1. EMC: Redefining ERP and ROI with a Virtualized SAP HANA® Deployment
Company
EMC Corporation
Headquarters
Hopkinton, Massachusetts
Industry
High tech
Products and Services
Information storage, storage and content management, enterprise content manage-ment, security and compliance solutions, cloud computing solutions, and data computing
Employees
49,600
Revenue
US$23.2 billion
Web Site
Business challenges
Keeping pace with business growth as a global hardware and software manufacturing and distribution leader
Reducing the complexity of legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructure, which had grown from 960 TB to 22 PB
Improving multivariate business forecasting by providing same-day insights
Technical implementation
Deployed the latest version of the SAP® Business Planning and Consolidation application to take advantage of enhanced automation features
Ran SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on the SAP HANA® platform to achieve real-time analytics
Replicated data out of the SAP ERP application using the same tools that deliver data into the SAP Business Warehouse application
Deployed the SAP HANA platform on an existing infrastructure in a virtualized environment
Key benefits
Cut data load times from 12 hours to 3 hours and reduced the time required to generate key reports from 30 minutes to 30 seconds
Reduced operational expenditures by 56% by deploying the SAP HANA platform virtually on an existing infrastructure
Deployed 80% faster using an existing virtualized infrastructure
70%
Decrease in capital expenditures by deploying SAP HANA virtually on an existing infrastructure
75%
faster data loading and translation on SAP HANA versus the legacy virtual-ized relational database manage-ment system 4x
Performance improvement in monthly forecasting runs
“Virtualizing the SAP HANA platform has allowed us to smash our preexisting performance service- level agreements while still maintaining a hybrid cloud strategy and reducing infrastructure demand.”
Michael Harding, Lead SAP Technical Architect, EMC IT, EMC Corporation
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2. EMC SAP HANA® Technical Implementation
EMC SAP HANA® platform architecture
Key features deployed
Database-level SAP HANA® platform system replication
SAP HANA–tailored data center integration
SAP ® Business Planning and Consolidation application powered by SAP HANA
SAP ERP and the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) applications
Technical key performance indicators
Strengthened forecasting performance
Reduced batch load times
Increased maintenance and automation agility
Improved infrastructure scalability and reduced downtime
Partner involvement
VMware Inc.
VCE Company
Future plans
Deploy the SAP IQ Near-Line Storage and Retention Management rapid-deployment solution to reduce the SAP HANA footprint and related storage costs
Migrate the existing SAP Business Warehouse application to the SAP HANA platform to support operations running on SAP ERP and SAP CRM
Migrate to SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA with complete platform enablement targeted for 2016
Data sources
SAP® Business Planning and Consolidation
Data integration
Data warehouse
SAP ERP
SAP CRM
Master data
Machine data
SAP HANA
PivotalTM GemFire XD®
SAP IQ
SAP Business Warehouse
Global data warehouse
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