Welcome to the HANA Stream

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BW on HANA Implementation

Tips & Tricks based on customer experiences

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AGENDA

1. About RS

2. BW on HANA

3. BW on HANA Upgrade and Migrate

4. Lessons Learnt / Tips and Tricks

5. Customer experience

6. What’s happening next

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RS – leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products worldwide

5 The world’s distributor of choice

57% eCommerce 800K Catalogues

44,000 Parcels Daily

> 1m Customers

Strong Brands

2,500 Major Suppliers 500,000 Products

17 Distribution Centres 90+% of World GDP

BI at RS (Pre- HANA)

A 5.5 TB BW 7.0 system (Oracle):

• 22 markets (4 more to follow in next 9 months)

• 850 users

• 47,000 executions on 2500 unique queries per month

• 150 query developers, 400+ new queries per month

• 12,000 queries in production

• 2 daily batches ; UK and Thailand time

• Extractors from CRM / ERP, Open Hubs to FTP locations & Oracle interface

• Predominantly BW 3.5 Queries through BeX analyzer

• BI7 Queries, limited use of BI7 Analyzer

• BW 3.5 & BI7 Web Templates

• Performance & batch challenges

• BI a strategic imperative

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SAP BW Today (September 2013)

14500+ Customers

Vast majority: Central EDW, harmonizing many source systems

Embedded into mission critical business processes

200 New Installations/Month

3500+ BW 7.3 Customers

500+ BW on HANA Customers

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SAP BW on HANA – Smarter, simpler, more efficient How Does BW running on RDBMS differ from BW running on HANA ?

Customer value of SAP BW powered by SAP HANA

• Excellent query performance

• Performance boost for Data Load processes

• Accelerated In-Memory planning capabilities

• Flexible combine EDW with HANA-native data

• Data persistency layers are cut off

• Simplified data modeling and remodeling HANA

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The Project Approaches

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New Installation In-place Migration Copy, Upgrade + Migrate

• Do a little research http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-2112

• Understand HANA Memory Usage http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-2299

• Read the Master Guides http://www.saphana.com/community/implement

• Follow Sizing Guide Note 1736976 - Sizing Report for BW on HANA

• Find out System Prerequisites

• End-to-End Implementation Roadmap http://help.sap.com/nw731bwhana#section2

• Find out the impact to your BW Add-ons, Bobj, etc.

• Read latest notes Note 1600929 - SAP BW powered by SAP HANA DB: Information

BW on HANA preparation

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BW on HANA preparation

• Archive & Delete to decrease the migration time and Target DB Size

– Note 706478 - Preventing Basis tables from increasing considerably

• Upgrade to BW 7.3 latest Support Pack level and Split ABAP and JAVA Stacks

• Update Kernel Patches latest release

• Upgrade to Solution Manager 7.1 latest Support Pack

• Install Post-Copy Automation (PCA) Tool if you do not want an in-place migration

• Implement Notes to Use BW->HANA Tools

– ZBW_HANA_CHECKLIST Note 1729988

– ZBW_ABAP_ANALYZER Note 1847431

• Start updating your data flows to be more Hana compliant

• SUSE Linux Training / Hana Admin Training

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High Level illustrative plan

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Contracts and Resource Mobilisation

Project Kick Of Event

BW Sandbox Hardware & Software in place & available (BW 7.31)

Completion of BW upgrade pre requisites

BW Technical upgrade - Sandbox System

BW Hana Migration-Sandbox System

BW on HANA Sbx completion / acceptance

BW Dev HANA Hardware & Software in place & available (BW 7.31)

BW Development Upgrade & Migartion

Dev Test

BW remediation / error fix

BW on HANA Dev completion / acceptance

Completion of BW upgrade pre requisites

BW QA Cutover - Upgrade & Migration

QA Test

RB BW remediation / error fix

BW on HANA QA completion / acceptance

System copy from Production completed

Check Prerequisites for Upgrade

BW Technical Upgrade onto designated environment

Migrate to Production HANA

Testing

Trial Rollback Activity & DR and HA Testing

Trial Cutover completion / acceptance

HANA Prod't Hardware & Software in place & available + Back Up

BWUpgrade & HANA Migration Cut Over -Production System

Go-Live

Go-Live Preparation Acitivites

Go-Live - BW Upgrade & Hana Migration

Support Post Go-Live Support

Project

Preparation

Realisation - BW

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BW on HANA Go-

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Sandbox

QA / Test

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Trial Cutover

Development

LESSONS LEARNT

Tips and Tricks

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Lessons Learnt

• Copy BW production to a sandbox and perform a full regression test.

