Customer experiences
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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://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://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
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://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.