IntelligentEnterprise

SAP Enterprise Data Strategy
Join us for an interactive chat to discuss how to achieve the Intelligent Enterprise by building an SAP Enterprise Data Strategy that is driven by business outcomes.
Suhela Dighe
We are coming to the end of the live part of the Crowdchat! To our hosts and everyone here: What are your key takeaways? What is your main piece of advice for companies building a data strategy for SAP? https://www.crowdchat.net/s/362ic
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/362ic

Lorra Moyer
Customers do not have to come up with ideas by themselves. They don't have to go through a transformation alone. SAP and Dell are willing to walk with them on that journey.

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Suhela Dighe
We are thrilled to have real partners here on the chat @DellTech @SAP @Suse @PasaPasuk @CamelotITLab. Lots of collaboration.
stuartrorer
How to best prepare for building a business outcome based data strategy - engage support. There are incredible partners on this chat that can support your journey.
Kurt Roedszus
We from Dell Technologies together with our partners SUSE & SAP can support you on your journey to the S/4HANA migration
Robert Holland
Customers should continue to be as informed as possible about what they are doing. Many are spending this time learning and preparing their business cases. Do their research, and look at what vendors are providing.
Lorra Moyer
Use your quarantine time for some "vision" meditation :-)
John von Voros
In-memory databases will be the only way to keep up with the torrents of data coming and extracting meaningful data.
Jim Whalen
Look for use case that helps the business see the outcome that can achieve.
Suhela Dighe
We would like to thank our hosts and participants for a lively and insightful discussion today! For more on #DellTech and #SAP, please check out: https://www.delltechnologies.com/sap
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stuartrorer
Keep in mind, there are technology decisions, integration decisions with legacy systems, and process decisions that will impact your ability to deliver true business outcomes
Joakim Zetterblad
Data Strategies requires collaboration and integration. SAP, Dell, Suse and partners uniquely positioned to help clients transform. End-to-End. Reach out to us and we will tell you more.
Alan Clarke
I re-iterate, consult all the players/partners to help build/scope your transformation strategy...and let them all contribute. Then get them together.....regularly! Field-proven, simple but essential policy for success and best practice!
Brian McKenna
Great point, Robert, this has been a time to step back and think strategically for many customers. Been hearing about C-level executives effectively been war rooming, focusing for the post-pandemic business world.
Suhela Dighe
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Kurt Roedszus
Folks thank you for that great discussion - was really a pleasure with you chatting about the IntelligentEnterprise
Jim Whalen
Partnerships are important - - - - you have to plan you SAP roadmaps as you move from SAP ERP to S4/HANA AND IT needs to look at the infrastructure architecture to support these new systems and operating profiles.
stuartrorer
As a final comment, especially if you are trying to transform your organization to focus more on business outcome data strat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5RkisbJKNw
https://www.youtube.com/embed/c5RkisbJKNw
0. Overview | Outcome-Driven Data Strategy Master Class by SAP
Jim Whalen
Dell EMC provides choices for SAP HANA. IT need to plan a path forward considering when they are today and where they are moving. For example, leverage what you have today, or if new project what about CI/HCI -- - https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/solutions/b...
https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/solutions/business-applications/sap/ready-solutions-for-sap.htm#overlay=/content/dam/digitalassets/active/en/unauth/offering-overview-documents/solutions/h16290-dell-emc-solutions-for-sap-hana-so.pdf
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Suhela Dighe
Important point @bmmck! Now is the time to invest and plan for the post-pandemic world. #DellTech are running a number of C-level roundtables with this in mind. In fact, next week, there's one for CFOs about embracing disruption and finding opportunity: https://meettheboss.com/dell-tune-in-tuesdays/even...
https://meettheboss.com/dell-tune-in-tuesdays/events/the-finance-leader-of-the-future-embracing-disruption-and-finding-opportunity/
The finance leader of the future: embracing disruption and finding opportunity - Meet The Boss
The finance leader of the future: embracing disruption and finding opportunity - Meet The Boss
This is the key question facing leaders at a tough time for everyone, when an unprecedented period of upheaval has brought immediate tactical challenges and cost pressures to companies everywhere.
Suhela Dighe
We all love real life examples, if you missed it earlier: Gerolsteiner (https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/solutions/b...), and Columbia Sportswear: https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/solutions/b...
https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/solutions/business-applications/sap/index.htm#tab0=0&overlay=//www.dellemc.com/en-us/collaterals/unauth/customer-profiles-case-studies/solutions/dell-technologies-customer-profile-gerolsteiner.pdf
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Suhela Dighe
Discussion point 2: How do you go about building a successful data strategy for SAP? Where should organisations start? It seems that it is difficult when the IT environment is overly complex and siloed. https://www.crowdchat.net/s/962fh
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/962fh

