SAP HANA
Infrastructure
About SAP HANA
Proprietary Technology
Owned and heavily promoted by SAP
Comprehensive Ecosystem
application development and runtime services (XS Classic and Advanced)
text processing
complex event processing
timeseries analysis
graph-based databases
spatial data processing
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Multiple Architecture Options
Single Server
Multi-Tenant
Multi-Node
HA
Replication
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New technology Foundation for many SAP products
S/4 ERP System
BW Business Warehouse
SCM Supply Chain Management
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Multiple Data Integration Technologies
SAP LT Replication
SAP SRS
SAP Data Services
SAP Smart Data Integration
SAP HANA Data Provisioning, ...
Only certified Hardware
Server and Storage Hardware or Solution must be certified by SAP, either as appliance or TDI (HW for individual data center solutions)
In-Memory DBMS
Combines OLTP and OLAP into a single system
Supports relational row- and column based storage
Supports object storage
Has its own SQL scripting langague and comprehensive function library
Multiple Administrative and Management Interfaces
SAP HANA Studio
SAP HANA Cockpit
HANA Client
HANA Lifecycle Management
Current Delivery Models for SAP HANA Infrastructure
The following table shows which of the activities and services required to deploy, operate and maintain the SAP HANA Infrastructure stack are included into which of the three available delivery models: TDI, Appliance and Cloud. Pre-condition is that the customer purchased the necessary licenses, hardware (or appliances) and support contracts or is paying for his cloud subscription. TDI is the most flexible model offered by SAP, but the customer is responsible for most activities. The Appliance Model covers several activities for several stack components and the cloud model is the most complete one (not covering only the HANA Integrations). But the cloud model does not support co-location of HANA Infrastructure with existing hardware for SAP.
Our Delivery Model in Comparison: Managed Service
Our delivery model covers the maximal service scope, but without its dis-advantages: In our model, all hardware is fully dedicated and co-located with your other SAP and non-SAP systems.
Main Benefits
Full Stack Service
With our managed service we take full responsibility for all components and activities in the HANA infrastructure service stack - preventing unclear responsibilities and eliminating demand for lengthy coordination between customer and supplier teams to add systems, resolve issues or implement changes. This eases and accelerates provisioning of systems and capacity, resolution of issues and implementation of changes.
Low TCO
The total cost of ownership (TCO), including the ownership costs of all hardware, software licenses, hardware and software support and maintainance costs, hardware hosting, system monitoring, operations and service management is 2 times lower than for
Co-Location
In our model, all hardware is deployed in co-location with the customer's other SAP and non-SAP hardware to maximize performance, security and availability and minimize channel costs.
Scalable Architecture
Building on both the clustering and storage tiering capabilities of HANA, with our deployment blueprints and our ultra-high performance shared storage, we focus on horizontally scalable solutions to significantly reduce hardware costs and provide cost effective solutions also for very large HANA databases with high performance and availability requirements.
Complete solutions
Combining our private cloud, storage and HANA infrastructure capabilities, we are able to provide managed services for co-located SAP systems for both non-production and production environments in a manner that otherwise only cloud solutions can.