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- Find out why over 95% of SAP HANA customers and 70% of all SAP customers run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
- How Hugo Boss Outfitted its SAP Applications on SUSE Linux: A Stylish Success
- Fritz Egger Customer Success
- BasisOne, a Britehouse company and Africa's premier SAP-accredited hosting provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with us to ensure that an enterprise organization's security policies are extended onto its platform infrastructure
Data Sheets
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
This product flyer provides an overview of how SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications enables consolidation for all of your mission-critical SAP applications on a single platform that is validated, optimized and certified for SAP software solutions. -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP 4 for IBM Power Systems
This product flyer provides an overview of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications features and capabilities optimized specifically for IBM Power Systems running SAP applications and SAP HANA in Big Endian mode. -
Toward Zero Downtime for SAP HANA
This solution flyer provides an overview of the SUSE Linux products that help IT organizations to reduce and in some cases eliminate downtime for SAP HANA landscapes.
Best Practices
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SUSE, SAP and partners like IBM and HP have created best practice guides covering different aspects of setting up and configuring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications together with your mission-critical software solutions.
The best practice guides are designed for a technical audience to provide more insight on how to set up high available SAP business applications based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications.
Blogs on SCN
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What is sapconf or how to prepare a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for running SAP systems?
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ClamSAP - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Integrates Virus Protection for SAP
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Securing SAP HANA with the Operating System
by Markus Guertler -
Live OS Patching running SAP, is it important?
by Naji Almahmoud -
SUSE OpenStack Cloud to run SAP applications as SAP private Cloud
by Friedrich Krey (in German) -
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud: SUSE components - SUSE OpenStack Cloud
by Friedrich Krey -
Linux on the SAP DB Server - DB licence optimization with the SAP layered model
by Friedrich Krey
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SAP Landscape Virtual Management (LVM) with Linux fit for the SAP Cloud
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SUSE Linux for SAP HANA Business One
by Friedrich Krey -
Linux as SAP DB Server established
by Friedrich Krey -
SAP Netweaver High Availability Cluster 7.30 Certification
by Friedrich Krey -
From SAP HANA to SAP private Cloud—one code base
by Friedrich Krey -
Into the Real Time age with SUSE
by Naji Almahmoud -
Powered by Open Stack: Private Cloud on the Rise
by Naji Almahmoud -
Installation Wizard from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: Ready-to-Run SAP Solutions in Just a Few Steps
by Peter Schinagl
Success Stories
- By migrating its mission-critical ERP solution to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications and SAP HANA, Greenply reduced its IT costs, improved flexibility and dramatically increased performance
- Fritz Winter forges unstoppable business capabilities based on fully virtualized, flexible private cloud and SAP solutions
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server created a flexible, secure, high-performance platform for delivering hosted SAP applications
- Dimension Data relied on SUSE for cost-efficient solutions for SAP and other business management applications
- EnBW reduced operational costs by migrating its business-critical SAP applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- GESIS migrated from a proprietary RISC platform to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on cost-efficient commodity x86 hardware
- Imperial Health boosts SAP application performance by 40%
- oXya increased availability for hosted SAP environments
- SUSE offered Rusan Pharma 40% lower costs compared to alternative platforms
- CIR foods invests in SAP HANA with savings from migration of systems running SAP ERP to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
- Calzedonia Group saved 70% on hardware acquisition costs, 90% on hardware maintenance costs and achieved 99.99% uptime for business-critical SAP applications when it migrated to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
- Pakistani engineering and construction company Descon Engineering Limited wanted to maintain its leading position in the market
- Geberit relies on SAP applications for many of its business processes, including sales, materials management, and invoicing
- Evonik decided to move its SAP applications from IBM AIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Fabbrica Automatismi Apertura Cancelli (FAAC) wanted to find a more effective platform for its core SAP* ERP systems and migrated from its legacy IBM i platform to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- SUMOL+COMPAL needed to implement a uniform IT infrastructure that it could deploy with minimum disruption
- Mahindra Retail selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the platform for its SAP ERP environment
- Vonpar decided to simplify administration while reducing hardware and software licensing costs
- Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Ltd required a cost-effective platform for its new SAP ERP applications
- BasisOne created a flexible, secure, high-performance platform for delivering hosted SAP applications
- National Foods Limited chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to implement SAP ERP
- Wolters Kluwer Italia runs SAP on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with XEN virtualization
- Orbis Oy improved flexibility and performance while significantly reducing its total cost of ownership
- The Burton Corporation required high availability of its mission-critical applications
- Café Coffee Day uses SLES Priority Support for SAP Applications to protect its ERP environment
- Baldor Electric using SUSE Linux Enterprise as streamlined, highly available platform for its mission-critical SAP applications, reducing downtime costs dramatically
- Infonet significantly reduced its IT operational costs and administrative workload
- HR Group achieved 60% faster business processes for SAP HANA on SUSE on Power
- Pacific Textile rely on SUSE to dramatically reduced the risk of unplanned downtime in the new SAP HANA environment.
- MBV offer their clients high-availability, high-performance SAP HANA landscapes in the cloud on SUSE.
White Papers
- SUSE Linux and OpenStack: High Standards for SAP Offerings from the Cloud
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SAP HANA Disaster Tolerance with System Replication on Cisco Unified Computing System
Cisco and SUSE provide guidance for setting up SAP HANA system replication. -
Fail-Safe Operation of SAP HANA
Fujitsu and SUSE describes how to improve High Availability for your SAP HANA environment. - 7 Reasons to Choose SUSE for SAP HANA
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Automate your SAP HANA System Replication Failover
This document describes how to setup the cluster to control SAP HANA in System Replication Scenarios. Please note that it focuses specifically on the steps required to integrate an already installed and working SAP HANA with System Replication. -
OS Security Hardening for SAP HANA
In order to further improve the security standard specifically for SAP HANA, SUSE has developed the Operating System Security Hardening for SAP HANA guide which is dedicated to the security hardening of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 running SAP HANA databases. -
Setting up SUSE Manager for a SAP HANA Scale-Out Scenario
This document describes how to install a SUSE Manager server and how it can be used to update your SAP HANA scale out deployment.
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Certified Data Protection for SAP HANA
The SUSE and SEP Data Protection Guide explains how you can use SEP sesam Hybrid Backup, a certified, cost-effective, scalable and reliable backup and recovery solution for SAP HANA together with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to ensure the best protection for your data. -
Getting Started with OpenStack-based SUSE OpenStack Cloud to Run SAP Applications
This document provides a basic guide to the installation of a SUSE OpenStack Cloud environment and describes how you prepare a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications image for use in the cloud. It outlines which aspects are to be considered and how an SAP instance is generated in the cloud. -
Centerity and SUSE Bring Next Generation Predictive BSM IT Monitoring to SAP HANA
In order to reap the benefits of SAP HANA, a resilient and reliable IT monitoring platform is necessary. This ensures that each SAP HANA instance and all its supporting facilities such as networking, storage and servers are functioning optimally while the operating system layer upon which the infrastructure relies is robust and dependable. -
Maximize Your SAP Investment
This flyer details how SUSE and SAP reduce risk, cost and complexity with the most efficient way to optimize your SAP solutions.
