Modernize Your SAP from Edge, to Core, to Cloud

Modernize your SAP from edge, to core, to cloud

Increase performance, innovate faster. Contents 04 06 Aligning your business strategy Modernize IT to run SAP to tomorrow's world with SAP from edge, to core, to cloud

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To achieve better outcomes and accelerate innovation They need platforms that can in an increasingly digital era, organizations are turning run classic and next-generation to data-intensive use cases powered by SAP. application workloads to manage complex SAP landscapes, These are fast becoming critical to improving customer experiences accelerate SAP projects and and driving differentiation. And they require infrastructure manage application lifecycles. that delivers superior performance, protection and agility— enabling resources wherever and whenever needed. And the capability to support new data-driven intelligent Simplifying IT is creating new possibilities for business. Dell EMC, SAP applications and business Intel® and SAP are delivering software and hardware solutions that processes. provide enterprise infrastructure platforms for modern applications. All powered from the edge to core, Moving from a non-HANA database to HANA and S/4HANA is a challenge to the cloud, leveraging big data, for IT. And balancing the resources needed to maintain traditional machine learning and AI. SAP ERP and business warehouse (BW) systems, with the investments made in S/4HANA, means customers need greater IT agility. Modernize IT to run SAP from edge, to core, to cloud.

Eliminate complexity and siloed Dell EMC provides a scalable and IT for SAP landscapes. Industry resilient IT foundation that assures - leading Intel® based SAP HANA- performance and reliability for all ready compute, storage, CI/HCI, sizes of SAP deployments and networking and data protection landscapes. solutions from Dell EMC span from edge to core to cloud. Dell EMC Infrastructure running on Intel® architecture provides a rich Make SAP available anytime, mix of compute, storage and data anywhere—providing coverage for protection enabling density and the entire business with solutions power efficiency for transactional that aren’t confined to a single processing, analytics, AI and IoT. location. Dell EMC's all-flash storage Support all your SAP workloads arrays—designed for the and enjoy world-record SAP applications of today and application performance. The Dell tomorrow—provide the foundation EMC PowerEdge and broader of a modern data center. These portfolio of solutions for SAP help businesses consolidate modernizes your IT, reduces risk classic SAP and SAP HANA and simplifies IT management. landscapes onto a single Up to 50% platform, and deliver unmatched faster invoicing Deploying Dell EMC Infrastructure performance, protection and process ROI of up to powered by Intel® is the best way to resiliency without compromise. Increase 289% over modernize your SAP environment. analytics workload three years performance by Lower Application landscape management up to 78% storage admin Unified application and infrastructure operations management by up to 33% Lifecycle assurance | Simplified operations

FUTURE-PROOF INFRASTRUCTURE Converged Hyper-Converged

All-flash Scale-out Software-defined Cloud-enabled Protection | Trust Source: SAP Forrester TEI report Improving SAP performance from Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud the edge, to the core, to the cloud. Setting IT framework to orchestrate data management

When you have the right products This means enterprise customers SAP Leonardo Framework and consumption models, have access to end-to-end modernizing, automating and solutions from a single vendor. SAP S/4HANA Digital Core transforming your SAP landscape SAP Leonardo delivers the business outcomes Our solutions and infrastructure SAP Data Hub IoT Edge your organization demands. technology based on Intel® SAP Vora | Pipelining | Refinement | Operational Processing Processing Technologies provide agile IT

SA Dell EMC not only has the platforms for handling mixed Data inside HANA IoT & Big Data P knowledge, expertise and tools SAP workloads (classic and next- S/4HANA outside S/4HANA to help you consolidate and generation intelligent applications), simplify your IT for a modern and managing complex SAP Dell with Dell EMC Core Infrastructrure SAP landscape; we also have landscapes. This means you can Intel® Gateways based on Intel® Technologies the industry’s widest portfolio of accelerate SAP projects, data- for IOT infrastructure solutions running on driven applications and business Intel® architecture for SAP. processes – all powered from the edge to the core. PowerEdge PowerMaxIsilon

