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Maximizing Hitachi’s capabilities for your SAP HANATM initiative Delivering an end-to-end HANA solution

The Hitachi Consulting Installed in Hitachi Consulting’s lab is a environments. Hitachi Disaster Tolerance difference full end-to-end HANA environment. This is available using asynchronous or setup supports proof-of-value, solution synchronous replication. Hitachi Consulting is one of the few design and development, training, and SAP Partners who can provide a full solution demos. Having access to these Why Hitachi Consulting? level of HANA support. Whether it’s capabilities can drive greater acceptance Hitachi Consulting is uniquely positioned questions about HANA infrastructure, across your organization and in with the agility and client-focused software, or applications, we have the solidifying your HANA strategy. approach of a boutique firm combined answers. Leveraging Hitachi Consulting’s with the depth and breadth of a much full breadth of capabilities means we larger firm. Our approach is to work as an integrated team with our clients. We Hitachi Consulting’s HANA end-to-end capabilities will bring the knowledge and experience required, but only you have the unique Avise Plan uil un perspective of your existing environment, onverge HANA priorities and competitive edge. Strategy Accelerators Solutions Services platform© appliance Together we create the best solution for

• Roadmap • Hardware • Sizing • Rapid • Demand • Managed your needs. • Value analysis • Software • Conﬁguration deployment signal services Solutions management • Proof-of-value • Services • Implementa- • Hosting Why Hitachi Data Systems? tion • SAP • Integrated • Cloud • Investment accelerators planning strategy services Hitachi Data Systems has been delivering • Custom • Equipping leading-performance SAP-certified development solutions since 1994. Hitachi offers the knowledge, experience and technology can deliver a fully integrated, highly Hitachi Unified Compute to run your SAP environment. SAP is at the core of business processes optimized environment that helps Platform (UCP) for SAP HANA ensure desired results for the HANA and analytics. You can maximize your initiative, including lower costs and risks For scale-out applications, the robust investment in SAP Business Suite and and higher business value. and highly resilient, converged SAP HANA when ERP, CRM, SCM, and turnkey solution enables customers to analytics operate at peak performance Hitachi Consulting’s HANA dramatically accelerate analytics with across the enterprise. Hitachi enterprise program strategy SAP HANA on a high-performing and storage and converged solutions drive scalable platform that can scale to 56TB. SAP Business Suite and SAP HANA Moving forward, the impact of HANA For customers seeking a third-party with scalable capabilities to handle will be felt with every technology- solution to back up their SAP HANA SAP workloads and analytics, even at related capital investment decision databases onto supported tape libraries, peak workloads. your company makes. Having a clear Hitachi supports Symantec Net Backup plan will lay the foundation for those Platform for SAP HANA, providing decisions. Hitachi Consulting’s HANA customers with an option to protect the Roadmap is driven by the business persistent data layer as part of an overall value it delivers and ensuring consensus strategy for platform deployments around how and when HANA can and of SAP HANA into production should be leveraged. Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA is also offered Solutions HANA and Hitachi “Live in Five” services. as an enhanced scale-up version that These comprehensive offerings – Hitachi Consulting is a leader in enables customers to run SAP Business enterprise-class converged infrastructure developing HANA Use Cases, Best Suite software powered by SAP HANA on and consulting services to rapidly deploy Practice HANA Integration and custom a high-performing platform that supports and run SAP HANA – allow customers solutions that fully leverage the power of 4TB and 6TB of memory. In addition, to take advantage of in-memory HANA. Here are just a few of our HANA- this is the perfect platform for test and transactional and analytic systems and based solutions: development environments, and for support future applications built for the organizations that want a smaller platform Hitachi Consulting HANA lab SAP HANA platform. solution to determine if SAP HANA is the Hitachi Consulting has a full HANA right choice for their business. Hitachi differentiators environment designed to support What makes the solution from Hitachi your Proof of Value analysis, Use Case HANA appliance Data Systems different? Unlike other validation, and demos. Having access The Hitachi approach combines a converged infrastructure solution vendors to this environment allows you to drive scalable, in-memory database platform who focus on low-cost components, before you buy and gain consensus with the system reliability and resilience Hitachi takes a different approach by across your organization as to the value capabilities required for enterprise focusing on delivering a solution that that can be delivered through HANA. production data center environments. provides immediate business value Hitachi high-performing and scalable Consumer products solutions for mission-critical applications. By compute and storage solutions provide leveraging scalable X86 compute blades Hitachi Consulting is leading the HANA high availability, disaster tolerance and and tier 1 fibre-channel storage platform, initiative for the consumer products backup for 24/7, mission-critical SAP Hitachi provides the same SLA’s and industry