Techselect 2022

Save the date!

TechSelect 2022 will take place Thursday 24th March at the America Square Conference Centre in London UK.

For more information about the UK Sybase user group (UKSUG) go to www.uksug.com

SAP HANA Cloud “How to” webinar series

The new cloud-based services for SAP ASE, SAP IQ, and SAP Replication Server are here.

Sign up for this how-to series to gain in-depth insights into using these new services built on SAP HANA Cloud.

Delphix Spotlight on J2

By Lenore Adam

Tell us about J2 Consulting and the unique services you provide for enterprise customers.

J2 Consulting specializes in database management, data security and compliance, and data delivery.  Our team has significant experience working with large enterprise data teams– especially in financial services, banking, and logistics– to manage and optimize their data environments, accelerate software development, and ultimately drive business growth. We are also one of SAP’s specialist partners for its Database Migration Factory Program, helping SAP ASE and SAP IQ customers migrate to the new managed cloud service, SAP HANA Cloud.

How does J2 Consulting and Delphix help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation programs using data?

Many of our clients experience challenges caused by a lack of data infrastructure. Database teams face urgent requests for data provisioning, which invariably involves time consuming processing by administrators. Developers and testers need immediate access to production-quality data for testing but also must ensure that data achieves the highest level of security and compliance. With ever increasing demands for data across the organization, the volume of manual data operations is becoming unsupportable, incurring unnecessary cost, risk, and complexity.

Together with Delphix, we’re able to remove those bottlenecks and empower customers to fully exploit their data’s potential to drive growth and innovation. The Delphix team is extremely supportive and value our work together. We look forward to building upon our partnership as we help more organizations exploit data potential.

Tell us about one of your biggest success stories. 

One of our joint customers struggled to meet deadlines of a major project due to an inability to deliver enhanced digital experiences for internal users. Implementing these changes required a deluge of test environments, and they couldn’t meet the demand. Developers were also constrained by a lack of quality data in test environments, which negatively impacted integration testing across systems. Use of old, stale data raised concerns about the viability and reliability of testing for their business-critical platform releases.

They integrated Delphix into their DevOps toolchain to provide a continuous supply of quality data for CI/CD workflows. We were able to apply our SAP Sybase expertise to deliver production-quality data from SAP ASE and IQ into Delphix. DevOps teams were able to leverage data-ready, ephemeral test environments with rapid spin up and spin down via API, and orchestrate the provisioning of multiple databases for integration testing.

The customer saw fantastic results. They were able to significantly boost developer productivity by reducing the time to provision data environments from 2 weeks to just 3 hours. The resulting reduction in project timelines, from two months to two days, meant they could react faster to market changes and user demands. They also reduced their development storage costs by almost 95%!

Lastly, could you share insights on any data management trends you expect to see in 2021? 

The transformative potential of data is of course now universally accepted, yet the need for enterprise-wide data policies and frameworks to exploit this asset is still not always understood. I believe this is the year this will change. As data volumes continue to grow across complex, hybrid, and multi-cloud applications and platforms, data infrastructures will be seen as a necessity. Data fabrics that underpin and interconnect multi-cloud workloads and new methods for automating data management will become mainstream. Finally, the data role will become a core business function.

SAP HANA Cloud Launch Event

Register now to join the launch event for the new SAP HANA Cloud services, built for SAP ASE and SAP IQ workloads. The session will be joined by SAP executives, product managers, customers, and partners to give you a complete overview of the new services.

New webpage for ASE, IQ and Rep Server in HANA Cloud

SAP ASE, IQ and Rep Server will soon be available in SAP HANA Cloud.  Users will have complete flexibility – either stay on-premise or move to fully managed cloud based licensing, with the many benefits that consumption models bring.

Find out more on SAP’s new landing page.

5 sessions over 5 days at Virtual TechSelect 2020

The event of the year for SAP ASE and IQ users!

UKSUG are running a Virtual TechSelect this year with a one hour session per day 2nd – 6th November 2020 (1300 -1400 hrs GMT each day).

Monday 2 November – A First Look at SAP HANA Cloud, Adaptive Server Enterprise
Tuesday 3 November – A First Look at SAP HANA Cloud, Data Lake for Sybase IQ Workloads
Wednesday 4 November – ASE 16.0 SP04: What’s new and an introduction to the new Administration Management Console
Thursday 5 November – ASE and IQ in SAP HANA Cloud: Hot Topics
Friday 6 November – Introduction to SAP HANA Cloud: The wider ecosystem of SAP technology

To register for free please contact Laura Goss at UKSUG

www.uksug.com

Still on SAP ASE 15.7? And putting off that upgrade…?

