Business Overview
Our client is a leading US based bottling and distribution company. They were looking to improve and enhance the performance of their SAP BPC planning and budgeting tool.
Katalyst’s Solution
- Katalyst SAP Basis experts analyzed the issues faced and recommended upgrading the BPC system and HANA database.
- The BPC systems were hosted in the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Katalyst upgraded the BPC system from BPC 10.1, BW 7.4 SP 8 to BPC 10.1 BW 7.5 SP 17. Katalyst also upgraded the database from HANA 1.0 to HANA 2.0 SP4.
- Approach: Straight forward approach was adopted where the upgrade is done on the existing BPC system directly. This approach is suitable when downtime for the BPC system is acceptable. It results in low hardware and maintenance costs.
- The below figure explains the process involved in upgrading the entire BPC landscape. A complete backup of the system was taken before performing the upgrade.
Business Challenges
Issues with in-memory disaggregation, impacting planning functions specifically related to input enabled queries.
Benefits
- Improved application and database performance.
- The new SAP HANA Deployment Infrastructure (HDI) and WebIDE allow the client to take advantage of the modeling tools’ advanced features.
- SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA provides a comprehensive web-based end-to-end development experience for creating SAP HANA native applications.
- The upgrade resolved the issues with in-memory disaggregation with Deep HANA Integration Active and improved performance.
- Enhanced the planning functions speed by 10x from the current speed rate.
