOffering Leader, IBM Cloud for SAP

Think 2020 / 6276 - IBM Cloud for SAP - Features, benefits, roadmap, and the 2027 deadline to move to SAP HANA / May 2020 / © 2020 IBM Corporation

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Performance is based on measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks in a controlled environment. The actual throughput or performance that any user will experience will vary depending upon many factors, including considerations such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user’s job stream, the I/O configuration, the storage configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve results similar to those stated here.


Please note

Percentage of companies who have not yet begun the move from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA


73%Source – IDC Report #US45128619, July 2019


The mission of IBM Cloud for SAP is to provide our clients with the best possible cloud platform on which to deploy enterprise-scale SAP landscapes

IBM Cloud’s SAP-certified infrastructure deployment locations


Americas– Dallas– Washington DC– Toronto– Montreal– Mexico City– Sao Paulo

EMEA– Amsterdam– Frankfurt– London– Milan– Paris

APAC– Chennai– Hong Kong– Seoul– Singapore– Sydney– Tokyo

IBM Cloud for SAPCustomer Profile

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Today, IBM Cloud for SAP hosts clients from around the world, with SAP workloads ranging from a single DR ECC instance to full production SAP S/4HANA and BW/4HANA with HA and DR.

We are the cloud for Enterprise.

Client Profile

• Cross-vertical, cross industry

• Primarily clients with >10K employees

• Largest production HANA DB – 12TB scale up, 31TB scale out


IBM Cloud: Preferred cloud to run SAP workloads by Enterprise customers

7Think 2020 / 6276 - IBM Cloud for SAP - Features, benefits, roadmap, and the 2027 deadline to move to SAP HANA / May 2020 / © 2020 IBM Corporation

Customers put IBM Cloud in Top 3 cloud providers to run their SAP applications and workloads in IDC Infrastructure survey.

In most cases, customers preferred IBM Cloud above Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

Top 3IBM Cloud in Top 3 cloud platform consideration for Enterprise workloads

Sources

Public Cloud Infrastructure workloads Survey, IDC, Dec 2019IDC special report – Infrastructure Adoption trends for SAP and SAP HANA, 2019

67% large customers prefer IBM Cloud to run SAP business applications

46% customers prefer IBM Cloud to run SAP HANA

53% customer will host SAP S4/HANA on IBM Cloud

The leading Overall Peer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars

The highest rating for Willingness to Recommend: 95%

The highest rating for Security and Compliance: 4.7 out of 5 stars

The highest rating for Integration & Deployment: 4.6 out of 5 stars

IBM Cloud: Highest customer ratings on Gartner Peer Insights


IBM Cloud received the highest overall customer rating among leading cloud providers for the last 12 months, as of 28 Feb 2020, based on 84 reviews. Customers rated IBM Cloud above Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/public-cloud-iaas/vendor/ibm/product/ibm-cloud

Architecturally, IBM Cloud for SAP was designed from the ground up to support the largest of enterprise workloads– We were the first to offer

certified Bare Metal servers for SAP HANA, for maximum performance

– We were the first (and are still the only) cloud provider to offer SAP-certified VMware for ease of migration

– We will be the first to offer the industry-leading Power platform, certified for SAP, in the cloud

SAP Certified x86 Bare Metal Servers

• Introduced in 2017

• Offered in 2, 4, or 8 socket configurations

• Offered in scale-up with 192GB of RAM up to 12TB of RAM

• Upcoming release with Intel OptaneDC Persistent Memory

• Offer scale-out up to 60TB

SAP Certified Power LPARs

• Will release in Q2 2020

• Offered in the Virtual Server ordering experience, but maintaining the performance and uptime of the Power platform

• Initial release will support scale-up with up to 14TB RAM

SAP Certified x86 Virtual Servers


• x86 VSIs will be available to support HANA workloads up to 4TB

• Ultra high performance network allows for seamless connection into either Power or x86 bare metal stacks


Secure, Full Control and Flexible environment for SAPVMware SSDC with full (root) control combined with secure Single-Tenant SAP-certified IaaS for SAP HANA Database Server and SAP NetWeaver Application Servers

Ø SAP HANA DB OLTP scale-up to 4TB RAM [TDIv5*†] e.g. S/4HANAØ SAP HANA DB OLAP scale-out to 30TB RAM [TDIv5*†] e.g. BW/4HANA

Faster move to Cloud for existing SAP workloadsVMware HCX with IBM Cloud Direct Link for seamless network extension with high security and low latency

