{"id":6210,"date":"2016-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=6210"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:34:09","slug":"sap-for-utilities-on-hana-more-than-an-intermediate-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/sap-for-utilities-on-hana-mehr-als-ein-zwischenschritt\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP for Utilities on Hana - more than an intermediate step?"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAP is looking ahead. In the case of S\/4 Utilities, however, perhaps too far ahead. Customers of IS-U systems feel that they are being left behind in the development process.<\/p>\n

SAP applications without Hana have not been at the cutting edge of technology for some time, and S\/4 cannot be developed fast enough for many.<\/p>

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With S\/4, SAP is converting the entire core of its Business Suite, with industry-neutral modules being given higher priority. Understandable from SAP's point of view, but difficult for energy supply companies to assess at present.<\/p>\n

SAP's roadmaps for Utilities are constantly being revised backwards. If you look at the S\/4 Hana 1511 Simplification List, this diffuse situation around SAP for Utilities is further reinforced.<\/p>\n

As announced, there is finally something for Industry Utilities in the table of contents. Unfortunately, a closer look at these pages reveals only the note \"not available\" for all processes.<\/p>\n

So what should an IS-U customer who is planning a project - forced by expiring support or the desire for a new release - do now? Should it be postponed as far as possible until the first fully-fledged S\/4 Utilities is released?<\/p>\n

If you look at the relevant SAP pages, there are hardly any references to SAP for Utilities on Hana.<\/p>\n

No fear of overnight batches<\/h3>\n

But that could be the ideal solution: I migrate my existing IS-U system to Hana today as part of a planned project. Gisa successfully did just that in the summer of 2015 - migrating a real IS-U system to Hana.<\/p>\n

The proof of concept was thus provided. As a result, we were able to benefit immediately from the faster processing times. Dreaded overnight batches have lost their terror.<\/p>\n

As an example, a process was identified that previously had to be laboriously split up and now no longer affects operations in 30 minutes instead of three days.<\/p>\n

Performance can therefore actually create tangible added value. To be honest, however, not all transactions and processing are much faster; slowdowns have also been observed in exceptional cases.<\/p>\n

In this case, the usual root cause analysis followed, which does not necessarily identify the new database as the culprit. Another interesting observation was the complete functionality of the in-house developments, one of the biggest pains for previously undecided users.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, the migration \"on Hana\" enables a relaxed starting situation because the customer already has a fast and functioning in-memory system. The subsequent leap to \"for Hana\" with S\/4 Utilities will therefore hit energy supply companies much less hard.<\/p>\n

In this sense, today's migration from SAP for Utilities to SAP Hana can certainly be seen as a preparation for digitalization with S\/4. If I have decided to take exactly this intermediate step, I can then develop further typical Hana functions that better support my business processes.<\/p>\n

Hana Live for Utilities gives me the ability to provide my transactional information from the system with lightweight, real-time analytical functionality.<\/p>\n

Getting involved with Hana<\/h3>\n

The catch is that I have to get fully involved with Hana. While I continue to work in the familiar NetWeaver when migrating to Hana, I have to open up a different development environment, including lifecycle management and a security concept, for the provision of Hana Live Views.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, from a technical point of view, these issues are now well developed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Energy supply companies (EVU) can already migrate their IS-U to Hana. This brings added value and, above all, they are well prepared for SAP's next steps. But why is this hardly known?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":4163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,1603],"tags":[3478,65],"coauthors":[19920],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-das-aktuelle-stichwort","category-meinung","category-mag1603","tag-business-suite","tag-hana","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",400,172,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-768x331.jpg",768,331,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-100x43.jpg",100,43,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-480x207.jpg",480,207,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-640x276.jpg",640,276,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-720x310.jpg",720,310,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-960x414.jpg",960,414,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",18,8,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",1000,431,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",600,259,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort.jpg",600,259,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-aktuelle-Stichwort-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Schon jetzt k\u00f6nnen Energieversorgungsunternehmen (EVU) ihr IS-U on Hana migrieren. Das bringt Mehrwerte und vor allem ist man gut auf die n\u00e4chsten Schritte der SAP vorbereitet. Warum aber ist das kaum bekannt?<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Das aktuelle Stichwort<\/a>, Die Meinung der SAP-Community<\/a>, MAG 16-03<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"E-3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}