Prosoft Bi Accelerator
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The document discusses SAP's BI Accelerator appliance which can improve SAP BI system performance dramatically by factors of 10-100 times. It offers query acceleration and flexibility while reducing costs. ProSoft provides an application analysis to check expected performance gains, identify investment needs, and recommend strategies for using the BI Accelerator with existing systems. The analysis is valuable for organizations using SAP BI that need improved scalability and performance.
Prosoft Bi Accelerator
- 1. ProSoftCyberWorld.com Transforming Business Intelligence The SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator BI Accelerator application analysis: Performance Check for your SAP BI system SAP has created a new possibility with the BI Accelerator (BIA) to improve the performance of SAP BI systems dramatically – up to factor 10–100. ProSoft, as an independent partner, advices you how to use the BIA profitable and smoothly in your company. Our application analysis gives you the desired security about the expected per- formance improvement and investment before obtaining your own BIA. Using the BI Accelerator enables you to considerably increase your productivity, flexibility, BI system acceptance and therefore your innovation. It also provides a swift declining Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and a fast Return on Investment (ROI). Executive Summary Business intelligence has become an increasingly strategic focus for enterprise over the past several years as they strive to increase profitability and control costs. The SAP Netweaver BI accelerator is a new appliance-like (integrated software and hardware) product –available as an optional add-on to SAP NetWeaver BI-that offers performance improvements and query flexibility at a cost that reflects its technology foundation, Intel Processors and the Linux operating systems. So, while the BI accelerator incorporates the cost and ease-of-use benefits of an appliance, its specific purpose is query response acceleration-for both tuned and ad hoc queries. The key performance-related The BI Accelerator provides: findings can be summarized as follows: • Performance enhancements of SAP BI systems up to factor The BI accelerator was effective in reducing response time sig- 10–100 nificantly for a broad range of queries and is far more practical • Fast analysis of large data volumes in combination with a than the process of building tuned aggregates. marginal standard reporting and frequent update of data The BI accelerator scales as the problem size grows and as the Increase of productivity, reduction of TCO and high ROI. blade chassis configuration is expanded with additional blades. • Flexibility, thanks to on-the-fly aggregation for any query Data loading and indexing onto the BI accelerator occurs at at any time. impressive rates, outperforming the construction of optimized ag- • Scalability, a result of data partitioning and other tech- gregates that would be required for comparable query response. BI niques that optimize the use of scalable hardware. Accelerator is an appliance developed by SAP to address high per- • Recommendation to improve and solve existing SAP formance and scalability challenges of SAP BW implementations. BW-problems and to reach high performance. 2001 Butterfield Road, Suite 305 • Downers Grove, IL 60515 (630) 725-1800 • www.ProSoftCyberWorld.com
- 2. The SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator Transforming Business Intelligence The ProSoft BIA application analysis is Summary: particularly valuable for: As organizations juggle their business intelligence needs-some • Check and forecast of performance gain for your company strategic and others operational-they are hard pressed for op- tions. Many organizations that run on the SAP ERP engine are • Identification of necessary investment costs unable to fully utilize the speed and flexibility of SAP BI owing • Recommendation on strategic use of BIA in combination to their concerns about using it as an enterprise data warehouse. with conventional options for performance enhancement This often leads to the creation of two separate data warehouse (hybrid strategy) environments, one for strategic needs and the other operational. Scope of services: The SAP BI accelerator helps eliminate these redundancies and The application analysis will be performed by ProSoft at makes SAP BI an excellent choice as an enterprise dataware- your company. house. SAP BI accelerator introduces much needed scalability and performance enhancement to the SAP BI system making • The results of the application analysis will be handed over it an ideal tool for enterprise data warehouse particularly for in written form. organizations with an SAP ERP backbone. • Assessment of the business value and advantages for the IT by using the BIA. • Analysis and forecast of performance enhancements. • Recommendation on strategic use of BIA in combination with conventional options for performance enhancement (hybrid strategy). • Recommendation on sizing and hardware configuration. • Assessment of the business value and advantages for the IT by using the BIA. Providing SAP Thought Leadership Strategy • Implementation • Support ProSoft Cy berWor (an Inc. 5 ld Grou leading-e 00 comp any estab p Inc. dge, glob lished in include E al IT serv 1995) is nterprise ice provid a Leadersh Resource er. These ip in Stra Planning services Business tegy - Im (SAP Tho Intelligen plementa ught prise Arc ce, Busin tion -Sup hitecture ess Integ port), and Com Services ration, E posite So (SOA, BP nter- experien lutions. W M, BAM ce with th e have a , EP) implemen e full suit broad ra tations, m e of BI so nge of global pre igrations lutions in sence and and upgra cluding services w provide co des. We h ith our G st effectiv ave lobal Del e IT ivery Mo del. 2001 Butterfield Road, Suite 305 • Downers Grove, IL 60515 (630) 725-1800 • www.ProSoftCyberWorld.com