Category: SAP

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Patrick Leung. Companies that create a culture of innovation are more competitive. If you’re not planning ahead, market advantages that you had just a few months ago can suddenly disappear. And getting great ideas out quickly is the key. In practice, there’s a lot of undifferentiated heavy lifting that stands between your idea and that success. One solution to this problem is the shift to higher levels of abstraction than virtual machines (VM). However, moving to Kubernetes can be a big cultural shift. In this blog post, we show how you can quickly pivot from ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Arne Knoeller. More and more customers are looking into migrating SAP to the cloud. While lots of customers have moved to SAP HANA, there are still many cases, where non HANA databases, what SAP calls AnyDB, are being used. These SAP systems can also be critical and it is important to implement a solid backup and restore strategy.In the previous blog on how to use snapshots for SAP HANA database to create an automated recovery procedure, we described cloud native approach to demonstrate the power and capabilities of AWS for SAP HANA based SAP systems ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Kenny Rajan. As a first step to business transformations, SAP on AWS customers relish the flexibility, agility, and scalability of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform and its support for the complete set of certified SAP offerings to run their business-critical SAP workloads. For some of our customers like Madrileña Red de Gas (MRG), the most immediate benefit has been the flexibility gained in the AWS Cloud, resulting in lower SAP infrastructure costs. But what inspires them the most is the broad range of technologies that AWS offers in the areas of Big Data, Machine ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Shivam Mittal. During my time as part of the AWS Professional Services SAP Global Specialty Practice, one of the key things I’ve found that customers look for is a high availability (HA) set up for their business/mission-critical SAP applications. In this blog post, we will talk about the HA design and configuration option for customers running the SAP workloads on Windows with the Microsoft SQL Server. The Windows operating system provides a clustering feature that can be used to configure HA for the database layer of the SAP workload running on Microsoft SQL Server. This ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Sander Bleijenbergh. The customer challenge As an enterprise customer you may have to provide a highly available system for more than one application. Each of these applications may have different supported operating systems and databases and therefore dictate which options you can choose for HA. As a result, you as a customer may end-up supporting multiple HA solutions, adding significant complexity and cost. Consider databases like Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, SAP HANA and MaxDB. Each of these databases requires a different high availability method requiring you to invest time and resources to set ... Read More

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