SAP on HP Integrity systems

You already know that business runs better on SAP solutions. Here's why SAP ERP and HP Integrity servers can take your current Enterprise Resource Planning solution—and your business—from where you are now to the next level of agility, responsiveness, and efficiency.

Deploy SAP ERP on HP Integrity systems and the result is a single software and hardware solution for managing your business activities—enabling you to streamline operations, optimize use of corporate resources, and simplify your IT infrastructure for greater efficiency and agility.

Nearly 50% of all SAP deployments are running on HP technology. As newer SAP applications become more CPU-, memory-, and disk-intensive, HP’s Integrity platform is ideally positioned to accommodate the increased processing power required to run these applications. In addition, HP Integrity supports multi-OS SAP instances.

HP Integrity’s new series of reference configurations help customers implement SAP extensions for increased security and availability, optimized resource utilization, and reduced cost.

To assist in your transition or upgrade to SAP on HP Integrity, we are offering a comprehensive suite of technical, functional and strategic upgrade services to support accelerate the transition.

HP Integrity servers offer dramatic improvements in speed, reliability, and scalability that help SAP ERP run your business better. Here's how:

• You will realize the business benefits from modernizing and optimizing your IT infrastructure to take advantage of the new features of SAP ERP 6.0.
• Equipped with the latest Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® processors, Integrity systems can easily handle the demands of more powerful applications, like SAP ERP, that require large memory support and high system bandwidth.
• You get iconic mainframe-class availability and disaster tolerance, with the advantages of open systems and industry-standard economics.
• HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE), technology helps your business run better by dynamically allocating server resources to keep manufacturing processes, inventory management, project management, HR systems and all your other business processes up and running smoothly and efficiently.
• With HP-UX and Linux, HP can deliver continuous SAP availability with HP Serviceguard Extensions for SAP.

Typically, SAP workloads are 75% batch where Integrity has a significant performance advantage. You will see lower latency because of the following:

• I/O is delegated to the cells.
• Cross bar clogging can be prevented.
• Integrated cache is available in the CPU.
• EPIC means more instructions per cycle.
• Constant improvement has been achieved in compilers, virtual machines, and ISV expertise.

Today, the needs of business can change from minute to minute and month to month. HP Integrity servers can run all of your SAP applications, whatever operating system they're running on:

SAP ERP running on HP Integrity servers unifies technology components to build a single business process platform. SAP and non-SAP applications and databases can be easily and cost-effectively connected and integrated.

Moving forward, new business processes can be built and implemented quickly using SAP NetWeaver, the foundation of all SAP products. It is easier and faster to build improved business processes using existing software components, rather than developing a custom application from scratch every time. So when your business needs to change, the SAP ERP solution offers the agility you need.  

SAP ERP and HP Integrity servers are fully compatible with your existing HP servers and SAP software: 

• Deploy in phases with minimal disruption to ongoing business processes.
• Leverage existing IT skills minimize the time and expense of retraining.
• Ease deployment by accessing a full range of tools and resources—including web-based training, white papers and how-to guides—from both HP and SAP.

Gain more business agility, while you increase productivity and overall efficiency. Deploying SAP ERP on HP Integrity servers can help a well-run business run even better.

Let us help you simplify and speed the transition from existing environments: