- A 50% reduction in global and regional month-end data load time
- A 75% enhancement in execution runtime
Overview of the Client
Our client is an American Multinational Food Manufacturing Company focused on producing cereal and other convenience foods, including crackers and toaster pastries. They have a distribution network that spans the world.
Business Challenges and Objectives
- The client encountered data load performance issues, mainly during the closing period.
- They aimed to decrease on-premise infrastructure maintenance costs.
- The client needed an upgrade because the BPC Web Application no longer supported the IE Browser with the Flash feature.
- They also looked to reduce the cost of maintaining a separate AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) for the BPC Web Application.
- The client sought a clear roadmap of the future SAP Technical alignment.
- Additionally, they were interested in upgrading the EPM add-in to leverage additional features.
The Solution
- The Team’s actions encompassed the following key points:
- Recommendation and implementation of an upgrade to the BPC 10.1 standard version to ensure proper application usage.
- Upgrading BW 7.5 SP22 to enhance application stability and mitigate performance concerns.
- Transition from EPM 10.0 to version 10.1.
- Eliminating outdated application data structures leads to a comprehensive system cleanup.
- Significantly reduced the data footprint in HANA memory, resulting in substantial cost savings for the client.
- Improved the BPC 10.1 UI5 web application after the upgrade, achieving additional cost savings by decommissioning the AVD instance.
Business Outcomes and Benefits
- Reduced the global and regional month-end data load runtime by 50%.
- Enhanced the execution runtime of Global Book Publication by 75%.
- Lowered maintenance costs for the AVD instance for Internet Explorer with the Flash feature by transitioning to a UI5-based web application.
- Resulted in substantial cost savings for infrastructure maintenance through the AWS migration.
