ASUG 2014 Moving SAP to the Cloud

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ASUG 2014

Moving SAP to the Cloud

Technology re:Invention

Presented by iTMethods

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2014 iTMethods Confidential

Agenda

 iTMethods Overview

 SAP Deployment Options

 Why Enterprises Deploy the Cloud

 SAP Customers in the Cloud

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iTMethods Profile

 Global SAP & Cloud Services Provider

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SAP Centric, SAP Certified

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Leadership team of former SAP and IT industry executives

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Strategic Partnerships with SAP and AWS

 SAP Solutions

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SAP BPC Cloud on HANA

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Analytics/BI, Business Suite → HANA

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Platform migrations, upgrades, consolidations

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SAP software & cloud infrastructure subscription service

 Cloud and Managed Services

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Cloud Strategy, Roadmap and Migration Services

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24x7 Application and Cloud Management Services

Strategic Partners:

Recent Successes:

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Key Factors Driving the Shift of SAP

Customers to the Cloud

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SAP Deployment Options

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Your Cloud Journey . . .

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Why do Enterprises Choose Cloud?

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1. Pay For Infrastructure as you

Need it, Not Up Front

On-Premises

Cloud

$0 to get

started

Pay as you go

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2. Lower Total Cost of IT

Scale allows us to constantly reduce our costs

We are comfortable running a high volume, low margin business

We pass the savings along to our customers in the form of low prices

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3. You Don’t Need to Guess Capacity

Self Hosting

Waste

Customer Dissatisfaction

Actual demand

Predicted Demand

Rigid Elastic

Actual demand Cloud

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4. Innovation:

AWS reduces the risk and cost of innovation

$250K

budget

Fund 6+ Ideas 1 Month

Fail Fast

Fail

Cheap

WIN

Innovate

Revenue

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5. Get Rid of Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting

Data Centers

Power

Cooling

Cabling

Networking

Racks

Servers

Storage

Labor

Buy and install new hardware

Setup and configure new software

build or upgrade data centers

We take care of it… So you don’t have to …

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6. Go Global in Minutes

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How SAP Customers Use Cloud

1) Extend Existing IT Infrastructure to the Cloud

 Run SAP Test, Training, Demo, POC and Sandbox systems on Cloud

 Migrate SAP DEV and QAS landscapes to Cloud

 SAP Document and Data Archiving to Cloud Storage

 Temporary infrastructure for SAP upgrades and OS/DB migrations

 DR site for on-premises SAP production environments

 Migrate SAP legacy systems to Cloud

2) Host Complete SAP Environments on the Cloud

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Hybrid SAP Deployment

Customer Data Centre & Cloud

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Full SAP Deployment on Cloud

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SAP Cloud (AWS) — Connectivity Options

VPN Connection

 Hardware IPSEC VPN connection between your network and the SAP Cloud

 Fully Managed by iTMethods

AWS Direct Connect - Canada (iTMethods)

 Private network connection between your network and your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

 Reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience

 100M to 1Gbps (From your network in Canada to AWS East in Northern Virginia)

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4X More Reliable & 1/4 the Cost of

On-Premises Infrastructure

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AWS Enables Lower TCO for

SAP Environments

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

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Gartner Magic Quadrant – Cloud IaaS

Amazon AWS – Market Leader

August 2013

AWS has total

capacity equal to

5 times the combined

capacity of all

companies in the

Cloud IaaS report

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AWS / SAP Alliance

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Certified for SAP Production on AWS

 SAP Business Suite (ERP, CRM, SCM, PLM, SRM, NetWeaver ABAP & Java Apps)

 SAP Business All-in-One (A1)

 SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS)

 SAP Business Objects BI Solution

 SAP BPC / SAP BPC on HANA

 SAP Afaria (Mobile Device Management)

 SAP HANA One

 SAP HANA for Production - Supporting up to 1.2TB (BYOL & iTMethods Subscription)

 SAP Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP)

SAP Solutions Certified on AWS…

 IBM DB2 Version 9.7 or higher

 SAP MaxDB Version 7.X or higher

 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or higher

 Sybase ASE 15.7.0.013 or higher

Databases

 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1 or higher

 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 and 6 or higher

 Microsoft Windows Server2008 R2 or higher

Operating Systems

AWS Certified

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SAP HANA Cloud Infrastructure on AWS

 Real-time provisioning on the AWS Cloud for your existing HANA licenses.

