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HANA Finance Accelerators

Cloud scenario (try-and-decide) Sheldon Edelstein / David Dixon

February 2014

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SAP Business Suite powered by HANA side-by-side

HANA Finance Accelerators: Cloud “try-and-decide”

Get started quickly - at minimum cost and maximum flexibility

Connect your ERP Finance system with HANA in the cloud; limit the cost and effort to validate gains and

benefits. Eliminate dependencies on internal skills and resources, get started with SAP HANA - NOW !

1 hour of your time for the initial setup

3 key scenarios General Ledger, Cost

Management, Profitability

(CO-PA) to choose from

GO Start testing the next day

USD 7.50 /hour (setup fee applies*)

Why would you not do it ?

* USD 5,000 for each scenario, 20% discount if all 3 are selected. Terms and restrictions apply, for details contact [email protected] or [email protected]

One Pager

mailto:[email protected]


Details


HANA Finance Accelerators: Cloud scenario (try-and-decide)

Experience ERP acceleration in 3 easy steps

1. Replicate selected (non-productive) ERP data onto SAP HANA in the cloud

2. Activate the Accelerators in your ERP system

3. Run accelerated process and reporting in ERP; explore added features like new line item browsers

Go deeper and include Data analysis and exploration (optional)

1. Setup SAP Lumira (on your desktop) or BOBJ BI Explorer (shared workspace)

2. Run accelerated end-user oriented, graphical reporting data analysis and exploration

* ERP Acceleration for release levels below EhP5 possible with application of downward compatible NW kernel on ERP side

Licenses required

SAP ERP

SAP HANA Test and Demo License

provided by TruQua

SAP Lumira, BOBJ BI Explorer optional

Services available (partner offering)

HANA (Amazon) cloud system setup

HANA data model creation

Accelerator activation in ERP

Data replication from ERP to HANA

Pre-requisites

ERP 4.6c for data replication and data

analysis and exploration scenarios

ERP 6.0 EhP5 and higher* for

accelerated ERP processes, reporting,

and new features; (latest Service Packs)


Find out what SAP HANA can do for you; build your business case and adoption roadmap

What

Accelerated ERP reporting, accelerated ERP processes, new ERP process (like line item browsers) 1)

Accelerated, visual analytics (SAP Lumira, SAP Explorer) 2) optional

Why

Speed up availability and limit the effort needed

Overcome dependencies on internal, IT capacity

Gain performance and relevant end-user feedback

Cost

Setup fee per scenario USD 5,000, 20% discount if all 3 are selected; hourly SAP HANA (cloud) system fee USD $7.50/hr

Who to contact

David Dixon at [email protected]

Carsten Hilker at [email protected]

Sheldon Edelstein at [email protected]

HANA Finance Accelerators: Test-drive ERP via cloud

SAP eco-system partner offering

1) requires ECC 6.0 EhP5 or higher (or application of SAP 7.20 Kernel for ECC 6.0 below EhP5) 2) for all releases > ERP 4.6c 3) Additional Finance

and Controlling scenarios available upon request (time & material). For solution, pricing and support details visit www.truqua.com

How 3)

Private cloud HANA system (via Amazon Web Services)

Test and Demo license for SAP HANA through partner

Scenario activation for General Ledger (GL) , Cost Management

(CO), and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)





HANA Finance Accelerators: Cloud scenario

SAP ERP

Accelerated Data

Analysis and

Exploration

cloud

SAP

HANA

SAP Lumira (desktop)

BOBJ BI Explorer (shared workspace)

Accelerated

ERP reporting

Accelerated

ERP processes

starting 4.6c

any release

ECC 6.0 EhP5

Activity

Data replication

Activity

Accelerator activation

Activity

Data model

creation

1

3

5

New features

4

SAP SLT

2

1

2

3

4

5

Replication

Accelerated Reporting

Accelerated Processes

New Features

Data Analysis (optional)

Standard FI-CO-ML-CO-PA


HANA Finance Accelerators: Cloud scenario

SAP ERP

Amazon cloud

SAP

HANA

Accelerated

ERP reporting

Accelerated

ERP processes

starting 4.6c

ECC 6.0 EhP5

Activity


Activity

Data model

creation

1

Automation – COPA Accelerator

Transactional Data replication

CO-PA Accelerator alternative

1

2

3

Replication

Accelerated Reporting

Accelerated Processes

3

2

• Leverage TruCloud and the SAP HANA Accelerated Finance and Controlling Rapid-Deployment Solution (RDS)

• Assess SAP ERP Financials HANA-Based Acceleration

– Starting from $7.50 per hour plus $5K one-day setup

• Pricing Conditions: $5 per hour plus AWS costs (estimated $7.50 per hour) plus a one-time set-up fee of $5K that does not include security-related work.

