Dell SAP HANA User Manual

15-Minute Guide:

Forge Ahead with SAP in the Data Era

Abstract

Forging ahead with SAP is about adapting and changing so
you’re ready for what’s ahead: data‑driven innovation, process
automation and new business models.

For IT, moving to SAP
viewing old problems with new perspectives.

In this guide we share the DellTechnologies approach to
developing a cloud‑smart strategy for SAP, so you’re prepared
to turn data insights into action — across the business.

February 2021

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HANA® and SAP S/4HANA® means

15‑minute guide

Table of
Contents

Table of Contents

Forging ahead with SAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Winning in the experience economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Adopt SAPHANA: The time is now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Plan a path to SAP S/4HANA and cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Reimagine business operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Run mixed workloads: Deliver performance at scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Consolidate SAP landscapes: Reduce cost and complexity . . . . . . . . . .5

Johnsonville Sausage: Advanced data protection for SAP HANA . . . . . . .6

Simplify SAP system copy/refresh cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Get exibility with certied infrastructure choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Reduce TCO for SAP and SAPHANA applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Embrace a cloud-smart strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Deliver “Everything-as-a-Service” across clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Begin with a cloud-enabling infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Transform to a cloud operating model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Get exible cloud services and consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Become a data-smart enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Achieve positive business outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Manage diverse data sources — from edge to core to cloud . . . . . . . . 14

AI and ML data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Gerolsteiner: edge computing and SAP S/4HANA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Together we’ll shape what comes next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Partner with us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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#1 priority

when making operational
improvements to the
business is to modernize IT

SAP HANA and
S/4HANA adoption

33,000

SAPHANA customers

~15,000

Forging ahead with SAP

Winning in the experience economy

The experience economy oers amazing opportunities for organizations to get to know
their customers better, but it also brings new challenges. Winning requires a new mindset:
a focus on interconnecting business operations through data. Enterprises want to become
smarter when it comes to their operations, their cloud strategy and their approach to
extracting value from an ever-increasing volume of data. Yet, this becomes dicult when
the IT environment is overly complex and siloed.

For businesses running SAP, the key lies in adopting SAPHANA and S/4HANA
applications along with a cloud-smart strategy. SAP S/4HANA along with SAP Intelligent
Technologies address this integrative approach by bringing transactional data together
with big data and the Internet of Things (IoT). By moving from classic SAP ERP and
Business Suite applications to powerful in-memory and edge processing, IT can gain
real-time business insights with machine learning (ML) and articial intelligence (AI).

SAPHANA and a cloud-smart strategy pave the way for an entirely new approach to
building solutions. Since the 2010 release of the SAPHANA in-memory database, adoption
has grown to 33,000 customers.
SAP S/4HANA.

2

To build that cloud strategy, customers are laying the groundwork now. And according
to SAP Insights, “More than half (52%) of respondents report that their number one
priority when making operational improvements to their businesses is to modernize their
IT systems to improve information ow. In doing so, they’re building the foundation they
need to capitalize on the intelligent technologies they expect to deploy.”

1

Nearly 15,000 customers have purchased licenses for

3

3

with licenses for
SAP S/4HANA

1

SAP Corp orate Fact Sheet, Fe bruary 2020.

2

SAPinsider, “SAP Announces Q3 Financial

Results,” October 20 20.

3

SAP Insi ghts Research Rep ort, “4 Traits of

Experience Economy Masters,” June 2020.

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Customer

Employee

Product

Data is the key to innovating.

X

Data

Brand

Analytics

Database and

data management

Intelligent
technologies

App development
and integration

Customer

HR

O

Data

Finance

Manufacturing

Supply chain

Procurement

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4

Adopt SAPHANA: The time is now

To give customers more exibility to plan and execute SAP S/4HANA migrations,
SAP announced that it will extend mainstream maintenance on core applications
of SAP Business Suite 7 from 2025 to 2027. The SAPHANA database is a strategic
foundation for data-driven applications — SAP S/4HANA will run only with SAPHANA.
SAP acknowledges that these are complex, resource-intensive projects. So, the time to
begin adopting SAPHANA is now.

To run this digital core from SAP, modern IT infrastructure is required. But moving to
SAP S/4HANA and SAP Intelligent Technologies is easier said than done. Many times, IT
must reduce the resources required to maintain traditional SAP ERP and SAP Business
Warehouse (SAP BW) while safeguarding investments for eventual adoption of SAP
S/4HANA. More than ever, CxOs need to rethink how to run, grow and transform
businesses. New eciencies are needed.

SAP ERP

Applications on

classic databases

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Oracle

Database

The move to SAPHANA and S/4HANA is a journey.

Microsoft

SQL Server

DB2

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IBM

Applications on

SAP HANA databases

SAP HANA

In-memory database

SAP HANA platform

S/4HANA

Full adoption of

SAP S/4HANA

SAP digital core

Plan a path to SAP S/4HANA and cloud

While every journey is dierent, the path to IT modernization and cloud includes three
essential elements.

• Reimagine business operations by automating delivery and lifecycle of IT resources
so the infrastructure is ready for SAPHANA when you are.

• Embrace a cloud‑smart strategy by providing consistent cloud solutions for placing
and protecting landscapes where it makes the most sense.

• Become a data‑smart enterprise by building a data fabric universe that connects
information silos and increases visibility into global data assets.

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5

Reimagine business operations

DellTechnologies understands the imperatives CIOs face in the data era as they forge
ahead with SAP. The business is counting on IT to support these critical SAP initiatives.
As a result, IT must be able to reimagine how their operations should work. That means
getting the maximum eciency from IT workows and better productivity from sta.
Only then can the organization signicantly boost enterprise value.

RETHINK

how to get maximum

eciency from IT

We automate IT processes — from initial deployment to expansion of system resources
and lifecycle management — while maintaining control and reducing complexity and risk.
DellTechnologies also brings cloud economics to the data center. We provide a series
of nancial consumption models — from traditional CAPEX to on-demand “pay as you
go” — so you can consume infrastructure as you would in the public cloud. We help IT
become operations smart.

Run mixed workloads: Deliver performance at scale

Eliminating complexity starts by deploying the right mix of infrastructure while using the
nancial consumption model that’s right for you. We help simplify highly virtualized SAP
landscapes as you adopt SAPHANA and SAP S/4HANA. With our dynamic infrastructure,
you can deliver performance at scale for mixed workloads — from online transaction
processing (OLTP) and analytical processing (OLAP) to analytics and big data.

Consolidate SAP landscapes: Reduce cost and complexity

Historically, IT has run SAP production and non-production systems on siloed
infrastructure, whether by design — to protect production performance — or ad hoc
as new projects are added.

As a result, IT must manage sprawling, complex system landscapes with limited budget
and resources.

S/4HANA

ECC

CI/DB Servers

Apps

DR DB

BW

Production

CI/DB Servers

Apps

PRD DB

TrainingDR

Staging

Support

Apps

Support DB

Quality assurance

Integration &

stress test

Data conversion

Apps Apps

Development

Sandbox

Development

DEV DBQAS DB PPD DB

Multiple landscapes for
each application

Most customers still run

dedicated physical stacks

Moving projects between

3+

environments requires copies

DAYS

that can take several days

Data sets must be

regularly backed up

SAP landscapes are complicated.