IT Technology Consulting

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1 IT Technology Consulting Modern IT Architectures and Technologies: Better Performance. More Flexibility. Lower Cost. Certified Future-Proof. Ready for Cloud! Driving value with IT

2 Scale-out versus Scale-up Faster procurement & provision Microsoft Windows Server Increased IT flexibility Green IT Linux Revision High-availability In-Memory / HANA Virtualization Software as a Service Sybase ASE Upgrade Choice of OS New SAP technologies Migration Choice of DB Architectures with an excellent cost-benefit ratio Infrastructures optimized for low license cost Internationalization DB2 Minimum downtime Unicode Performance enhancement Internal cost allocation Layer separation

3 IT Technology Is Changing Dramatically SAP has fundamentally changed its programming approach and its recommendations on how to best set up system landscapes. New products and technologies are imminent and their impact on best practices and the ideal landscape will be even stronger. Important vendors have announced the discontinuation of widespread CPU architectures and operating systems, while others are gaining market share and reputation quickly. New database technologies are on the rise, while the future of familiar friends seems vague. Business processes need increased IT flexibility and fast provisioning. Limited budgets call for lower IT costs. The following examples illustrate the dramatic changes: Oracle will discontinue support for new database releases for Itanium-based operating systems, namely HP-UX. SAP is going to ship Sybase ASE as a database platform. More and more customers switch from Itanium, SPARC and Power CPUs to x86 architectures with Linux or Windows and achieve great savings in TCO. SAP HANA is about to change the way we address BI applications completely, likely superseding traditional databases for BW in the coming years. WHY REALTECH? REALTECH is a premium provider of SAP technology consulting services. Our consulting services are a safe bet as they combine exceptional expertise based on internal and external networks with uncompromised independence. It is our unbiased approach that lets us focus on what benefits you. Our experienced consultants have deep domain expertise and will deliver services tailored to your requirements and projects. The ever-increasing complexity of SAP technology creates an advantage for REALTECH because our strengths (strong focus, internal networking, strong cooperation with SAP, transfer of experience) are becoming more and more important. The continuous development of our consultants methodological and soft skills ensures fast and successful project delivery for our customers. Using our international presence, we are able to provide project services with both local and international resources in all time zones. We can offer competitive pricing without losing quality because all of our consultants are trained to the same level of expertise and driven by the REALTECH technology spirit. Or in other words: We were the first to appreciate the potential of Microsoft Windows for SAP. We are a founding member of the SAP LinuxLab. We were the first to perform an OS/DB migration. We are neutral and independent. We are the trusted technology advisor to SAP. We have the latest technological expertise. We are an international company able to provide our services globally. We have successfully completed numerous technology optimization projects in several countries. We are able to put you in contact with reference customers anywhere in the world.

4 Guidance and Planning: Our IT Infrastructure Analysis The key to success in transforming an existing IT infrastructure from grown to planned, from past to future is to find out about two elements: Where do you come from and where do you want to go to? REALTECH has developed a systematic approach to capture, inventory, map, and evaluate an existing IT landscape. Our approach is database-supported, detailed and exact. We will draw a highly accurate and up-to-date map of where you currently are and help you position your IT. We will collect information on everything you have ever used in your data center: hardware, software, CPU architectures, operating systems, databases, network, and storage. We will evaluate the current strength of your IT and your performance requirements and perform an exact resizing. Your objectives: Our services: Obtain overview on current state of IT infrastructure. Detect weak, or risky, or obsolete, or costly technologies. Get realistic options how to become ready for the future. Know about the cost and duration and the RoI of change. Create complete analysis of IT infrastructure. Lay out best options for the future. Calculate the financial and organizational impact. Suggest a realistic roadmap. Having worked with you to find out where you currently are, we will develop a picture and a plan of where you can go to. We will examine in detail which technology options fit best to you from an infrastructural, technological, and organizational perspective. We will explain your options, calculate their financial impact, and determine the return on invest (RoI) for our recommended path. But this is not where it all stops. In our analysis, we will align our recommendations with general technological developments, with the roadmap of SAP, and with your personal preferences and needs. We will look into potential risks and evaluate and proof the feasibility of our suggestions. And we will develop a transition roadmap that gives you certainty on the duration and cost of a transformation process.

