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Link: https://blogs.sap.com/2021/03/11/moving-sap-business-objects-to-the-cloud-with-sap-business-objects-...
Webcast is from last month with Iver van de Zand and Jonathan Freeland, SAP
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Analytics is moving to the cloud, as shown above
Decrease of customers using on premise analytics
Time to move to the cloud
34% continuous annual growth rate
How relate to analytics?
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SAP's analytic offerings
Two portfolios of products
Investment is towards SAP Analytics Cloud; the go forward product
Thousands of customers use BusinessObjects, and want to continue use it
SAP is investing in BusinessObjects
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Can start with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
Alternative if you using BusinessObjects Suite on premise, you have option to use BusinessObjects Private Cloud Edition
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Moving BusinessObjects use cases to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) to ease transition
No migration from BusinessObjects to SAC and no plans to develop
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Use cases of SAC on top
How interconnectivity works
- Live data connectivity
- Analytics catalog
- Hybrid innovations
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Reasons to stay on BusinessObjects: pixel perfect reports, etc.
PCE may be a solution
Statement of direction - covers SAC, focus on, sources, and covers BusinessObjects
Core strategic direction is SAC
If you want to stay with BusinessObjects, have cloud alternative PCE
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If stay with BusinessObjects, PCE is an option
Over 60K customers using BusinessObjects
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BI strategy for BusinessObjects
BI4.2 - maximum 2024 for support
BI4.3 - Priority 1 support through 2027
Private Cloud Edition, 4.3, support without an end date at the moment
If you want to stay with BusinessObjects, the way forward is Private Cloud Edition (PCE)
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What you get with Private Cloud Edition
Provide full scope of normal BusinessObjects; SAP provides as a managed service
You have same access to user tools as today
Difference is SAP is managing platform, installation, patching
Two tier landscape
Hyperscaler first offering
Service Level agreement 99.7 across entire stack
1 contract, single material, select # of users, and SAP provides infrastructure
Shared system with you and SAP
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Single material, number of users, SAP provides licensing, infrastructure - Azure, etc. database
SAP provides application services
Optional - for additional help - report development
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PCE for BusinessObjects is one of many SAP offerings
76 offerings for analytics, adding all the time
PCE offerings are modular
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Summary of what is already covered
Where it fits
Many of us have BOE on premise, do our own patching, for several years
PCE vs HEC
HEC - private cloud from SAP - every single installation is different, customized, different architecture - takes longer to design and provision and more expensive.
PCE: prepackaged templates, T-shirt size, rapidly deploy turnkey solution with a suite of services
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Built on best practice reference architecture, designed to scale
Designed for mission critical environments
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User based subscription offering
T shirt sizes are small, medium, large, extra large
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PCE default platform is 4.3
Later this year will be SP2
Same tools as on premise
Runs on Linux platform
Data integrator/Data Services not in this BusinessObjects PCE; Data Services PCE is available
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T shirt sizes on the right
Enterprise Support is part of the support
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Reuse BusinessObjects investment; to do that with PCE - provided as part of PCE - SAP Cloud Connector, SAC Agent, BusinessObjects Live Data Connect
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Difference between PCE and deploying BusinessObjects on hyperscaler?
On left, on premise, where we are today
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If you move to IaaS, the provider will take on storage, etc but you are still responsible for BusinessObjects layer (patching)
PCE is tailored to BusinessObjects - file cleanups, settings, version management set up
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PCE vs hyperscaler summary
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Where start engagement with SAP
Is PCE feasible for you?
Cloud architect (CAA) to work with you
Migration assessment - may work with one of the partners - what to do with the content; move like to like over? Redevelopment?
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Once you have proposal, if need additional services, help, additional options shown above
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If sign agreement, signing for a service
Upgrades are included PCE; not mandated, one upgrade - you decide when
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What happens with existing BusinessObjects agreements? If move to PCE, your existing agreement is canceled
Move to a subscription
Could move to a combination of PCE + SAC
Take opportunity to "right size" BusinessObjects
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Move to SAC over time
Could be in stages
BusinessObjects reduces, SAC increases, with flexibility over time
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Big decision
Cloud architect will run workshops
Same software you had before
Customer is responsible for connection between data center and data sources
Customer examples are on the right
Q&A:
How to join SAP Analytics technology group
you can access the LinkedIN SAP Analytics group here: already 43800 others joined. We post 3-4 best practices per day: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8959879/
How does this compare to standalone tools like Anaplan, Workday who are innovating BI and reporting capabilities
SAP Analytics Cloud Planning is very (!) capable of all the things ANaplan does and beyond. On top we deliver splendid BI and Predictive analytics capabilities and also offer best-in-class connectivity
Would we ever be able to have "Dashboard in a day" type training with SAC?
absolutely: we revamped our SAP ANalytics Community and has a ton of enablement materials to really quickly onboard your users: https://community.sap.com/topics/cloud-analytics
AS its Private offering so does Customer have control over elasticity and other Infrastructure?
yes, there are various packages. Jonathan will cover that. Also: you choose the hyperscaler
Link to slides: https://on24static.akamaized.net/event/32/98/88/7/rt/1/documents/resourceList1627325540660/journeyto...
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