– With any non-productive SAP ERP system.

• Must be on ECC 6.0 EHP5 or higher (RDS pre-requisites)

How to Get Started

SAP ECC 6.0 EhP5 or

higher

TruCloud

SAP

HANA

Accelerated

ERP reporting

Accelerated

ERP processes


New features

FI/CO

© TruQua. All Rights Reserved.

Scoping

1. Choose Which Scenario You Are Interested

1. General Ledger

2. Overhead Cost Management

3. Profitability Analysis

2. Pricing for each scenario is separate and cumulative but if all three are bundled, a 20% overall discount is offered

3. Additional features may be added on a time and materials basis

– Other Finance and Controlling Accelerator scenarios

– VPN cloud connectivity

– Master Data scenarios

– HANA Build Out

– Reporting and analysis with SAP BusinessObjects BI


About TruCloud

• TruCloud is based on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud

• Start and stop your instance on demand

• Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) snapshots used for back up and recovery based TruQua developed scripts

• Pre-installed Test and Demo Licenses to SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects for performance testing and evaluation

• TruQua know-how build over years of experience with cloud-based delivery and offerings


TruCloud and SAP RDS Synergies

TruCloud

(TruQua’s Amazon Web-Services-Based Delivery

Model)

SAP HANA Accelerated Finance

and Controlling rapid-deployment

solution

(3 scenarios)

HANA Finance Accelerators

Cloud scenario

(try-and-decide)


About Rapid Deployment Solutions

• SAP HANA Accelerated Finance and

Controlling rapid-deployment solution

– Implementation content, such as configuration

guide

– Service content, such as project plan or

consultant guide

– Enablement content, such as value proposition

material

– Fixed-scope and fixed-price services for the

individual implementation scenarios

– Go live in as little as a few weeks

SAP Rapid

Deployment Solution

Service

Software

Enablement

Content


• Independent validation of SAP functionality in the cloud

– Reference SAP Notes 1656099 “SAP on AWS: Supported SAP,

DB/OS and AWS EC2 products” and 1964437 “SAP HANA on

AWS: Supported AWS EC2 products”

– TruQua application functionality validation

• CO-PA Accelerator (transaction code KEHC)

• Finance Accelerators (transaction code HDBC with SLT replication)

• Lots of diverse customer scenarios

– Many business cases spanning different applications and tables

– Many possible technical architectures and approaches

– No “one-size-fits-all” but “common denominator” to kick things off

RDS Learnings


• Validated SAP deployment on cloud technology

Validation of HANA connectivity


• Reviewed performance, checked data and verified access

Validation of HANA Access


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Accelerated period-end processes and faster, more flexible reporting

in the SAP Business Suite

• Reporting in Material

Ledger *

• Material Ledger Period-

End Closing *

• Reporting for Cost

Centers *

• Reporting for Internal

Orders *

• Reporting in Product

Cost Controlling *

• Report Writer-Based

reporting

• Cost efficiency analysis

by manufacturing order

• Cost efficiency analysis

by work center

Financial Accounting

• Reporting in General

Ledger *

• Reporting in Profit-Center

Accounting *

• Reporting in Asset

Accounting *

• Reporting in Accounts

Payable/Receivable *

• Reporting in Special

Purpose Ledger *

• SAP Invoice and Goods

Receipt Reconciliation

• Accrual calculation *

• Overhead calculation *

• Distributions and

assessments

• Profitability analysis and

allocations *

Managerial Accounting

Direct BI access to SAP ERP/SAP HANA data via virtual InfoProvider *

* Available also side-by-side Acceleration of processes Acceleration of reporting

Manage Financial

Performance

Accounting and

Financial Close

Treasury and

Financial Risk

Management

Collaborative

Finance

Operations

Manage

Enterprise Risk

and Compliance

Note: TruQua’s areas

of focus boxed in red;

all HANA accelerator

scenarios can be

cloud-enabled


Operational acceleration

Line-item browser

Drill-Down reporting

Accelerated reporting

Data source (1)

VIP (2)

