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Animal Health International's Road to SAP HANA

Doni KesselIT ManagerAnimal Health International, Inc.

Lori VanourekSAP HANA Product Mgmt.SAP Labs, LLC

SESSION 09021LEARNING POINTSInsights from Animal Health Internationals experience with SAP. Factors to consider for implementing SAP HANAPartnering for SuccessSAP Tips and Insights for SAP HANA

2ANIMAL HEALTH INTERNATIONAL, INC.Animal Health International, headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, is a leading distributor of production and companion animal health products.Over 70 locations; Over 400 sales representatives

3ANIMAL HEALTH INTERNATIONAL, INC.Over 70,000 CustomersLarge and Small Animal Veterinarians, Producers and Retailers Companion Animal, Equine, Beef, Dairy, Poultry and SwineOver 72,000 SKUs sourced from over 1,000 ManufacturersPharmaceuticals, vaccines, diagnostics, equipment, software, pet foods, devices and other animal health suppliesCall Centers, Distribution Centers, Retail Stores, Mobile Stores (Trucks), B2B E-Commerce

4TIMELINE

5STRATEGY EXECUTION MAP

6WHY SAP HANA?Leading Edge of Technology, Align with SAP and Top Infrastructure VendorsPerformance ImprovementInnovation in Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics

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2009 2011 INFRASTRUCTURE

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2011 2012 INFRASTRUCTURE

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2013 INFRASTRUCTURE BEFORE HANA

10WHY MOVE FROM SSD TO HANA?

11Next generation SAP Real-time Data Platform

MANY ASPECTS TO CONSIDER12ROAD TO SAP HANASAPPHIRE, SAP TechEd, SAP Insider ConferenceASUG Webinars and Chapter MeetingsSAP Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) Options for SAP HANATalk with Implementation Partners

13PURCHASE OF SAP HANAJune 2012 Purchased licenses for SAP HANA and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC)Questionnaire and Sizing guide

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INSTALLATION OF SAP HANASept. 2012 - Installation of HP DL980 SAP HANA Appliance Installed a demo database (HD1) with Support Pack 4Basis cross training during installationInstalled SAP HANA Studio

15BPC / SAP HANASept. 2012 Start SAP BPC project planning withQuestions that came up during project planning:Can we put production on SAP HANA and leave the non-production system on HP-UX?Install SAP BPC on separate instance of SAP NetWeaver BW and put it on SAP HANA?What can you put on one SAP HANA appliance?Do we have room for multiple dbs on our one SAP HANA appliance?

16BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WITH SAP HANAJanuary 2013 SAP HANA Kickoff with SAP NetWeaver BW Prep for SAP HANA (Reports/Data/Basis)Business IntelligenceBOBJ Data StrategyBI4.0 Implementation & BO Data Services

17BW MIGRATION TO HANAFebruary 2013 SAP NetWeaver BW preparation for migration to SAP HANAPerformance tuning ETLsABAP code review (performance tuning)Clear log tables / Housekeeping proceduresShrink DB as much as possible before the migrationBuild migration planRegression test planBaseline tests to measure performance improvement Test existing functionality Test new functionality that comes from SAP HANA

18BW MIGRATION TO HANAMarch 2013 SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP HANA Migration Blueprinting with a SandboxPrep for migration basis tasks, support packs, infrastructure preparation Migration similar to a heterogeneous system copyPost migration - Regression test / Training on administration and monitoring / OptimizationDecisions: Parallel Landscape during migration?Virtualize SAP HANA with VMWare?Landscape / Backups / Replication

19BW 7.3 ON DB2 LANDSCAPE

20BW 7.3 ON HANA LANDSCAPE

212013 INFRASTRUCTURE WITH HANA

22ALIGN SAP HANA AND IT LANDSCAPEInfrastructure Possibilities???Upgrade to i4 blades or Migrate off of HP-VM to VMWare and SAP LVM with a Blend of Windows VMs and SAP HANA VMsSAP HANA Blade ServersEMC VMAX storage to replace VNX share with SAP HANAReplication and backupsSAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA

23INNOVATION IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCEBig Data OpportunitiesCustomer StratificationInventory StratificationPredictive AnalyticsReal Time Data QueriesMobility EnablementSocial Media Data Mining

24LEARN AND EXPLOREExplore SAP HANA use caseshttp://www.saphana.com/community/implement/use-cases

Understand SAP HANA technologyhttp://www.saphana.com/community/implement/hana-academy

Learn about SAP HANA landscape optionshttps://cookbook.experiencesaphana.com/erp/c511357307088909.htmlhttp://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2013/01/28/hana-along-sidehttp://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2013/01/18/sap-hana-one--sap-hana-in-a-light-bulb

SAP HANARow/Column storeOLAPOLTPStructuredUnstructuredReal-time ReplicationBatch ETL/ELTPlanningPredictive/StatisticalApplication ServicesUI Development toolsReducing the layers and complexity

RETHINK YOUR ARCHITECTURESAP Application ServerABAP SchemaSAP HANAABAP based scenarios, powered by SAP HANAHANA as Accelerator (secondary DB)HANA as primary Database (for AS ABAP)E.g. SAP Netweaver 7.3 BWSAP Application ServerAggregation LevelsE.g. CO-PA ApplicationAggregation EngineSQL EngineCalculation EngineABAP Schema /Database TablesPrimary/Only DB connectionRead / writeSAP HANADataTraditional DBMSPrimary DB connectionRead / writeSecondary DB connectionRead onlyreplicationIMBO, DSO, Transient Info Providers

EXAMPLE LANDSCAPESubject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without noticeSAP HANA AppsData Marts with SAP HANANon-ABAP scenarios, powered by SAP HANAStandalone ApplicationSAP HANAE.g. CharitraAggregation EngineSQL EngineCalculation EngineHANA Content /Database TablesPrimary/Only DB connectionRead / writeSAP HANA clientsSAP HANAAggregation EngineSQL EngineCalculation EngineHANA Content /Database TablesSAP Application ServerAccess through BIDirect AccessBI 4.0 (optional)Semantic Layer

EXAMPLE LANDSCAPESubject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without noticeSupport for multiple applications on SAP HANA SAP generally does not support the deployment of multiple applications (or scenarios) within a single SAP HANA system in a production environmentSAP does support running certain application types together in one production SAP HANA system. This White List of applications which can run together with other applications on one productive SAP HANA system is maintained in SAP Note 1661202

LANDSCAPE CONSOLIDATION OPTIONSSubject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice29

Side-by-sideSAP HANA real-time operational analyticsComplete Business Intelligence (BI) Suite with BI 4 runs on SAP HANA

One storeSAP Business Suite optimized for in-memory computingSAP HANA only persistence layer for SAP Business SuiteEnhanced Sybase and SAP HANA integrationSAP Success Factors on SAP HANACustom Application platform

Flexible real time analysis of operations on detail levelPrimary persistence and optimized for SAP Business Warehouse (BW)Reduced landscape complexityValue chain transformationCapabilitiesBenefitsPrimary persistenceSAP BW powered by SAP HANASAP HANA platform for in-memory appsFurther optimization of BI 4 Suite for SAP HANAIndustry and LOB Analytic Apps Development Platform for ISV and Start-ups InnovationTransformationIntroductionThis is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.See Appendix for abbreviations

FACTOR IN SAPS STRATEGYUpdate with current roadmap prior to event!!30VGI-0205-0577-20100608-GE2-c.pptKEY LEARNINGSLearn about SAP HANA at SAP and ASUG EventsTake advantage of networking opportunitiesWork with existing and new SAP partnersSeek direct help from SAPPartner with your partners31

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