SAP Data Center
SAP Data Center
Always-on, fast, global, secure, compliant — these qualities are now table stakes with respect to software applications. No company can survive today without meeting these criteria.
Yet, the increasingly complex infrastructure ranging from legacy mainframes, modern distributed servers, hybrid data storage, and private/public cloud, has become a challenge for IT teams to manage. More and more companies rely on expert-managed data centers to keep their systems and data operating, available, and secure.
The management of infrastructure — whether co-located on the company’s premises, remotely managed, or fully outsourced data centers, as well as private and public cloud — now require tremendous expertise of specialized data center operators. With their scale and expertise, operators are able to meet the service-level agreements (SLAs) of their clients with respect to availability, performance, and costs.
SAP Data Center
Always-on, fast, global, secure, compliant — these qualities are now table stakes with respect to software applications. No company can survive today without meeting these criteria.
Yet, the increasingly complex infrastructure ranging from legacy mainframes, modern distributed servers, hybrid data storage, and private/public cloud, has become a challenge for IT teams to manage. More and more companies rely on expert-managed data centers to keep their systems and data operating, available, and secure.
The management of infrastructure — whether co-located on the company’s premises, remotely managed, or fully outsourced data centers, as well as private and public cloud — now require tremendous expertise of specialized data center operators. With their scale and expertise, operators are able to meet the service-level agreements (SLAs) of their clients with respect to availability, performance, and costs.
The Advantages of SAP Data Centers
SAP also manages and provides its data centers in several regional locations around the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. The wide choice of locations is important to meet requirements such as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679) and other country-specific regulations which may require customer data to reside within country borders.
SAP data centers are built and run according to industry standards for power, cooling, redundancy, backups, and physical and cyber security. SAP also operates a second data center in the region of the primary data center to handle disaster recovery.
Many companies are also committing to energy efficiency. Hence, SAP data centers have also invested in green energy and energy efficient infrastructure to help its customers meet their sustainability goals.
SAP Data Centers as the Basis for Cloud Computing
SAP data centers not only provide computing power for its customers, but also run SAP’s own cloud portfolio with more than 80 cloud services. Different solutions are offered based on customer need, including virtualization, multi-tenancy, adaptive, and edge computing. Most large customers end up using a hybrid approach based on their application portfolio.
According to SAPinsider’s own research, SAP workloads are moving to the cloud at an increasing rate: 88% of SAPinsiders are running at least some of their SAP workloads in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment. “Of the 12% who are running all their SAP workloads on internal infrastructure, or in a managed environment on-premise, nearly two-thirds say that they plan to move those workloads to the cloud within two years,” writes Robert Holland, Vice President and Research Director at SAPinsider.
SAP customers have an increasing choice of data center and cloud providers. CIOs must assess based on key criteria to build a solid infrastructure foundation to meet business needs.
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What Are Target Costs in Cost Center Accounting and Why Should You Calculate Them?
Many reports that monitor cost center performance are incomplete because they account for the planned output rather than the actual output of the cost center. The author demonstrates how to use adjusted costs called target costs. Calculating target costs will provide you with a report that more accurately reflects the performance of your cost centers....…
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Select and Transfer a Time Slice of Data for Testing with SAP Test Data Migration Server 3.0
The new SAP Test Data Migration Server (TDMS) is an automated solution for creating test systems that can be a real alternative to full-system copies. It can pare down the size of your test system in a variety of ways, the most popular of which is to copy only a time slice of your production...…
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Introduction to the ABAP Data Dictionary and Managing Data Dictionary Objects (Chapter 5)
This sample chapter (chapter 5) from Faisal Altaf’s book, “Introduction to ABAP: A Project-Driven Guide,” is an overview of the ABAP Data Dictionary. The book uses the example of a point of sale project to introduce ABAP. As a current SAP Experts member you can read the eBook (online or download) with no extra charge...…
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Test Management for SAP Business Suite on HANA Migration Projects
Find out what you need to know about test management when you make the switch to SAP HANA. Learn how to assess your company’s readiness, how to prepare the necessary decisions for adequate test tools from SAP and its partners, and the required test management set up and execution activities. Key Concept Testing plays a...…
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An Introduction to SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0 and SAP HANA Predictive Tools
In this exclusive report by Hillary Bliss, take a walk into the world of the SAP suite of predictive tools with an in-depth tour of the new SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0 and how it ties into SAP HANA and SAP Lumira. Learn the importance of general predictive modeling concepts, and then apply those concepts as...…
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Use a Standard BTE to Curb Dummy Profit Center Postings in EC-PCA
Learn a way of using a standard business transaction event (BTE) to reduce the number of postings to the dummy profit center and the consequent need to reclass these (incorrect) postings. Organizations that have implemented the classic general ledger and have activated Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) are advised to implement this BTE to significantly curtail...…
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SAP Data Services Part 3: How to Extract, Transform, and Load Data into SAP HANA
Examine and compare the classic SAP Data Services approach for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) processes to the functionality that is native to SAP HANA to determine optimal integration. Key Concept Certain extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes have been pushed to SAP HANA, which directly affects the integration with SAP Data Services. ETL is...…
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Profit Center Reorganization Is a Snap with New Functions in Enhancement Package 5
When your organizational structure changes, are you sure your profit centers are accurate? See how features in the forthcoming enhancement package 5 allow you to reorganize your profit centers in SAP General Ledger without the cost or headache. Key Concept Reorganization in SAP ERP Financials is the process of determining which master data and transactional...…
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11 Steps for Changing a Cost Center Hierarchy
A strong cost center hierarchy is necessary for analyzing your company’s performance. If your structure is not meeting your needs, try this 11-step process to develop a new, more effective cost center hierarchy. This process is best suited for small- to medium-sized companies. Key Concept A company must have a logical grouping of costs to...…
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Custom Developments for FERC-Compliant Financials Reporting Using SAP HANA and SAP EPM 10
Financials Follow the stages of the development of a real-life custom solution developed for financial reporting within the oil and mining, utilities, and electric and gas distribution industry in the United States. Compare this improved solution with the same processes executed in SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) Managerial Accounting (CO) and Financial Accounting (FI) modules....…
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