5 More than Just Paperwork We will not leave when our analysis is on your desk. At least not if you don t want us to. Whatever our recommendations are, we will bid to implement them. A new operating system, a new database platform, in-memory databases, adaptive computing, or the introduction of virtualization no matter what the technology, we will make it work. Minor adoptions, a complete infrastructure migration, or a transcontinental consolidation of data centers no matter what the scope, we will take on the responsibility of implementing it. Highway to Implementation: Our Migration Services More than 50 experienced and certified migration specialists all over the world who have successfully completed a total of more than 700 successful production system migrations will guide you through change. No matter if your situation requires a migration of your database platform or your operating system or both specialized migration project managers will pilot your project safely. Heavy loads don t scare us: We have migrated complete system landscapes with more than 90 single systems and 100 TB of total volume. No speed limits apply: We switched codepage and operating systems with multi-terabyte databases in less than 24 hours. Long distances no problem: We have moved whole datacenters across oceans, from Australia to the Americas, from Singapore to Europe, or vice versa. Terra cognita to us: Whatever your target OS or target DB, we will have specialists available who are familiar with your new OS/DB platform, whether we talk Windows or Linux or any UNIX, Sybase or DB2 or Oracle or SQL Server. Your objectives: Our services: Switch to recommended new infrastructure smoothly. Maintain time & budget as planned. Get own crew trained on the way. Safely move critical data with the least possible downtime. Management of complete migration process. Roadmap and cutover planning. Technical migration and downtime minimization. Post Go-live support.

6 Making the Most Out of New Technologies! You want to exploit the possibilities of virtualization? We will help you use all features available. We will advise you on which virtualization technology to use. We will implement automated mechanisms to go from physical to virtual or from virtual to physical. We are familiar with VMware, KVM, XEN, or Hyper-V. We will measure performance all the way from SAP application down to storage, and we will find ways to improve it if necessary. You want to speed up your systems with in-memory computing / HANA? We will help you distinguish between SAP marketing and your actual requirements. We will assist you in developing an introduction and implementation roadmap. We will test for you in benchmarks and PoCs. And we will make new IT technologies a reality. Your objectives: Our services: Introduce or extend the use of virtualization technologies. Improve utilization of existing hardware. Remove performance bottlenecks. Switch to next generation SAP technologies. Feasibility studies. Benchmarks and technical Proof of Concepts. Implementation and transition of new technologies into operations.

7 Referenzen Just listen for a moment what our customers have to say about REALTECH s IT Technology Optimization services: The new solution on Linux and REALTECH s consulting services have enabled us to cut our IT costs. And at the same time, we now have a stable and optimized SAP system. Dirk Erler, Head of System Administration, ENSO I am very impressed with the way this migration project was handled. Not only did we achieve our cost objectives, but, more importantly, we could rest assured that this would in no way adversely affect our business and the availability of our systems. All in all, a resounding success. Karl-Heinz Neumann, Head of Global Infrastructure, Munich Re

8 Consulting Units IT Management Consulting User Productivity & Integration Compliance & SAP Security IT Technology Consulting SAP Solution Manager Consulting IT Operations IT Quickscan Enterprise Portals SAP Audits and Authorization Concepts with Audit Trails Making the Most of New IT Technologies Solution Manager Strategy SAP Operations IT Sourcing Mobility Solutions for SAP User Lifecycle Management / Identity Management Upgrades Implementation of All Solution Manager Scenarios Flexible IT Services Project & Risk Management Usability User-Friendly Security Concepts Migrations Solution Manager Upgrade to 7.1 SAP Sourcing Consulting Infrastructure Management SAP Knowledge Warehouse Secure Operation of SAP Systems Virtualization End-to-End Monitoring and Error Analysis ITIL-Compliant Operations Cloud Strategy Custom Development Identify & Eliminate Vulnerabilities in In-House Developments SAP HANA Software Enhancements Timekeeping in Incident and Change Management Operational Concepts and Strategies Digital Signatures & Document Management With SAP Solution Manager SAP HANA Operations REALTECH Consulting GmbH Industriestraße 39c Walldorf Germany Tel Fax customer-services@realtech.com