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How to Get the Most Out of Your SAP HANA Initiative

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Rakhi Makad Industry Principal, BI Infosys

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he introduction of SAP HANA, SAPs in-memory computing appliance, has generated a lot of buzz lately. Every day, Infosys has been addressing questions from our customers, such as, How will SAP HANA be useful for my organization? and How can we build the best use case for implementing SAP HANA? Weve found that the key to success here is to first determine exactly how an SAP HANA implementation can support the business strategies and technologies you already have in place and to build a use case based on your business priorities.

scenarios that will support your long-term adoption roadmap and vision for SAP HANA. Analytic Analytic applications For applications one of our customers wanted to example, leverage SAP HANA to improve the performance of its BI EPM BI EPM existing Business procurement, inventory, and Business chain supply analytics analytics reporting functionality. Infosys helped this company EIM GRC EIM GRC build a use case and roadmap that accounted for not Data Data only the operational and analytical benefits of SAP warehousing warehousing HANA, but the strategic benefits as well. This means that the use case was able to clearly present the business value measures for these functions and how they could be improved using different business levers.
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Determine Your SAP HANA Use Case

There are many use cases for implementing SAP HANA (see Figure 1). Companies can use SAP HANAs capabilities to improve reporting and analytics and to optimize their business processes. But theres also another use case thats often overlooked: new application implementations. And this use case is actually impressively strong. Applications implemented using SAP HANA can be built for strategic business scenarios that bring your organization closer to its goals, allowing you to exploit all of the capabilities of SAP HANA. What this means is that, when starting with SAP HANA, you should also consider implementing strategic new applications that will bring in the most business value. Doing so will help you to define additional use cases and

Get the Most Out of SAP HANA

Infosyss SAP HANA Center of Excellence (CoE) is Mobility Mobility currently working with several customers to help them choose the right SAP HANA use case for them and to define their roadmap to implementation. We have over 6,500 data warehousing consultants and over 1,800 consultants who are experts in SAPs business intelligence tools and SAP BusinessObjects technologies. Also, we have jointly worked with SAP on an SAP HANA pilot application for real-time simulation of margins for our corporate group. To learn more about how Infosys can help you with your SAP HANA business case, visit www.infosys.com/ sap/pages/index.aspx and www.infosysblogs.com/sap/. Or you can email sap_marketing@infosys.com. n

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matrix highlights SAP HANAs capabilities and use cases

Use case/ functionality Operational reporting Improved business process Improved analytics New application

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O: Operational; A: Analytical; S: Strategic Reproduced from the Oct n Nov n Dec 2011 issue of SAPinsider with permission from its publisher, WIS Publishing | sapinsider.wispubs.com