1 Agenda 7 Hints from the field: how to make BI- Accelerator work for you  Sizing and Implementation  Management and Costs

2 Hint #1: Customer experiences - BI Accelerator is simple to install BI Accelerator has been simple to install and operate for established SAP BI teams You use process chains to maintain the HPA engine after each data load HP, Sun, Fujitsu & IBM have standard solutions ranging from $32K to $250K+ that can be installed and tested in as little as 2-4 weeks (+ SAP license fees) SAP BW Any tool Breaking news: 32 Gb Blades are now certified by SAP (July 2008)

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). Hint #2: 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 hr. 3.Average report response time 4.Average number of records touched by each report.

4 The BIA should be sized for critical applications. Most companies use BIA only for Production, while others have a complete landscape A Real Customer Example from September 2008

5 SAP has integrated key sizing parameters for BIA in the new QuickSizer. You can give it a try at: Hint #3: Sizing is critical, but good tools are available Customer with existing BI systems and data loaded can get good sizing estimates by running the SAP program available in SAP Note:

6 Hint #4: 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. Hint #5: 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??

7 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) Hint #6: 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 & in the on- line course BW361 In the past, SAP has also offered a 2 day workshop called “ BI Upgrade & Accelerator” ( WNABIA).

8 Once you exceed a few hundred critical users and/or 3-4 Tb of data you should seriously consider SAP BIA Hint #7: 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