Hewlett Packard Enterprise H6NM3E Quick Start Guide
Objective
Migrate legacy Oracle data warehouse to
HPE ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA
in-memory computing platforms
Approach
Leverage the expertise of HPE service
professionals to swiftly migrate Oracle
data warehouse to SAP HANA
Case Study
Scott Sports accelerates
business planning
Deploys HPE ConvergedSystem for
SAP HANA
IT Matters
• Dramatic improvements in processing
performance
• Eicient disaster recovery via automated
backup
• Initial migration completed in less than
3 months
Business Matters
• Provides the finance department
with improved business planning and
analytics capabilities to support digital
transformation
• Improved and more timely reporting
allows more rapid and informed
decision-making
• Scalable solution enables additional
migrations to SAP HANA
Switzerland-based sporting
goods company Scott
Sports was founded in 1958
and distributes its highquality products globally in
82 countries and in about
30,000 stores. Its Oracle
data warehouse lacked the
performance and analytics
capabilities needed to help
improve business operations,
so after a careful search the
company migrated to HPE
ConvergedSystem for SAP
HANA.
As a leading provider of sporting goods
for bicycling, winter sports, running, and
motosports, Scott Sports is a global business
with distributed operations. The company was
relying on a legacy Oracle data warehouse,
but needed to improve performance and
reporting to help management continuously
improve operations.
Consolidating financial reporting and
leveraging this data to improve business
operations is essential for providing
management in the finance department with
accurate and timely business results. The
company needed more up-to-date sales
information for each of its four product lines
so it could identify trends and eectively
allocate business resources to improve
operations.
Case study
Scott Sports
Industry
Sporting goods
“Scott Sports is growing worldwide, and our finance department needed faster
access to business results and improved abilities to analyze business
performance. Our Oracle data warehouse lacked the performance and
reporting capabilities that we needed, so after a careful search we migrated to
HPE ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA.”
— Steve Murith, IT Project Manager for Scott Sports
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“We had a legacy Oracle database that was
no longer delivering the performance or the
reporting that we needed,” says Steve Murith,
IT project manager for Scott Sports. “We
didn’t want to renew our license for the Oracle
database and evaluated alternative solutions.”
After considering a solution from IBM, Scott
Sports selected two HPE ConvergedSystems
for SAP HANA.
The company was running SAP Business
Warehouse (BW) on the Oracle database
and wanted to migrate its existing SAP BW
module to SAP HANA. Management also
sought to deploy SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation (BPC) to provide the finance
and operations departments with powerful
tools for analyzing business performance.
Scott Sports selected HPE Datacenter
Platform SAP Consulting Services to support
the migration. According to Murith, “The only
way to install the SAP BPC module was to
migrate our existing SAP BW from Oracle to
SAP HANA, and we selected HPE because of
the flexibility of the HPE ConvergedSystem,
the strong business relationship in place
between HPE and SAP, and the ability to
leverage HPE consulting services to augment
our internal IT sta in drive a timely and
eicient migration.”
Migrating to SAP HANA
Because of the critical nature of maintaining
its legacy systems during migration, Scott
Sports ran its legacy systems in parallel while
migrating to the HPE ConvergedSystem for
SAP HANA platforms.
The HPE ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA
portfolio consists of optimized systems built
to deliver the highest levels of performance
and availability for in-memory computing
initiatives. It can help businesses like Scott
Sports unlock operational eiciencies and
turn large amounts of data into real-time,
actionable business insights. The company
planned to deploy a production HPE
ConvergedSystem 500 in a remote location
and a second ConvergedSystem 500 in the
same location to use for development and
backup.
The first implementation was done by
creating a sandbox environment where HPE
and Scott Sports IT migrated the SAP BW
module to SAP HANA. “Scott Sports has
worked with HPE for over 20 years, and
the collaboration we’ve received has always
helped us achieve our IT goals,” states
Murith. “We didn’t have the internal expertise
necessary for installing and configuring the
HPE ConvergedSystem 500 in two locations,
so we relied on HPE to drive the migration.”
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