Demystifying the Cloud:An Application Perspective

Dr. Vishal Sikka

CTO

SAP

Live in the layers, not in the litter

The Layers by Stanley Kunitz

Enterprises and Cloud

Enterprises

Breadth: From business users to Mission-critical backbone apps,

across 140 Countries, ~35 million users, 121,000 installations

86,000 customers

Depth: Diversity of optimizations, Mission-critical delivery

Longevity: Relationships that span generations

Cloud

Cost of infrastructure and scaling, Ease of consumption

Integration, Integrity, Breadth

Public / Private Cloud, Virtualization

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SAP Enables Customers to Create Cloud Economies

Banking40 million customers –

up to 8 million transactions an hour

Retail and Commercial Banking Services

Consumer Products 1.4 million sales order items

per day

Procurement and Order Mgmt Services

Business IntelligenceAnalytics over > ~50 TB data in

memory with BIA

Integrated Analytics

Supply Chain Mgmt4.5M characteristic combinations &

~1TB memory in LiveCache

Supplier and Partner Services

Human Capital MgmtPayroll calculations for

500,000 employees in 3 hours

Employee and Management Services

Utilities25M business partners –

85M service and sales orders / year

Customer Support and Billing Services

Private Clouds Public CloudsVirtualization

Deployment by Partners Deployment by SAP

SAP Business SuiteIndustry Solutions

SAP ByDesign

SAP On-Demand Services

Common Abstractions and Lifecycle Mgmt

Private Clouds Public CloudsVirtualization

Deployment by Partners Deployment by SAP

SAP Business Suite

Industry SolutionsSAP

ByDesignSAP On-Demand

Services

Common Abstractions and Lifecycle MgmtCommon Abstractions and Lifecycle Mgmt

1. Business network service clouds powered by Business Suite and Business Objects

2. Complementary and integrated cloud-based services

3. Mission-critical SME suite: Business ByDesign

4. All deployable elastically across private and public cloud infrastructure, enabled by virtualization

Cloud Strategy: Timeless SoftwareArchitecture for evolving complex landscapes non-disruptively

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