Developing Sustainable Infrastructure
Plenary on Cloud Computing
Alvin L. Paules/ Chief Technology Architecture
14 June 2012
Agenda
Cloud
 What Customers Want
Innovation
 New challenges & a CIO’s first responsibility
 Delivering “surrounding innovations”
 SAP technology strategy
Ecosystems & Infrastructure of the Future
 Applications (SaaS), Platforms (PaaS), Infrastructure (IaaS)
 Emerging Standards
Summary
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Cloud Solutions
key design principles – what customers want
■ User Experience
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Multiple Renderings on multiple devices
UI Model independent from rendering
■ Simplicity
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Roles concept & Intuitive navigation
Business driven configuration
■ Personalization, Adaptability & Extensibility
■ Network centric & Collaborative
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On Demand
Solution
Public semantic Model
Mash Up of services & feeds
Social network integration
■ Insight
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InMemory analytics
Procedural & algorithmic logic
■ Massively scalable
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Multi Tenancy
Minimal resource consumption
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COMPREHENSIVE On Demand PORTFOLIO ( www.ondemand.com )
Seamlessly Integrated For a Hybrid World
Companies
Departments
People
SAP Business
ByDesign
Sales
OnDemand
Travel
OnDemand
BI
On Demand
SAP Business
ByDesign for
Subsidiaries
Career
OnDemand
Sourcing
OnDemand
SAP StreamWork
ByD based
Partner
Solutions
Carbon Impact
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CIO’s first responsibility: Protect the system of record
System of Record
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The real challenge: Learning to deliver “surrounding innovations”
System of Record
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SAP technology strategy
Mobile
Core
Analytics
System of Record
Cloud
In Memory
Big Data
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Orchestration: All the parts work together as a whole
Mobile
Architectural alignment
Master data management
Data integration: WS and OData
Federated security
Analytics
System of Record
Cloud
In Memory
Process integration
Application lifecycle management
Integrated monitoring
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Big Data
Application composition
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An expanded platform to meet the new challenges
Mobile
Analytics
System
of Record
Cloud
In Memory
Big Data
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Integration via Ecosystems
(SaaS) Applications
(PaaS) Platforms
(IaaS) Infrastructure
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New infrastructure periodically reshapes software architecture
Every decade, an infrastructure revolution enables new application topology, reach and impact
1990
2000
2010
2020
2030
Impact
Consistent
data
Actionable
decisions
Business
agility
Process
efficiency
Situational
awareness
Reach
Many
business
managers
A few
specialists
Application
Topology
Standalone
apps
ERP +
integration
Most
employees
Portals
& suites
Everyone,
everywhere
Sensors & robots
(internet of things)
Networked solutions
(across platforms)
Moveable
code & data
Infrastructure
Source: Ray Kurzweil
Data center
1975
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LAN
1985
WAN
1995
“The intercloud”
Mobile & cloud
2005
2015
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TOSCA - Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tosca
"As one of the initial co-authors of the TOSCA input specification, SAP is pleased to see it
advance towards industry standardization. SAP is committed to helping its customers run
enterprise software on cloud infrastructures, and the TOSCA specification will enable
customers to enjoy more cloud choices through easier portability between clouds."
--Claus von Riegen, Program Director, Industry Standards and Open Source
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In Summary - A simple equation for Success as a CIO
Enduring responsibility
System of Record
Response to new challenges
Cost pressures
/
X
Long-term SaaS Solution Provider
=
Standards-based Ecosystems across the stack
Mobile
System
of Record
Analytics
Cloud
&
In Memory
Big Data
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Thank You!
Contact information:
Alvin L. Paules
Chief Technology Architect
SAP Africa
alvin.paules@sap.com