Nina Löcke SAP
Andreas Klemm SAP
Dr. Siegward Brunner SAP
Dr. Paul Lekkas IBM
SAP for Insurance on IBM z Systems
Internet of Things Networks
Digital Omni-Channel Networks Collaborative Business Networks
Workforce Engagement Networks
Regulators
Stakeholders
Capital Markets
Markets
FRONT OFFICE MIDDLE OFFICE BACK OFFICE
AgilityIntimacy Efficiency
Big Data Real Time
Transparency Predictability
DIGITAL
Powering the Digital Enterprise
FRONT OFFICE MIDDLE OFFICE BACK OFFICE
Claims
Reinsurance
Policy
Billing Fraud
Investment
WorkforceSpend
Finance Planning
Real Estate
HANA
Underwriting
Incentives & Commissions
Service
Marketing Sales
S/4 HANA Insurance
Logistics
Product
Health P&CLife Commercial Specialty Group
Reactivity Agility Accuracy
Insurance
Analytics
User
Process
Data
Infrastructure
Provision
Applications
Content
BO Business Objects Predictive Workbench HANA Live Business Warehouse
FS-BP
Business
Partner
CEC
Customer Engagement &
Commerce
(Hybris & CRM/C4C)
ICM
Incentives & Commissions
Management
FS-
QUO
Quote &
Under-
writing
FS-CD
Collections &
Disbursement
FS-PM
Policy
Mgmt
FS-CM
Claims
Mgmt
FS-FR
Fraud
Mgmt
TR-CM
Cash
Mgmt
FI-GL & S/4 Finance
BPC Planning &
Consolidation
Spend (Ariba & MM)
HR (Success Factors & HCM)
External Labor (Fieldglass)
Travel & Expenses (Concur)
FS-IA
Insurance
Analyzer
FS-PER
Performance &
Profitability
GRC
Governance Risk &
Compliance
FS-RI Reinsurance Management
Passive Active
FAM
Financial
Asset
Mgmt
RE Real
Estate
Product Workbench FS-PRO Products Configuration External actuarial enginesExternal rating engines
SAP HANA
PI Process Integration MDM Master Data MgmtBPM Business Process MgmtWF Workflow Data Services
Customer Portals (Hybris) SAP Fiori Workplaces Mobile Infrastructure
SAP Best Practices
Versioning – (Edition) Rapid Provisioning (Cloud Appliance Library)
SAP HANA ENTERPRISE CLOUD (HEC)
Multitenancy MCD / MCOD
Msg.pm
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The World runs SAP Product and Policy LifecycleSelected Customers and Prospects
Customers
Prospects
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Performance TestJoint Project Approach
Cross location collaboration USA – Germany (– China)
Alignment on goals, deliverables, timelines, hardware, sizing, software stack, legal compliance
New installation of SAP Policy Management 5.3 in Sep 2015, first smoke tests in Dec
Integration to SAP Policy Management Auto collaborating with msg.PM, FS-CD, FS-ICM
SAP AGS Basis and DB Parameter checks
Upgrade to SP01 in Jan
Finalization of test data structure, generation report, performance metrics
First 1k-test runs with Life and P&C in Q1
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Performance TestGoals
Scalability and performance of SAP Policy Management 5.3 on IBM z Systems
Quality assurance and upfront safeguarding especially in the high end volume range
Harvest performance optimization for SAP Policy Management standard delivery
Test of newest System z mainframe with DB2 and Power Systems in a SAP environment
Impact of workload in update runs on batch processing window
Collect best practices for performance optimizations and proper sizing at customer site with
focus on TCO
Develop and demonstrate joint execution capabilities in a strong partnership
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SAP Policy ManagementProduct and Policy Model
Policy model
Policy
Contract bundle
Coverage bundle
Coverage
Contract
Policy # 4711Happy Family
CoverageFire
SAP Policy Management
ContractPrivate Liability
Vertragsnr: 7762ContractHousehold
Contract # 7761
CoverageStorm
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Sales Product
Life Capital 2009
Elementary Product
Fixed-Term
( E200 )
Product
Fixed Term ( PE200 )
Subcoverages:
…
1:1
1:n
Sample Product for Scenario 1 „ Life Capital 2009“
Represents standard offering of life
insurance carriers throughout the
globe
Update runs call mathematic library
which is of relevance relevant to life
insurers
See also: Detailed sample product
description
Sales Product ‘Life Capital
2009’
Insured Person1:1
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Sales Product
Family Coverage
Elementary Product
Home-Contents
( ES0001 )
Product
Household ( PS0001 )
Subcoverages:
…
Insured Object1:1
1:1
1:n
Sample Product for Scenario 2 „Family Coverage“
Offered worldwide by nearly every
primary insurer
Typically high-volume product, thus
related performance statements are
relevant
See also: Detailed sample product
description
Sales Product ‘Family
Coverage’
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Sales Product
Private Car Germany
Elementary Product
Liability Min. Cover
EP Partially
Comprehensive
EP Fully
Comprehensive
EP Passenger
Accident Fixed
Product
Private Car
Elementary Product
Liability Unlimited
EP Passenger
Accident per Seat
Subcoverages:
Personal Injury
Property Damage
Financial Losses
Roadside Assistance
Subcoverages:
Personal Injury
Property Damage
…
Subcoverages:
Fire
Theft
Acts of Nature
…
Subcoverages:
Accident
Vandalism
…
Subcoverages:
Invalidity
Death
…
