] SHERRYANNE MEYER [ ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER MEMBER SINCE: 2000 ANUP MAHESHWARI [ ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER MEMBER SINCE: 2008 AJAY VONKARERY [ ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER MEMBER SINCE: 1999 How PG&E implemented SAP BI- A and did performance tuning Darin Lemos PG&E Bjarne Berg Director SAP BI Comerit Inc.

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 2 Learning Points  See a practical example from PG&E and understand what you can expect on your implementation  Learn how BI-A works  Explore benefits and limitations of the tool

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 3 Agenda  Introduction  Pacific Gas & Electric Project Overview  What is SAP BI-A  Overview  Building aggregates  Benefits  How we implemented BI-A  Sizing the environment  Team organization and project plan  Testing  BI-A Limitations  PG&E - Our top-10 Lessons Learned  Wrap-up

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 4  We will look what SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator can— and cannot—do to optimize dashboard performance.  Explore how we PG&E planned, and implemented SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator.  Examine performance benchmarks for SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator  Explore the top 10 lessons learned from the project team and see a sample work plan and an organization chart from this project as a reference for your own SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator initiative… In this session.

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 5 Agenda  Introduction  Pacific Gas & Electric Project Overview  What is SAP BI-A  Overview  Building aggregates  Benefits  How we implemented BI-A  Sizing the environment  Team organization and project plan  Testing  BI-A Limitations  PG&E - Our top-10 Lessons Learned  Other Query Performance tricks  Wrap-up

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 6 PG&E Company Overview  Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States.  There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry provide natural gas and electric service to 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 7 PG&E Company Overview  SAP since 1996  Currently on SAP ERP 4.72, upgrade to ECC 6.0 in 2009  8,500 users for all back office and field operations –Finance/Controlling –HR Org/Benefits/Personnel/Payroll –Employee Self Service: 20,000 employees; 18,000 retirees –Manager Self Service –Supply Chain Management --Materials Management & Supplier Relationship Management –Equipment/Work Order Management in Plant Maintenance –Business Warehouse  First major go live was a 50,000 person day project in October 2007

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 8 PG&E SAP Project Overview Aug 04 - Nov 04 Feb 05 – Oct 05 Nov 05 – Sep 06 Roadmap Phase Vision and Strategy “To-be” business capabilities Build business case for change Design Phase Design Level 1 and Level 2 processes Application architecture Design “To be” organization to enable future business processes and technology Detailed Design Phase Design the foundation for the deployment of new processes and tools Design SAP customizations Design training and performance support Oct 06 – Foundational Release: Build, Test, and Deployment Phases Build Customizations Build Procedures and Training Convert master and transactional data Assembly Test Product Test Deployment

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 9 PG&E Project Scope - EAM WRM

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 10 PG&E Project - Scope and Modules SAP Modules & Versions  PG&E has used SAP for almost 10 years in various forms  R/3 4.7 utilized- (PM, PS, MM, SD,SRM)  Modifications to existing FI and HR-CATS functionality  Integration with third party applications: ClickSoftware (ClickPlan, & ClickSchedule), ITRON LD-Pro and ESRI GIS  SAP BI 7.0 Impacted Audience 8,500 (1,500 core EAM, rest for supply chain)

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 11 PG&E Project Benefits

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 12 PG&E Project BW and History - Performance Needs Delivering High Performance Analytics to a potential user community of 8,500 users requires special considerations for design, technical architecture and hardware. I the spring of 2008, PG&E therefore started an examination of BI-A as potential tool for increasing performance of the financial dashboards in SAP BI. The scope of this effort was primarily finance, but the benefits were also intended to benefit a larger user community.

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 13 Agenda  Introduction  Pacific Gas & Electric Project Overview  What is SAP BI-A  Overview  Building aggregates  Benefits  How we implemented BI-A  Sizing the environment  Team organization and project plan  Testing  BI-A Limitations  PG&E - Our top-10 Lessons Learned  Wrap-up

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 14 Why BI-A? Disk speed is growing slower than other HW components In-memory data stores Multi-channel UI, high event volume, cross industry value chains Application- aware and intelligent data management Disk based data storage Simple consumption of apps (Fat client UI, EDI) General- purpose, application- agnostic database Architectural Drivers Improvement Addressable Memory 425x 8.51 MB/$ 0.02 MB/$ Memory 166 x 8.30 MIPS/$ 0.05 MIPS/$ CPU Technology Drivers 400 MBPS 5 MBPS Disk Data Transfer 80x 100 x 10 Gbps 100 Mbps Network Speed x Source: 1990 numbers SAP AG 2009 numbers Dr. Berg Physical hard drive speeds only grew by 80 times since All other hardware components grew faster.

