Category: SAP

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Howard Lee. IntroductionThis blog contains instructions on how to set up a solution for replicating data from SAP applications, such as SAP S/4HANA or SAP Business Suite, to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using SAP Landscape Transformation (LT) Replication Server and SAP Data Services (DS). SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server is an ideal solution for organizations that need near real-time replication. Many enterprise customers have deployed data lakes to optimize manufacturing outcomes, track business performance and accelerate product lifecycle management. The initial process of loading involves bringing data from several commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Chris Williams. Infrastructure as CodeCustomers’ SAP systems are critical for business operations, so when architects and administrators plan their deployments and operations there is a focus on following SAP best practices. Moreover, as workload requirements change, teams must iterate and adapt quickly to provision the required infrastructure keeping in mind all the security tenets, performance best practices, and other non-functional requirements. The minimally required resources for a single SAP system would typically include: Virtual Private Clouds and subnets SAP application and database specific security group configuration EC2 instances EBS Volumes Amazon EFS file system for ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Harpreet Singh. Sales forecasting is the process of predicting how much of something (a product or a service) someone (a company, a salesperson, a retailer etc.) will sell. To illustrate the importance of accurate forecasting, consider the case of a fashion e-retailer that sells products online. By predicting the demand correctly, they can maintain right level of inventory (reducing operational cost) at the right fulfillment location (reducing delivery expense) and deliver to their customer quickly (improving customer satisfaction). Reliable sales forecasting can play a major role in an organization’s success as it enables important downstream ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Fernando Castillo. SAP customers often ask me, “what sets AWS apart from other cloud providers”, and there are many ways I could answer. I could cite the more than 5,000 SAP customers who have trusted us through the years. Since 2012, SAP on AWS customers have accessed an unmatched pace of innovation and the broadest range of cloud-native services for SAP. But these differentiators are only the output of a solid foundation – our strong collaboration with SAP and AWS Partner Network (APN) SAP Competency Partners. AWS has not only worked with SAP, but also ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Ajay Kande. In this blog series, we cover best practices for customers to use Commvault to back up and recover their SAP instances securely. Customers who run SAP on AWS today have various backup solutions available to back up their SAP instances. Some use cloud-native AWS services while others continue to use their enterprise backup solutions like Commvault, NetBackup, etc. based on the requirements of each customer.In this blog, we focus on Commvault architecture and how Commvault core components are deployed on AWS for backing up the SAP HANA database. Commvault architecture: * Grants access ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Ajay Kande. Organizations running SAP applications with Oracle databases have many methods for migrating from one operating system to another. Customers looking to migrate their on-premises SAP applications with Oracle database to AWS, which are hosted on “big-endian” platforms have to re-platform to a “little-endian”. Since it is a heterogeneous migration, customers often choose SAP’s Classical Migration (R3load/Jload) method for this type of migration.This may result in longer downtime, depending on the size of the source database and factors such as hardware and data transfer speed. This downtime can be reduced, often from days to ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Kenny Rajan. In Part 1 of this blog series, we demonstrated how AWS Developer Tools can be used to store and version your SCP Cloud Foundry application. You can automatically build, test, and deploy your application without setting up or managing any Jenkins instances or other infrastructure. This serverless approach allows you to focus on your software delivery process, deploying changes at scale and at a high quality.This post shows you how to use AWS DevOps Tools to set up a simplified continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for SAP Fiori applications running on-premises ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Adam Hill. There are more than 5000 active AWS customers running SAP on AWS.  We are always looking at how to lower cost, improve reliability & availability and increase performance for our customers.In this blog, I am excited to share some recent great releases that have a significant impact on our SAP customers. Increased SLA for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Amazon EFS is ideal for hosting the SAP global file systems as the service is designed to be highly scalable, highly available, and highly durable. Amazon EFS file systems store data and metadata across ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Patrick Leung. For a long time, on-premises SAP projects involved lots of upfront requirement analyses, evaluation, and sizing processes to minimize risk. In practice, we’ve encountered many situations where, after weeks of planning, those initial decisions will have to change. Your SAP architecture must be flexible enough to respond quickly to business demand, implement solutions quickly, refine based on feedback, and repeat. In this blog post, we use SAP Commerce as an example to demonstrate how you can have an agile SAP architecture on AWS. We start with a minimum lovable product (MLP), then walk ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Marcel Toerpe. With more than 5000 active AWS customers running SAP on AWS, we see customers run SAP workloads on a diverse set of SAP releases and versions. Most customers are working with SAP NetWeaver ABAP-based environments composed of one or more application servers and a database. SAP customers often use third-party commercial solutions, such as SAP Solution Manager Focus Run or Avantra, to monitor SAP applications holistically and at scale.In this blog post, we share an alternative, serverless approach based on Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda. This approach enables customers to effectively monitor SAP ... Read More