Lesson 1: SAP ON CLOUD PLATFORM

● Cloud Computing
○ Represents a new way to deploy computing technology to give users the
ability to access, work on, share, and store information using the internet.
- Is a service, and that service is being offered to clients or the users
of that service, it will give them ability to access, work on, share and
store information, only possible using the internet.
- Example:
- Netflix; what is the computing technology or service
that it offers?
- More likely offering recreational service, more
of a personal rather than business.
- If an account holder, you are a user, ability to
access the movies, etc., to share and store info
but you cannot stream those w/o internet,
except when you download it.
- How is it possible that the datas you used while
using the netflix, didn't add up to the storage on
the device?
- Because it has its own data center
- And that is what you pay for, you
rent that data center or storage

○ Ideal way to describe Cloud Computing would be to term it as ‘Everything

as a Service’ (XaaS).
- Not new to us, because of the XERO
- On premise
- IaaS- Infrastructure as a Service
- PaaS-Platform as a Service
- SaaS- Software as a Service
○ Delivery of on-demand computing services from applications, to storage
and processes.
○ Complex network of data centers, each composed of thousands of
computers working together that can perform and achieve the functions of
a software on a personal or business computer unit by providing users
access to a vast number of applications, platforms and services delivered
over the Internet.
○ Started and is being used in the early 2000s.
○ Concept and idea has been used since 1960s
 - When computer bureaus allow companies to rent time
- The idea of “‘rental”, since cloud computing involves rental of
storage
- Like google drive, if you store your files using google drive,
you will not use any single measurement of storage on your
device. The storage that is used is that of the google drive,
and it decreases your storage limit in that app.
- If you want to have a larger amount of storage, you
will pay a certain fee.

● Types of Cloud Deployment

❖ Public CLoud
❖ Private Cloud
❖ Hybrid

1. Public Cloud
- Also known as External CLoud
- Available to the public where data are created and stored on
third-party servers
- Service infrastructure belongs to service providers that manage
them, and administer pool resources.
- The need for user companies to buy and maintain their own
hardware is eliminated.
- The cloud service is shared among different companies/ multiple
companies.
- Although they shared the same cloud service, those
companies still cannot see the data of the other companies
that are in those cloud services
- Advantage:
- It costs less because the maintenance of the space of the
cloud will be shouldered by the cloud owner.
- Maintenance in the perspective of the cloud includes updates,
resolving bugs and system
- Shouldered by the cloud owner

2. Private Cloud
- Also known as Internal Cloud
- Cloud based infrastructure operated exclusively for a single
organization with all data protected behind an internal firewall
 - Usually physically located at the company’s on-site data center or
can also be managed and hosted by a third-party provider.
- Not shared with any other organization, which means the storage or
the services are fully owned by the organization.
- Disadvantage:
- Maintenance are shouldered by the company since they are
also the owner of that cloud

3. Hybrid
- Encompasses the best features of the both cloud computing
deployment models.
- It allows companies to mix and match the facets of public and
private cloud that best suit their requirements.
- Combination of public and private clouds
- It combines on cloud and on premises; combines public and private
environments to create a more efficient operating model.
- The use of this is for backup and recovery planning, since public
cloud can only be accessed with an internet connection.
- It is the time that the storage of the device is used to store the data.

● Huawei and SAP cooperation journey

○ 2012
- July- SAP announced Huawei as its 1st Global Technology Partner.
- September- Mr. Ren Zhangfel, and Mr. Jim Snabe, met and agreed
on setting up a strategic partnership.
- SAP uses the Huawei cloud platform to further improve enterprises
and all customers of SAP worldwide.
*SAP does not only service local firms, but they also serve global companies.
- The collaboration includes cloud data center mobility and the like in
providing smart data solutions.
- How does the partnership of Huawei and SAP work?
- Huawei is one of SAP's global technology partners, with SAP
as a provider of enterprise applications and Huawei as a
provider of IT infrastructure.
- What does that mean?
- When it comes to service, it is SAP who
provides, when it comes to IT infrastructure or
the cloud storage, it is Huawei who will provide.
 ○ 2013
- February- Huawei and SAP released the 1st certified HANA
@Huawei Appliance.