with the HANA Demand Signal HANA platform environments. operational excellence for SAP HANA Management (formerly Demand Signal platform that our customers enjoy today Repository) RDS. This solution will deliver Hitachi “Live In Five” (LI5) for their mission-critical applications a tremendous amount of value, both Hitachi “Live in Five” is a rapid proof- like ERP. for revenue generation and operational of-concept approach to demonstrate efficiency. If you’re ready to bring real-time data high-value scenarios and stand-up, to your enterprise, Hitachi Data Systems production-ready solutions for SAP HANA. The HANA sata warehouse offers Scale Up and Scale Out converged For a fixed scope and fixed fee, Hitachi Understanding how to optimize your solutions for SAP HANA, allowing you to will develop business use cases including data warehouse environment to leverage rely on a trusted, proven, certified vendor. metrics for success and associated ROI. the power of HANA, while managing hot Our converged infrastructures give you With an average deployment timeline of and cold data, integrating for real–time real-time data with mission-critical weeks, not months, IT professionals are analytics, and ensuring users have the reliability and operational performance, able to mitigate risk by leveraging the analytics capabilities to drive effective and a solution that scales with your following benefits of the LI5 program: decision making is what Hitachi’s HANA business. nn Tight scope, rapid project methodology Data Warehouse architecture is all about. (average is five weeks) Industrial processing best Industry Solutions nn A Hitachi-hosted instance or a loaner Hitachi appliance for SAP HANA practice HANA-enabled nn Validation of results and assistance solution Consumer Products for the customer to develop a plan to Hitachi Consulting is leading the way move the solution into a production in integrating the HANA technology environment into our market leading Best Practice Industrial / High Tech Most recently, Hitachi Consulting Industry Solution for Industrial Processing Products completed an LI5 proof-of-concept Companies. The Industry Solution is project for SAP HANA focused on high- designed to ensure you can leverage the value use cases for a leading consumer power of HANA within the pre-configured Communications, products company. The result was a industry Best Practices solutions. Media & Entertainment solution that enabled business analysts Our joint offering to analyze data, create new insights and provide recommendations to their In cooperation with SAP, Hitachi has field sales team to positively impact key helped redefine legacy supply chain Financial Services business metrics. management, customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning solutions based on traditional database deployments using Hitachi Public Sector Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for SAP Big Data and HANA HANA’s impact services and solutions are trusted by the world’s leading enterprises, including integration As an SAP client, no matter your industry more than 70% of the Fortune 100 and or company size, HANA impacts you. Hitachi Consulting’s big data more than 80% of the Fortune Global 100. Over the next several years, every SAP infrastructure and architecture is part of Visit us at www.HDS.com. an innovative program that encompasses customer will migrate to HANA. It’s the latest in business intelligence determining how and when that is the About Hitachi Consulting critical question. Because this transition technology and services to ensure Hitachi Consulting is the global solutions effects infrastructure, architecture, your big data success. The architecture and professional services organization administration, and most importantly, leverages commodity hardware, big data within Hitachi Ltd., a global innovation significant business value implications, it management tools, data mining tools, SAP leader in industrial and information is critical to have a strong partner for this HANA and robust reporting and analysis technology solutions and an early journey. Hitachi Consulting is uniquely capabilities. As a result, Hitachi can deliver pioneer of the Internet of Things. Hitachi equipped to be your guide. the next generation of business-critical Consulting is a business integrator for applications that can manage and analyze About Hitachi Data Systems the IoT era and a catalyst for digital high volumes of data needed to improve transformation. Using our deep domain Hitachi Data Systems provides information market responsiveness. knowledge, we strategically collaborate technologies, services and solutions that with our clients to help them innovate Services help companies improve IT costs and faster, maximize operational efficiency agility, and innovate with information Hosting, managed services, and cloud and realize measurable, sustainable to make a difference in the world. Our are critical parts of an organization’s business and societal value. As a customers gain compelling return on technology environment. Hitachi consulting-led solutions company, we investment (ROI), unmatched return on Consulting is on the leading edge of can help you leverage data as a strategic assets (ROA) and demonstrable business HANA in the cloud. Our clients are asset to drive competitive differentiation, impact. With approximately 5,900 leveraging these capabilities to recognize customer loyalty and growth. To learn employees worldwide, Hitachi Data lower cost of ownership, reduced capital more, visit www.hitachiconsulting.com. investment and faster time-to-value. Systems does business in more than 100 countries and regions. Our products,

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