Dev/Test/Prod Instances of SAC?

[Joel_B]

10:53 AM

I am curious how many SAP Analytics Cloud customers run more than 1 Tenant/Instance, such as Development/Test/Production, as you would with any other SAP product? At the very least, how do you test upcoming monthly or quarterly releasees?

I ask because I am being told that the SAC product has no licensing capability to support named user licenses across multiple tenants for this dev/test/production purpose. For example, we have purchased two tenants so far and two different blocks of licenses. One of our tenants is development and test and the second tenant is for production. Though, the same named user configured on both tenants counts as two licenses, meaning we are being told we have to pay double for the named users who wish to develop or support content.

Can the community confirm: If you run more than 1 tenant, do you have to pay multiple times for named users?

[Dilan]

Hello ,

what about if we only have one system, could we use the workspaces as dev and prod? So one workspace would be dev and the other one prod and we could transport from dev workspace to prod workspace. Is this an approach we could go if we only have one system?

Thanks

Dilan

[N1kh1l]

A minimum of 2 system is required for proper lifecycle management of SAC artifacts. SAC artifacts are linked with each other based on ID. So even a copy of same story with same name will have 2 different id's. So it will be really a tedious job (almost impossible ) to do a proper lifecycle management using Folder/workspaces. Below is an excerpts from one of best practice note around lifecycle management.

Hope it helps !!

Nikhil