cloud computing at sap

Frank StienhansBST Innovation [email protected]

July 15th 2009

Cloud Computing @ SAPSAP UK Worldtour

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Organization and Disclaimer

DescriptionDisclaimer

1. The following content represent ideas and prototypes – not product announcements or commitments to productize2. SAP is very interested in understanding the use cases and requirements you see.

DescriptionProduct Organization: SAP Business Solutions and Technology (BST)

Large Enterprises: SAP Business Suite, SAP Large Enterprise On Demand SME: SAP All in One, SAP Business byDesign, SAP Business One Technology: SAP Business Objects, SAP NetWeaver

DescriptionOrganization: SAP BST Innovation Center

Explore innovation potential of new market and technology trends includingOn Demand, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, Co-Innovation Communities, Rich User Experiences


DescriptionAgenda

Introduction Value General Use Cases Conclusions

Cloud Computing Agenda


Theme

What could you do, if SAP would incorporate advanced forms of virtualization into our product and service offerings?

Cloud Computing Definition


Trends

Cloud Computing allows On Demand Software Provisioning with Zero-Installation & Automatic Configuration at low cost and immediate access in Scalable Data Centers.

Definition from Consumer Perspective

Application Providers Platform Providers Infrastructure Providers Service Providers

400,000 Developers + ISVs

Selected Cloud Consumers & ISVs

Trends and Value of Cloud Computing


From Manufacturing to Automation and Standardizationof IT Business

Industrialization of IT

From inflexible and long-term contracts to payment of metered usage

Utility Computing

From long running customer projects to immediate fulfillment of customer needs

On Demand Fulfillment

Value

Increase Business Agility, Increase R&D Efficiency

Breakthrough Consumption Experience of SAP Solutions

Reduce IT Costs/CAPEX for SAP, Customers and Partners

Traditional Hosting vs. Amazon CloudHosting Costs of ERP for Development

Traditional Hosting Amazon ec2Min Term 500 € / month 0.30 € / hour

Provisioning Time Min 1 week 6 min

Traditional Hosting


Cloud ScalabilityAmazon Customer: Animoto http://blog.animoto.com/

On April 14th 2008 Animoto provided a new plugin for facebook …

MonApr 14th

Tue Wed Thu Fri

Animoto Members 25,000 50,000 250,000

ec2 Server Instances 100 400 900 2800 3400


http://blog.animoto.com/

Impact on SAP Business Solutions and Technology

Description Business Needs

Improve R&D Efficiency

Opportunities

Status

Provide SAP Internal Cloud Piloting with SAP NetWeaver CE1. Reduce IT Costs2. Increase Developer Efficiency

Phase 1: SAP R&D

March 2009: Validate value ofCloud Enablement with customers and partners

Phase 2: Customer/Partner POC

Potential for new products and services

Phase 3: Products/Service

> 300 SAP employees as direct users from 16 countries> 4000 systems provisioned> 180.000 € Hosting Cost Savings

Customer Validation started


Minimize Cost of consuming SAP Solutions

(TCO)

New Product InnovationsNew Service Innovations

Cloud Use Cases


DescriptionNon-Mission Critical Use Cases: Current Potential

Development / Patching / Customizing Testing (Manual, Automated, Scalability) Training Demo / Workshops / Events Trial / Evaluation

DescriptionMission Critical Use Cases: Future Potential

Disaster Recovery, … On Premise: Provisioning of productive landscapes On Demand: Provisioning of productive services

DescriptionCloud Computing is a maturing approach

Integration with customer IT: Network, Operations, Billing Service Level Agreements: Security, High Availability, Performance

SAP Employee

SAP Employee Cloud Self Service

Amazon Web Services[ ec2 | s3 | SQS ]

MeteringProvisioning Configuration

ConfigurationMetering

SAP Cloud Enabling Services powered by SAP NetWeaver CE

SAP Solutionhosted on EC2

SAP

Amazon AWS (Cloud Infrastructure)

DEMO 1

Virtualization

SAP Employee


Amazon Network

Cloud Segment

SAP Network

SAP Employee

Lock-in Danger

Cloud Infrastructure

MeteringProvisioning Configuration

ConfigurationMetering

SAP Cloud Enabling Services powered by SAP NetWeaver CE

SAP Solution

Virtualization

SAP Employee


!!