General Ledger Accounting (new) X X X X General Ledger Accounting X X Accounts Payable X Accounts Receivable X Profit Center Accounting X X X X Asset Accounting X Special Purpose Ledger X X Overhead Management X X X Project System X Investment Management X (3)

Material Ledger X X (4, 5) X Production Costing X X Profitability Analysis X X X

1) Direct BI access to SAP HANA via ERP data sources

2) Virtual InfoProviders (embedded BI) for operational ERP reporting

3) Active Availability Control Monitor for investment programs, orders, WBS elements

4) New HANA DB tables for aggregate reporting

5) Acceleration of BW extraction

Finance and Controlling Accelerator Functional Scope

Note: TruQua’s areas

of focus boxed in red;

all HANA accelerator

scenarios can be

cloud-enabled


Finance and Controlling Accelerator The ERP Financial Accounting Accelerator

HANA System ERP System

DB Table

Write

Rea

d

Replication

Accelerated read

• Column Tables

• OLAP-Views

• Accelerated ERP reporting – General Ledger Accounting (New)

Financial statements/segment reports/ profit center reports

Customer-defined drill-down reports

– Asset Accounting

Asset balances/asset history sheet/asset transactions

– Profit Center Accounting

– Special Purpose Ledger

– Accelerated hierarchy processing

• Line-item browsers for General Ledger Accounting

• Direct BI access to data stored in the SAP HANA database via data sources

– Profit center balances, key figures, line items

– General Ledger Accounting (New) balances

– Special Purpose Ledger totals, line items

Asser Accounting

FI-AA

Profit Center Accounting

EC-PCA

General Ledger Reporting

FI-GL


ERP Financial Accounting Accelerator The New Line-Item Browsers

Line-item browsers use the speed of SAP HANA

for interactive drill-down navigation from

aggregated data to single documents

Checking a user’s area of responsibility

Searching for exception postings

Checking balances, …

Different line-item browsers for different

application areas with a unified user experience

Classic General Ledger Accounting [transaction FBL3H]

General Ledger Accounting (new) [transaction FAGLL03H]

Vendor Accounts [transaction FBL1H]

Customer Accounts [transaction FBL5H]

Line-item browsers are new transactions within SAP ERP. They complement the existing line-

item reports for customer accounts (FBL5N), vendor accounts (FBL1N), General Ledger

(FBL3N), and General Ledger (new) (FAGLL03).


Line-Item Browser Line Items as Source for Reporting

NewGL line items are created by every business transaction posting into financial accounting

Typical customers (e.g., in manufacturing) have millions of entries

Can be used for reporting of detail information

Postings by segment

Postings in a specific time interval

Postings by a specific user

Postings by original currency

Controlling Area

Segment

Sender cost center

Partner Profit Ctr

Partner Func. Area

Trading Part.BA

Trading Partner

Partner Segment

Quantity

Amount in OrigTransCrcy

Debit/Credit Ind.

Posting period

Or.transctn.currency

Posting Date

Document Number

Line item

Posting Key

Doc.status

Item category

Changed (Doc.split.)

User Name

Time Stamp

EUR; 1547564

USD, 567890

GBP, 305678

JPY, 286890

Postings on Account 606000

Receivables by Currency

Available Fields

Fiscal Year

Document Number

Ledger

Company Code

Account Number

Line Item

Transaction currency

Transaction

Amount in Trans. Crcy

Amount in Local Crcy

Transaction Type

Amount in Group Crcy

Amount in Another Crcy

Base Unit of Measure

Reference Transact.

Record Type

Version

Logical system

Cost Element

Cost Center

Profit Center

Functional Area

Business Area


Financial Statements

Financial Statements Report RFBILA00

accelerated as RFBILA00N

Measured Runtime improvements:

15.6s to 5s (15,000 totals records)

45 min to 1.5 min (millions of totals records)

Note: Runtime

improvements in the cloud

will vary from SAP

benchmarks due to

network latency,

virtualized hardware and

implementation-specific

factors


ERP Financial Accounting Accelerator Drill-Down Reporting — Access G/L Totals from HANA

The central read function module has been enhanced and now reads the data

stored in the G/L totals table (e.g., FAGLFLEXT*) from the SAP HANA

database

A number of drill-down reports have been accelerated

Report Transaction

Financial Statement Actual/Actual Comparison S_PL0_86000028

Financial Statement Plan/Actual Comparison S_PL0_86000029

Profit Center Reports S_E38_98000088 to

S_E38_98000091

Segment Reports S_E38_98000092 to

S_E38_98000095

Any customer-defined drill-down report FGI3

* FAGLFLEXT contains the reporting dimensions as defined (during G/L implementation) by scenario and ledger


