If your organisation depends on SAP you may well be considering moving to SAP HANA to benefit from enhanced performance. But to get the most out of your complex SAP HANA environment it needs to be optimised and this can be difficult to achieve on your own. From getting the number of licences right to interoperability issues and the cloud migration process itself, there are many potential pitfalls to trip the unwary in the rush to embrace SAP HANA.
As for Oracle, Sungard Availability Services offers proven Application Management Services for SAP environments that assure you of high availability, avoid compatibility issues and ensure you pay only for the number of licences you actually need. This is no simple task given the tangle of legacy and shadow IT-acquired environments faced by most businesses, exacerbated by the added challenge of accelerated SAP HANA adoption.
Our experienced consultants first gain an understanding of your business requirements then design and build an optimised, consumption-based SAP HANA environment. This is tailored to your specific requirements and delivered via the cloud. If you’ve been paying for more licences than your organisation needs – or, like many businesses, are unsure of your license requirements and running the risk of non-compliance – this enables you to ‘right size’ your SAP HANA infrastructure.
In the past, one of the major hurdles was identifying exactly how much compute power each customer used on shared servers. We are able to overcome that through the use of hardware partitioning in our virtual platforms. This allows us to identify consumption by individual customer so each pays only for what they use.
The robust configuration we design for you will be based on SAP HANA infrastructure from top to bottom, which means it’s fully approved and supported. It also eliminates any disputes concerning compatibility or ownership of technical issues. We take a holistic view of your whole hybrid IT ecosystem to ensure all the data, applications and systems that feed into your SAP HANA infrastructure will work as they did before following your move to the cloud.
Then, of course, while SAP HANA has all the inbuilt resilience you would expect from any Sungard Availability Services-managed application, in the unlikely event of an interruption, who better to manage your recovery?
If your organisation is among the thousands of SAP customers considering moving away from what they view as a monolithic application to the brave new world of the cloud and you would like to find out more, talk to your account manager, email avail@sungardas.com or call 0800 143 413.