Abstract
SAP business processes are provided by the SAP Business Suite, NetWeaver, and appliances like BWA and HANA. But even for experts it is difficult to cope with the somewhat overwhelming number of components based on different technologies which pose different demands and restrictions to be considered when building a cloud infrastructure.
Within the last 40 years SAP developed a large portfolio of business solutions deploying different technologies. Because most of the solutions are developed before the proliferation of virtualization and cloud concepts there is not always an ideal fit. This chapter briefly introduces the functionality and the technical characteristics of the most used SAP solutions from ECC to HANA and discuses how well they fit into the various cloud concepts.
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Within a project at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, the telephony and tele-presence functionality of Cisco Unified Communication was made available for SAP business processes as an example.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_glossary/en/index.htm provides an overview of SAP acronyms.
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Advanced Business Application Programming, SAP’s process programming language.
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In this case validated designs like the ones of Cisco for Flexpod and vBlocks became handy.
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SingTel for example is hosting SAP B1 for a monthly subscription fee on their PowerOn cloud based on a Vblock infrastructure.
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Currently SAP hosts Business ByDesign exclusively on its own data centers in Walldorf, Germany and Newton Square, Pennsylvania.
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Formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Accelerator.
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A Hybrid Row-Column OLTP Database Architecture for Operational Reporting, Jan Schaffner, Anja Bog, Jens Krüger, and Alexander Zeier.
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Donated to the University of Potsdam by Hasso Plattner.
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Acquired 1997 from Software AG, also known as ADABAS-D and SAPDB.
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Acquired 2005.
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Manager Magazin 9/2012.
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Information Theory of Choice-reaction Times, Laming D.R, Academic Press 1968.
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SAPnote 1514966 for HANA replacing a traditional database
SAPnote 1637145 for HANA replacing a traditional SAP BW.
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There is also a Log-based replication method that extracts changes in the source system from the transaction logs. This method however is only available for certain versions of DB2 as source and only recommended for customers who have been invited to use it during the ramp up of HANA 1.0.
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See SAPnote 0001603671.
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Plus a Sybase replication server if the Log-based replication method is used.
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See HANA platform availability matrix athttp://service.sap.com/pam.
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Missbach, M., Stelzel, J., Gardiner, C., Anderson, G., Tempes, M. (2013). From R/3 to HANA. In: SAP on the Cloud. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31211-3_2
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