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US Army Operations
Transformed Using SAP HANA
Amith R Nikam, CSCP, PMP
Principal Solutions Architect
anikam@csc.com
May 7, 2015
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A GLOBAL
POWERHOUSE
IN BUSINESS AND IT
TRANSFORMATION
CSC Proprietary and Confidential
72,000
7,700+
$12.6B
2,500+
50+
30+
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EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE
SAP PROFESSIONALS
WORLDWIDE
GLOBAL IT
SERVICES POWERHOUSE
SAP PROJECTS
YEARS OF INNOVATION
YEARS SAP PARTNER
KEY INDUSTRES WITH
ACCELERATORS, TEMPLATES
AND EXPERIENCE
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What Are the Most Urgent Business Issues That Your Clients Are
Experiencing in Re-Platforming or Extending Their SAP Technical
Landscape?
OPERATIONAL
Low Impact
Descriptive
Analytics I
• Reporting –
Query,
Reporting &
Search tools
• How much did
I spend?
ANALYTICAL
Diagnostic Analytics
• Analysis – OLAP
and Visualization
tools
• Why did I spend so
much?
Descriptive Analytics
II
• Monitoring –
Dashboards &
Scorecards
• What is my spend
rate right now?
Predictive Analytics
• Predictive Analysis –
Big Data
• What is the likelihood
that I may run out of
funds before mission
completion?
Process Improvement
via Continuous Intelligence
Prescriptive Analytics
• Recommendation,
Risk Avoidance
• What should I do now
to avoid over spending?
High Impact
Business Support and Business Operations
How do I Transform from reactive “Business as Usual” to proactive “Intelligent
Business Operations”?
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How Is CSC Addressing These Business Issues?
• Use Gartner’s Intelligent Business Operations framework* to deliver business process
innovation
– A paradigm shift in which real-time analytic and decision management technologies are integrated into the
transaction-execution and book-keeping operational activities that run a business or support a mission
– Business Operations (OLTP) + Business Intelligence (OLAP) = IBO
• Business Support  Business Insight  Decision support
• OODA framework (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) and Continuous Intelligence are critical drivers for IBO
– Address current gaps by including analytics that are embedded into processes to support better decision making,
and influence subsequent transactions
– Realize new business opportunities that would not have been possible previously
• A potential for new real-time analytics applications
• Influence business support based on real-time business insight
OLTP +
OLAP
OODA
• High-performance, scalable online transaction processing applications
• A reduction in the total cost of ownership
Continuous
Intelligence
– SAP’s HANA Platform was chosen as a key enabler for IBO
*Gartner Research, ID: G00238883. Use Intelligent Business Operations to Create Business Advantage
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Intelligent Business Operations
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What Is the Expected Results or Value Propositions
That the US Army Are or Will Be Experiencing?
APS and Federal Financials
Live since July 2014
15 Day APS planning cycles now in minutes
• SAP HANA provides LMP and the Army
Enterprise opportunities to achieve
Continuous Intelligence and Intelligent
Business Operations (IBO).
 ECC Transaction Acceleration (Side Car).
 Logical Data Warehouse and Real-time
Operational Analytics (Side Car).
AGILE
 Accelerated Data Warehouse (SAP BW
powered by SAP HANA)
 Self-service data exploration.
 Hindsight  Insight  Foresight.
.
LMP BW on HANA
Live since June 2014
ETL up to 18x faster
Reports up to 9x faster
DB compression 7:1
• Observe, Orient, Decide. (Fast Decisions)
• Business Analytics.
 Business Process analysis (INSIGHT).
 Business Process measurement (INSIGHT).
 Predictive Analysis (FORESIGHT).
 Prescriptive Analysis (FORESIGHT).
 Logical Data Warehouse.
• LMP Use Case.
 SAP BW powered by SAP HANA.
 Information Assurance.
FAST
Phase 2
Next Generation
Analytics
CSC has in-depth knowledge and experience in obtaining
Information Assurance certification for the SAP HANA appliance.
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Phase 1
Transaction /
Application
Acceleration
• Observe, Act (Fast Operations).
• Technical Enablement.
 Reduce Business Cycle Time.
 Transactional What-if scenarios (INSIGHT).
• LMP Use Case.
 Army Pre-positioned Stock (APS)
 Federal Financials powered by HANA
 Real-Time Operational Reporting
SENSE,
PREDICT
&
RESPOND
Phase 3
IBO In-Memory
Platform *
• Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. (Continuous Intelligence)
• SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA –
Database- level integration for ERP.
• Single platform for OLTP and OLAP.
• True Intelligent Business Operations (IBO).
• Typical Use Case.
 SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA.
 Information Assurance.
* Not yet planned
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Example: Supply Planning Powered by SAP HANA
• Objectives
– Supply Optimization, improved decision support leading to
improved productivity.
OBSERVE
– Proactive inventory analysis.
• Upload recommendations to ECC resulting
in stock adjustments.
• Stock transfers and/or new procurements
to satisfy APS requirements.
Army
Prepositioned
Stock
(APS)
ACT
True pathway towards what-if
(transactional) analysis.
DECIDE
Stock-On-Hand(SOH).
Supply/Demand information.
Project Code Priorities.
APS Requirements.
Master data.
• Programmatically update APS requirements quantities based on rules
ORIENT
(reviewed by user).
• SAP HANA tables via SLT.
• Included user accepted input from custom screens.
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• Funds Stratification and APS Asset Allocation recommendations.
• Stock adjustments, stock transfers and/or new procurements to satisfy APS
requirements.
The APS OODA Loop
1: Real-time
replication
• Establish secondary database connection to SAP HANA
• Use SLT to replicate chosen data set
• Avoid extensive data manipulation during replication
2: Data Read
Acceleration
• Database read statements automatically pointed to SAP HANA
• Write and updates are still performed by the primary database
• No code changes needed
• Available for standard and custom transactions
Operational and
Analytical Reporting
Act
Low Effort
Medium Reward
3: Application
Logic Acceleration
Decide
Observe
• Re-implement complex application logic within SAP HANA
• Extensive code changes needed
• May not be available for standard SAP transactions
Medium Effort
High Reward
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Orient
Actions performed have immediate impact on
subsequent transactions
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Thank You
Amith R Nikam, CSCP, PMP
Principal Solutions Architect, CSC
anikam@csc.com
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