The Performance ExchangeThursday November 26th 2015

The CN Tower

Re-Thinking Cloud ComputingIs my Organization Ready?

Patrick Hickey, VP of Professional Services

Performance Analytics

What is the Cloud?

The Boundaries with the Cloud are Blurring

Why the Cloud for SAP BPC?

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Innovation = Fail Better

$250K

budget

Fund 6+ Ideas 1 Month

Fail Fast

Fail Cheap

WIN

Innovate

Revenue

Increase Innovation: Cloud = Fail Better

On-Premises

Experiment

Infrequently

Failure is expensive

Less Innovation

Experiment Often

Fail quickly at a low

cost

More Innovation

$ Millions Nearly $0

Cloud

You Don’t Need to Guess Capacity

Self

HostingWaste

Customer

Dissatisfaction

Actual demand

Predicted Demand

Rigid Elastic

Actual demand

Cloud

Industry research finds that running SAP applications on

AWS provides infrastructure cost savings of up to 71%

compared to the same system running on-premises.

VMS AG TCO study 2013

Lower Overall Costs with SAP and Cloud

SAP BPC Cloud – Built for Business

SAP BPC Cloud Benefits: Finance can drive with / or without IT

Self-contained application with known interface

points

Utilize BPC for a small use case

SAP BPC 10.X without BW 7.3

dependency

SAP BPC on HANA in real-time

Data Residency Considerations

Data Residency Considerations

• Most Cloud providers store data in the US.

• The Privacy Commissioner of Canada provides guidance with the storage and handling of electronic personal information. (PIPEDA)

• Protect privacy through contract, however, still subject to the criminal, national security or any other laws of the hosting country.

• Organizations must advise employees that their personal information may be sent to another jurisdiction for processing and it may be accessed by the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of that jurisdiction.

• SAP BPC: Negligible Risk: only HR Planning might contain personal information.

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

Cloud Provider Review

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

and Azure are the only Leaders

• Traditional Hosting Companies

are either becoming Niche

players or disappearing

• SAP HCP is not on the Quadrant,

PaaS focused only on SAP

2015 Magic Quadrant

Gartner Infrastructure as a Service - 2015

Cloud Provider Comparison

Amazon Web Services MS Azure SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Scale Efficiencies

Innovations

Managed Services

Partner Ecosystem

SAP Centric

Canadian Residency

Price Competitiveness

SAP Cloud Use Cases

Cloud Customer Use Cases

• Backup and Restore

• Pilot Light Replication

in the Cloud

• Warm Standby

Disaster Recovery

• Full SAP Production

• Suite on HANA

Full Production

• Dev, QA

• Sandbox, Training

Non-Production

• BPC in the Cloud

• ERP on Premise

Hybrid Production

• Test Drive your Cloud

Journey

• HANA PoC

Proof of Concepts

Hybrid Production SystemsSAP ECC on Premise / SAP BPC in the Cloud

SAP Router

SAP ECCProduction

Corporate Data Center

SAP Solution Manager

Availability Zone

Users

SAP SMPInternet

SAP BPC QA

SAP BPC Production

SAP BPC DEV

Local EBSSnapshot

Remote EBSSnapshot

BPC Instance

SAP BWProduction

Restore

Cloud Managed Support Considerations

SAP Support Services on the Cloud

PAC to manage the SAP Application

Functional and Technical Layer

Cloud Provider to manage the physical

infrastructure (including the hypervisor)

PAC to manage OS, OS patching,

backup/recovery, Network, etc.

How do I get Started?

Roadmap to the cloudHow to Get Started?

1. Understand your organization’s business drivers.

Increase business agility

Increase Innovation cycles

Lower IT costs

2. Understand your current IT environment.

Are your business applications virtualized?

Is your hardware approaching a refresh?

How is the performance within each business application?

Do you have an adequate DR strategy in place today?

3. Investigate potential Cloud Providers.

Factors to consider include: migration costs, reliability, performance elasticity, security, deployment speed, SLA compliance, …

4. Select “application” candidates to migrate to the cloud.

Production vs non Production

PoC vs New Project

Disaster Recovery

5. Assemble the Team.

Successful Cloud adoption will require support from across the organization

C-level as key enablers

LoB and IT

Roadmap to the cloudHow to Get Started?

6. Create a detailed Project Plan & Execute

Application Architecture, Integration, Testing

Security

Operations & Application Management

7. Finally, “Think Big and Start Small”

Get productive quickly

Promote your success

Document lessons learned

Look for another opportunity

Roadmap to the cloudHow to Get Started?