Orchestrate | Store | Protect data across distributed complex IT landscapes

And because Dell EMC’s SAP Ready Solution incorporates VMWare and Virtustream, you can deploy a hybrid cloud – for those mixed and high-value workloads – as part of your transformation strategy. Invigorate I Rejuvenate I Refresh Powering SAP on modernized infrastructure. Our knowledge, expertise and tools help fast-track your deployment, migration and platform rebuild project. This For many enterprises, too much IT budget gets reduces risk and delivers value from your trapped by operations and maintenance costs. legacy SAP ERP applications – all while saving your precious IT budget. Dell EMC, SAP and Intel® joint forces create innovative enterprise infrastructure platforms. Dell EMC’s SAP HANA-certified infrastructure solutions powered by As well as being the first step on a path to an Intel® deliver: intelligent SAP HANA enterprise, modernizing • Predictable performance at scale for your infrastructure helps free this budget. mixed, high-value workloads. By reducing the size of your siloed SAP environments, and significantly reducing those • Scale, performance protection, lengthy SAP maintenance and upgrade cycles, availability for mission-critical you can focus on investing more in new, value- S4HANA and SAP's HANA in-memory generating business models. database, for real-time analytics. • Simplified SAP maintenance & Dell EMC’s SAP HANA-certified infrastructure upgrade cycles. solutions with breakthrough performance • Always-on SAP for the digital era. of the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are specifically designed around consolidating • Application-driven data protection and these landscapes, to maximize SAP long retention. performance – from edge to core. • A cloud-enabled virtual infrastructure (cloud operating model).

Not only will modernizing your IT simplify your siloed environments and save on operating and maintenance costs, it brings new life to your legacy SAP applications.

A modern infrastructure foundation invigorates legacy SAP ERP applications, and makes you ready to power SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA Meeting your SAP Storage Solutions Converged Infrastructure Solutions “HANA is in-memory challenges, head on. Unlock the value of SAP data. Dell EMC Storage Solutions SAP HANA-certified and fully- technology, which means the whole database is written to When you invest in future-proof provide unprecedented power integrated compute, network, and scale for consolidation, storage and data protection the server’s memory. Those solutions designed to invigorate servers are much bigger legacy SAP applications, you automation and intelligent solutions boost business agility, than normal servers. They make the move to SAP S/4HANA operations of SAP deployments. improve data center efficiency, easier, simplify SAP System Learn More › and simplify your SAP operations. have a couple of terabytes of Copy/ Refresh tasks, and reduce Discover How › memory. With the database Server Solutions in-server memory, it’s very costs. All while taking advantage Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Dell PowerEdge servers provide fast, very available for users, of the opportunities that edge-to- Solutions core delivers. unprecedented performance for because it doesn’t have to be SAP deployments, and the building Future-proof your data center with read from disk.” Dell EMC with Intel® Xeon® Scalable blocks you need to start, scale a Hyper-Converged infrastructure, processors and SAP Platform are or consolidate workload‑specific supporting your mission-critical, Klaus Kivelä, IT Project Manager, Wihuri a powerful combination to enable deployments. Learn More › performance-sensitive SAP HANA you to outperform in today's digital Data Protection Solutions environments. Learn More › economy. Dell EMC data protection software delivers high-performance data protection of your SAP Explore more Dell EMC infrastructure solutions, environments, enabling DBA optimized for SAP Here self-service. Learn More ›

Moving Up MOVING UP Global enterprise builds an SAP S/4HANA environment on Dell EMC infrastructure

| Finland Global enterprise, Wihuri, builds Industry and Trade Conglomerate Wihuri |

Business needs Solutions at a glance an SAP S/4HANA environment • SAP S/4HANA Wihuri needed a reliable, cost-effective hardware • Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R920 and R930 rack servers platform to support a new SAP S/4HANA • Dell Compellent SC2000 storage system deployment. on Dell EMC infrastructure. • VMware virtualization Business results • Reduced costs for software licenses • Faster reporting

The project came Read the Case Study › Some reporting in early and might run 100x Under Faster Budget Want to spend less time managing your hardware, and more time driving innovation and higher-value work? Who wouldn’t?

