Category: SAP

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Adren D Souza. Introduction SAP customers are accelerating innovation and reforming business process by using AWS services. Customers such as Zalando, Invista and Bizzy have modernised their SAP landscape and streamlined operations by integrating SAP with AWS technologies. SAP’s RISE with SAP solution provides consumption credits for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), which customers can use for integration and extension scenarios. Customers frequently ask how SAP systems can be integrated with AWS services using SAP BTP to cover wide range of use cases such as analytics, machine learning, video and image recognition and many ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Ferry Mulyadi. Introduction Cloud Security is job zero at AWS. We have a Shared Responsibility Model where customer assumes responsibility and management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches), other associated application software as well as the configuration of the AWS services. A common question that new customers ask is how they can secure their mission critical SAP workloads. AWS has recently introduced AWS Well-Architected Framework for SAP (SAP Lens), which describes the best practices when implementing security control based on your requirement. One of the best practice is to ensure that ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Ferry Mulyadi. Introduction SAP Fiori is the user interface component of modern SAP applications such as S/4HANA, which enables business users to execute their business critical processes within SAP. It is based on SAP’s own HTML5 implementation called SAPUI5 and relies on the HTTPs protocol and modern web browsers as the client. As you are operating SAP Fiori, it is important that you have a monitoring capability for all aspects of your SAP Fiori application. On the client side, you may want to answer questions such as “Is the application loading quickly for my users?”, ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Ulf Liljensten. This post was co-authored by Ulf Liljensten, Partner Development Specialist at AWS and Carsten Hilker, Product Manager, SAP S/4HANA Central Finance at SAP SE Introduction: Finance Transformation Challenges For many enterprises, sophisticated SAP estates combined with highly complex system landscapes of non-SAP systems is a reality. These SAP systems support diverse and complex business processes and may contain custom code developed under many years in order to support differentiated business processes. When considering the journey to SAP S/4HANA, finance departments face a formidable challenge: On the one hand, S/4HANA promises transformative benefits: a ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Steven Jones. Introduction Another SAP Sapphire is upon us! After a few years off from an in-person Sapphire event, we are super excited to be back in Orlando this year to meet with customers, partners, and colleagues face to face. We’ll have a full team of SAP technical experts and members of the SAP on AWS leadership team on hand, and definitely encourage you to book time with us—we’d love to learn more about your business plans and help you get the most value out of your SAP investments. As we get ready for the ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Ganesh Suryanarayanan. This post was written by Ganesh Suryanarayanan, Krishnakumar Ramadoss, Joseph Rosing and Manoj Muthukrishnan. IntroductionMachine learning increasingly enables a lower total cost of quality by detecting defects faster (in some cases predicting them) and augmenting traditional six sigma business process improvements with scalable, low-cost solutions. However, like many industrial machine learning use cases, the machine learning insights are only valuable to the extent that someone acts on them. As a result, it is key to integrate insights into existing quality management workflows or business processes. This blog details how users can automate this ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: jcurrid. Our customers increasingly want to combine their SAP and non-SAP data in a single data lake and analytics solution to bridge siloed data and drive deeper business insights. Last year, we launched the Amazon AppFlow SAP OData Connector to make it easier for customers to get value out of SAP data with AWS services. We outlined how to get started with AppFlow and SAP and some of the benefits in previous blog. Following this launch, customers told use that have told us they also want to use the AWS data platform to enhance their ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Anjani Singh. In the previous blog, we covered failover from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Primary region to AWS Disaster Recovery Region with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery. In this blog post, we will walk you through a failback of your productive workload from the DR region to the primary Region. There are a variety of reasons for doing a failback as soon as possible to your primary region. This includes effective leverage of previously purchased usage commitments (Reserved Instances or Savings Plans), network latency to end users and other linked workloads, or reducing data transfer costs. CloudEndure ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Anjani Singh. Disasters due to natural calamities, application failures, or service failures not only causes downtime for business applications but also cause data loss, and revenue impact. To mitigate the impacts of such scenarios, Disaster Recovery (DR) planning is critical for organizations running mission-critical and business-critical applications such as SAP. In this blog, we will walk through how organizations can leverage CloudEndure as Disaster Recovery solution for SAP applications and review aspects that are applicable to SAP. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery solution enables organizations to quickly and easily shift their disaster recovery strategy to AWS from ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Ajay Kande. Introduction: For many customers, SAP system copies are one of the routine maintenance activities. SAP system copies are a defined sequence of steps to copy SAP production data to non-production environments. In this blog post, we discuss about automating the SAP HANA database restore. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Backint Agent for SAP HANA is an SAP-certified backup and restore solution for SAP HANA workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. AWS Backint Agent backs up your SAP HANA database to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and restores it using ... Read More