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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.
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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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Case study
Scott Sports
Industry
Sporting goods
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HPE consulting provided project
management and implementation
support, and oered expertise on SAP
HANA migration so Scott Sports could
optimize performance. The company
leverages HPE OneView to automate the
configuring, monitoring, and updating of
the ConvergedSystem 500 environments.
The migration began in February, 2016,
and by May the ConvergedSystem 500
production environment was running live
in the data center, and was backed up to
the ConvergedSystem 500 development
environments in a remote location.
“We enjoyed working through the migration
with HPE because the HPE consulting
team was willing to share and transfer its
knowledge of SAP HANA so we could quickly
build up our internal expertise on our new
systems,” says Murith. “HPE empowered
us to migrate to our new production and
development environments for SAP HANA.
Personally, I found it very eicient to work
closely with the HPE consulting team because
they know perfectly how their hardware
operates and also know how to optimize it for
SAP HANA deployments.”
HPE Technology Partner MIB also supported
the migration by configuring and installing
both of the HPE SAP HANA appliances.
Established in Switzerland in 1997, MIB SUISSE
SA has developed high-value technological
solutions based on close collaborations
with partners and customers. As a Certified
HPE Gold Specialist, this organization oers
expertise in a wide range of HPE products
and services and provides complex project
management services and after-sales support.
Scott Sports also selected HPE Proactive
Care Advanced Service to support the SAP
HANA solution, giving the organization a
single point of contact to help make the
most of this new solution. This helps Scott
Sports prevent potential problems and stay
up to date on current technologies. Products
connected to HPE leverage 24x7 monitoring,
pre-failure alerts, and rapid issue diagnosis
and resolution.
Improving business
operations
SAP BW and SAP BPC are now operational,
and management has faster access to sales
data from worldwide operations. According to
Murith, “SAP HANA is now the central point in
our business intelligence strategy, and we can
provide management, finance, and operations
personnel with more timely and insightful
reporting so they can improve business
operations.”
According to Bruno Fasel, IT Division Manager
for Scott Sports, “Scott Sports and SAP have
been working together for years, and SAP is
a very important strategic partner to us. We
have several SAP software tools in place and
they serve as the central platform for all our
business processes worldwide.”
The company has an aggressive acquisition
strategy, and the enhanced reporting enables
faster assimilation of acquired companies into
the business and provides business analysts
with greater abilities to determine its future
acquisition needs. This digital transformation
is providing management with faster access
to actionable information, and greater insight
into market and sales trends.
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Case study
Scott Sports
Industry
Sporting goods
Customer at a glance
Hardware
• HPE ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP
HANA
Software
• HPE OneView
Services
• HPE Datacenter Platform SAP
Consulting Services
• HPE Proactive Care Advanced Service
Executives can review sales results and
inventory levels, and can leverage the rapid
collection and aggregation of critical metrics
to guide the development and distribution of
its product line. “We have much faster access
to data now, and our next step is to adapt
our business modeling so we can leverage
the power of SAP HANA running on the HPE
ConvergedSystem 500 to enable even deeper
understanding of management metrics and
provide our executives with more actionable
information to help them guide our digital
transformation,” explains Murith.
He expects that this will enable Scott
Sports to accelerate time-to-market for
new products. “By enhancing our modeling
structure and swiftly providing management
reports, we will be able to help each of our
business units understand market trends
faster. This will help us develop products
faster, and allocate our development
resources to focus on the products that are
most in demand.”
He continues, “We now consolidate business
information much faster, and the quality and
timeliness of our reporting helps executives
improve our planning processes,” says Murith.
“With the aid of HPE Technology Services
Consulting, our migration and testing process
was completed in record time. Within just
three months, we were able to migrate, test,
and deploy HPE ConvergedSystem 500s and
deliver high-quality reports to executives
throughout the company.”
This implementation has resulted in swifter
access to management information and
improved reporting capabilities for the
company, and the company is now planning
to migrate additional SAP modules to SAP
HANA. “The management reports are helping
us improve financial and product planning,
and we’ve just begun to explore the many
more advantages we will get as we build
more robust models that will allow executives
across the company to more eectively
analyze operational results,” he concluded.
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