stuartrorer
From a technology standpoint, for SAP customers, initial steps are adoption of SAP HANA and S/4. These provide the basic layers of the platform to enable integration of transactional data with IoT data, big data, sentiment data, etc.
Brian McKenna
You would need Hana to get the most out of today’s SAP technology stack, surely? That’s a sine qua non.
stuartrorer
And utilizing the SAP Cloud Platform services to extend the application layer and integrate data across the enterprise is key.
Brian McKenna
Recent interview with an SAP S/4 Hana customer, Vodafone was told: it's fair to say in the old ECC world, we had this one single instance system, it was very difficult to get the data out of the system and do the appropriate analysis.
Joakim Zetterblad
According to SAP Insights, “more than half (52%) of respondents report that their number one priority when making operational improvements to their businesses is to modernize their IT systems to improve information flow. In doing so, they’re building the foundation they need to c
Joakim Zetterblad
In doing so, they’re building the foundation they need to capitalize on the intelligent technologies they expect to deploy.”
Lorra Moyer
Stuart was right on getting started, this is the gateway so to speak to open up the "art of the possible" for how you can give new emerging technology business contextual meaning. Use AI in Financial processes, react to triggers closer to your manufacturing line, or edge etc

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Robert Holland
@JZetterblad I agree. 61% of respondents to our survey said that they want to move to SAP S/4HANA because of the opportunities that it offers to optimize processes, and 51% said they were using it as a way to implement standardized end-to-end processes
stuartrorer
Other key points to address are current process, data quality, archiving - think about the analogy of moving houses and purging before you move to the new location
Kurt Roedszus
We at Dell also see in our discussions with customers a strong interest moving to SAP S/4HANA
Brian McKenna
From Vodafone again advantage that they now have is the sheer computing power, thanks to Hana, to do more analysis, more prediction. And also to integrate more data sources – eg IoT data. That was more difficult before, and was not real time. Big S/4 Hana customer.
Brian McKenna
@KurtRoedszus Has it been a slow build?
Joakim Zetterblad
Agree Lorra, and moving to S/4 also provides an opportunity to modernize the overall Data Strategy and build a common platform for both transactional and analytical data.
Jim Whalen
When planning for S4/HANA, organizations need to also address SAP NW ERP landscapes that have grown over time organizations running on “siloed” IT. Starting with a consolidation strategy to reduce cost for running classic SAP ERP, AND ready to support SAP
Suhela Dighe
Do you have some real life (customer) examples of organisations that have successfully implemented a data strategy for SAP? What did they do?
stuartrorer
With the integrated data platform, companies can then address the correct issues - see a great example from Duke Energy: https://news.sap.com/2019/07/duke-energy-newfound-...
Kurt Roedszus
Our joint customer Endress&Hauser recently completed his transformation to S/4HANA - he had a solid project plan and took enough time to execute the project successful
stuartrorer
Duke was able to integrate operational data and survey data to priortize business focus
Lorra Moyer
@jfpw55 and Dell's IoT portfolio can open up new ways to bring decisions closer to the edge...
Robert Holland
Agreed Jim. There is lots of focus on centralizing systems as organizations move away from older ERP systems, and creating systems that are harmonized and reduce both TCO and IT maintenance costs.
Brian McKenna
No SAP customer would just have Hana, though? Other databases, Hadoop clusters. And wouldn’t just have SAP Analytics Cloud, would have Qlik or Salesforce Tableau, would have data integration technologies (Informatica) … How does it all fit?
Erika Nogier
PASàPAS for example decided to use SAP Tools to run most of its activity S/4 Hana, Success Factors, Concur and Solman for our consultant activity and we've easily built SAC reports to build useful dashboards and define our strategy