Ø Retains IP Addresses and Routing using VMware service mesh routingØ Move VMs using vMotion and/or vSphere Replication

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, with SAP

IaaS: Intel IaaS: Intel IaaS: Intel

SAP-certified Bare Metal Infrastructure

Existing VMware clusters

IBM CloudDirect Link

IBM Cloud

Hypervisor: VMware Cluster

Virtual Networking: NSX Management: vCenter

Transition: vMotion Network Bridge: HCX

Microsoft Active Directory

+ VMware ecosystem solutions

VMware HCXEncrypted Migration Tunnel using HCX Cloud Gateway (CGW) + HCX WAN Optimizer (WAN-OPT)Encrypted Application Tunnel using HCX High Throughput Layer 2 Concentrator (HT L2C)

On-Premises

Hybrid Cloud

F5 Veeam Actifio HyTrust

Architecturally, IBM Cloud for SAP was designed from the ground up to support the largest of enterprise workloads– We were the first to offer

certified Bare Metal servers for SAP HANA, for maximum performance

– We were the first (and are still the only) cloud provider to offer SAP-certified VMware for ease of migration

– We will be the first to offer the industry-leading Power platform, certified for SAP, in the cloud

SAP Certified x86 Bare Metal Servers

• Introduced in 2017

• Offered in 2, 4, or 8 socket configurations

• Offered in scale-up with 192GB of RAM up to 12TB of RAM

• Upcoming release with Intel OptaneDC Persistent Memory

• Offer scale-out up to 60TB

SAP Certified Power LPARs


• Offered in the Virtual Server ordering experience, but maintaining the performance and uptime of the Power platform

• Initial release will support scale-up with up to 14TB RAM

SAP Certified x86 Virtual Servers


• x86 VSIs will be available to support HANA workloads up to 4TB

• Ultra high performance network allows for seamless connection into either Power or x86 bare metal stacks



Innovation is key to the IBM Cloud – SAP relationship

SAP DataHub 2.0 on IBM Cloud

Client’s Manufacturing Plant

IBM Cloud Event StreamsPressure

Sensor

Temperature Sensor

IR Camera

Watson Visual Recognition

Watson Visual Insights

Machine Press

Raw Materials

SAP HANASAP ASE

Client’s SAP Landscapeon IBM Cloud

Watson Relationship Extraction

Cloud Object Storage

Red Hat OpenShifton IBM Cloud

SAP Data HubOrchestrated Flow

SAP Data Hub

Watson Machine Learningon IBM Cloud


© 2019 IBM Corporation 4 May 2020 ABAP SDK for IBM Watson @ SAP TechEd 201914

ABAP SDK for IBM WatsonEnables developers to easily call and use IBM Watson Developer Services directly from ABAP to create an Intelligent Enterprise

A community-driven SDK for the ABAP Open Source community written by ABAPers from IBM Cloud, IBM Services and IBM Systems

Available releases for SAP NetWeaver 7.50+

and SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment 1911+

github.com/watson-developer-cloud/abap-sdk-nwas

github.com/watson-developer-cloud/abap-sdk-scp

• Pre-built Classes; use 10-20 lines to call IBM Watson APIsØ Assistant, Compare and Comply, Discovery, Language Translator, Natural

Language Classifier, Natural Language Understanding, Personality Insights, Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Tone Analyzer, Visual Recognition

• Pre-built Methods and Data Types

• API responses provided in ABAP Structures or Tables

• Tested with SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC

• Packaged using abapGit, for easy use with APACK

https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/abap-sdk-nwas

https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/abap-sdk-scp

https://github.com/larshp/abapGit

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/05/06/introducing-apack-a-package-and-dependency-manager-for-abap/

SAP Cloud Platform, Private Edition : Early Adopter Program


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Core Intelligent Enterprise ServicesExtensibility

SAP Cloud Platform Core & Kernel

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Supporting Services

Highlights:

• Intelligent Enterprise use cases, delivered in stages

• Enables a first step towards cloud-based extensions to core SAP system

• Running in customer data center as cloud solution

• Gain benefits of cloud solutions in the area of speed and agility without leaving your data center

• Based on OpenShift Kubernetes distribution with enterprise grade security and robustness capabilities

How to learn more


• Visit our website

http://www.ibm.biz/SAPinfra

• Visit the IBM Cloud Community

http://www.ibm.com/community/PublicCloud

• Contact your IBM Cloud Sales Representative

• Consider engaging with us for an IBM Services for SAP Rapid Discovery Workshop

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