SAP on Azure & Migration

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Overview

SAP Architecture Overview

SAP on Azure

TechData SAP Services Capabilities

SAP on Azure rules of engagement

SAP on Azure example

Q&A

SAP Architecture Overview Quick Introduction

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What is SAP?

SAP is a Software Company

Companies acquisition strategy – Business Objects

– Sybase

– OpenText

– Concur

– …

99% of the times it will refer to the ERP or BW products

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SAP Typical applications – Different platforms ABAP Based

– S/4 HANA – Enterprise Resource Planning

– BW – Business Warehouse

– NetWeaver Gateway / Frontend Server

– CRM – Customer Relationship Management

J2EE Based

– Enterprise Portal

– Process Integration (AAEX)

Other

– Business Objects – Business Intelligence presentation layer

– Trex – Index server

– Archive Server

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What is HANA?

For the HW Vendor – A server with a lot of memory

For the Application – A database

For the developer – A development platform

For the End-User – An ERP (S/4 HANA)

“SAP S/4 HANA is an ERP product that runs on a SAP HANA Database that needs to be running on a SAP HANA certified Hardware “

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3-Tier architecture

Presentation Layer: SAP GUI, SAP Fiori

Application Layer: ABAP Code

Database Tier: RDBMS, Oracle, HANA

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Landscape could adopt several shapes Minimum

DR

HA at the DB Layer

HA at the Application Server

ERP DEV/QASApplication ServerDatabase Server

ERP PRDApplication ServerDatabase Server

And this is just for ERP!!

ERP QASApplication ServerDatabase Server

ERP PRDApplication ServerDatabase Server

ERP DEVApplication ServerDatabase Server

ERP PRD DRApplication Server

Standby Database Server

ERP QASApplication ServerDatabase Server

ERP PRDApplication Server

ERP DEVApplication ServerDatabase Server

PRD DatabaseServer 1

PRD DatabaseServer 2

ERP QASApplication ServerDatabase Server

ERP PRDApplication Server 1

ERP DEVApplication ServerDatabase Server

PRD DatabaseServer

ERP PRDApplication Server 2

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What’s the best landscape?

There is not a unique truth

Customers will need to decide their requirements based on:

– RTO: Recovery Time Objective

– RPO: Recovery Point Objective

– DR: Disaster Recovery Strategy

– SLA: Uptime Service Level Agreement

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And of course…

SAP on Azure Why? Benefits

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SAP Customer challenges

Traditional server/storage/

network hardware with backup/HA solutions can be

costly

People to run SAP on-premises

without automation solutions is the

biggest cost factor

Sizing is often difficult and

customers realize hardware/hosting vendors oversized

after rollout

SAP customers cannot afford having a

second datacenter for

disaster recovery

and tend to rely on old-style tape backup

Dev/Test/QA busy during

implementation, idle after go-live,

except QA for trouble shooting

Choices of datacenter locations are limited in

spite of global user access

Other technologies

needed when SAP does not meet

customer requirements for

analytics/BPM/UX/EAI

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Why SAP on Azure One of the deepest partnerships in the industry

– Almost every SAP customer is a Microsoft customer too

– SAP on Windows deployments are roughly 60%, provides an unique opportunity be the premier cloud target

Most comprehensive platform for running SAP workloads – Choice and broad range of capabilities for enterprise customers

– Linux and Windows OS, SAP ASE, IBM DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server DB for SAP NetWeaver

– Built in support for HA/DR and enterprise grade security and compliance

Agile provisioning of environments – Covering full application lifecycle – dev/test/prod/support

Rich ecosystem and development environment – Build modern apps using higher level Azure services – O365, BI, Machine Learning, Mobile, etc. in 38 regions

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SAP on Azure Benefits

Quick provisioning of development and test

environments with the ability to stop the environments any

time

40-75% TCO cost savings

Development and Test

Production environments for new customers

Minutes instead of days

faster provisioning

Production environment

Keep environments for recovery purposes

without additional cost

Disaster Recovery

Archive data and the corresponding SAP systems audit-proof

without running costs and always available

60% less storage costs

Archiving

Scen

ario

s Be

nefit

s

Higher Agility Lower Costs Less Complexity Higher Innovation

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How can we migrate SAP Workloads? From SAP’s Standpoint the platform is pretty transparent

Once the appropriate infrastructure is provisioned, migrating follows the standard system copy procedure: – HOMOGENEOUS: Keeps platform – Database specific procedures

– HETEROGENEOUS : Platform change – Ie: Oracle to HANA

• Big opportunity to migrate to HANA

The questions are… – What’s the infrastructure that supports my environment?

– How do I provision it?

– How much will it cost?

– …

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Migrate SAP Workload to Azure process

ANALYSIS

What are the requirements?

DESIGN

What is the solution that satisfies the requirements?

IMPLEMENTATION

Execution of the plan

SUPPORT

Solution Support after Go-Live

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Analysis

Greenfield implementations: SAP QuickSizer (SAPS, RAM, DISK)

Lift and Shift: Current sizes and utilizations + EarlyWatch Alert Reports

Customer requirements: Uptime (HA), RPO, RTO, DR, Network, Backup

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Design

What VMs are supported?