Dell EMC jointly with Intel® Technologies SAP infrastructure scales your SAP environment, enabling you to automate your cloud Dell EMC Storage Snaps provisioning and management and integrated copy capabilities. management means making high-performance copies is Creating and managing copies faster – and with no cost to of SAP production systems production database servers. for dev/test, QAS and training And highly-efficient data- environments is automated reduction intelligence reduces – freeing up storage, server your storage footprint for SAP and virtualization teams, and copies – cutting your costs. reducing the risk of human error. With so many Dell EMC infrastructure design configurations and deployment SAP landscape management software options available, you can use sizing tools to make it easy DEV QAS PRD to determine the SAP system requirements. You then work with Dell EMC representatives Automate SAP applications S/4HANA | CRM | ERP | BW | SCM to configure and deploy Optimizing service delivery your solution. for rapid time to value. IT infrastructure

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Storage replication software ...... All-flash storgae Running SAP in the cloud starts with a future-proof Dell EMC’s on-premises based on Intel® Technologies for SAP incorporate ® VMware, providing an agile data center platform. VMware Virtualized Intel -powered infrastructure foundation designed SAP HANA with Dell EMC Storage ensures high availability (HA), to run traditional SAP ERP and BW, with intelligent significant cost savings, and fast provisioning of SAP HANA instances. applications powered by SAP HANA and S/4HANA.

This offers greater agility and And Dell EMC’s solutions for SAP higher-value features, including: incorporate Virtustream running on self-service, orchestration and Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, application lifecycle management. built for mission-critical workloads, and to automate your cloud Choosing the right cloud operating provisioning. model is vital. That’s why Dell EMC and Intel® are your ideal partners. When you choose to run SAP Our solutions for SAP incorporate applications in an off-premises leading cloud technologies, cloud, Virtustream helps them offering on-premises, off-premises more efficient, more economical, and hybrid consumption models. and more resilient than ever.

Virtustream was purpose built for running the most complex, mission-critical enterprise applications in the cloud. Transform Embracing next-generation capabilities. Tomorrow’s digital economy needs to be at the heart of every forward-thinking organization’s business strategy today. And as SAP embraces transformative technologies, such as AI, IoT, ML, Blockchain and advanced data analytics, Dell EMC and Intel® continue to develop an infrastructure portfolio to drive your business transformation strategy.

The technology you need to drive your digital transformation has been innovated and engineered by SAP and Intel®. SAP Platform running on Intel® architecture provides you blazing-fast in-memory database solution for transactional and analytical applications.

The Global partnership between SAP and Intel® delivers innovative enterprise infrastructure platforms like Data Management Suite, Edge Computing, Machine Learning capabilities, and expand to accelerate business adoption and best practices for Blockchain solutions in the enterprise. Dell PowerEdge integrated accelerators, give you faster AI modelling and inferencing – meaning you can act on insights and make vital business decisions more quickly. Dell EMC infrastructure together with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors built for mission-critical multi-cloud workloads provide broad support for intelligent data-driven applications and processes – from advanced data analytics, AI and ML to data lakes and Hadoop clusters. And when you’re ready to fully When you need more than high volume storage, backup and archiving embrace SAP Leonardo running on Intel® IOT Platform, Dell EMC accelerates for unstructured data, Dell EMC Isilon gives you superior scale and your time-to-market by simplifying deployment, integration, and management. performance for AI modelling and inferencing.

Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory is set to be a game-changer for users Today’s applications demand a flexible network architecture, and of the SAP HANA® platform and other in-memory databases. By putting more Dell Open Networking and Software Defined Networking (SDN) make data closer to the processor, it dramatically improves system performance; adopting new innovations easier. leading to better, faster insights. And as data remains in memory through power cycles, restart times are a fraction of disk loading times, resulting in more SAP HANA® system uptime. Today’s IT has to work with data types from every source. Dell EMC’s SAP Leonardo-certified devices power your edge services, processing data in real-time. In the digital economy, AI is everywhere – in the core, in multi-cloud environments, and at the edge. And the biggest driver for modernizing your SAP landscape, is unlocking the value of this transformational technology.

