Virtustream Enterprise Cloud for SAP: The Journey to S/4

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Lance Kosmal, ASUG AL Presenter

Virtustream Enterprise Cloud for SAP: The Journey to S/4



Virtustream Enterprise Cloud for SAP

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MicroVMTM (µVM) technology

eliminates overprovisioning,

enables true consumption-based

billing

MicroVMTM (µVM) resource planning and

application response time assurance

enable predicable app performance

Up to 5x9s availability SLAs with

embedded resiliency and disaster

recovery options

Enterprise-class security

and industry specific

compliance solutions

Orchestration of resources

for scale-up and scale-out

SAP architecture

Availability

Cost Efficiency

Performance

Security/

Compliance

Scalability

Managed

ServicesVirtustream or partner led

assessment, on-boarding,

migration and managed services



Simplifying the SAP Cloud Journey

SAP Stack

Customer/Partner ledApplication and Functional

Management

40%

50%

Sample Post Migration Statistics

of a Virtustream SAP Customer

60%

50%

Reduction of average

DB response time

Reduction of average

dialog response time

Reduction

of infrastructure cost

Improvement

in queries and analytics

Virtustream OS, DB and SAP Basis

Management

VirtustreamInfrastructure-as-a-Service

VirtustreamAvailability SLAs

Performance Assurance

Assessment MigrationOnboarding

Cloud Operating Model and Managed Services for laaS, OS, DB and

SAP Basis

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ERP HANA –Trigger Points

Suite on HANA

• IT Leadership driven

• Tech / Infrastructure refresh

• Application-level upgrade

SAP S4/HANA

• Business / Exec driven

• Business Simplification / Digital Transformation

• Mergers & Acquisitions (i.e., Central Finance)Drivers

Outcomes

Benefits

• Reduced operational and business disruption

• Reduced implementation costs

• Increased innovation opportunities

• Significant performance improvements

• Maintain TCO

• Reduce disruption to ‘as-is’ processes

• Enabler of Business Transformation

Deployment

Pattern

• Upgrade in place

• Code Remediation

• Regression Testing

• Greenfield implementation

• Side-by-side model, integrating with existing ERP

• Interface design (generally real-time)

• Platform to enable Digital Transformation

• Transformational business capabilities

• Higher IT TCO



Business Case

• S4 workshop with partner or customer SI

• Value & Implementation Strategy

• Run business scenario recommendations

- How S4HANA can help drive digital transformation

- Which specific business scenarios would benefit most

- How digitized business scenarios can transform business

Readiness Check

• Technical Architecture

• Business process documentation

• LoBs available for acceptance testing

• Documentation of customizations

Business Considerations –Creating a Joint Plan

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As-is Landscape

• Technical readiness: DB sizes, ECC version and EHP level, codepage

To-be Landscape

• Size current ECC on any DB environment

– Virtustream can provide a proposal based on HANA sizing report that will scale to meet expected growth pattern

– Virtustream will architect an HA and DR approach to meet customer SLAs

• Storage requirements

• Mapping of SAPs

Additional Considerations

• One step or multi-step migration

• Identify timeline, downtime threshold, move groups, etc.

• Identify high throughput systems that should be in migration scope

• Develop migration plan based on Virtustream best practices

• Deliver detailed project plan and SOW for review

Technical Considerations

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SAP S/4HANA –Voice of Our Customers

What Our S4 Customers Tell Us

Cultural shift for SAP developers. Move towards Bi Modal IT and dev ops has proven beneficial. Adoption of micro services and retooling of skills for native cloud development

Smaller Data Footprint to manage (Compression, no indexes, simplified data model)

SAP Fiori enables richer user experience with more UI Design flexibility, mobile-ready touchscreen capabilities

Simplified table structure & data access paths. Fosters standardization on API strategy / deployment

Advanced capabilities to tier data and move it to warm or cold without archiving or deleting it

Embedded service offerings with the introduction of HANA including Enterprise Information Management, integration with Hadoop, Translytics (OLTP and OLAP combined)

END USER

INTERFACE

MIND SHIFT

CHANGE FOR

DEVELOPERS

SMALLER

FOOTPRINT

EMBEDDED

SERVICE

OFFERINGS

ADVANCED

DATA

MANAGEMENT

OPTIONS

SIMPLIFIED

ARCHICTURE



S/4HANA –Virtustream Playbook

READINESS CHECK

ENHANCE SOLMAN

ASSESS ARCHIVING MATURITY

CREATE DVM FRAMEWORK

RUN HANA QUICK SIZER

ASSESS BUSINESS

CONTINUTIY OPTIONS

ASSESS OPERATIONAL

READINESS

CONDUCT MIGRATION WORKSHOP

Conduct a

readiness

check against

SAP’s

roadmap.