Software upgrades never feature highly on anyone’s ‘to do’ list, but with SAP ASE there is one deadline that can’t be ignored. At the end of December 2020, ASE 15.7 will no longer be supported by SAP.

Although it will still be possible to run 15.7, remaining on an unsupported technology is a highly risky strategy which may also fall foul of your customers’ compliance. Why not lighten your workload and let J2 do the upgrade for you?

We’ve helped numerous customers upgrade to ASE 16. With its improved functionality, there are many reasons to move but for many, the most compelling is to benefit from full encryption at rest to meet regulatory and customer requirements.

J2 can provide advice on the upgrade process, provide additional resource to support your team or manage the whole upgrade for you. All upgrade work can be completely remotely or on-site if preferred. Get in touch for advice or to discuss your requirements.

Delphix for SAP ASE and SAP IQ

Please join J2 and partners Delphix and the UKISUG (SAP Database & Technology User Group) for a masterclass on how the Delphix DataOps Platform can revolutionise the way that data is delivered and masked into Enterprises.

This is an excellent opportunity to learn how your investment in SAP ASE or SAP IQ can be enhanced with virtualisation and masking from the Delphix DataOps Platform.

Delphix is the industry leader in DataOps and provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for leading companies around the world. The Delphix DataOps Platform supports a broad spectrum of systems—from mainframes to Sybase databases, SAP ERP applications, and Kubernetes containers. Delphix supports a comprehensive range of data operations to enable modern CI/CD workflows and automates data compliance for privacy regulations, including GDPR. In addition, Delphix helps companies sync data from private to public clouds, accelerating the journey to the cloud and the adoption of disruptive AI technologies. In a world where every company is becoming a data company, Delphix provides a critical platform to enable data-driven transformation.

The high level agenda is as follows: –

• Overview of the Delphix DataOps Platform
• ASE Virtualisation Demo
• ASE Masking Demo
• Sybase IQ Virtualisation

The session will be a mix of Demos and information sharing.

Register here

SAP announce start of key webinars on future direction of ASE, IQ

SAP has announced a set of key webinars detailing SAP’s investment in cloud and on-premise ASE, IQ and Rep Server.

The Next Generation: SAP ASE and IQ in the Cloud
Thursday, April 16, 2020, 08:00 AM PDT

SAP’s Commitment to On-Premise SAP ASE Customers
Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 08:00 AM PDT

SAP’s Commitment to On-Premise SAP IQ Customers
Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 08:00 AM PDT

Future Roadmap for SAP HANA Cloud, Adaptive Server Enterprise
Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 08:00 AM PDT

Future Roadmap for SAP HANA Cloud, Data Lake
Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 08:00 AM PDT

More info and to book

Masterclass – Using SAP and Delphix

-This Masterclass has now been cancelled and will rescheduled after the Covid-19 crisis-

Masterclass – Using SAP and Delphix 

Presented by Delphix and J2

25th March 2020

SAP Fieldglass Office, Blackfriars, London

6-8pm

The combined application of Delphix and SAP ASE and/or IQ can significantly lower TCO. Delphix speeds the delivery of data where it’s needed, enabling teams to quickly, securely and directly manage their data. It is the only data operations platform for the cloud that combines data compliance with on-demand data delivery.

This UKSUG Masterclass is being presented by Delphix and J2 Consulting.

If you’d like to find out more about Delphix now, don’t hesitate to get in touch.  Contact us 

 

 

TechSelect 2020 announced


Save the date: TechSelect 2020 will take place Thursday 22nd October at America Square Conference Centre, London. More details coming soon….

UKSUG Masterclass Series announced 2020

The UKSUG team are running a series of Masterclasses this Spring.

So far announced:
29th January – ASE 16

26th February – Workload Analyser and WLACLIutil

25th March – subject tbc.

Events are held in London at the SAP Fieldglass office 6pm – 8pm. Visit UKSUG.com for more info.

Webinar: eliminating bottlenecks in SAP app development

Delphix is an innovative data platform. Delphix automates and orchestrates data flows across the enterprise for faster and more secure access to data – on-premise and in the cloud. One of the core concepts of Delphix to achieve this is the so-called “DataPod”.

A DataPod gives developers, testers, or data analysts access to a personalised data environment that they can version in minutes, reset to a previous time, or update with masked data from production using self-service capabilities.

What you will learn in this webinar:

• How can SAP environments be cloned within minutes?
• How can the downtimes in SAP System Refreshes be minimised?
• How can the data be masked in the context of an SAP system refresh?
• How can the SAP non-production environments be migrated to the cloud?

Eliminating Data Delivery Bottlenecks in SAP Application Development
21st January 2020 | 10am GMT | 11:00 CET

Register now