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SOURCE: Wharfedale Technologies Inc. (WFT)

WFT Cloud a fully owned subsidiary of Wharfedale Technologies Inc. (WFT), a leading professional IT services consulting firm specializing in SAP cloud infrastructure integration, today announced their new SAP HANA assessment service for SAP customers.

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) February 19, 2013

Wharfedale Technologies Inc. (WFT Cloud), a leading SAP Infrastructure and SAP Cloud consulting firm, has made significant gains within the cloud computing domain by focusing on cost savings and faster ROI when customers decide to migrate their existing SAP Applications to the Cloud.

SAP HANA is an in-memory database solution that provides the infrastructure and foundation for multiple business applications, such as analytics and business intelligence. It accelerates core business processes and reports against transactional and analytical information from across the enterprise in near-real time.

WFT SAP HANA Assessment service will be delivered as a combination of on-site and off-site delivery models. Data collection, interviews with key stakeholders in the organization, and discussion of architecture and capabilities of HANA will be conducted on-site. Analysis of data and recommendations for next steps will be performed off-site. The right adoption strategy for this new technology into an existing environment is critical to realize the benefits.

The multi-day workshop covers both business and technical aspects related to the solution. Specific to business, collaborative discussions of as-is and to-be states for information management will be discussed along with the business drivers and roadmap. From a technical perspective, the topics covered during the workshop include introduction, architecture, sizing, infrastructure requirements, migration strategy, backup recovery, high availability, data loads, post migration testing, current BW data model readiness, licensing, SLA’s and deployment model (On-premise or Cloud).

If HANA is deemed to be viable option after the analysis, the next steps include review and analysis of the existing SAP BW system and presentation of the planning steps required for a SAP HANA migration. Evaluation of current data volumes and possibilities for optimization are also explored. WFT Cloud follows BW on HANA certified migration methodology for migrating from BW to HANA..

Rajeev Menon, VP of SAP Practice, WFT Cloud said “SAP HANA database processes both transactional and analytical workloads fully in-memory, which results in lower TCO and dramatic improvements in performance for customers. This service provides an assessment of applicability of SAP HANA to the business needs of the customer. ”

One of the earliest customers for this service is Canada's largest publicly traded power generator and marketer of electricity and renewable energy. The customer decided to explore the viability of implementing HANA in their environment and making it the common data repository for big data analysis and what benefits it would bring to their business. WFTCloud conducted the assessment workshop and delivered a report based on the findings, along with proposed next steps and the plan for migration.

About Wharfedale Technologies Inc.
Wharfedale Technologies Inc. (WFT Cloud) is a leading technology consulting firm specializing in SAP infrastructure integrations and services, as well as private/public hybrid Cloud solutions. As an SAP certified provider of cloud services, Wharfedale also offers SAP solutions around - high availability, disaster recovery, advanced sizing for virtualization, back up/recovery Integration, systems refresh automation and landscape optimization.

For more information on Wharfedale and WFT Cloud services, please visit http://www.WFTCloud.com or call us at (888) 533-3113.
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