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Alan Clarke
@KurtRoedszus indeed - this may seem a simple and logical point but we also advise SAP customers embarking on projects to ensure they get all the relevant players together to help scope the project. Good planning is half the battle!
Kurt Roedszus
Endress & Hauser moved from IBM Mainframe / DB2 - SAP Business Suite - to SAP S/4 HANA in steps. First the technology migration to Dell PowerEdge / SUSE / SAP HANA
Joakim Zetterblad
Key points to succeed with an SAP Data Strategy is to address 1.Consolidation/Integration 2. Simplification (of management and orchestration 3. Cloud enablement to allow for multi cloud models
Brian McKenna
@stuntrores Was that using Qualtrics?
Kurt Roedszus
And in the second step Endres & Hauser changed from SAP Business Suite to S/4HANA - in total they took ~ 2 years for that journey - It's an excellent story - have a look at dell.com
Erika Nogier
@ErikaNogier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGXzMh_vRk&fe...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/IWGXzMh_vRk
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John von Voros
Data Pipeline creation is a challenge as you need to pull from diversifed sources with complete governance. Many of our customers have been able to leverage SAP Data Hub to build re-usable workflows to consolidate their Edge data.
stuartrorer
@bmmck - beauty of the openness of SAP technology platform. SAP has partnered with MSFT, AWS, GCP and others for data integration. And Database platforms are open to 3rd party analytic tools and data movement tools
Robert Holland
@bmmck Agreed Brian. In a survey we have in the field at the moment we're seeing more than 50% of respondents looking outside SAP for their enterprise analytics needs, so any data strategy needs to include solutions from multiple vendors.
Kurt Roedszus
Another great customer story is Gerolsteiner - where we build together with our partner Intense an resource management system based on SCP & SAP Business Suite - running on Dell PowerEdge and Dell Storage
Lorra Moyer
Customers do not have to feel they are on the transformation journey alone. SAP and the SAP ecosystem can sit down with you and have a conceptual discussion on how to leverage the latest technologies to help you differentiate and evolve.
stuartrorer
@bmmck - yes, the duke example does include qualrics data for the survery information
Suhela Dighe
For our audience today, there are some great case studies here to peruse! It helps to follow some best practices and learn from others in your industry or with the same challenges.
Joakim Zetterblad
@stuntrores and DellTech cloud offers SAP clients the ability to build a multi cloud strategy while keeping control and orchestration consistent, thanks to our vmware VCF capabilities.
Kurt Roedszus
To get more info on that business use case have a look at that link: https://www.dellemc.com/en-ie/collaterals/unauth/c...
https://www.dellemc.com/en-ie/collaterals/unauth/customer-profiles-case-studies/solutions/dell-technologies-customer-profile-gerolsteiner.pdf
https://www.dellemc.com/en-ie/collaterals/unauth/customer-profiles-case-studies/solutions/dell-technologies-customer-profile-gerolsteiner.pdf
Suhela Dighe
Can an organisation go it alone or do they need a technology or implementation partner? What have the majority of these examples done?
Jim Whalen
As organizations scale the adoption of the SAP HANA for “data driven” applications IT must have a strategy for data management. Key is reducing the amount of data that must be maintained in expensive DRAM. https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/t/dell-emc-so...
https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/t/dell-emc-solutions-for-sap-hana-data-tiering-1/
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Alan Clarke
'Data Strategy is a journey to get competitive advantage by utilising the data available within & outside the organisation and simplifying the future by adopting the digital path.' Great blog here https://blogs.sap.com/2020/01/10/an-outcome-driven...
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/01/10/an-outcome-driven-enterprise-data-strategy-organization-and-governance/
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Brian McKenna
@rholland_nh And do they see SAP as primarily strategic or primarily transactional? SAP UK and Ireland User Group Survey 2019 said 8% saw SAP as a trusted advisor. 16% just as transactional supplier.
Robert Holland
Anyone implementing an enterprise data strategy also needs to have a DataOps strategy, and there's an interesting articleon that topic from a member of the SAPinsider Community - https://www.sapinsideronline.com/articles/an-intro...
https://www.sapinsideronline.com/articles/an-introduction-to-dataops-a-new-approach-to-acting-on-large-volumes-of-information-faster-and-more-effectively/
An Introduction to DataOps: A New Approach to Acting on Large Volumes of Information Faster and More Effectively - SAPinsider
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Suhela Dighe
We have our friends from @SAP and @Suse here today. I wanted to share a joint white paper that may be of interest: https://www.dellemc.com/en-gb/collaterals/unauth/w...
https://www.dellemc.com/en-gb/collaterals/unauth/white-papers/solutions/dell-emc-suse-sap-enterprise-whitepaper.pdf
https://www.dellemc.com/en-gb/collaterals/unauth/white-papers/solutions/dell-emc-suse-sap-enterprise-whitepaper.pdf
stuartrorer
@jzetterblad absolutely. The extended value DellTech brings to the table is incredible. While SAP solutions enable compute and processing, the ability to collect, store and process the data from the edge to the core is a critical add from DellTech
Lorra Moyer
SAP has several customer testimonials - and you can search to tailor to your industry etc. https://www.sap.com/about/customer-involvement/cus...
https://www.sap.com/about/customer-involvement/customer-stories/finder.html
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Jim Whalen
When planning for SAP S/4 HANA- - -- it may be appropriate to look at and archive first strategy. https://www.crowdchat.net/s/362h8
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/362h8

Fabrice Dréval
Thank you @ErikaNogier for the great multicloud customer case ;-)
Robert Holland
@bmmck It's something we need to dig into further. Many are using SAP solutions for all their needs, but not everyone.
Erika Nogier
as a SAP Partner with S/4, SF & BI expertise we help our Customer in defining their data strategy from the transactions to the Analysis of it. But once the System is built the users can be quite autonomous. e.g our Controller manages SAC on her own to build dashboards