Situation Today Private and Public Cloud Infrastructures are a dominant trend No single Cloud Infrastructure today is ideal for all use cases (SLAs, Integration, Costs) Every Cloud Infrastructure so far has significant proprietary elements in their interface, creating lock-in effect for consumers SAP, Customers and Partners are interested in Standardization of Cloud APIs

Cost Characteristics of Cloud InfrastructuresReal World Examples of using one SAP ERP System

© SAP 2009 /

Workshop 1 day 1.4%

Customer Demo incl. 1 week Development

7.5%

Local Development10h / Workday

30.0%

Central Systems24h / 7 days

100%

Monthly Consumption

Cloud Production Chain(SAP Internal)

VirtualApplianceLibrary

Cloud Instances

New Content

Operating System

OS

Inst

antia

te

OS +NW

Inst

antia

te

OS + SAP NetWeaver

Create Appliance

OS + NW +Suite Composite

Create Appliance

Suite Composite

Deploy

SAP NetWeaver

Deploy


Effect

Automated Functional Tests(SAP Internal)


time

Allo

cate

d m

achi

nes

T

8 night hours

T T T T T TT

Parallelize test case execution via Cloud Computing at No additional cost

Automated Test Controller

Cloud Services

Amazon ec2 Virtualization

Test Case

Machine

Legend

Ideal Cloud Computing InfrastructureA

utom

atic

Ope

ratio

ns

Abstraction Layer

Har

dwar

eV

irtua

lizat

ion

Abstraction Layer

App

licat

ion

Virt

ualiz

atio

n

(HW) Virtualization, Application Virtualization and Cloud Computing

SAP Solution & Platform

Operating System

Hardware

Reap the benefits & Do not pay the price of complexity


Cloud Segments

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Gate

SAP SAP Cloud

Fire

wal

l

VPN

Appliance Cloud SegmentCloud

Accounting &

Operations (Multi-Tenant)

Gate

Gat

eGate

ISV

Fire

wal

l

VPN

Appliance

Gate

Customer

Fire

wal

l

VPN

Appliance

Cloud Segment

Gate

Cloud Segment

Gate

Gate= Appliance for Secure Network Integration

Cloud Landscape: CRM

CRM DB

CRM Server

CRM Application

BW DB

TREX Server

Analytics

BW Server

SAP CRM Landscape

<Landscape name=“CRM Landscape" description=“Experimental CRM Landscape" > <Servers> <Server id=“CRM_Application" imageid="ami-abb057c2:snap-addf37c4" description=“CRM" /> <Server id=“CRM_Analytics" imageid="ami-abb057c2:snap-acdf37c5" description=“Analytics">

<Param name="hostname.ISABW.cloud.sap.corp" value=“CRM_Application" type="put" /><Param name="hostname.ISASLES.TCS.SAPCOD.CORP" value="CRM_Application" type="get" />

</Server> </Servers></Landscape>

DEMO 3


Cloud Landscape: SAP NetWeaver Cluster

SAP NetWeaver Central Instance

SAP NetWeaver Dialog Instance

SAP NetWeaver Cluster

SAP NetWeaver Web Dispatcher

SAP MaxDB Instance

DEMO 4


Hardware Utilization with System LandscapesToday’s Situation


Util

ized

Mac

hine

s

Sizing

Outage

Waste

Source: Amazon AWS

Challenge Avg. Utilization is <=10% with SAP Customers

Cloud Landscape: Dynamic SAP NetWeaver Cluster

SAP NetWeaverCentral Instance

SAP NetWeaverDialog Instance

SAP NetWeaver Cluster

SAP NetWeaver Web Dispatcher

SAP MaxDB Instance

DEMO 5

Load Monitoring Service

Dynamic Provisioning Controller

Provisioning Service

Amazon Web Services


Conclusions

Summary

‒ Cloud Infrastructures are a clear trend in IT, increasing the business agility, decrease IT costs, and allow to consume SAP solutions in new ways

‒ Significant potential value in the domain of non-mission critical use cases exist today

‒ SAP is exploring options to provide additional value in form of product and/or service innovation

More Information

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