 Scale resources automatically up or down as needed. Pay only for what you need.

 Support for all HANA-based use cases.

 Deploy HANA faster – eliminate hardware procurement cycles!

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SAP HANA on AWS with On-Premises

Integration

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SAP Services on AWS

Customer and/or iTMethods

manages the OS, OS patching,

backup/recovery and SAP application

AWS Manages the physical

infrastructure up to the hypervisor

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SAP for AWS Services from iTMethods

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SAP Hosting

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Disaster Recovery

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24/7 Help Desk

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Backup & Recovery

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DB Administration

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OS Admin & Patching

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Account Management

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SAP Basis

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Sap Upgrades

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SAP Implementation

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SAP POCs

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SAP Evaluations

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AWS Onboarding

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SAP Sizing

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Performance Tuning

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SAP OS/DB Migrations

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Architecture Planning

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SAP High Availability

Consulting Services

Managed Services

As an Authorized AWS Partner, we provides a variety of

SAP specific services on top of the AWS platform

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Solving Problems for Organizations

Around the World

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SAP on AWS

Customer Use Cases

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SAP Hybrid Deployment on AWS

Background:

Lionsgate manages one of the most prestigious and prolific libraries in the entertainment industry with nearly 13,000 titles, a diverse portfolio of businesses, and an exciting, commercially potent feature film slate of approximately 12 to 15 releases per year.

Challenges:

Expanding infrastructure and costs

Increased enterprise application workloads

Lack of data center space

Needed ability to rapidly provision servers

Desire for cost efficient disaster recovery & high availability solutions

The Solution:

Performed an initial POC to evaluate the viability of the AWS cloud for hosting their SAP systems

Successfully migrated their DEV and QAS landscapes to AWS US- West region

Currently planning the migration of their PRD landscape to AWS

• Saved an estimated

$1M+ over three years

since starting with AWS

in 2010.

• Successful creation /

integration of SAP

Landscape in the Cloud

• Successful Integration

of SAP Instances with

Local Applications

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SAP DR on AWS

Background:

A worldwide leader in the supply of cellulose, fibrous and plastic

casings. Viskase has served for more than 85 years as the

meat industry's distinguished choice for premium quality products,

unmatched service and innovative meat formulation, processing

and packaging solutions

Challenges:

Required better SLA’s for system up-time, Disaster Recovery, and telecommunications

External auditor identified lack of DR solution

Required a fully hosted environment and a reliable disaster recovery site for business

continuity

Required an infrastructure that can support a global user base for primary and DR site

Limited technical SAP experts in-house for 7x24x365 support

The Solution:

Created a Virtual Private Cloud

Implemented database replication to DR database running on AWS

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SAP BusinessObjects BI on AWS

Background:

Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence (EMBI) provides HIPAA compliant analytic tools for hospital emergency

departments to monitor productivity, utilization and patient care

Challenges:

Limited IT resources

Need for greater scalability

Better manage costs by turning capital expenses into variable operating expenses.

The Solution:

Development of the solution involved use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard and SAP BusinessObjects.

Utilized SAP Business Objects “out-of–the-box” analytics dashboard and key performance metrics solution monitors and benchmarks every aspect of a hospital’s emergency department (ED).

As of February, 2012, EMBI had eight hospital emergency departments live on their platform.

Cloud computing allows hospitals the ability to buy mission critical software and hardware as a service instead of trying to manage demand internally,” said Scott Richards, CEO at EMBI. “Deploying SAP Business Objects BI solutions on AWS allows us to leverage industry- leading business intelligence

toolsets to provide our customers web-based, on-demand, key performance metrics they need to manage their operations and

business. With these solutions our emergency department clients are

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Thank You

Ron Blechner, Consulting Principal, SAP Practice 416-548-7280

[email protected]