SAP IT Operation Analytics 1.0 Overview – Webcast Notes
This was an SAP webcast last week with SAP’s Angela Harvey and Frank Bannert, who is the product manager for the product. The product is in rampup and the official SAP Help says
“SAP IT Operations Analytics (SAP ITOA) is an Analytics offering that allows IT to have a comprehensive view of their data center. Traditionally, different areas of a data center have been managed by different groups with different tools, making root-cause analysis challenging and increasing mean time to resolution. With SAP ITOA 1.0, log data is streamed in real-time so you can do comprehensive, real-time analysis.”
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Figure 1 is legal disclaimer
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SAP IT Operations Analytics is a native application built on HANA, but it does not require a full HANA license
It uses mart data streaming, real time streaming of logged data, to make real time analysis with alerting functions
It uses predictive in HANA for preventive maintenance
In the future it will have an SDK available
As an example, you can have 9 million logged events and today we use 7-20 different monitoring tools
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Today a typical data center has too many alerts
Too many teams working on 1 issue
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Figure 4 provides a view of data center
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Figure 5 shows the pre-built dashboards
System sends events, smart data streaming engine listens, and bring into HANA data model
Put into buckets, logical grouping of events
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No need to index
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Figure 7 shows that you can predict based on historical log servers that aren’t busy 6 hours from now
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Who is working on what
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Figure 9 shows the foundation; ITOA stands for IT Operations Analytics
You can create dashboards and share with other users
Frank gave a demo – you can also watch this video from Angela’s blog:
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The product is in ramp-up now, recruiting customers
ASUG has an upcoming webcast on this August 13 – register here. Angela said it would cover the business side of SAP IT Operations Analytics
Reference:
Sneak Peak–SAP IT Operations Analytics