Dell EMC’s priority is to deliver Powerful accelerated compute. Software-defined infrastructure Dell EMC and Intel® is innovating the right infrastructure for AI Dell EMC jointly with Intel® (SDN). The digital economy in all these areas, including across six key areas of innovation. technologies and processor demands an agile infrastructure. edge gateways, powerful AI These are the core building capabilities offer many new SDN means you can easily change workstations, super-charged blocks that make sure you get servers, designed with AI in mind. the behavior of compute clusters to servers and lightning-fast full value from your investment These are capable of landing lots reallocate resources on demand. storage arrays and leading-edge, in SAP S/4HANA Leonardo. of compute accelerators to power pre-validated and simplified the data era. Data mobility. Knowing where Ready Solutions for AI. And with your data is, being able to move VMware, Pivotal and Boomi, we Compute and analytics at the or synchronize it in the right place can help with the abstraction of AI edge. Our expertise in the data for the processing, is critical. workloads and data management. center enables us to build out the Dell EMC is among the innovation edge compute layer. From Intel® leaders and we’re reinventing data These innovations mean you don’t gateways to the latest purpose- synchronization, starting from the have to build solutions yourself. built tech for 5G networks, point of multiple clouds. And if you’re just beginning to Dell EMC and Intel® continue to explore the value of AI, these give innovate in this area. you the flexibility and simplicity to scale as your journey progresses. High-performance storage and data protection. As #1 in enterprise storage*, and the #1 in enterprise storage: Ranking by 3Q2018 vendor revenue. IDC WW Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, 2018 Q3 historical release, December 12, 2018. market leader in purpose-built Based on IDC WW Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Systems Tracker, 3Q18 (revenue), December 2018. backup appliances**, Dell EMC's enormous portfolio delivers high performance, high capacity and high resiliency.

Multi-cloud operating models. You need all your clouds to work together and offer the same experience across them all. VMware hybrid and multi-cloud environments built on Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors extend, streamlining management for the device edge. A powerful combination for delivering innovative SAP solutions.

Dell EMC together with Intel® is a strategic SAP technology and software partner. And for over two decades, Dell EMC and SAP have been collaborating closely, and we’ve implemented hundreds of customer solutions across a wide variety of industries.

The Dell EMC Global SAP Center of Excellence (GSCoE) is a focus team, centralized at SAP’s headquarter campus in Walldorf (Germany). It provides thought leadership, best practices, research, support and training in SAP business solutions. Customers and partners are invited to make use of this great facility.

Dell EMC is a leader in server and storage performance benchmarks for SAP HANA® and SAP applications.

In 2015, Dell EMC won the SAP Customer Innovation Award for its Business Management Solution on SAP HANA and the SAP Technology Award for its Business Intelligence Solution on SAP HANA. Dell EMC offers certified hardware solutions (server, network and storage) for SAP & SAP HANA.

Find out more about the Dell EMC Global SAP Center of Excellence Here The wide range of solutions for SAP modernization and SAP S/4HANA deployments includes:

Cloud Flex Cloud Flex brings a cloud-like subscription Dell model to our hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio. And offers a flexible financial structure that eliminates initial capital costs, and spreads payments over time, with no Financial long-term obligation.

Flex on Demand Flex on Demand eliminates storage Services overprovisioning, so you only pay for the capacity you use. Dell EMC offers the lowest Financing your modernization projects capacity commitment of any technology company, along with flexible payment options for all our storage products.

Transformational License Agreements Dell Financial Services deliver ways to transform your A Transformational License Agreement organization and the way you work, improve productivity, (TLA) is a highly-customized software accelerate growth and gain a competitive edge. contract that offers unprecedented flexibility. Alter how your software titles The host of leasing and financing options can help you manage are consumed and maintained, as your capital expenditure, operating expenditure, and cash flow. requirements change over time. They also provide a wide range of payment plans, that make it easier than ever, to meet your needs.

Summary With market-leading products and consumption models, Dell EMC delivers the strategy for modernizing, automating and transforming your SAP Whether you’re consolidating and simplifying your infrastructure, moving landscape, that’s right for you. your mission-critical SAP applications to the cloud, or transforming your organization with intelligent new capabilities, Dell EMC delivers the solid Our knowledge, Ready Solutions and expertise combine to accelerate your foundation you need. time to value in becoming an intelligent enterprise, ready to thrive in the digital economy. © 2019 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved. Dell, EMC and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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