An enterprise SAP customer running BW4HANA complains that SAP's proposal and pricing to lift and shift their BW4 system into BDC are outrageous.

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        "excerpt": "the whole lift-and-shift pricing thing is such a racket. they know once you're in their cloud, they've got you by the wallet\n\n for your dev/qas question, i've seen setups where a single cold storage instance handles multiple environments. just gotta be real careful with your naming conventions and access controls so nobody accidentally cross-pollinates test data into prod\n\n end of 2030 is still ov",
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    "post_text": "Trying to understand some of our options with SAP HANA Date Lake for NLS (cold storage) with our BW4HANA system.\n\nOur BW4 system is with a RISE PTO, and SAP is now proposing to get Data Lake in their BDC. Eventually they want to \"lift and shift\" our BW4 into BDC but their pricing is outrageous.\n\nI'm curious why do we even need Data Lake in BDC if it's the only data product there. Can't we just get Data Lake in BTP and connect via Cloud Connector?\n\nAlso, can a single instance of Data Lake support two BW4 environments (DEV and QAS)?\n\nAnother option is to deploy SAP IQ within our RISE PTO, but I'm told end of maintenance is Dec 2030.",
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