Overview

Assess, Create, and Adopt a Virtualization and Cloud Strategy

Virtualizing Your SAP Software Landscape

Do you want to run production SAP software that supports your core business in a virtual environment? Have you been putting it off due to lack of expertise in-house? Now you can move ahead with confidence by working directly with top experts from SAP and VMware. The joint advisory workshop for SAP solutions on the VMware platform brings together the deep software knowledge, virtualization know-how, best practices, and experience of both companies. Working as trusted advisers, we’ll facilitate a joint strategy workshop for SAP software virtualization, build team knowledge, and provide a road map for your virtualization journey.

Running software applications in a virtualized VMware environment is now a mainstream best practice that allows organizations to save time, money, energy, and space. Because you can use physical servers more efficiently, you can quickly scale your server infrastructure to meet business demands without the added investment of purchasing additional hardware. Fewer machines result in lower up-front investment costs and energy usage. Virtualized environments are also easier to manage as SAP software upgrades and other changes are managed centrally, with less risk.

Virtualizing business-critical SAP software in a VMware environment also improves the efficiency, flexibility, and availability of applications, enabling you to transform service delivery while significantly reducing operational costs.

Despite the opportunity to harness this competitive advantage and fuel business growth, however, many companies are hesitant to include business-critical SAP software in a virtualization road map, because they lack virtualization expertise specific to SAP software. Unfortunately, this lack of in-house expertise poses significant business risks and often overshadows the potential benefits.

Trust Your Virtualization Strategy to the Industry Experts

Through this workshop, SAP Consulting and VMware will leverage their combined product knowledge and consulting experience to create the best plan for virtualizing your business-critical SAP software. You’ll have access to the deepest software knowledge, virtualization know-how, best practices, and real-world experience from SAP and VMware.

Working as a unified team, SAP and VMware consultants facilitate a joint strategy assessment for SAP software virtualization, build team knowledge, and provide a road map optimized for your business. Together, they will:

• Review best practices for SAP software virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery priorities, and your company’s current virtualization experience
• Perform a high-level evaluation of your current state, and capture the business and technical requirements and pain points to formulate relevant, high-level use cases.
• Discuss the technologies, methodologies, and best practices for SAP software virtualization so that your team understands key “how and why” decision points for effective long-term management.
• Conclude with a review of case studies from other customers, discuss your identified use cases and how virtualization can address them, and review a high-level transformational road map.

In expanded engagements, VMware and SAP consultants can perform a deeper analysis of your environment, reviewing architecture options, proposing a solution, and providing a risk analysis for virtualization show-stoppers in your environment.

Why SAP and VMware

SAP runs 80% of its own global infrastructure on VMware vSphere.

Our combined expertise in VMware technologies and SAP software, as well as our jointly developed migration strategies, best practices, and intellectual property, will help you safely and reliably run production SAP software on a virtualized infrastructure. For example, we’ll help you understand the impact of virtualization changes across your organization and determine the best architecture, infrastructure, process, organizational structure, and governance controls for your business. As a result, you’ll reap the benefits of virtualization faster and with less risk.

The SAP-VMware Difference

Part of a Complete Set of Virtualization and Cloud Services

We’re ready to engage in each phase of your landscape transformation – and it all starts with developing the right strategy. Begin with the advisory workshop for SAP solutions on the VMware platform to develop a strategy, and then leverage additional services for architectural design, configuration of the software landscape, solution migration, and implementation for minimal impact on your operations. Expanded engagements can include a review of architecture options, proposal of a solution, and risk analysis for virtualization show-stoppers in your environment.

VMware’s industry-leading platform provides the stability and security required to virtualize and operate business-critical SAP software with confidence. Together, VMware and SAP provide the experience, expertise, and reliable, repeatable methodologies to help you reduce risk and downtime, accelerate your virtualization transformation, and prepare your team to effectively manage the environment.