Drill-Down Reporting in New General Ledger Performance Effects

Historical Strategy

1. Read all data, keep it in application memory

2. Any user request for changes in the output will

be performed on the data in application memory

New Strategy

Read-only data (from HANA) necessary

for the output

Runtime Improvements

Initial response time might be drastically reduced, depending on the nature of the

selected data, e.g., from 3h to minutes

Following navigation steps will have response times in the range of seconds

When initial selection is performed in background and stored for interactive reporting,

an acceleration of one third was measured


Finance and Controlling Accelerator The ERP Controlling Accelerator

HANA-System ERP-System

DB Table

Write

Rea

d

Replication

Accelerated read

• Column Tables

• OLAP-Views

Investment Programs

IM-FA-IF

Overhead Orders

CO-OM-OPA

Cost Center Accounting

CO-OM-CCA

• Accelerated and enhanced CO line-

item reporting

– Display actual and plan cost line items for

cost centers

– Display actual and plan line items for WBS

elements

• In-memory-based CO partner object

controlling

– Display actual cost line items for orders

– Display plan cost line items for orders

• Accelerated overhead calculation

• Accelerated accrual calculation

• Active availability control monitor

for investment management


ERP Controlling Accelerator Accelerated Line-Item Browser for Overhead Management

SAP Note 1644201 – KAEP:

Functions of the new line item

reports

SAP Note 1715833 – KAEP: Best

Practice

To leverage the speed of

HANA, accelerated CO

line-item browsers are

provided

• Cost center actual line

items KSB1N (replacing

KSB1)

• Cost center plan line items

KSBPN (replacing KSBP)

• Order actual line items

KOB1N (replacing KOB1)

• Order plan line items

KOBPN (replacing KOBP)

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1644201














ERP Controlling Accelerator Accelerated Overhead Calculation

Actual Overhead Calculation: Project/WBS Element/

Network

CJ44

Actual Overhead Calculation Projects, collectively CJ45

Plan Overhead Calculation: Project/WBS CJ46

Plan Overhead Calculation: Projects/WBS Elements

(collectively)

CJ47

Actual Overhead Calculation: Product Cost Collector CO42

Actual Overhead Calculation: Production/Process Orders CO43

Actual Overhead Calculation: Business Process CPZI

Plan Overhead Calculation: Business Process CPZP

Actual Overhead Calculation: Order KGI2

Actual Overhead Calculation: Internal/maintenance orders KGI4

Plan Overhead Calculation: Internal/maintenance orders KGP4

Plan Overhead Calculation: Order KGP2

Actual Overhead Calculation: Cost Object (individually) KKPZ

Actual Overhead Calculation: Cost Object (collectively) KKPJ

Actual Overhead Calculation: Cost Centers/Activity Types KSI4

Plan Overhead Calculation: Cost Centers/Activity Types KSP4

Actual Overhead Calculation: Sales Orders VA44

Overhead Calculation

Overhead calculation allocates overhead to cost

objects in actual/plan data. Overhead keys serve to

calculate different overhead rates for different objects

(such as the material being manufactured). Overhead

costs are allocated to the cost objects based on the

quantity or as a percentage of the direct costs.

Runtime improvement:

• Programs will typically only

need half the time

• Programs for overhead calculation read

aggregated line-item information from SAP

HANA instead of totals tables


CO-PA Accelerator Accelerating Period-End Closing

Cost Center Allocation to CO-PA

Classic

DB

SD, FI, OM, PC, OBJ, CRM, …

Customer Material Branch Revenues

1000 P-100 Pump 100,-

2000 P-100 Pump 200,-

1000 P-200 Pump 300,-

1000 C-47 Cycle 100,-

1000 C-48 Cycle 150,-

3000 C-48 Cycle 150,-

Cost Center

60%

40%

Profitability

segments

Distribution

according to

revenues on

a level of

branch

CO-PA read function

SAP HANA

DB

+ Delta

Accelerating Cost Center Allocation to CO-PA


CO-PA Accelerator Accelerating Period-End Closing (cont.)

