improve performance and lower costs with oracle …...sap netweaver for solaris 10 (x86) exadata,...

1 Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates.

All rights reserved.

Improve Performance and Lower Costs with Oracle

Engineered Systems Scott Livezey, SAP Lead Architect, North America

May, 2013



Session Agenda

• SAP/Oracle Relationship

• Trends and Challenges for SAP Customers

• Engineered Systems for SAP

• Customer Experiences

• Q&A

3 Copyright © 2013 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

SAP & Oracle: 20+ Years of Continuous Innovation

Over 40,000 Joint Customers

1988

2010

1992 1998

Start of SAP R/3 development (on Oracle DB)

First SAP R/3 release (on Oracle DB)

First SAP BW release (on Oracle DB)

2006 2007

2009

2001 1999

2005

2008

Oracle, SAP sign Reseller & Support Agreements

Reseller & Support Agreements extended

Reseller & Support Agreements extended

Oracle DB 11g Rel.2 ▪ Compression ▪ Online Patching ▪ Advanced Encryption ▪ Real ApplicationTesting ▪ Direct NFS ▪ Snapshot Stby. Database ▪ Interval Partitioning, Subpartitioning

▪ Oracle Cloud File System

More Oracle DB 10g features: ▪ Index Key

Compression ▪ Advanced Security (Encryption) ▪ MOPatch

▪ Database Vault

▪ Partitioning Engine for SAP ERP

Oracle DB 9i ▪ Automatic Memory Management ▪ Table Com- pression (Batch) ▪ Online Table Reorganization ▪ Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Oracle DB 10g ▪ Database ▪ Table/Index Partitioning for SAP ERP (Service) ▪ RAC

2015

2011

2003

Sun's first SD-

benchmark

world record SAP NetWeaver

for Solaris 10 (x86)

Exadata,

Exalogic

certified

SAP Competency

Center Walldorf

SAP empraces

Java/J2EE

2012

SPARC

SuperCluster,

ODA, Oracle

VM certified

DB Market share for

SAP Oracle

Others

SAP and Oracle engage in joint

engineering, integration, version

alignment, patching and support

SAP is the largest Oracle database

reseller

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 4

SAP Customer Challenges and Trends

More users

More devices

More data

More transactions

More complex, larger SAP landscapes

Tightening SLAs for SAP applications

Rapid growth of SAP data

More resources required to run SAP software

Increased availability requirements

Deteriorating and unpredictable performance

Budget and resource constraints

Growth in SaaS applications and mobility requirements



Oracle Engineered Systems Value Simplify Entire SAP Infrastructure to...

Save Money Reduce Risk Increase Productivity

Ensure continued

access to critical data

and functions

Faster time to production,

better user performance,

greater agility

Reduce capital and

operational costs to

maximize IT investments



Oracle Engineered Systems for SAP Where Do They Fit?

6

application server

system central services

SAP

SAP



Comparison of Engineered Systems for SAP

SAP database consolidation N/A ✔ ✔ ✔ (smaller)

SAP application consolidation ✔ N/A ✔ N/A

Consolidate database and/or application

tiers APP Only DB+CS Only All DB+CS Only

High availability for central services ✔ ✔ ✔

High availability for SAP application

instances ✔

Exadata storage servers N/A ✔ ✔ ✔

Storage for SAP binaries, log files, etc. ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

InfiniBand Networking ✔ ✔ ✔ N/A

SAP NetWeaver support ✔ 7.0+ 6.40+ 7.0+



The Business Case

$$$ Business Gains

$$ Savings in

IT Operations $$ Savings w/Solution

• Increase Productivity – Faster time to production

– Better user performance

– Greater agility

• Reduce Risk – Ensure continued access to

critical data and functions

• Save Money – Reduce capital and operational

costs to maximize IT investments


Rapid Growth & Cost Reduction (ref.)

• Germany-based company in the electrical industry

• €1.52B ($2B) revenue with 12,300 employees worldwide

Company Background

• Large SAP systems, fast growth, exploding DBs

• Complex hardware/software components & IT operational costs need reduced

Business Problem

• Took 25 days to go live in Jan 2012

• Delivered 13-14x faster BI queries

• SAP ECC reports run 9x faster

Engineered Systems Impact for IT Department

• Reduce monthly close by one day!

• Stable in peak demand times

• Online eBusiness SLAs now met even at peak

Business Transformation


For more information:

• http://www.oracle.com/sap

•http://www.asug.com/ ASUG SAP on Oracle SIG

For questions about SAP on Oracle:

Email: [email protected]

http://www.oracle.com/sap




http://www.asug.com/

improve performance and lower costs with oracle …...sap netweaver for solaris 10 (x86) exadata,...

Documents