mysap Business Solutions on Linux

mysap Business Solutions on Linux Manfred Stein Product Manager SAP LinuxLab & Unix Platforms Presentation Overview SAP AG today Availability history of SAP solutions on Linux Get mysap on Linux running Why Open Source is important for SAP LinuxLab@SAP SAP solutions on Linux: Highly available Current SAP Projects on Linux Office Integration on the SAP Linux Desktop Adaptive Computing Infrastructure Summary Q&A SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 2

Summary of SAP Today SAP AG in 2002 revenues: 7.34 billion More than 60,000 installations 18,800 companies run SAP Providing 21 Industry Solutions 28,900 SAP employees (09/2002) 12 million users in 120+ countries Integrate their business processes Extend their competitive capabilities Get a better return on information at a lower total cost of ownership Focused on users in all enterprises regardless of size Increased customer satisfaction and stronger customer loyalty Heavy investment into SAP s worldwide business community SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 3 mysap - Succeeding in Times Like These What are your needs? World Class Technology Lowest Cost of Ownership Scalability Conform to open standards Security High Availability The solution: mysap Business Suite on Linux SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 4

SAP Solutions on Linux - Facts SAP was the first to ship business solutions on Linux General availability for SAP R/3 since Q4 99 All R/3 releases since R/3 4.0B, including R/3 Enterprise Full availability of all SAP products based on SAP Web Application Server and SAP Basis 4.x Supported Distributions SuSE SLES Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supported Databases SAP DB IBM DB2 Oracle Informix SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 5 SAP Solutions on Linux - Facts Linux is Reference Platform for SAP software development Best availability of SAP solutions on Linux guaranteed Market share of mysap Solutions on Linux More than 1500 installations with Linux on the database server (Q2/2003) Linux installations have doubled each year since 1999 Much more than 1000 installed Linux-based application servers Customer appreciation very positive feedback Unix performance, reliability and efficiency at an unbeatable price Why SAP customers choose Linux as their OS platform Efficiently administer your Linux servers Take advantage of available Unix knowledge Seamlessly integrate into your network of Unix servers Linux Enterprise Distributions very competitively priced Hardware for Linux has unbeatable Performance to Price ratio Use Linux to achieve Windows - Unix integration SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 6

Get mysap on Linux Running Install a new configuration on Linux Use SAP standard installation tools Migration Migration tools to Linux are available for all certified databases and OS platforms Extend the existing configuration with new Linux application servers Mixed Unix server configuration fully supported Service and Support for mysap on Linux mysap on Linux with SAP s renown quality of service and support Linux maintenance available through SuSE, Red Hat and your hardware partner SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 7 Open Standards (I) Linux is Open Source Huge developer community Fastest growing Operating System Only OS with growing mysap market share Very good interoperability with other OS Open Source is a pre-requisite for a secure OS Open Source is an extremely successful development paradigm Linux is Cutting-Edge Technology User-friendly desktop Flexibility and Scalability Performance and resource usage Professional support Reduced TCO and higher ROI compared to proprietary Unix SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 8

Open Standards (II) SAP promotes Open Source SAP DB is the only Open Source database ready for mission critical business applications like SAP SAP has ported POSIX compliant shared memory file system to Linux SAP solutions will run with clean Linux kernel, untainted by binary-only kernel modules NetWeaver IDE based on Open Source JAVA IDE Eclipse SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 9 mysap on Linux: Highly Available and Reliable High Availability for mysap Business Suite on Linux SteelEye LifeKeeper Recovery kit for mysap SteelEye is SAP software partner SteelEye and LinuxLab Development cooperation Freshly available HA solutions Tivoli System Automation HP MC/ServiceGuard FSC PrimeCluster Oracle Real Application Cluster Replicated Enqueue Blade Technology NAS FSC PrimeCluster SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 10

LinuxLab@SAP SAP founded the LinuxLab when making mysap available on Linux LinuxLab is a joint development co-operation between hardware and technology partners, distributors and SAP itself Since 1999, LinuxLab helps to keep Linux solutions ready for business critical enterprise computing SAP LinuxLab is your personal contact inside of SAP support delivering first class support down to development level SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 11 What's new? Support for UnitedLinux UnitedLinux Service Pack 2 certified TurboLinux, Connectiva Red Hat Advanced Server RH AS 2.1 certified since May 2003 Support all mysap components on Linux ITS 6.20 on Linux available since May 2003 Planned Linux support for mysap EP Availability of mysap Business Suite on Itanium 2 SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 12

What's next? mysap Business Suite on Oracle RAC for Linux Linux on the SAP Users Desktop SAPGUI for Java generally available Mozilla support for SAP Web Frontend Integration of SAPGUI and OpenOffice is in process Adaptive Computing Infrastructure Easy and fast deployment of mysap solutions First Blade based solutions are already running at SAP customer sites SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 13 Consolidating mysap Solutions mysap = R/3 + APO + BW + CRM + PLM +... + SAP Portals + SAP Marketplaces +... mysap SCM R/3 APO mysap FI R/3 mysap HR R/3 mysap CRM CRM mysap Enterprise Portals mysap Marketplaces SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 14

Lowest Cost of Ownership and Scalability for mysap Standard SAP components Presentation Servers Application Server/s Database Server R/3 R/3 APO R/3 BW APO BW CRM BW PLM CRM PLM PLM Landscape Development System Test and Quality System Productive System mysap Consolidated Approach Place several components of several SAP solutions on a server Place several solutions in one database (MCOD) Use NAS or SAN for storing persistent data SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 15 Adaptive Computing Infrastructure for mysap on Linux SAP Advanced Infrastructure Concept SAP Application Server architecture scales out linearly Benefit from improved TCO of standard servers Reduce Maintenance costs Add capacity on demand Minimize Complexity Maintain Flexibility Designed by SAP LinuxLab Already available on Linux! Innovative concepts like netboot and server images Blade 1 Blade 2 Blade 3 Blade 4 Blade 5 Blade 6 Blade 7 Spare Blade Monitoring Cockpit Blade Servers Appl n OS Image bw Appl... OS Image apo Appl 2 Appl 1 OS Image r3 Netboot/NFS Network Attached Storage SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 16

Summary SAP business applications on Linux Standard availability on Linux for all SAP solutions Linux is SAP reference platform New SAP products are developed on Linux Linux is Ready for Running Mission Critical Applications Since 1999, Linux has proven to be a mature operating system for SAP e-business applications High availability for SAP e-business solutions on Linux Benefit from Enterprise-Ready Linux distributions from SuSE and Red Hat All major hardware vendors deliver support for Linux Major Linux advantages Worldwide support due to the Linux community Low OS license and maintenance costs Minimize your security risks SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 17 Further Information Public Web: www.sap.com/linux SAP Customer Services Network: www.sap.com/services/platforms Additional Questions LinuxLab mailbox: linux@sap.com Linux Mailinglists at SAP linux.announce: Announcements concerning mysap on Linux linux.general: Open Discussion Forum Subscribe on www.sap.com/linux Mailinglists Linux Successes: www.sap.com/linux/ Brochures and Whitepapers Hella Server Consolidation Phoenix Contact High Availability OMV Linux auf zseries Menasha US Customer PharmLog SAP DB Customer SAP AG 2003, TechED Basel 2003, PA201_EMEA, Manfred Stein / 18

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