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Under Armour: SOAR Speed to Market and Technology Innovation
Brian McManus Thomas Garreis
The UA Story
The UA Story
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The UA Story
The UA Story
Why HANA?
The Challenge
Our Approach
Timeline
The Technology
Results
Why HANA
The Challenge
0ur Approach
Key Decision-Making Criteria
Speed to market/Ability to meet our aggressive timelines
Maturity of the IBM product/solution
Executive Sponsorship
Proven Track Record
IBM Made it easy!
Leverage our strategic partnerships
Delivery and Installation Timeline
• Order Placed on 12/1
with IBM
• Order left China on
12/15
• Parts Arrived at
CDW on 12/23
• Racked and
stacked and
shipped on 1/6
• All of this done
over the holidays
• All wiring done
prior to shipping
out
• Appliances
arrived at UA on
1/10
• Ready for code
on 1/14
• SOAR code
installation began
on 1/14
SAP HANA Scale-out • Simple
–No SAN or external disk storage required because of IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS)
• Expand database by adding nodes with GPFS
•One part number ordering for each node (stand-alone or scale-out)
• Seamless –IBM eX5 and GPFS provide high availability and DR ready solution
• Integrated packaging reduces risk and speeds deployment
• Simplified infrastructure reduces on-going maintenance
• Scalable –Scale to 16 TB and larger* using IBM GPFS*
• Supports large database requirements
–Validated by SAP
• 16 Node x3690 eX5 (256GB) with HA
• 56 Node x3950 eX5 with HA
• Larger can be field certified
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Scale Out Options
SAP HANA SOAR Project
SAP HANA ARO Project Reference Architecture
Analytics Dashboard
Near Real time Allocation
Over 50% Reduction in Rescheduling Runtimes
Over 90% Reduction in Allocation Runtimes
The Results
SOAR product is in its first iteration(Joint Development)
Product appliance scales out, but costs increase with capacity growth
New HANA use case resulted in some architecture modifications
Good teaming – from sizing, architecture, implementation through production
Performance guarantees are real
BW environment is being implementation in a phased approach
Lessons Learned
Questions?
Contact Information
Under Armour
Brian McManus – [email protected]
Thomas Garreis – [email protected]
Additional Under Armour sessions at SAPPHIRE:
Using Business Intelligence and Mobility at Under Armor to improve the relationship between Finance and the Business
#1903 Tuesday 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 pm S310A: S. Concourse, L3
Visit ASUG after SAPPHIRE for a replay of: Under Armour: HANA ARO - A Fashion Co-Innovation Story
# 3002 held Tuesday 12:30pm
Thank you