Category: SAP

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Fernando Castillo. As I look back on what our SAP on AWS customers have achieved together the past year, the word that comes to my mind is momentum. This takes me back to my college days where, as an engineering student, I learned that momentum is quantified as the product of mass and velocity. I’d like to frame this post using that equation. Mass First, I want to discuss mass, or customer adoption. Today, AWS is excited to announce that more than 5,000 active AWS customers run SAP on AWS and over half of these customers ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: KK Ramamoorthy. Data is ubiquitous and is being exponentially generated in enterprise. However, the majority of this data is dark data. The Gartner glossary defines dark data as the information assets that organizations collect, process, and store during regular business activities, but which they generally fail to use for other purposes. Those other purposes could include analytics, business relationships, and direct monetization.Some of our customers, such as Thermo Fisher, are already tapping into the data generated across their enterprise to build a scalable and secure data platform on AWS. Their data includes medical instruments and ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Brian Griffin. This post is by Ajay Kande, SAP consultant, AWS Professional ServicesOrganizations migrating SAP workloads to AWS are looking for a lift-and-shift solution (rehost, without any OS or DB change). Previously, you used traditional SAP backup and restore for migration, or AWS-native tools such as AWS Server Migration Service, or partner tools to perform this type of migration. CloudEndure Migration is a new AWS-native migration tool for SAP customers. Enterprises looking to rehost a large number of SAP systems to AWS can use CloudEndure Migration without worrying about compatibility, performance disruption, or long cutover ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Chris Williams. Have you ever found yourself endlessly clicking through the SAP GUI searching for the data you need? Then finally resort to exporting tables to spreadsheets, just to run a simple query to get the answer you need?I know I have—and wanted an easy way to access SAP data and put it in a place where I can use it the way I want.In this post, you walk through setting up a connection to SAP HANA using AWS Glue and extracting data to Amazon S3. This solution enables a seamless mechanism to expose SAP ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: KK Ramamoorthy. Our customers who run SAP workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) are also invested in data and analytics transformations by using data lake solutions on AWS. These customers can use various third-party solutions to extract data from their SAP applications. However, to increase performance and reduce cost, they’re also asking for native integrations that use AWS solutions.A common pattern that these customers use for extracting data from SAP applications is through IDoc Interface/Electronic Data Interchange. SAP NetWeaver ABAP-based systems have supported IDocs for a long time and are a very stable framework that ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. This post is by Kenney Antoney Rajan, an AWS Partner Solutions Architect.Many organizations that use enterprise resource planning (ERP) software like SAP run and maintain Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) servers to securely transfer business-critical data from SAP to external partner systems. In this series of blog posts, we’ll provide steps for you to integrate your SAP Process Integration and Process Orchestration (SAP PI/PO) and SAP Cloud Platform Integration with AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP). We’ll also show you how to use the data that AWS SFTP stores in Amazon Simple Storage ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Sabari Radhakrishnan. This post is by Patrick Leung, a Senior Consultant in the AWS SAP Global Specialty Practice.As part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) professional services in the SAP global specialty practice, I often assist customers in architecting and deploying SAP on AWS. SAP customers can take advantage of fully managed AWS services such as Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) and AWS Backup to unburden their teams from infrastructure operations and other undifferentiated heavy lifting. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to enable your SAP ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Bas Kamphuis. SAP and AWS announce their project Embrace, a new partnership program aimed at simplifying customers’ SAP S/4HANA journey and accelerating their ability to innovate.Orlando, FL — May 9, 2019 — Today, SAP announced the Embrace project, a collaboration program with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Global Service Integrators. Embrace puts the customer’s move to SAP S/4HANA on AWS in the language and context of their industry through reference architectures. AWS is a proud participant in the program, which will simplify the move to S/4HANA and accelerate enterprises’ ability to innovate like startups in ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: KK Ramamoorthy. Co-authored by KK Ramamoorthy, Principal Partner Solutions Architect, and Brett Francis, Principal Product Solutions ArchitectToday, SAP announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services IoT and the general availability of interoperability between SAP Leonardo IoT and AWS IoT Core. The new collaboration makes it straightforward and cost-effective for you to deploy IoT solutions using the global scalability of the AWS IoT platform and business processes powered by SAP Leonardo IoT. The collaboration provides two new interoperability options. The cloud-to-cloud option, which integrates SAP Leonardo IoT with AWS IoT Core, is generally available now. With ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: KK Ramamoorthy. The business benefits of running SAP workloads on AWS are already well proven with thousands of customers now running such workloads. Tangible benefits like those experienced by ENGIE, an international energy provider, include not only cost savings but also flexibility and speed. For example, as mentioned in an ENGIE case study, ENGIE was able to reduce the expected delivery time of new business frameworks by two times, when they upgraded their SAP platform to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They did this all while rightsizing their HANA infrastructure, by using AWS-enabled high availability architecture ... Read More