Ten Key Considerations for Your First SAP HANA Project
Alison Bessho
Director, HANA Solutions
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Ten Key Considerations for Your First SAP HANA Project
Find the Right Business Use Case
Wow your customer! Deliver significant improvement to a business challenge and provide new insights and knowledge Introduce new capability that the business was unable to achieve previously
Start with a small initiative that will:
Introduce SAP HANA to the IT team and develop their skills and expertise
Build the foundation for SAP HANA expansion and further value
Cases that Can Benefit Significantly
Business Analytics - Financial and operational data - Customer and marketing data - SKU and inventory levels BW on HANA for faster reporting, analytics, transactions New SAP solutions + HANA: CRM, BPC, Predictive Analytics Custom applications + HANA built by SAP or third-parties Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) created to address a specific performance challenge or complexity
Develop High-Level Architecture
Consider and determine:
Data sources ETL tools New applications (if applicable) Analytics tools (if applicable) Frequency and timing of: Data updates Data access
Finalize the Environment Plan
Consider a POC with a reliable integration partner Partner with your preferred hardware vendor to deploy HANA in-house Evaluate in-cloud solutions with Amazon or SAP Think about the number of environments you need:
Several SAP HANA environment options:
Develop, test, produce
Remember disaster recovery or HA needs
Determine Hardware Appliance Needs
Consider size of:
Production SAP HANA appliance
Development and test environments
HA and backup/recovery needs
Determine Hardware Appliance Needs
Where do you begin?
Work with your SI and SAP to estimate the amount of data to be stored in HANA Remember: aggregation tables not needed Only store data critical to business challenge Archive/purge non-critical data
Work with your HW partner to finalize the appliance architecture
Contract for SAP HANA Software
Work with your System Integrator or SAP account representative to determine software licensing needs.
Identify Your Project Team
Project manager
Key positions may include:
HANA architect /data modeler
ETL team Data source extract developers
New application developers
Report/analytics developers HANA administrator Test team SAP members & SI partner members Business users for requirements, design & UAT
Coordinate HANA Training for IT Team
Obtain training from SAP or your integration partner. Training is available in many formats:
Online tutorials Classroom training
Customized training
Coordinate HANA Training for IT Team
Critical areas covered:
Introduction to SAP HANA Data services: replication (SLT) and integration SQL on HANA
Data modeling
BW on HANA Application training
Identify Performance Metrics
Important to measure speed and capability of the HANA solution:
Create queries or reports in legacy databases to serve as a benchmark for HANA queries/reports
Monitor and record the processing time of similar IT services for comparison Collaborate with the business to understand their expectations
Identify Testing Methodology
Think about test approach related to:
Quality and accuracy of data loaded into HANA Speed time of data load processes HANA processing speed determine if any fine-tuning is needed for the data model Application functionality (if applicable) Data volume testing requirements
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Gather Business Requirements
Meet with your business partners to gather organizational requirements:
Challenge business to think outside the box and focus on just whats done today Remember: the power of SAP HANA lies in its ability to process data very quickly and introduce new, unexpected insights to the business!
Thank you!
Alison Bessho
Director, HANA Solutions [Link]@[Link] Cell: 303-475-0649
