HPE M0S64A Product Data Sheet
The challenge
• Decentralised organisational structure
with heterogeneous database landscape (SAP and DB2 databases)
• High demand for data-intensive
analyses and reports
• Performance problems in bulk data
processing
• Data harmonisation as requested
Case Study
The University of Basel is
accelerating its data warehouse
via two HPE ConvergedSystem
500s for SAP HANA
The solution
• Migrate the central SAP Business
Data Warehouse onto two HPE
ConvergedSystem 500s for SAP
HANA
• Design and realisation of the migration
jointly with Sapify AG, the University of
Basel and partner-company Niederer
Engineering AG
• The project was completed one month
before the scheduled deadline
The result
• Considerably greater performance in
processing of large data volumes
• Generation of complex analyses and
reports with the push of a button from
the data cockpit
• Easy usage of data from dierent
sources with no time-consuming preaggregation
• Analysis results from future data
models partly realisable in near realtime
• Faster results with smaller data
volumes
The University of Basel faces fierce
competition in recruiting the most talented
individuals and attracting funding from
public and private donors. And like most
higher education institutions, the university
is a complex organisation consisting of
dierent interest groups and cultures. The
need for the SAP Competence Center
(SAPCC) to exhibit max imum ‘business’
eiciency and structural heterogeneity
poses an enormous challenge, particularly
with regard to bulk data processing.
The decisive question is: how can large
amounts of data for reports and analyses
from diering data sources be processed
significantly faster in the central SAP Data
Warehouse? The answer: SAP HANA on two
HPE ConvergedSystem 500s.
Case study
University of Basel
“The project was an enormous success. The tremendous cooperation
between Uni Basel, Sapify AG and Niederer Engineering AG meant the
SAP HANA data warehouse was able to go live a month ahead of schedule.”
– Christoph Wyss University of Basel SAP Competence Center
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Customer portrait
University of Basel – a top university
with an international reputation
Founded in 1460, the University of Basel
is a full university with seven faculties
that oers bachelor, master and doctorate
degree pro grams. Presently the University
of Basel has around 13000 matriculated
students and doctoral candidates and
roughly 3000 full-time personnel, two
thirds of which approximately are academic
sta. Life Sciences, Image Science,
Nanoscience, Sustainability and Energy
Research and European and Global Studies
are the university’s strategic research and
teaching priorities. The re search work of
Uni Basel regularly puts the insti tution
among the world’s top 100 uni versities in
international rankings. The university has a
modern, high-performing IT, the hardware
for which is mostly based on HPE products
in the SAP environment. The administration
strategically utilises SAP and maintains its
own SAP Competence Center, certified as
a Customer Center of Expertise, with 10
sta members who ensure operation and
perform further development of the SAP
environment.
Initial Situation
Problems with high-volume data
analysis
The University of Basel deploys SAP
software in the administrative areas
of resource management, finance and
controlling, human resources and logistics.
The University’s individual SAP modules
deliver data daily to the central data
warehouse based on SAP BI. In the past
there have been recurring per formance
problems in bulk data processing, as data
did not flow unchanged into the data
warehouse, but to be aggregated at first in
ETL processes (Extract, Transform, Load).
Christoph Wyss, project manager and
developer at the SAP competence centre,
responsible for data warehousing, has
thus been looking into ways to accelerate
bulk data analysis, together with longstanding SAP partner Sapify AG. Wyss: “SAP
HANA is a promising new in-memory SAP
database technology, and the hardware
component HPE ConvergedSystem for
SAP HANA is ideally designed for this
technology. The decision to procure SAP
HANA was speeded up by management’s
need to update SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation Tool to accommodate ‘SAP
BPC embedded’, which requires SAP HANA.”
HPE Gold Partner and university specialist
Niederer Engineering AG was additionally
brought on board as hardware expert.
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