The Performance Exchange Thursday November 26th 2015 The CN Tower
Re-Thinking Cloud Computing Is 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 Fund 6+ Ideas 1 Month Fail Fast Fail Cheap $250K budget Innovate WIN Revenue
Increase Innovation: Cloud = Fail Better On-Premises $ Millions Nearly $0 Experiment Infrequently Failure is expensive Less Innovation Cloud Experiment Often Fail quickly at a low cost More Innovation
You Don t Need to Guess Capacity Self Hosting Waste Actual demand Customer Dissatisfaction Predicted Demand Cloud Actual demand Rigid Elastic
Lower Overall Costs with SAP and 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
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 Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) 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.
Cloud Provider Review
Gartner Infrastructure as a Service - 2015 2015 Magic Quadrant 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
Cloud Provider Comparison Scale Efficiencies Innovations Managed Services Partner Ecosystem SAP Centric Canadian Residency Price Competitiveness Amazon Web Services MS Azure SAP HANA Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud Use Cases
Cloud Customer Use Cases Disaster Recovery Non-Production Full Production Backup and Restore Pilot Light Replication in the Cloud Warm Standby Dev, QA Sandbox, Training Full SAP Production Suite on HANA Hybrid Production Proof of Concepts BPC in the Cloud ERP on Premise Test Drive your Cloud Journey HANA PoC
Hybrid Production Systems SAP ECC on Premise / SAP BPC in the Cloud Corporate Data Center Users SAP BPC DEV SAP Router SAP Solution Manager SAP BPC QA BPC Instance Restore SAP ECC Production SAP BW Production SAP BPC Production Local EBS Snapshot Remote EBS Snapshot Availability Zone Internet SAP SMP
Cloud Managed Support Considerations
SAP Support Services on the Cloud PAC to manage the SAP Application Functional and Technical Layer PAC to manage OS, OS patching, backup/recovery, Network, etc. Cloud Provider to manage the physical infrastructure (including the hypervisor)
How do I get Started?
Roadmap to the cloud How 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?
Roadmap to the cloud How to Get Started? 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 cloud How 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