SAP NetWeaver BW: Powered by SAP HANA

Customer Feedback
April 6, 2012

SAP NetWeaver BW: Powered by SAP HANA

Ramp up early customer adopters

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SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA Ramp-up Results

Home Trust
Project scope
and business
scenario

Home Trust has successfully completed Proof of Concept migrating SAP

NetWeaver BW 7.0 to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 and migrating of TB
data from Oracle DB to SAP HANA DB. This resulted in drastic
improvements of Reporting run-times in BW, SAP BusinessObjects and
Cognos Reporting as well as data load improvements and screen
navigation and stand alone Programs

Performance
and benefits

DSO/Cube loading speeds up about 1.3x faster

DSO activation 19x
BW query average 8-12x
Sub-optimized (large data sets and OLAP operations) 2.5x
Simple queries (Few char and few kyf) up-to 453x
Cognos integration at least 10x

Customer
quotes

We are very impressed with the proof-of-concept results running BW on

SAP HANA. As a result, we are re-architecting our Reporting
environment to leverage BW on HANA. Our plan is to replatform
reporting over the course of summer 2012.
Saniv Purba, CIO of Home Trust

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Nongfu Springs
Project scope
and business
scenario

NongFu Springs implemented SAP NetWeaver BW on DB2 in 2008.

Over time, as data volumes in SAP NetWeaver BW continued to grow,
overall performance started to degrade affecting business users
productivity. This prompted the move to running SAP NetWeaver BW on
SAP HANA in early 2012

Performance
and benefits

5x to 7x improvement in DSO generation and activation

Average report speed on SAP NetWeaver BW queries improved by 5x
to 10x
Non disruptive for the business when using SAP BusinessObjects BI
on top of SAP NetWeaver BW just much faster data processing and
a better user experience
Reduced IT workload with the elimination of indexes and aggregates
as well as simplified modeling in SAP HANA
Entire data volume stored in DB2 when migrated to SAP HANA (and
stored in-memory) is 1/3x smaller

Customer
quotes

We are so satisfied with the operation and speed of the entire BW on

HANA implementation. According to end users' feedback, the speed of
their standard BW reports is very fast and has been improved greatly. In
addition, the running of the whole production system is stable with fast
speed of the data extract, ETL, and incremental updates.
CIO NongFu Springs

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Shanghai Volkswagen
Project scope
and business
scenario

Migrated original BW Test system (copy from BW Productive system),

converted relevant modeling and showed data with Business Objects 4.0
Web Intelligence

Performance
and benefits

Cube loading speeds up about 1.39x

DSO activation 4.15x
BW query 8.5x
WebI execution 11.6x, compared to BW on Oracle
(Ex. With the same data volume(40 millions) in Cube, SAP NetWeaver BW
on SAP HANA: 45 seconds, BW on Oracle: result set returned finally after a
20 minutes wait)

Customer
quotes

Real-time insights combining our customer demand, marketing

promotion, with supply chain visibility on a rock-solid enterprise-class
data platform is a must in our industry.
With SAP HANA, we see a tremendous opportunity to dramatically
improve our enterprise data warehouse solutions with BW on HANA,
drastically reducing data latency and improving speed when we can
return query results in 45 seconds from BW on HANA vs. waiting up to
20 minutes for empty results from BW on Oracle.
Weijun Zhang, IT Manager, Project Manager for BW on HANA Pro

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USHA
Project scope
and business
scenario

Migration of original BW-DB2 production system to SAP HANA with data

volumes of 750GB, (faster migration reduced to 419GB by PSA data
clean-up). In addition, the reloaded data foot-print on SAP NetWeaver
BW-SAP HANA was reduced to 46GB

Performance
and benefits

Customer
quotes

Business users are very thrilled with the results. They are able to run
reports faster, and more importantly, productively utilize their time for
analysis and better decision making.

