Abstract
SAP pre-defined business processes are provided by the SAP Business Suite, NetWeaver, and appliances like HANA. But even for experts it is difficult to cope with the somewhat overwhelming number of components based on different technologies that pose different demands and restrictions to be considered when building a cloud infrastructure.
Within the last 40 years SAP developed a enourmous portfolio of business solutions deploying different technologies. Because most of the solutions were 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 S/4HANA and discusses how well they fit into the various cloud concepts.
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Freudenberg-IT for example offer SAP All-in-One on a Flexpod infrastructure.
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SingTel for example offer SAP B1 on a Vblock infrastructure.
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Donated to the University of Potsdam by Hasso Plattner.
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Databases like Microsoft SQL 2014 solve this by adding a column store. A SAP IS-retail customer improved query performance by up to five times and reduced database size from 2.124 TB to 0.892 TB by this feature.
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SAPnote 1872170 describe tools to extract the size from existing SAP installations, SAPnote 1793345 a formula for “Greenfield installations”: HANA Memory = ((DB Size/2) * 1.2) + 50Gb.
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Missbach, M. et al. (2016). From R/3 to S/4HANA. In: SAP on the Cloud. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47418-1_2
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