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 15 BI Accelerator Works by Indexing InfoCubes in Hardware memory BI Accelerator has been simple to install and operate for established SAP BI teams You use process chains to maintain the BI-A engine after each data load IBM, Sun, HP & Fujitsu have standard solutions ranging from $32K to $300K+ that can be installed and tested in as little as 2-4 weeks (+ SAP license fees) SAP BW Any tool 32 GB Blades are certified by SAP

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 16 BI Analytical Engine’s Query executing priorities Query Execution Without BI Accelerator Query Execution With BI Accelerator Information Broadcasting / Precalculation Query Cache Aggregates InfoProvider Information Broadcasting / Precalculation Query Cache SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator Aggregates can be replaced with BI-A, while the memory cache is still useful.

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 17 BIA Currently reads data from InfoCubes. DSOs & InfoObjects are still read from base/physical tables (even when the InfoObject is indexed as part of master data). Performance is Near-Linear: Benchmarks BIA’s strength resides in its near-linear scalability Performance is measured in terms of: 1. BI-A index creation time 2. Multi-user throughput per hour 3. Average report response time 4. Average number of records touched by each report

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 18 Many companies, have spent 2-5 days in BIA training (total for 1-2 administrators) and a work through a single interface: RSDDBIAMON (Checks available at: RSRV) Most customers have found BIA Admin to be minimal The training & admin to run BI Accelerator has proven to be minimal. Training is included in the SAP courses: BW310, BW360 and in the online course BW361 In the past, SAP has also offered a 2 day workshop called “ BI Upgrade & Accelerator” ( WNABIA)

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 19 Agenda  Introduction  Pacific Gas & Electric Project Overview  What is SAP BI-A  Overview  Building aggregates  Benefits  How we implemented BI-A  Sizing the environment  Team organization and project plan  Testing  BI-A Limitations  PG&E - Our top-10 Lessons Learned  Wrap-up

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 20 SAP has integrated key sizing parameters for BIA in the new QuickSizer. You can give it a try at: Sizing was critical, but good tools were available to help Customer with existing BI systems and data loaded can get good sizing estimates by running the SAP program available in SAP Note:

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 21 The hardware implementation is done by the vendors. Be prepared for lead times on delivery of large systems (Made-to-Order is common). Some Hardware options we looked at Operating Systems and Storage SUSE Linux 64-bit, Intel based Memory based and file storage (no database for Accelerator) Available Hardware Platforms HP (HP ProLiant and HP StorageWorks) IBM (IBM Blade Center and IBM Total Storage) FujitsuSiemens (FSC Blade Server and EMC Storage) SUN Microsystems (SUN Blade Server and StorageTek)

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 22 We found that the BIA should be sized for critical applications. Most companies use BIA only for Production, while others have a complete landscape PG&E - Our Initial Hardware sizing (July 2008)

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 23 PG&E - Our Query Performance Improvments The slowest queries that spent most of their time on the database side benefited the most Overall 36 of 70 queries were at least twice as fast….

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 24 PG&E - Our Query Performance Improvments 58 of 70 queries were at least 50% faster Before BIA the average query execution took 58.8 seconds, after BIA the average query took 17.9 seconds (295% faster).