Query performance improvement 60-80x

Data load 10x faster
Compression factor 9.1
85+ reports/queries running over SAP HANA

Our IT department is also very happy as this project has achieved 3

things in one go: achieve a smaller DB footprint for the same size of a
BW deployment; faster data loads making more current data available
to business; faster reporting and analysis making business users happy
We are now planning to migrate to BPC HANA. Customer is also
planning to upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0.
Subodh Dubey, Group CIO, USHA

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Lenovo
Project scope
and business
scenario

Lenovo launched their BI Go Live Project in Nov 2011 with SAP

NetWeaver BW 7.3 on SAP HANA 1.0 and BusinessObjects BI 4.0 for
reporting in Global Shipment Process. After a successful implement and
pilot, they went live in Mar 2012

Performance
and benefits

Reporting performance (Web Intelligence) improved by 2x to 20x

Data in SAP HANA compressed by 24 x after loading from database source
BW system
Huge and complicated data scenarios supported in SAP HANA e.g. 6
underline tables with more than 100 million records; 20 tables more than 10
million records
General BW Query performance improved from hours to minutes

Customer
quotes

I personally was very convinced by the HANA technology. With the quick
implementation, we are able turn the HANA product into a solution reality at Lenovo,
which significantly increased our business end to end efficiency, without any business
disruption.
Enabling HANA to run under our SAP BW system is a very important milestone. I am
now confident that we have much greater capabilities for advanced reporting which will
make our operations more efficient and productive. In fact, I visited with our worldwide
manufacturing leads who already were seeing benefits of this capability as we can now
create key reports on shipping more timely and accurately across all of our plants. This
is the kind of capability we need to drive operational excellence and become #1!
XiaoYu Liu VP, GM Global Applications Development

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Innogence
Project scope
and business
scenario
Performance
and benefits

Australia-based systems integrator and SAP partner, Innogence set up

an SAP HANA instance at its premises, running under SAP NetWeaver
BW to run various test scenarios using large volumes of test data loaded
into SAP HANA and BW
BWB (SQL
database)

Query against cube

with 20 million rows
Data transfer process
runtime of loading 1
million records into
DSO
DSO activation
runtime for 1 million
records

Customer
Feedback

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BWH (SAP HANA

database)

Performance
gains

110 seconds

0.5 seconds

220x

294 seconds

87 seconds

3.4x

359 seconds

13 seconds

27x

The validation of BW on SAP HANA is particularly promising, as this

solution will drive a lot of SAP HANA adoption within SAPs installed
base. What is more is that partners developing on the SAP HANA
platform will enable new business scenarios and reach customers and
industries that SAP may have otherwise never been able to access

Real-time insights combining our customer

demand, marketing promotion, with supply
chain visibility on a rock-solid enterprise-class
data platform is a must in our industry...
With SAP HANA, we see a tremendous
opportunity to dramatically improve our
enterprise data warehouse solutions,
drastically reducing data latency and improving
speed when we can return query results in
45 seconds from BW on HANA vs. waiting
up to 20 minutes for empty results from BW
on Oracle.
Weijun Zhang
IT Manager
Shanghai Volkswagen

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Enabling HANA to run under our

SAP BW system is a very important
milestone. We can now create key
reports on shipping more timely
and accurately across all of our
plants. This is the kind of capability
we need to drive operational
excellence and become #1!
XiaoYu Liu
Vice President
GM Global Applications Development
Lenovo

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Business users are very thrilled with the

results. They are able to run reports faster,
and more importantly, productively utilize their
time for analysis and better decision making.
Our IT department is also very happy as this
project has achieved faster data loads
making more current data available to
business; faster reporting and analysis
making business users happy.
Our IT department is also very happy as this
project has achieved a smaller DB footprint
for the same size of a BW deployment.
Subodh Dubey
Group CIO
USHA
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Yazaki Europe, an automotive supplier and the worlds largest producer of wiring harnesses for
cars and trucks, had been using the 3.5 version of SAP NetWeaver BW 3.5. The company was
having challenges with the performance of the existing reporting system.
We chose SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA to improve and accelerate several
processes in the areas of finance and controlling, production and logistics and we have already
seen major improvements. We were able to accelerate processes within finance and
controlling, such as end-of-month closing, year-end closing and other common analysis in the
area of controlling.
Our next big step will be the acceleration of processes within the productive ERP system,
among others in the area of production and logistics.
With SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA, Yazaki Europe has been able to accelerate
reporting and is now accessing reports faster out of info cubes and using creativity within
reporting. In addition, they are leveraging in-memory processing for fast acceleration of raw
tables, calculations and BW metadata.
Salim Siddiqi,
CIO Yazaki Europe
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