EMC Virtualized SAP HANA Deployment for ERP and Forecasting

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EMC Virtualized SAP HANA Deployment for ERP and Forecasting

Case study of EMC Corporation deploying SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on virtualized SAP HANA to accelerate forecasting and reduce infrastructure costs.

Published

June 4, 2026

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3 min read

Source

SAP

EMC migrated its SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application to a virtualized SAP HANA environment on existing infrastructure. The project reduced data load times from 12 hours to 3 hours, improved monthly forecast performance by 4x, and delivered 70% lower capital expenditures and 56% lower operational expenditures compared to an appliance deployment. The implementation supported hybrid cloud strategy and live migration with zero downtime.

Key takeaways

Virtualized SAP HANA on existing hardware cut capital expenditures 70% versus appliance deployment

Data loading and translation 75% faster than legacy virtualized RDBMS

Monthly forecasting runtime improved 4x with same-day scenario analysis

Live migration enabled hardware maintenance with no production downtime

Project completed in 2.5 months using existing VMware/VCE infrastructure

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