We are currently on SAP/4HANA and BW/4HANA with traditional perpetual license. If we migrate BW/4HANA to SAP Datasphere, how will it impact our BW spend? Will it be more expensive and what is the ball park % increase?
Director of Data Platforms in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago
That's a very good question and one that I would be interesting to see an answer to as well. We're just starting our assessment and what we can see already is that the answer is the proverbial "it depends" because DataSphere has many capabilities and the cost depends highly on what you use. What's clear however is that SAP is pushing DataSphere and is likely to give you some incentives for jumping on it, but I can already see that it will be hard to beat the cost of the on prem BW as we have such a mature setup where we've optimized heavily that the TCO of that will be hard to beat, for a stable setup. I think the difference will play out more on whether we need scalability, something that is costly to bring on an onprem platform. Nothing really new when it comes to comparing cloud and on-prem
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That's a very good question and one that I would be interesting to see an answer to as well. We're just starting our assessment and what we can see already is that the answer is the proverbial "it depends" because DataSphere has many capabilities and the cost depends highly on what you use. What's clear however is that SAP is pushing DataSphere and is likely to give you some incentives for jumping on it, but I can already see that it will be hard to beat the cost of the on prem BW as we have such a mature setup where we've optimized heavily that the TCO of that will be hard to beat, for a stable setup. I think the difference will play out more on whether we need scalability, something that is costly to bring on an onprem platform. Nothing really new when it comes to comparing cloud and on-prem