○ 2014
- March- Huawei and SAP announced extending the SAP and
Huawei collaboration into a strategic alliance.
- July- Huawei Day was held at Waldorf, Germany, the SAP
headquarter, the opening of Huawei office in Partner Port.

○ 2015
- March- Huawei and SAP signed a MOU at CeBIT 2015 to deepen
collaboration in Industry 4.0 and IoT.
- Their partnership is so significant that their end-to-end solutions
focused on Industry 4.0 and IoT.
- Besides the local and global companies, SAP has also partners in
the academe, in which one of them is Holy Angel University.
- June- Huawei and SAP announced the opening of the HUawei and
SAP co-innovation center in Shenzhen

○ 2016
- June- SAP Greater China and Huawei Enterprise China jointly held
SAP | Huawei Forum Shenzhen.
○ 2017
- June- release KunLun Engineered System for SAP HANA based
on SAP and Huawei joint innovation and optimization.

○ 2018
- April- Huawei Cloud certified by SAP as IaaS provider including
supporting HANA and NetWeaver.

○ 2019
- “Galileo Project” for IoT industry joint solution announced joint
solution in Hannover messe 2019 and Huawei Connect 2019

● Huawei Cloud
○ Chosen partner of Fasttrack IT Academy for the deployment of SAP
Business One on Cloud to our university and collegiate partners
 ○ It now distills 30+ years of accumulated technology, innovation, and
expertise in the ICT infrastructure field to offer customers everything as a
service.
○ By the end of 2019, Huawei Cloud had launched 200+ cloud services and
190+ solutions
○ News agencies, social media platforms, law enforcement, automobile
manufacturers, gene sequencing organizations, financial institutions, and
a long list of other industry customers are all benefiting in significant ways
from Huawei Cloud.

● Capabilities and user experience: Key Features of Cloud Computing

○ The characteristics of Cloud Computing express its significance in the
current business market. It has already been proven that Cloud
Computing is a model for enabling universal, convenient and on-demand
network access.
- Already proven its significance through its facilitation of access &
application from any location worldwide.
- It’s very convenient if you’re using cloud storage, you can access
anywhere, anytime as long as you’re connected to the internet with
any device.

○ Key Features:
■ Agility
- helps in rapid and inexpensive re-provisioning of resources.
- Something like being economical
- It means only the amount which is spent on basic
maintenance, storage needed and few more
expenses will be paid, what you get is what you pay.
- Only the services that you had obtained on that
application, that is the only thing that you will be
paying.
- If you are paying for this certain limit of storage, that
would be it. If you wish to acquire more, then you can
buy more.

■ Location Independence
- Resources can be accessed anywhere (except on limitations
set by company's internal control)
- This feature has been the proving factor of cloud computing,
the access to anywhere, anytime, and on any device.
 - The user can access the data of the cloud or upload the data
to the cloud from anywhere with any device so long as he
has the internet connection.
- This is the convenience provided by cloud computing
technology.

■ Multi-Tenacity
- Resources are shared amongst a large pool of users.
- There is sharing with other organizations when it comes to
the public cloud.
- The cloud provider pooled the computing resources to
provide services to multiple customers.
- There are different physical and virtual resources assigned
depending on the demand of the customer.

■ Reliability
- Dependable accessibility of resources and computation.
- Also security
- Data may not get lost even if one of the servers is
damaged.
- The data is stored within the storage devices, which
cannot be handled by any other person.
- Loss of information rarely happens when you are
using cloud storage.

■ Scalability
- Dynamic provisioning of data helps in avoiding various
bottleneck scenarios.
- The users can monitor his storage usage and can always
upgrade when necessary to avoid some bottleneck
scenarios.
- If you know that you are already reaching your limit, the
cloud computing technology usually offers upgrades in the
data storage.
- You can always have that so you can avoid those
certain problems in the future.

