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Introduction The topic of SAP system copy is giving many SAP customers headaches. System copies should be made regularly, but SAP does not provide the necessary tools to automate and handle the process efficiently. It is, therefore, not uncommon for complete system copies, including any post-editing, to take several days. Meanwhile, testing and development work comes to a standstill, and the large number of manual tasks in the entire process ties up internal resources. This document explains how a considerable portion of the total process can be automated using the UC4 platform. This helps companies be more flexible, save time and money, while producing audit-compliant documentation. #12;Creating copies of production systems is part of any company's IT standard procedure. This does not only include traditional backing-up of files, but also rather aims at the operation of several system environments for development, testing, training, and demonstration purposes. It is customary today to have at least three-level systems, but environments with four, five, or more systems are not that uncommon among companies either. SAP systems are highly critical to the company and, thus, very sensitive to any intervention. No one in charge of SAP who takes his or her responsibilities seriously, example, would ever test a new software tool or a new hardware component within an active production environment--the sheer risk of it would be incalculable.

According to AMR Research, more and more customers are saving on SAP operational costs this year with SAP infrastructure projects and virtualizing SAP applications. At the same time, most organizations place infrastructure costs in a different bucket from applications and therefore find it difficult to get a good view of where overall operational costs can be cut. Moreover, it can be complicated to determine whether an existing hardware infrastructure can support a virtualized SAP environment. Read this E-Guide and learn to identify areas of potential SAP savings as well as the best way to virtualize your SAP environments. By Courtney Bjorlin, News Editor Customers are saving on SAP operational costs this year with SAP infrastructure projects, including ditching Oracle databases in some Unix and Windows environments, trying to rein in database size, and virtualizing SAP applications, according to AMR Research. Companies are spending between $150,000 and $3 million on such projects and realizing payback within nine to 10 months, according to Derek Prior, research director at the Boston-based firm. Prior gathered the findings from about 20 companies interviewed as part of AMR's SAP Peer Forum, which offers best practices and lessons learned through teleconferences, summits and webcasts. To identify of potential SAP savings, it's important that SAP customers establish a 10year lifecycle plan that includes hardware, software, support and upgrades, Prior said.

Organisations are eager to connect the vast amounts of data available within and outside their businesses to compete more effectively and make better business decisions. Unfortunately, current analytics solutions often stand in the way. They cannot support the volumes of historical and real-time data needed for time-sensitive business decisions. Performance problems prevent organisations from accessing the data they need when they need it. Companies everywhere are battling these issues as they strive to use information more strategically to stay competitive, retain customers, meet regulatory requirements and improve business processes. A new appliance exploiting in-memory computing capabilities offered by HP and SAP promises to change all this. SAP HANA enables customers to deal with greater volumes of data and to accelerate access to the right information. SAP HANA allows customers to break through the boundaries of traditional data warehousing reporting solutions, speed user access to real-time information from across the organisation's information ecosystem and to explore that information with greater flexibility � all while accelerating time to value. Start with HP. Our Business Intelligence (BI) Services for SAP HANA can help you clearly understand the costs, effort and benefits of modernising your IT landscape with SAP HANA. This suite of can help you determine the next steps for modernising your business environment and execute a smooth, efficient transition to the in-memory solution: �Impact Analysis for SAP HANA �Solution Assessment for SAP HANA �Financial Assessment for SAP HANA �Fast Start Service for SAP HANA �Implementation Service for SAP HANA

SAP applications are helpful for aligning IT operations with your business requirements, but they can also create major challenges for your IT staff, slowing your systems' performance and making it difficult to comply with service level agreements (SLAs). Integrating SAP applications with other applications (both SAP and non-SAP) can also be a challenge. The UC4 Automation Platform solves these problems, integrating your SAP workload with your enterprise automation strategy, synchronizing it with your external applications, simplifying IT housekeeping, and giving you centralized control over all SAP processing. This document begins with a discussion of the automation issues facing SAP users. It then explains why the internal SAP tools aren't enough to solve these problems and shows how UC4's solutions can help you realize the full benefits of your SAP investment. You've made a major investment in your SAP software--but if your organization is like many, managing the SAP portion of your infrastructure has become a major challenge for your IT group. The combination of high-volume workloads and user-initiated batch requests can strain even extensive computing resources, making it difficult to comply with SLAs. Problems such as the following are all too typical: � � � � � � Batch frequently overrun their specified window.

SAP applications are helpful for aligning IT operations with your business requirements, but they can also create major challenges for your IT staff, slowing your systems' performance and making it difficult to comply with service level agreements (SLAs). Integrating SAP applications with other applications (both SAP and non-SAP) can also be a challenge. The UC4 Automation Platform solves these problems, integrating your SAP workload with your enterprise automation strategy, synchronizing it with your external applications, simplifying IT housekeeping, and giving you centralized control over all SAP processing. This document begins with a discussion of the automation issues facing SAP users. It then explains why the internal SAP tools aren't enough to solve these problems and shows how UC4's solutions can help you realize the full benefits of your SAP investment. You've made a major investment in your SAP software--but if your organization is like many, managing the SAP portion of your infrastructure has become a major challenge for your IT group. The combination of high-volume workloads and user-initiated batch requests can strain even extensive computing resources, making it difficult to comply with SLAs. Problems such as the following are all too typical: � � � � � � Batch frequently overrun their specified window.