Selection of reference data Processing and posting

Processing and posting

time

ERP

ERP + HANA

Total runtime reduced

by 2-50% maximum

(case-dependent)

8 h 4 h

Allocation with CO-PA

Accelerator

Selection of reference data

from line items directly

Efficient access to data by any

criterion, e.g., all data without

product attribute that needs to be

allocated to products

Allocation without CO-PA

Accelerator

Optimization of summarization

levels can be time-consuming

Read access for any field can be

difficult to support with indices


CO-PA data quantity structure

• ~ 220 Mio line items

• ~ 110 Mio CE4 items

ERP without

SAP HANA

ERP with

SAP HANA

Acceleration factor

CO-PA drill-down report “Sales”

• Initial run for year 2011 480 sec 12 sec 40

• Drill Down by Profit Center 280 sec 3 sec 90

CO-PA drill-down reports “ZPL09-EBITDA”

• Initial run for period 1.2011 45 sec 5 sec 9

• Drill Down by Record Type 45 sec 3 sec 15

CO-PA cost center allocation – cycle “C3770X”

• Productive run 6.721 sec 1.136 sec 6

• Existing ERP reports and allocations are accelerated with no changes to definitions

• Report drill-down performance does not depend on availability of suitable aggregation levels

• Any drilldown becomes possible, e.g., by customer and product (not feasible before)

• Period-end closing activity can run faster without any changes in definitions

CO-PA Accelerator Performance Validation (Productive Customer Data)

Note: Runtime improvements in the cloud will vary from SAP benchmarks due to network

latency, virtualized hardware and implementation-specific factors


CO-PA Accelerator What Customers Say

Colgate Palmolive Perform analysis at unparalleled speed with SAP CO-PA

Accelerator – going live in just eight weeks Michael Crowe, Vice President Global Information Technology

Provimi Optimize profits with SAP CO-PA Accelerator – going live in just

three weeks Jean Charles Valette, Group Controller

BASF Accelerate response times dramatically and improve data reliability

to optimize business Andrew Pike, CIO Information Services

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TruCloud Benefits

1. Further speed up time and lower the effort needed to assess what HANA acceleration for SAP ERP Financials can do for your organization using your data (days not weeks to implement after scoping and planning)

2. Leverage TruCloud to reduce the dependence on skilled resources and infrastructure through pre-defined set-up, templates and jobs like data replication and system backups.

3. Gain relevant performance statistics, technology selection insights and end-user feedback to build your business case and roadmap


Benefits

1. Speed up the time and lower the effort needed to assess what HANA acceleration for SAP ERP Financials can do for your organization using your data (days not weeks to implement after scoping and planning)

2. Leverage TruCloud to reduce the dependence on skilled resources and infrastructure through pre-defined set-up, templates and jobs like data replication and system backups.

3. Gain relevant performance statistics, technology selection insights and end-user feedback to build your business case and roadmap


What We Need From You

1. In order to hook up your non-productive system to

TruCloud, we need access to your system and ports

opened to create the HANA database connection and

configure HANA acceleration to your SAP ERP

(including service users for remote connectivity)

2. You must be on SAP ECC 6.0 EhP5 or higher, with SAP

Landscape Transformation (SLT) installed.

3. We will provide your team with a checklist of SAP

NetWeaver authorizations access needed and the

activities that will be performed


Faster transactions and reports

• Customers will not see any difference to the

existing business processes; they will just

run faster … can process more data in the

same time

Acceleration

New capabilities

• Customers will have additional options for

reporting and analysis without having to

change existing business processes

• Includes Line Item Browsers and Virtual Info

Providers

Innovation

… without disruption … without disruption

• Facility in ERP that allows for use / leverage of SAP HANA as a secondary

database

• No changes to the ERP user interface, customizing or master data

• Existing ERP transactions and reporting will function as-is

• Accelerator capabilities can be selectively activated on a scenario level

• The system will switch back to the ERP database where SAP HANA is

unavailable. ERP functions and features will remain in-tact as today, just run

at speeds without acceleration

Try and decide without disruption



About TruQua

“TruQua is an official SAP services and licensed development partner

specializing in software solutions, project implementations and deployment

strategies for the integration of SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP

BusinessObjects BI, SAP HANA, and SAP BusinessObjects EPM.” 1

Contacts:

David Dixon : [email protected]

1 http://www.truqua.com/


Appendix


SAP in the Cloud: Deployment Environment Choices

SAP HANA One (AWS): one of several SAP Business Suite deployment environments

9 certified hardware

partners

Scales to any size

Enterprise-class

managed services

Mission critical 24x7

Cross license

reference architecture

Portability

HANA Subscription

license

Limited GB (64Gb)

