PBS Nearline Analytic Infrastructure (PBS NAI) For ... - Dolphin

Lowering the TCO
Companies can use the PBS Nearline Analytic Infrastructure
to lower the TCO of an operative SAP application
system (ERP, IS, CRM, or other) rather considerably: in comparison
to all other known techniques, NAI is capable of
significantly reducing the indexing runtimes for archive
data. This saves valuable time during the batch window.
Because the archive indexes are stored inside the NAI server
in a compressed form, this saves disk space and, at
the same time, relieves the load on the SAP database. NAI
archive indexes from the production system can be read
directly by multiple mirror systems. Accordingly, this multiplies
the savings effect. Much faster response times with
respect to index access to archive data represents yet
another improvement that leads to an increase in user
satisfaction.
NAI-AS for FI:
The following table that PBS provides for use in financial
accounting illustrates how noticeably the SAP database is
relieved.
SAP Standard
PBS NAI
Account Indexes (BSIS etc.)
SAP AS
1 GB 500 MB
NAI-AS for FI (FI Template)
300 MB
Savings 80%
Figure 16
This table illustrates the storage requirements that pertain
to the database of an SAP system in comparison to the
storage requirement when the PBS Nearline Analytic Infrastructure
is used. Altogether, the account indexes on customers,
vendors and G/L accounts as well as the Archive
Information System SAP AS require disk space of 1.5 GB.
Utilization of the FI Template with the Archive Information
System NAI-AS reduces the amount of required disk space
to 300 MB and thus saves 80% of the storage space.
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