mysap Business Solutions on Linux

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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

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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

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:

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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 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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Consolidating mySAP Solutions

mySAP SCM

R/3 APO

mySAP FI R/3

mySAP HR R/3

mySAP CRM CRM

mySAP Enterprise

Portals

mySAP Marketplaces

mySAP = R/3 + APO + BW + CRM + PLM + ...

+ SAP Portals + SAP Marketplaces + ...

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R/3

APO

BW

CRM

PLM

R/3

APO

BW

CRM

PLM

Lowest Cost of Ownership and Scalability for mySAP

Standard SAP components

Presentation Servers Application Server/s Database Server

Landscape

Development System Test and Quality System Productive System

R/3

APO

BW

CRM

PLM

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

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 Servers B la d e 1 B la d e 2 B la d e 5 B la d e 4 B la d e 3 B la d e 6 B la d e 7 S p ar e B la d e

Network Attached Storage

OS Image bw OS Image apo

Appl n Appl ... Appl 2

Appl 1 OS Image r3

Net boot

/NFS

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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

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

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

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