Virtual Sap Upgrade Tools In The Cloud Sapphire20101. Virtual SAP Upgrade Tools in the Cloud
Gerhard Saumweber, Founder and CEO
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2. Agenda
Where are typical SAP customer Pain Points?
Where customer see major cost areas w/ SAP Upgrades?
Powerful Equation: Virtualization + Private Cloud Computing
Virtual SAP Upgrade Service Tools: vUpgrade℠ & vBreakFix℠
Summary: Benefits vUpgrade℠
Summary: Benefits vBreakFix℠
About Texperts, Inc.
Questions and Answers
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3. Where are typical SAP Customer Pain Points?
Expensive & Complex
Business Continuity
Solutions
Expensive & SAP High
Time-Consuming Customer Operational Costs
SAP Upgrades Pain Points
Addressing
Compliance
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4. Where customers see major cost areas w/ SAP upgrades?
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5. Powerful Equation: Virtualization + Private Cloud Computing
Virtualization Benefits Cloud Computing Benefits
•Fast Server Provisioning
•Snapshot Technology
•VMotion + DRS
•Quick Roll back/forward
+ • Consumer-based
• Pay-as-you-Go
• Off-Premise
(No Data Center Footprint)
VMware ESX 4 (vSphere 4)
Virtual SAP Service Tools via Texperts Private Cloud:
= – vUpgrade℠
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Inc. vBreakFix℠
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6. Use Case: SAP® upgrade with vUpgrade℠ & vBreakFix℠
vUpgrade℠ Client Landscape (On Premise)
re-creates Client SAP System vBreakFix℠ (Off Premise)
Kick Off
@ Texperts (Off Premise)
Upgrade Start of
Initiative Start End actual Upgrade Go Live
Validation
6/2010 7/2010 11/2010 2/2011 3/15/2011
Actual Upgrade vUpgrade℠ vBreakFix℠
End user PRD Fixes
Training
vDEV vQAS
Testing Texperts (On Premise)
Development
vDEV,vQAS or vPRD Docs
Rehearsal DEV QAS PRD
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7. Summary: Benefits of vUpgrade℠
vUpgrade℠
Identify pitfalls, timings and (cloud service)
modification adjustments Develop new functionality ahead
(SPDD/SPAU) independent of of the SAP® upgrade
actual SAP® upgrade
e.g. vDEV Accelerate upgrade with turn-key
Test independent of your actual transports
SAP® landscape and your
internal procurement process
End-user training before the
Eliminates long procurement cycles and SAP® upgrade
deployment processes Shorten the Code-freeze period
e.g. Sandbox
Features: Cost Reduction, Flexibility, Agility, Streamlining, Re-usability, Integration
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8. Summary: Benefits of vBreakFix℠
vBreakFix℠
(cloud service)
Zero additional data center Predictable subscription-
PRD Fixes
footprint based cost models
vDEV vQAS
Texperts Virtual Systems
Flexible Pay-As-You-Go
Eliminates long procurement cycles DEV QAS PRD payment options
and deployment processes for a Client Landscape
production support path
“Use-it-as-long-as-you-
need-it”
SAP upgrade project acceleration
Features: Cost Management, Flexibility, Agility, Streamlining, Re-usability, Integration
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9. About Texperts, Inc.
Cloud
Services Built as an extension of the
for SAP Hosting Practice
SAP BASIS Consulting
+
Experienced SAP certified
SAP Certified Hosting
Consultants certified in VMware
Provider
(VCPs, VTSPs, VSPs)
10 years of business
experience
Continuity, Expertise,
+
Certification & Customer-
Strategic Partners
(VMware and SAP) care built around the SAP
eco-system
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10. Questions?
Thank you for your time.
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