– SAP Note 1928533 - SAP Applications on Azure Supported Products

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Implementation and Support

TechData SAP Services SAP Practice Introduction

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SAP Practice – An Overview SAP Gold Partner in EMEA

Distribution Agreement for EMEA, U.S., Canada

Leading SAP System Integrator operating in the marketplace with deep industry skills in the Manufacturing, Engineer to Order and Wholesale Distribution services sector

Very efficient implementer (Market necessity)

Team of very (Averaging >10Yrs) experienced consultants Access to a wide network of associates

Excellent track record and reputation in the market since 1997 in delivering high quality SAP solutions across Europe, US and Middle East against aggressive timelines

One of the top performing SAP partners retaining the SAP gold partner status

Agile approach and flexible can do approach relative to the large SIs

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SAP Practice

Application Support across the range of SAP applications

Nearshore SAP Development Centre

Technical Support across the range of SAP technical layer (ABAP, PI,

SAPUI5, MII, SAP ME, SAP Leonardo)

Lifecycle Management (upgrades and migrations and advice

on SAP Roadmap)

SAP Cloud for Customer

(Hybris C4C)

SAP S/4

HANA Cloud

SAP S/4 HANA

SAP BW, BW4

HANA, Business Objects

SAP Business

Suite

Implementation Services

SAP Gold Partner EMEA- Reseller of all SAP Products across Europe

Support Services

Custom Courses SAP for general courses

Training Services

Solution Platforms & Products

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SAP HANA 24X7 Support Capability

TechData provides ABAP, Security, Monitoring and SAP Technology services from our nearshore support centre in Barcelona. That includes 24x7x365 support.

TechData provides support L1 – L3 SAP application support across the range of SAP ERP modules and SAP applications from our support centre in Ireland.

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SAP HANA Expertise – Leading with SAP HANA

July ‘13

Reskill team on HANA Technology and secure certification for the consulting and support team. This is in response to the initiative by SAP for partners to lead with SAP HANA

Dec ‘16 First S/4 project live for Irish customer with operations in UK, US and Ireland and one of the first in UK&I live on S/4 Additional S/4 Opportunities secured in 2017

June ‘14 First SAP BW on HANA Engagement Live

Significant increase in demand over 2017 with the SAP install based customers starting HANA conversion projects and off the back of this considering hosting options

Nov ‘13 Secure first SAP HANA engagement

Nov ‘15

Secure first S/4 HANA engagement in the marketplace

SAP HANA deployment on Azure platform

Mar ‘18

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Sample SAP Customers Large Enterprise Customers >$1BN Revenues:

Mid Market Customers <$1BN Revenues:

SAP on Azure Rules of Engagement

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SAP on Azure Center of Excellence

TechData SAP on Azure CoE

Microsoft Azure CoE

• Microsoft and SAP Partnerships

• Multi-language European team based in Barcelona

• End-to-end solution skillsets • Readiness assessment • Sizing • On-premises workshop • Account execution

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What is the opportunity?

Leverage Tech Data SAP capability to enable the Tech Data channel customers to identify and secure SAP on Azure opportunities

– Greenfield SAP Implementations

– On Premise to Azure Migrations

– Private Cloud to Azure Migrations

– AWS to Azure Migrations

– Disaster Recovery Environment

– Hybrid of the above

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TechData Customer Engagement Example

• 3Hold group offer SAP Retail and Cloud services • Partnerships with:

• SoftLayer • Amazon Web Services • Google Cloud Platform

• 3Hold approaches Tech Data to extend their SAP Cloud service offering to

Azure leveraging Tech Data’s capabilities

• Meeting held in Barcelona the 31st of October

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Engagement model and route to market Update the Value Proposition for • SAP Azure Migration Services • SAP Monitoring & Basis Support on Azure

Analyse Tech Data EMEA Customers and Categorise and determine what customers are

serving the SAP Market

Create Sales and Channel Partner Sales Enablement

Collateral and Plan to update relevant Customers.

SAP HANA license conversions will drive infrastructure refreshes and an opportune time to push migration to Azure

Educate & Enable

Relevant Channel Partners

Identify SAP Azure

Migration Opportunities in the market

Support Presales and Estimation

Process

Secure Opportunity

Complete Migration

Work for end customer

environment

Provide Support

and Monitoring

Provision of SAP Support Required (Y/N)

Yes

End Customer Running in

Channel Partners Azure Environment

• Greenfield SAP Implementations • On Premise to Azure Migrations • Private Cloud to Azure Migrations • AWS to Azure Migrations • Disaster Recovery Environment • Hybrid of the above

SAP on Azure Expert Advise

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I have an opportunity! What do I do?

Qualify the offer

– Ask the partner to fill in the SAP on Azure Preparedness Questionnaire

– Azure CoE can assist with the qualification process

Offer the scoping and design work (Paid Service)

As part of the scoping and design deliverables a proposal to perform the actual migration will be provided

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Qualification form

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Discovery Service Inputs and Deliverables Inputs

– Review the Current SAP Landscape – If there were non-SAP systems to migrate, that would be included in the exercise

– Perform a SAP on Azure Overview and explain the Best Practices to the customer

– Conduct a SAP System Architecture Design (Sizing, HA/DR/Security, Performance, Automation)

– Review the migration methodologies

– Q&A and Wrap-up

Deliverables

– Notes from the workshop

– Client-specific SAP Landscape Architecture on Azure

– Client-specific SAP System Sizing and costing

– Suggested Project Roadmap with Phase 1 Pilot scenario identified

– Microsoft Azure for SAP Business Case (ROI)

SAP on Azure Practical Example

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Example 1 – Small startup greenfield implementation

200 Employees

ERP S/4 HANA and PI in scope

No need for HA or DR

Strong cost constraint

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Example 2 – Mid size company

S/4 HANA, BW, BI, PI, Fiori

HA Critical

Necessity to have a DR site for compliance