Introduction

SAP-ALL.com is a provider of technical consultancy focussing on the SAP® product suite.

The SAP Technology Architect contributes to the success of the planning and implementation phases of the business by supporting the definition of the overall architecture and the design of the best overall strategic system landscape. This also includes legacy systems and the optimisation of enterprise wide deployment of SAP technology solutions. The Architect will base the work on the requirements of the various stakeholders from the business and IT side and therefore support the implementation of the IT strategy.

The Architect supports the sales team in the evaluation process and finally designs SAP-centered, customer-specific solutions that lead to sales success. Since understanding capabilities and pitfalls of legacy systems and existing process and IT landscapes is essential, a robust understanding of the customer’s industry and typical legacy systems / custom coded applications is very important.

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What's New

SAP TechEd 2017 presents SAP's strategy for the rest of this year and 2018. As one would expect, the focus is primarily on SAP HANA, along with Cloud offerings and big data analytics. The annual conference, in three locations this year (Las Vegas, Bangalore and Barcelona), is a great way to find out what SAP has planned in the near and mid term. Occasionally, concepts explained at these sessions never see the light of day. The conference is ongoing; my preliminary thoughts are here: Technical Architecture topics at TechEd 2017.

The major cloud providers, along with SAP, have been pushing "SAP in the Cloud" for quite some time. There are many ways to architect and implement this goal. From moving your entire datacentre into the cloud (IaaS) to loggong on and running a pre-defined SAP service (SaaS), the options should all be evaluated for all parts of your IT landscape. You could, for example, move your databases to IaaS while keeping most of your SAP systems on-premise and having some services, such as Salesforce/Hybris, in the cloud. As a Technical Architect I'm primarily focussed on the technical differences and options available, so am creating various SAP systems in the cloud through the major providers. Read on!.
[05 Nov 2017]

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Adrian Hadayah
SAP Technical & Enterprise Architect

** NEW Consultant, Medical Informatics **

Nationality:    British
Residency:Basel, Switzerland

I am a Senior Technical Architect focussing on the SAP product suite and connected third-party systems. My typical tasks are to define systems integration standards and policies, map the solution design onto the appropriate technical landscape and ensure the client’s architectural principles are adhered to with exceptions approved and documented. Where required I investigate whether any cloud-based solution (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, iPaaS etc.) can be utilised based on price, integration ability and speed of implementation. I have used TOGAF as member of an Enterprise Architecture team.

I was the Technical Project Architect for a three-year global SAP rollout, standardising business processes worldwide. I was responsible for documenting the architecture impact and the solution design for each phase, collating information from fit-gap sessions and solution architects.