Customer experiences

How much time do we need to expect for a migration from BW on RDBMS to BW on HANA environment?

Please contact your SAP Client Partner for more information on SAP's Rapid Deployment Solution (RDS) for a BW on HANA migration. Our existing BWoH customers experienced an average of 3 months of total implementation time.

During Tech Ed 2012 in Las Vegas SAP had a  live migration competition between two SAP partners, Bluefin and Optimal, to migrate the ConAgra Foods BPC+BW system to HANA within 48 hours on the show floor.  Optimal won the competition showcasing end to end solution delivery on BW/BPC/mobile, while Bluefin won HANA technology award for the fastest migration: Under 3 hours!

http://www.optimalsol.com/optimal-emc-cisco-discuss-lessons-learned-from-winning-hana-real-time-race-at-sap-teched-2012/?pp=50

http://optimalsapblog.com/2012/10/23/key-takeaways-from-optimals-hana-race-victory/

http://www.sapvirtualevents.com/teched/sessiondetails.aspx?sId=3451

Are there any general customer experiences and best practices available?

There is a CSA webinar available about Experiences and Best Practice from early SAP NetWeaver BW powered by HANA customers.

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-29284

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-34132

Where can I find customer success stories?

There is an entire area on saphana.com with customer success stories including videos.

http://hana.sap.com/customers.html

Especially the ebook with more than 20 detailed case studies from Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services and Forbes Insights, which feature leading-edge enterprises across industries is worth looking at.

http://www.sap.com/bin/sapcom/en_us/downloadasset.2014-10-oct-13-21.sap-hana-real-time-enterprise-stories-pdf.bypassReg.html

http://hana.sap.com/customers/customer-reference-ebooks.html

There is a new eBook including the most compelling BWoH references and success stories - http://hana.sap.com/content/dam/website/saphana/en_us/PDFs/ebooks/SAP%20Business%20Warehouse%20powered%20by%20SAP%20HANA.pdf

Another great asset containing customer success stories is the SAP HANA Interactive Use Case Map. For the BW on HANA use case several successful customer implementations are listed with a lot of additional customer information linked to. You can find the download link for the PDF at the bottom of the following page.

http://hana.sap.com/abouthana/why-hana.html

Here is another blog providing an extensive list of BWoH customer stories.

http://scn.sap.com/community/bw-hana/blog/2015/02/04/bwonhana-customer-stories

A great asset is the HANA Customer Spotlight webcast series where customers talk about their experiences with HANA.

http://asug.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMzY1NTY5JnA9MSZ1PTEwNDEyMDM5MTQmbGk9MTgwMzM4OTI/index.html

https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=569108&sessionid=1&key=98BEFFC482849F82B2D1C3E5D98AABD8&sourcepage=register

There is also a new HANA Magazine published by WIS. It gives a great 360-degree perspective on SAP HANA with many customer stories and interview. The magazine can be downloaded for free here:

http://www.insiderlearningnetwork.com/davidhannon/blog/2013/05/03/a_360-degree_perspective_on_sap_hana_

http://sapinsider.wispubs.com/hanamagazine/

Adidas published a very compelling story about there BW on HANA migration and how they leveraged this opportunity to consolidate BW instances.

http://sapinsider.wispubs.com/Assets/Articles/2013/October/Hitting-the-Ground-Running

Accenture published an experience and benchmark presentation about a migration project at Velux.

https://www.sap-sbn.no/no/download/247

Molson Coors Brewing Company was part of the BW 7.4 launch event in Orlando, Florida during March 2014 and shared a very exciting success story with all attendees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBZAsh4L6xs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAo3YE_K10Y