■ Ease of Maintenance
 - Organizations have less work in terms of resource upgrades
and management, handled by service providers of cloud
computing.
- The services that you acquired with that cloud computing
technology are easily maintained, since the maintenance is
usually done by the owner of the computing technology.
- When it comes to ease of maintenance, their downtime is
very low, sometimes none.
- You will only encounter it when you don’t have an internet
connection. So long as you have an internet connection,
you can have these features of cloud computing.
- In private cloud maintenance, problems like software viruses
that would affect files or computers, that would be their
downtime, unlike in public cloud storage, it rarely happens.
- Cloud computing also comes with an upgrade to gradually
make it better.
- Its purpose is to improve the services of that certain
technology.

● Introduction to SAP
○ SAP (Systems, Applications and Products in data processing)
■ European multinational software corporation founded in 1972,
headquartered in Waldorf, Baten-Wurttemberg, Germany with
regional offices in 180 countries.
- America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific REgion
(Philippines is included)
■ Founded by five IBM Engineers namely:
● Hasso Plattner
● Klaus Tschira
● Claus Wellenreuther
● Dietmar Hopp
● Hans-Werner Hector

○ Considered as one of the world’s largest business software company:

■ Commands 67% share of the Business Software Market
■ 12 Million Users. 95,000 installations in more than 130 countries
■ 1,500 Partners. 25+ Industry Solutions. 60,000 employees.

○ Recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all

types of industries and for every major market globally.
 ○ Some SAP users in the Philippines and worldwide:
■ Telecommunications
- Pldt - Smart - Digitel
- Globe - Sun
■ Utilities
- Meralco - Manila Water - Maynilad
■ Oil & Gas
- Petron - Caltex - Shell
■ Healthcare
- St. Luke’s
■ Real Estate
- Ayala Land - Robinsons Land - Filinvest
■ Automotive
- Honda, BMW, Kawasaki
■ COnsumer Products
- San Miguel Corp. - Coca-Cola - URC
- P&G - Unilever
■ Media and Transportation
- ABS-CBN - Cebu Pacific
- MASCOR
■ Retail
- SM -KFC
- Southstar drug -Penshoppe
■ Public/Financial Services
- BSP -Landbank
■ Manufacturing
- Hitachi - Siemens

● SAP Business One

○ Is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Solution.
- Ability to deliver an integrated suite of business applications.
- It is a business process management system software that allows
an organization to use a system of integrated applications to
manage the business & automate back office functions.
- It involves more than one process & these processes are integrated
in a management software for it to automate those processes for
ease of use.
○ Arranged into 15 functional modules automating the major functions in a
business organization.
○ This system provides itself on having the following characteristics:
 ■ Integrated
- 15 functional modules integrated into one software
■ Real time
- Since SAP is on-cloud, most likely files are updated on a real
time basis.
■ Flexible
■ Easy to use

● SAP Business One Benefits: On-premise vs. On-cloud

○ SAP Business One was formerly offered - on-premise with our university
and collegiate partners
○ SAP Business One now opens their doors on the latest cloud computing
developments, thus offering SAP Business One on-cloud.
○ The following are the differences between SAP Business on-premise and
SAP Business on-cloud:

Measures On-Premise On-Cloud

Deployment On premise installation of Through the internet

SAP Business One

Accounting Localized/Independent Branch Accounting

Accessibility Limited (within the premises Remote access

of the installation) through the internet

Data Storage Hardware Cloud server

■ On-premise
● Deployment
- Installed on individual computers which was the case
around 2 years ago.
- There’s a representative and they will install SAP
once the computers meth the system requirements
● Accounting
- You have your own company and you will work on
that company
● Accessibility
- You can only access SAP when you are in the
computer laboratory
● Data Storage
- Hardware or the system storage
■ On-cloud
● Deployment
- Everything is through the internet
- We utilize SAP on cloud in our university
● Accounting
- Not per company, but rather per branch
● Accessibility
- Can be accessed anywhere so long as there's an
internet connection
● Data Storage
- Cloud server, this will be the Huawei cloud, SAP’s
partner.