Enterprises depend on SAP applications to support their mission-critical business processes today more than ever before. The IT landscape typically used by enterprises to run SAP involves dedicated hardware for each process supported. This causes "islands of technology" to sprawl across the data center which are neither flexible to change, nor cost-effective to maintain. More importantly, when the enterprise needs to implement a new business process the delay in bringing new SAP systems online becomes an obstacle to business innovation. The IT organization is often seen as a bottleneck to progress rather than a strategic asset to help it turn the company on a dime to better compete. In comparison, companies which use cloud computing as a fast, flexible strategic advantage for SAP will rapidly move ahead, while others fall behind. Rather than taking months to requisition, deploy and integrate new infrastructure, HP's highly automated cloud-based solutions let you provide SAP as an on-demand service to your users. We offer a range of solutions to meet your needs, whether your IT organization wants to build its own private cloud for SAP environments or purchase hosted SAP services directly from HP. The market for SAP solutions is quickly moving towards provided as a service, and no one understands this better than HP.

When the predecessor of this white paper, the "Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP Data Centers" went public one year ago, no one involved could have imagined the impact and the attention it would produce. Since that time, Novell and REALTECH have had several thousand downloads, excerpts and summaries published in various print and online media. Customers from all over the world have contacted our respective companies to have details explained, to find a way to bring this message to their senior management for final decision making, or to simply plan and to go down the path for migration to Linux. Furthermore, renowned companies such as Intel have asked us about the architectural aspects of Linux in SAP data centers and their importance in the trend we observed and documented. This enormous public interest and the technological advances we have seen since--such as the enhanced features and support for virtualization technologies--justify taking a second, and closer, look. In this update and architectural white paper, we will first analyze the original white paper and compare some of its statements, predictions and comments with what has happened since. We will show that many of our assumptions and conclusions in the white paper have proved to be correct, and that in some cases, the trends we predicted have gained more momentum than we assumed they would one year ago.

Speakers: Peter Put, Senior Technologist SAP Competency Center for HP; Scott Allen, Director of SAP Alliance for Intel and Lane Goode, SAP Alliance Manager for the US Central Region Moderated by Kyle LeRoy Kyle LeRoy: Hello, and welcome to today's presentation, "Modernize and Optimize your SAP Infrastructure with HP and Intel." My name is Kyle LeRoy, and I am going to be moderator for today's presentation. Today's presentation is being brought to you by HP and Intel. Before we begin the presentation today, please note that the slides for this presentation will be pushed to your screen automatically and all audio will be streamed to your computer. If you have any questions for our speakers for today, you can enter them by clicking on the "Questions" tab on the lower left-hand side of your screen and click "Submit Question." Your questions will be addressed at the end of the presentation. Lastly, if you attend this webcast through the end you have a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card. With that said, it is my pleasure to introduce our speakers for today's presentation. Joining us today is Peter Put, Senior Technologist, SAP Competency Center for HP, Scott Allen, of SAP Alliance for Intel, and Lane Goode, SAP Alliance Manager for the US Central Region.

Many enterprises are migrating their core enterprise applications from expensive proprietary platforms or older x86 servers to Linux on standards-based servers. In the past, the lack of an x86 server with the performance, availability, and scalability found in proprietary platforms hindered adoption of these servers at the enterprise core. However, the new HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server with Intel� Xeon� Processor 7500 series overcomes these limitations. The DL980 is not just a larger x86 platform; it was designed with enterprise in mind. It features large internal storage capacity, network and I/O expandability, built-in availability and reliability features, and advanced power management capabilities. The DL980 is an excellent platform for scale-up consolidation and for virtualization of legacy UNIX� and Linux workloads. The DL980 can help you to meet your enterprise-level Information Technology (IT) challenges, such as: � Inability to scale resources effectively to handle high available demands and exponential data growth. � Business demand for lower cost, standards-based Linux and x86-based servers to lower costs, where the only alternative is to run Linux as a `secondary' operating environment on a RISC or proprietary hardware platform. � Insufficient reliability from existing servers to handle large single system databases and high-density virtualization. The need to lower support and operating costs, but the inability to do so due to legacy server sprawl.

To reach current goals and allow for future growth, your business applications must be supported by not only a powerful solution, but also the right solution. Jettison current siloed SAP installations that use up to 70% of your IT budget to maintain operations.1 Instead opt for a scalable, low-cost, reliable and highly available data center supported by industry-standard hardware and data-intensive enterprise software. With SAP� Business Suite, including SAP ERP and SAP BusinessObjects, business intelligence solutions provide the reliability required for critical business support. Deployed on our proven configurations using HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and HP ProLiant DL580 G7 servers featuring the Intel� Xeon� processor 7500 series, you gain a powerful scale-right (up, out or both) solution. Optimized for the most demanding x86 workloads, the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and HP ProLiant DL580 G7 servers: � Maximize application uptime with a 200%2 boost in server availability with self-healing resiliency to meet your business high-availability requirements for consolidation and critical application solutions � Gain more than three times greater database performance2 with improved scalability made possible through performance gains achieved by balanced scaling By scaling up, you can provide more efficient capacity expansion for a variety of applications without increasing This is is because one operating system (OS) operates more efficiently than many, because interconnects inside one system have far greater bandwidth and lower latency than cluster solutions with multiple OS images.