With all SAP customers having to consider migrating from SAPECC to one of the new SAP S/4HANA platforms, determining an adequate infrastructurestrategy has become a relevant task.
Several alternatives are available for your infrastructure strategy. You could consider buying new servers that match SAP S/4HANA's requirements, maintaining them in your own data center or an outsourced hosting, transferring server responsibility to SAP with the RISE with SAP contract framework, or even a hybrid version of those, such as having your own cloud infrastructure contract.
Der visoryQ Business Case Builder für SAP-Vertragsstrategien liefert die Entscheidungskriterien und den finanziellen Rahmen, den Du benötigst, um Deine Entscheidungen über die Zukunft Eures ERP vorzubereiten, zu visualisieren und zu untermauern.
As always, to draw your route on the map, you need to know where you are: start with an inventory. Find out how many servers you have for production, quality, development, sandbox, training, etc. Discover what performance in SAPS they offer, what memory your (HANA) databases need, how much storage they have, and how many cores they have.
The next step is to assess the future options: how much more memory will HANA need? Are you planning to consolidate your servers? Do you need more performance, or are you okay with the current setup? Are you happy with your current high availability setup? Disaster recovery? Backup? Would you like to stay in control of your environment or instead outsource this discipline to a third party?
All of these factors, of course, impact the costs. If you would ask me what is the central question to ask before making up your mind about your future SAP infrastructure strategy, be it on-premises, on the (IBM-) cloud, or managed by SAP, my answer would be:
Understand where you are today, clearly define your future requirements, and compare their impact on costs before you decide which path to take.
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