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Why is being predictive about NetWeaver upgrades so important?
As more SAP customers upgrade to NetWeaver, they will be faced with determining the nature of changes ahead, and how those changes will impact budget, deployment schedules, and overall performance goals. Correct sizing and budget planning continue to become more critical; the success of NetWeaver upgrades depends on costs being contained and service levels being maintained.
According to SAP, the NetWeaver Upgrade Lifecycle includes 6 distinct stages that will typically span a 3-5 year period, as shown in Figure 1. Such an effort is not to be taken lightly, with success contingent upon judicious planning and adherence to best practices.
Any one of these steps can introduce significant risk into the business, but when combined, the stakes are astronomically high. SAP landscapes are rife with rollbacks, project delays and cost overruns. Effective planning can help you minimize the risks inherent in the upgrade to SAP NetWeaver® by applying an emerging best practice known as Predictive IT Management.
Organizations that employ Predictive IT Management get key answers that ensure the success of their initiatives such as:
HyPerformix customers such as DirecTV and CEMEX have leveraged Predictive IT Management to ensure the success of their enterprise-wide projects, such as the upgrade to SAP NetWeaver.
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Aligning IT with the business would be much simpler if we all had unlimited budgets. But we do not. In place, the business decision makers must always be aware of the tradeoffs in balancing cost with quality of service. No longer can organizations afford to have 5 times the capacity they actually need. Nor can organizations be bottlenecked and have less capacity than required to efficiently get the job done. The best case scenario is when the quality of service outweighs the costs by keeping capacity requirements under control and well planned into the future. Unfortunately this level of planning is absent or ineffective in a good majority of organizations.
IT Managers know that accurately sized production infrastructure is critical to end user service objectives and business success. Sizing issues don't disappear with a successful deployment. Things change - the application, the infrastructure, the workload and the business itself - resulting in more questions for IT.
To simplify capacity planning and accelerate customer success, HyPerformix has incorporated extensive process automation and best practices into our Capacity Manager product to make capacity planning more accessible to IT organizations.
HyPerformix Capacity Manager provides comprehensive support for IT decision makers who must plan budget and infrastructure to meet the current and future needs of their business. Capacity Manager is a market leading platform for capacity planning that is designed specifically to support IT decision makers with accurate predictions of capacity requirements, cost implications and expected performance from virtually any IT architecture. Capacity Manager also identifies servers and workloads that are safe candidates for consolidation and virtualization. Capacity Manager collects performance and business data and applies advanced algorithms to deliver concise, accurate predictions through compelling interactive reports.
Comprehensive predictive planning will help ensure that you maintain application availability and stay on budget.
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Leveraging HyPerformix prior to the start of, and during, each stage of the upgrade lifecycle will deliver predictive answers across the upgrade lifecycle through effective planning, application profiling, modeling and testing.
Traditionally, SAP customers have relied on SAP QuickSizer ("SAPS" scores) and their hardware vendor to provide initial sizing recommendations. While both sources provide a good baseline, they rely on generalized inputs that do not account for custom code, actual user behavior and non-SAP applications. In addition, when it comes to SAP NetWeaver, there are some aspects such as Enhancement Packages (EhP's), eSOA and BI Accelerator that are not addressed in SAP QuickSizer.