This may

necessitate an

upgrade of

the current

ECC

environment

Upgrade

Solution

Manager to

the latest to

avail of richer

HANA

compatible

functionality

like DVM

Cockpit (table

Growth

analysis),

Custom code

management

(move closer

to SAP

standard and

review

Simplification

List)

Assess current

archiving

capabilities

and identify

tool readiness

for HANA –

For BW –

NLS with

IQ or Hadoop

For ECC –

ILM, Open

Text, PBS

Dolphins or

Proceed Group

Create a

frame work

including a

governance

model for

Data Volume

Management

including

assessing

against RIM

policy, and

Data Tiering

Strategy,

tracking of

data volume

growth and on

going

maintenance

Run HANA

Quick Sizer

and assess

infrastructure

needs

Review HA and

DR options

with SLAs and

create an

architecture that

is integrated

with the entire

eco system that

is in scope of

Business

Continuity

Review and

assess

alerting,

monitoring

requirements

and

associated

SLA’s

Skills,

process and

tools need to

be reassessed

Migration

Workshop to

identify

timelines,

downtime

thresholds,

move groups

eventually

creating a

migration

and cut over

plan



S/4HANA Cloud Journey Map

Explore

Identify

Try

Deploy

Experience

Explore value of digital business with S/4HANA

Identify and explore use cases in your industry

Try non-production S/4HANA workloads in Cloud

Deploy production S/4HANA

workloads in Cloud

Experience S/4HANA

and drive value

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Explore the full value map for S4/HANA through solution discovery workshops with Virtustream by identifying the business pain points and prioritize the focus on investments.

Virtustream will identify your top business use cases and provide a customized assessment report based on examination of your existing SAP landscape; Virtustream will work with you to determine cost effective HANA certified cloud solution.

Try solution without risk by running POC/non-production S/4HANA workloads on Virtustream Enterprise Cloud

Deploy S/4HANA production workloads in Virtustream Enterprise Cloud with managed services. Virtustream onboarding and migration factory will ensure a rapid, reliable and predictable transition from your existing environment to S/4HANA.

Experience S/4HANA and drive value by an integrated strategy-to-execution approach that best fits your deployment needs, incrementally and non-disruptively.



Delivering Customer Value



Challenge

Needed to modernize the SAP systems that include both a technical and business process transformation. Wanted to move away from their fragmented SAP systems with legacy functionalities. Needed to leverage cloud and analytics for deep insights about consumers.

Solution

• Acceleration of their digital transformation with S/4HANA

• Migration of their total SAP environment to HANA on Virtustream Enterprise Cloud

• High availability SLAs for disaster recovery, backup and recovery for significant risk reduction

Chocolate Maker

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Out of data centers

2021YouTube Search: Carlos Amesquita SAP

Went live – S/4HANA 1610

Nov 2017

https://youtu.be/dGfCOj3S9Pw





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Florida Crystals

Lower three-year TCO

40%

• Entire enterprise data center moved to Virtustream

• Two-continent SAP landscape with 1,000s of users

• 80-day migration of >60 SAP instances

• Added disaster recovery capabilities with <1hr RTO

• App deployment times cut to hours from weeks

Application performance

2x



Vertical: Consumer Products Goods

• Revenues: ~$7 bil

• S/4 Client Since: May 2015

• S/4 HANA DB Size: 1.5TB

• Managed Services: Up to Basis



• S/4 Client Since: July ’16

• S/4 HANA DB Size: 3TB




• S/4 Client Since: September ’16



Vertical: Chemicals

• Revenues: ~$4.5 bil

• S/4 Client Since: April 2016

• S/4 HANA DB Size: 768GB

• Managed Services: Up to HANA DB



• S/4 Client Since: April 2017



Vertical: Chemicals


• S/4 Client Since: October 2017


• Managed Services: Up to HANA DB

Vertical: HiTech





Vertical: Professional Services





Vertical: Consumer Product Goods


• S/4 Client Since: November 2017



Vertical: Consumer Product Goods

• Revenues: ~$200 mil

• S/4 Client Since: July 2016

• S/4 HANA DB Size: 512GB


Vertical: Life Sciences





Vertical: Wholesale Distribution





Partial List of Existing S/4 Customers



250+ SAP customers running production SAP in the cloud

1000+ SAP migrations to date

To run production SAP ECC on HANA in the cloudFirst

First Production SAP customer in a multi-tenant cloud

1of 5 Global premium suppliers of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Complete SAP Portfolio

Coverage, Including SAP

ERP, S/4HANA, SAP

HANA, SAP Health, SAP

Data Hub and SAP Hybris

in the Cloud.

Unparalleled SAP

Expertise and Assurance

Reduces Risk

Risk

in Database Migration Option

To run production SAP S/4HANA in the cloudFirst

Virtustream and SAPDeep SAP Expertise

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