Subcoverages:
Invalidity
Death
…
Insured Object1:1
0:1
0:1
0:1
1:n
Sample Product for Scenario 3 „Private Car Germany“
Typical German and Austrian layout
Typically high-volume product, thus
related performance statements are
relevant
Of specific interest for Ergo and HDI-
Gerling
See also: Detailed sample product
description
Sales Product ‘Private Car Germany’
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Test EnvironmentTest Data Variance
LoB
‚Private Motor‘
LoB
‚Property &
Casualty‘
LoB
‚Life‘
Policies
1 Contract
Policies
2 Contracts
Policies
3 Contracts
40 %
40 %
20 %
Payment
Frequency:
Yearly
Payment
Frequency:
Semi-annually
Payment
Frequency:
Quarterly
Payment
Frequency:
Monthly
70 %
20 %
5 %
5 %
Policyholder
is Payer
Policyholder
is NOT Payer
50 %
50 %
Vast set of parameters is used to
generate data
Parameter set is specific to LoB’s
Data in surrounding systems is
generated as well
Test Data Generation
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Test EnvironmentSoftware Landscape for SAP Insurance PM Study
DB2 11 for z/OS
Trusted RFC
Integration
msg.PM runtime
(TOMATOSX)msg.PM designer
calculations &
rules
product
structure
RFC requests RFC transfer
ERP systemNetWeaver 7.4 SP12
EHP7 for SAP ERP 6.0 SP10
SAP Business Suite Foundation 7.47 SP10
Insurance 617 SP10
(FS-CD, FS-BP, FS-ICM, FS-ICM-PFO)
FS-PM system
NetWeaver 7.4 SP12
SAP Business Suite Foundation 7.47 SP10
SAP Insurance FS-PM 5.3 SP1
SAP Insurance FS-PM AUTO 1.40 SP1
MSGPMCON 200 SP1
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Test EnvironmentSolution Overview and Interfaces (Update Run)
SAP Policy Management System
Update Run (transaction
/PM0/ABY_FPP_FP_PA)
ERP System
Collections and Disbursements (FS-CD)msg.PM
Runtime
Structure
Rules
Mathematics
Post Payment plans and FI-CA
documents
Business Partner (FS-BP)
Incentive and Commission
Management (ICM)
Portfolio Assignment (ICM-PFO)
SAP Policy Management Auto
RFCRFC
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SAP for Insurance
Framework for Parallel Processing - Example
1
3
4
5
9
8
7
6
2
10
Inte
rvals
Job 1
Job 2
Job 3
1
3 4
5
9
8
7
6
2
10
All parallel Jobs
completed !
Further steps of
the batch chain
can start …
Time
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Test EnvironmentHardware Overview
Database Server• IBM System z13 2964-N63
• 63 cores @5.0GHz, 2TB RAM
• z/OS 2.1
• DB2 11 for z/OS IBM Storage
DS8800 2421-951
17 TB
Application Server • IBM Power 780-9179
• 64 cores @3.92GHz, 1TB RAM
• AIX 7.1
• SAP NetWeaver 7.40 SP 12
• SAP FS-PM 5.3 SP1
• SAP FS-PM AUTO 1.4 SP1
• SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 7 SP10
• MSGPMCON 200
• TOMATOSX3.4.10.1 patch R2
System x3650 M4 • 2 x 8-core processors @ 2.6GHz• Windows 2012 R2• CAIMAN 34101.48
10GbE10GbE8G
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Increasing Test VolumeStep-by-Step
Planned Test Volume
1000 contracts per Line of Business (LoB) (Small tests for functional correctness)
200.000 contracts per LoB
2 million contracts per LoB
20 million contracts per LoB
Measured KPI’s for each test run
Identify Number of Batch Processes with best Throughput / Efficiency
Throughput per RUN per minute Successful contracts / Duration of Run (Duration = Time
frame between “start of first job” and “end of last job“ )
Avg. Throughput per JOB per minute Successful contracts / Duration of all Jobs
Memory consumption
CPU Utilization on Database Server and Application Server
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Found IssuesAlready identified issues in the early stages of the performance Evaluation
SAP Policy Management
Locking situations related to several
number ranges /PM0/ABNxx SAP Note
2299651 created: increase of numbers in buffer
Locking situations related to number range
“FI-CA documents (FKK_BELEG) SAP
Note 2299782 created (consulting Note for FS-
PM)
Performance Optimization for msg.PM
adapter for all Lines of Business SAP
Notes 2290679, 2295255, 2297664 created
ERP
Locking situations related to number range
“Commissions: Document Number”
(CACS_DOC) parallel buffering enabled with
100 numbers in the buffer
qRFc errors due to locking on reconciliation
keys Assignment of installation-specific
function modules FSCD_SAMPLE_1113
FQEVENTS in event 1113
Bug identified in contract account creation
(qRFC error) internal incident opened on
component CA-GTF-BDT (Business Data
Toolset )
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Release Strategy SAP Policy Management
Delivery Scheme
Release 5.3
– SP02
– SP03
– SP04
– …
Main Development Release (RTC)
RTC 5.4 planned for end of 2016 / early 2017
Improvements
SP02
SP03
SP04,…
5.4
SP01
SP02
SP03
Release 5.4
– SP01
– SP02
– SP03
– …
<tbd>
Time Beam
SP04
It is planned to incorporate
found Issues in SPs and
upcoming releases
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Contact information:
Nina Löcke [email protected]
Andreas Klemm [email protected]
Dr. Siegward Brunner [email protected]
Dr. Paul Lekkas [email protected]
Thank you
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