Two PeopleSoft clients and their journey to The Cloud

Succeed Consultancy - 2013 16th October 2013

Two Customers and their Journey to the Cloud

Duncan DaviesCTO – Succeed UK

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Who are Succeed?

Succeed are a PeopleSoft consultancy that specialises in implementing complex HCM, CRM, Time & Attendance, Payroll, and Financials applications for large companies.

Since 1999 we’ve grown to an almost strong 80 UK-based team, three quarters of whom are permanent staff, and most with more than 5 years experience of PeopleSoft. Our teams currently work across 15 different client sites.

We’ve just won Gold in the ‘PeopleSoft Partner of the Year’ award for the 3rd year running!


What do we do?

Succeed offer:

- PeopleSoft Consultancy

- Products / Bolt-ons

- Support

- Hosting

- Free ‘PeopleSoft Weekly’ newsletter

www.PeopleSoftWeekly.com

What do we do?

In your inbox at 3pm every Wednesday


Which Customers are you talking about?

Cloud Customer #1:

Client #1 – A Large Retailer:Parent Company for a range of catering and hospitality companies.

12,000 Employees across UK and Europe.

Full HCM and Global Payroll implementation.


Which Customers are you talking about?

Cloud Customer #2:

Client #2 – A Large Retailer:A leading UK pub retailer and brewer.

22,000 Employees across the UK.

Full HCM and Global Payroll implementation.


Why are these companies different?

Succeed have hosted PeopleSoft development instances in the cloud for other large UK and multi-national household names …

But these two companies wanted to host their Production environment into the Cloud too.


What were the challenges that they had?

The 5 biggest business drivers for these two clients were:

- Minimise Cost

- Minimise Expenditure

- Minimise Price

- Minimise Outlay

- Minimise Spending

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Moving to the cloud is a journey, not a destination:Zone 3 –

On Premise

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What options did they have?

Physical Hardware

Virtualisation


Physical Hardware and Virtualisation

- Physical Hardware used to be needed for Production Databases due to inefficiency in virtualisation.

- Vendors have slowly started supporting Virtualisation Tech for client production use (and internal use)

- Benefits of Virtualisation include:- Increased Capability (faster provisioning, better DR, QA Envs)

- Decreased cost (sharing servers, lower energy usage, smaller server footprint)


Zone 2 – Midway point

Moving to the cloud is a journey, not a destination:Zone 3 –

On Premise

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Physical Hardware

Virtualisation

Co-location

Co-existence


Co-Location (aka Hosting)

- Hosting your PeopleSoft virtual servers in a 3rd party Data Centre

- Identical to in-house virtualisation, except the 3rd party manages the VMs under an SLA

- Can be used to reduce DBA / Sys Admin headcount

- No technical benefit (in fact, it can sometimes be a restriction)


Co-Location (aka Hosting or Oracle OnDemand)

- Client #1 chose this ‘half way to the cloud’ model, electing to host their PeopleSoft infrastructure with Oracle Cloud Services (previously Oracle OnDemand), and have now been Live for 6 months

- OnDemand perform the DBA services offshore

- Succeed provide the PeopleSoft skills (we’re the only UK partner to have a client with Oracle OnDemand)


Co-existence

- eg. PeopleSoft Core HR, GP, Financials on-premise, PeopleSoft/Fusion Talent in the cloud

- Delivers some benefits, - Cheaper rollout of extra modules

- Proof of concept/capability (on non-mission critical modules)



Moving to the cloud is a journey, not a destination:Zone 1 – The Cloud

Zone 3 – On Premise

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Physical Hardware

Virtualisation

Co-location

Co-existence

FullCloud


The Full Cloud

What does this mean?

- All of your PeopleSoft infrastructure is contained in the cloud

It’s not as scary as you might think …

- Instances (servers) are contained within a isolated network segment (Virtual Private Cloud - VPC)

- Multiple levels of firewall and access control


The Full Cloud - Costs

The Cloud is very cheap (and has dropped by ~30% in the last 2 years):

Medium Large High Mem XL

Processors 2 4 8

Memory ~4GB ~8GB ~17GB

Price/hr 11p 23p 46p

Price/yr £742 £1,484 £2,970

Prices are for Windows instances in Ireland/EU data-centre using exchange rate as of 14 th Oct 2013Hourly prices are ‘on-demand’ instances.Yearly prices are ‘reserved instances’ powered on for the whole year.


The Full Cloud – Variable CostsS

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Traditional hardware sizing/costs to peak usage

Cloud baseline

‘Elastically’ burst hardware where

required


The Full Cloud – Fast Provisioning

- From zero to a blank instance in less than 3 minutes

- From an AMI template to booted in the same time


The Full Cloud – Reliability and DR

We use the EU (Ireland) Region – to ensure data stays within the EU, avoiding data protections issues.

Availability zones are physically and logically distinct (different electricity grids, different flood plains, different seismic zones, ultra-fast networking between)


Cloud Concerns

- Will it connect fast enough?“If there’s lag, it’s your end”

- Is it Reliable?SLA is 99.95% uptime (4 hours a year) – in reality it’s far better

- SecurityFirewalled by defaultControl which IP Ranges have accessVirtual Private Cloud – site-to-site VPNMilitary grade protection at Data CentresIf it’s good enough for the CIA (recent $600m deal) …


Choosing a Cloud vendor

- There are many vendors to choose from (Rackspace, MS Azure etc)

- Amazon Web Services dwarfs all others

- Gartner: “AWS is the overwhelming market leader”



- AWS has more than five times the combined computational capacity of the next 14 rivals combined

- “Every day Amazon Web Services adds enough new capacity to support all of Amazon.com’s global infrastructure through the company’s first 5 years, when it was a $3 billion annual revenue enterprise”


Choosing a Cloud vendor – Http Response Time



Factors against Amazon:

- Enterprises always want a deal, and AWS does not budge on pricing (unless you’re really big)

- Enterprises always want a one-sided contract, but AWS also does not budge on its SLAs

- Enterprises typically don't get the Public Cloud


What are we doing for Client #2?

Client #2 chose the ‘Full Cloud’:

- Power-down environments when not in use

- Auto-scaling which keeps servers running

- Failover / DR in a second Availability Zone

- Jenkins automates refreshes and runs monitoring

- Attachments stored in S3



Moving to the cloud is a journey, not a destination:Zone 1 – The Cloud

Zone 3 – On Premise

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Where does our Journey End?

Physical Hardware

Virtualisation

Co-location

Co-existence

FullCloud

Client #1 / Oracle OnDemand

Client #2 / Amazon Web Services


Online:Succeed Website: www.succeed.co.ukSucceed Blog: blog.succeed.co.uk

Direct:

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Need More Information?

John Whitby(Commercials)

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Michelle Upton(Functional / Pre-Sales)

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Duncan Davies(Hosting / Technical)

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http://www.succeed.co.uk/

http://blog.succeed.co.uk/


Thank you for your time

I’m happy to answer questions now, or around the venue

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