• Plan for a formal Trial Cutover. • Test Backups/Restores. • For Issues, review the latest HANA Notes and HANA

revisions. • Refine Project activities and Cutover Tasks. • Verify Table Consistency and partitioning of BW

tables on the database.

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Tips & Tricks

When upgrading from 7.x to 7.3 and migrating • Use the latest delivered Business Content version of

certain objects like time characteristics.

• Changes in behaviour of start and end routines in 7.3

• Check Transformations with Constants. In some cases transformation for keyfigures is converted to 'No Transformation‘. Implement 1709947 before the upgrade

• Latest patches for BI Java components

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Tips & Tricks

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When upgrading from 7.x to 7.3 and migrating

• The way exception aggregation is dealt with in 7.3 has changed.

• Extra checks in packages resulting in warning messages.

• SAPGUI 7.3 does not have BEx 3.x components as standard.

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

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SAP NetWeaver BW Powered

by SAP HANA

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SAP BW on SAP HANA

Upgraded / migrate a 5.5 TB BW 7.0 system (Oracle)

to a 2TB BW7.3 system running on HANA

in 19 weeks project led by SAP

Early Days, but already a significant performance improvement: – Cost Based CoPa load, 250k records, down on average down from 15 minutes to

5 minutes.

– Billing Condition Data, extract 650k records from ECC into DSO split by year and activated,15 minutes down to 10.

– EMEA batch finishing 3 to 4 hours earlier

– Open Hub, write to a file, reading 13.5 million records outputting 10 million records with ABAP code to remove records using lookups:

– 4.5 hours with Oracle

– 17 hours in HANA

– 40 minutes after optimising the code for HANA

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Time DataManager

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5.5 TB 1.6TB

4X compression

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SAP BW on SAP HANA – End User Feedback

“The daily reports for European Daily are now an ‘ad hoc’ report, push the button.... a few seconds later there “

“This is a massive timesaver”

BW on HANA - Future

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BW on HANA – Planned Innovations

(Release SAP NW BW 7.3 SP9; SAP NW BW 7.31 SP7) * SAP will continue to support RDBMS platforms

• SAP NW BW 7.3 on SAP HANA

• SAP HANA specific features

– Performance boost for data loading, query response time and In-memory planning

– SAP HANA-optimized InfoCubes and Data Store Objects

– Simplified and faster data modeling/remodeling

– “Not active” data concept

– SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA Mixed Scenarios (BO Explorer, BW Virtual Master Data, etc.)

– Support of Semantic Partitioned Objects and enhanced partitioning for write optimized DSOs

– Simplified system landscape

Platform independent highlights*

– Graphical data flow modeling and enhanced support of 3.x-> 7.x data flow migration

– Semantic Partitioned Objects (SPO)

– Rapid prototyping of Ad Hoc scenarios via BW Workspaces

– NLS based on Sybase IQ

– DSO planning

– Tighter integration with SAP Data Services

(Release SAP NW BW 7.4 SP5)

Upcoming planned release

Enhanced Data Modeling BW/HANA Smart Data Access providing

the logical EDW

Easy integration of external data models with Open ODS Layer

Composite Provider for enhanced support of “Mixed Scenarios”

Common Eclipse based Modeling tools

Push down further processing logic to HANA BW Analytic Manager

HANA Analysis Processes

BW Transformations

BW Planning Semantics

BW Content optimized for HANA Simplified High Performance Planning

“BPC Unified”

Capabilities of BW IP, BPC, and HANA

Data Provisioning

Operational Data Provider

Thank You!

Contact information: Ketan Adani Graham Wiffen SAP UK Ltd RS Components Ltd 07808575077 07973812951