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Ten Key Considerations for Your First SAP HANA Project

Alison BesshoDirector, HANA Solutions


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Optimal Solutions At-a-Glance


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Find the Right Business Use CaseStart with a small initiative that will:

Wow your customer! Deliver significant improvement to a business

challenge and provide new insights and knowledge

Introduce new capability that the business wasunable to achieve previously

Introduce SAP HANA to the IT team and developtheir skills and expertise

Build the foundation for SAP HANA expansionand further value

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Cases that Can Benefit Significantly Business Analytics

- Financial and operational data- Customer and marketing data- SKU and inventory levels

BW on HANA for faster reporting, analytics, transactions

New SAP solutions + HANA: CRM, BPC, Predictive Analytics

Custom applications + HANA built by SAP or third-parties

Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) created to address aspecific performance challenge or complexity

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Develop High-Level ArchitectureConsider and determine:

Data sources

ETL tools

New applications (if applicable )

Analytics tools (if applicable )

Frequency and timing of:

- Data updates- Data access

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Finalize the Environment PlanSeveral SAP HANA environment options:

Consider a POC with a reliable integration partner

Partner with your preferred hardware vendor todeploy HANA in-house

Evaluate in-cloud solutions with Amazon or SAP

Think about the number of environments you need:

- Develop, test, produce

Remember disaster recovery or HA needs

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Determine Hardware Appliance Needs

Consider size of:

Production SAP HANA appliance

Development and test environments

HA and backup/recovery needs

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Determine Hardware Appliance Needs

Where do you begin?

Work with your SI and SAP to estimate theamount of data to be stored in HANA

- Remember: aggregation tables not needed- Only store data critical to business challenge

- Archive/purge non-critical data

Work with your HW partner to finalize theappliance architecture

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Contract for SAP HANA SoftwareWork with your System Integrator orSAP account representativeto determine softwarelicensing needs.

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Identify Your Project TeamKey positions may include: Project manager

HANA architect /data modeler

ETL team

Data source extract developers

New application developers

Report/analytics developers

HANA administrator

Test team

SAP members & SI partner members

Business users for requirements, design & UAT

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Coordinate HANA Training for IT Team

Obtain training from SAP or yourintegration partner. Training isavailable in many formats:

Online tutorials

Classroom training

Customized training

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Coordinate HANA Training for IT Team

Critical areas covered:

Introduction to SAP HANA

Data services: replication (SLT)and integration

SQL on HANA

Data modeling BW on HANA

Application training

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Identify Performance Metrics

Important to measure speed and capability ofthe HANA solution:

Create queries or reports in legacy databases toserve as a benchmark for HANA queries/reports

Monitor and record the processing time of similar

IT services for comparison

Collaborate with the business to understandtheir expectations

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Identify Testing MethodologyThink about test approach related to:

Quality and accuracy of data loaded into HANA

Speed time of data load processes

HANA processing speed determine if any fine -tuning isneeded for the data model

Application functionality (if applicable )

Data volume testing requirements

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Gather Business RequirementsMeet with your business partners togather organizational requirements:

Challenge business to think outside the boxand focus on just what s done today

Remember : the power of SAP HANA lies inits ability to process data very quickly and

introduce new, unexpected insights to thebusiness!

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Alison BesshoDirector, HANA Solutions

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Cell: 303-475-0649

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