SAP HANA One Public Cloud (AWS)

SAP HANA On Premise

SAP HANA

Enterprise Cloud Managed Cloud

Open Cloud

Ecosystem

Limited Scale Any Scale Elastic Scale Partner Scale


Cloud is not just about the money (PWC Study)

As much about business agility and access to technical skills as they are about saving money

“If it’s of equal cost and you can be more agile, then it’s a good business decision”

20%

Faster

delivery

Reduce

TCO

Access

superior

skills

Match

variable

needs to

costs

Simplify

complex IT

environment

Business &

IT alignment

Slower rate

of growth of

IT costs

Convert fixed

costs to variable

PWC: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/technology/cloud-computing/charticles/cloud-value-proposition.jhtml

Faster, Simpler and smarter solutions

While controlling or rather reducing cost

Without any upfront spending

http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/technology/cloud-computing/charticles/cloud-value-proposition.jhtml








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SAP HANA One on Amazon Marketplace

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TruCloud - FAQ

Why TruQua’s TruCloud approach?

TruCloud is a predefined proven process which provides

an accelerated quality execution based on TruQua’s

proprietary setup documentation and load scripts

Why Amazon?

TruCloud leverages Amazon AWS, offering the best

combination of short-term commitment and hourly cost for

non-productive use of a SAP HANA system in the cloud

What about SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)?

SAP HEC and TruCloud system setup and data loads are

basically the same; however with HEC the customer would

have to commit to minimum contract duration as well as

supply extra efforts to coordinate the HANA setup and

administration activities. The TruCloud solution cuts

through all of this setup and allows the customer to “try”

the HANA product almost as fast as HANA itself

SAP HEC is however highly recommended for all

productive use

Does SAP provide “try-end-decide”

SAP offers (fee-based) internal services to use SAP HANA

systems, they are not optimized however for the try-and-

decide HANA Finance Accelerator use case

Additional Finance Acceleration scenarios

All generally available HANA Finance Accelerators

scenarios are available. General Ledger, Cost

Management, and Profitability template have been

predefined for fast deployment. Additional setup costs may

apply for deployment solutions other than General Ledger,

Cost Management, and Profitability.

Firewalls and security

Connectivity between the ERP system and SAP HANA in

the cloud is responsibility of the customer. TruQua can

assist in and help coordinate the enablement

WAN and LAN performance impact

WAN and LAN performance do impact the efficiency of the

HANA Finance Accelerators. While typically of low impact,

TruQua can provide performance measurement services to

analyze performance issues as well as document the

overall performance gains obtained

Regional availability

TruCloud is available in key SAP regions, for availability in

your region please contact [email protected]


About TruCloud

Cloud Delivery

Performance Optimization

Quick Migration

SAP RealSpend

SAP HANA Finance Accelerators

Evolution of TruQua’s Cloud-Based Offerings Each Building on

Each Other for SAP HANA Finance Accelerators


Cloud Delivery Learnings

• Quick-Start Environment – Speeds up iterative prototyping

– Prior developments reusable

• Ease of Maintenance and Scalability – Dynamically increase hardware capacity

– Ability to change operating system, database, server landscapes and SAP Basis settings on the fly

– Ability to quickly apply notes and support packages

– Ability to implement additional security protocols such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and SNC (Secure Network Communications)

• Automated Backup and Restore – Developed proprietary backup and restore automation to

reduce project risks with system changes


• End-to-end visibility of bottlenecks

– From DB to Desktop Visibility

– Easier ranking of bottlenecks

– Easier to see bottleneck relationships

– Benchmarks comparability to on premise systems

• Automated stress testing – Bottlenecks identified and

cleared more quickly

– More time for iterations and end-to-end clock times

– HP LoadRunner setup and versioning considerations if on premise

Performance Tuning Learnings


• Test various software versions

simultaneously

– Leveraging HP LoadRunner

analysis on multiple instances

– Customer version was

compared with future software

versions with and without HANA

• Facts-based decision making

to support migration strategy

– Uncertainty around HANA was

eliminated and led to successful

implementation and go-live of

the solution

Migration Learnings


• TruCloud extended to ERP, SAP Gateway, SAP Mobile Platform and iPad for “try and decide”

– Several “moving pieces” and configuration options between software components and their connectivity

• Reference system and know-how

– First RealSpend implementation was a successful roll out at a Fortune Global 500 company

– Performed remotely and with limited access to customer systems by referencing TruCloud setup and learnings

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