Cost savings by reducing the amount of memory consumed by SAP systems, establishing monitoring and increasing performance

The challenges presented themselves in different dimensions. Thus, it was first necessary to determine at a high technical level which systems in which platform caused the most consumption and the highest growth rates. Afterwards, a potential analysis was carried out to determine in which area the fastest and most effective results could be achieved.

The project also aimed to analyze and improve the declining performance values of the affected systems.

Since some of the systems identified were production-critical systems, the path with the lowest risk was selected after a risk analysis.

Realization

The technical analysis phase was followed by the derivation of the necessary measurements and the validation of the options with regard to their feasibility in coordination with the platform owners and the SAP Basis team.

Depending on the technical requirements and the interaction of internal processes of the IT infrastructure, a milestone plan including concrete measures was developed to achieve the greatest starting points and effects.

Once the planned approach was approved, the focus shifted to the current phase of the project, implementation.

The first measures were launched with high expectations and the decision to take the safe route immediately proved to be the correct one. This is because technical implementation once again poses a number of challenges.

The implementation of the planned measures is currently underway and will be implemented over several weeks.

BITS continues to accompany the project for the clarification of emerging issues in the context of the implementation as well as in the project management, since in the meantime also the service providers and SAP as manufacturer are involved, the focus has meanwhile shifted strongly from the technical analysis to the project management.