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 25 PG&E - Query Performance Improvments OVERALL The major improvement was to make query execution more predictable and overall faster Seconds Number of Queries Seconds

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 26 PG&E - Workbook Performance Improvments with BIA Average performance improvement for workbooks was 363% faster

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 27 Performance Info – PG&E BI-A Indexes build times 232,298,392 records in 23 infocubes were indexed in minutes. On average we were able to build indexes on 2.56 million records per minute

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 28 1.We had a small team of 3 people dedicated to the BIA project supported by one basis person, and the rest of the BW team 2.Hardware team supported by the vendor was also involved in a part-time capacity. 3.Overall the effort was combined with a performance tuning project that also included building of aggregates, caching and query redesigns. Team organization at PG&E

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 29 1.We had testers and requirements gathered from the finance community. The goal was at least 50% faster on the 38 web dashboards. 2.We achieved: a)363% faster for workbooks on average b)70% faster for queries on average c)58 of 70 queries were at least 50% faster d)Index builds took about 1.5 hrs PG&E - Testing

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 30 Agenda  Introduction  Pacific Gas & Electric Project Overview  What is SAP BI-A  Overview  Building aggregates  Benefits  How we implemented BI-A  Sizing the environment  Team organization and project plan  Testing  BI-A Limitations  PG&E - Our top-10 Lessons Learned  Wrap-up

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 31 1.Plan to order hardware early - lead times can be long 2.Make sure you have a committed project sponsor 3.Create benchmarks for workbooks, queries and cockpits to document success 4.Update to latest service pack 5.Involve your basis team and environment management team early PG&E - Top 10 Lessons Learned

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 32 6.Be realistic, not all queries will benefit equally from SAP BIA 7.Plan for testing and gradual rollout of BIA to key users 8.Make sure failovers and spare blades are part of your hardware sizing 9.Create a small dedicated team with access to external expertise as needed 10.Perform query tuning and potential redesign as part of a larger system performance tuning effort. PG&E - Top 10 Lessons Learned

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 33 Agenda  Introduction  Pacific Gas & Electric Project Overview  What is SAP BI-A  Overview  Building aggregates  Benefits  How we implemented BI-A  Sizing the environment  Team organization and project plan  Testing  BI-A Limitations  PG&E - Our top-10 Lessons Learned  Wrap-up

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 34 Currently, the BIA performs aggregation and data selection for the query, all other processing is done by the OLAP analytical engine. Not all query processing will be dramatically faster… In the next SAP NetWeaver release the BIA will handle more of the analytics processing such as “top-5 products sales” which is currently done in the OLAP analytical engine. SAP BIA is not used when the result set exceeds 3 million records (max. default). When the result set is less, the data is sent as one large data package to the application server (need fast network). How does it work in reality??

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 35 Once you exceed a few hundred critical users and/or 3- 4 TB of data you should seriously consider SAP BIA BIA is becoming mainstream BIA is no longer something exotic. Many of the large BI systems have already implemented BIA and many more projects are under way in Europe and in the Americas. Some of SAP reference clients

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 36 The Future SAP BI-A RoadMap 2009/ SAP NetWeaver BI Accel- erator Prior to 2008 Analytic Capabilities (e.g. top n) DataStore Object Acceleration Standalone BIA for source-independent acceleration via Business Objects Agile BI: Local and source-independent innovation space for departments Accelerator for InfoCube Read Times Low Cost of Operations High Availability / Backup & Recovery Optimized BusinessObjects Webl integration on top of SAP NetWeaver BI/BIA BusinessObjects Polestar integration: Self- Service BI based on search paradigm

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 37 Agenda  Introduction  Pacific Gas & Electric Project Overview  What is SAP BI-A  Overview  Building aggregates  Benefits  How we implemented BI-A  Sizing the environment  Team organization and project plan  Testing  BI-A Limitations  PG&E - Our top-10 Lessons Learned  Wrap-up  Question and Answers

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 38 Key Learnings  BI-A is a useful tool for performance tuning, but it is not a ‘solve-all’ solution for poorly made queries  It was easy to implement (very quick)  Look at how your queries are executing (i.e. database or application server usage) when estimating benefits of implementing BI-A  Once you exceed a few hundred critical users and/or 3-4 TB of data you should seriously consider SAP BIA  The administration of BI-A is simple and anyone can learn it in a few days  Plan on waiting for hardware, we found that most was made-to-order  Make sure you have redundancies and check that what you order is what got shipped.

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 39 Dr. Bjarne Berg's web page presentations, tutorials & articles Large scale testing of SAP BI Accelerator on a NetWeaver Platform e8582df5c70f Resources

Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 40 Questions and Answers How to contact us: Dr. Bjarne BergDarin Lemos

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