Modernize your SAP from edge, to core, to cloudIncrease performance, innovate faster.

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04Aligning your business strategy to tomorrow's world with SAP

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AutomateOptimizing service delivery for rapid

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10Invigorate | Rejuvenate | Refresh

Powering SAP on modernized infrastructure

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Improving SAP performance from the edge, to the core, to the cloud

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Modernize IT to run SAP from edge, to core, to cloud

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TransformEmbracing

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Dell Financial ServicesFinancing your

modernization projects

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Aligning your business strategy to tomorrow’s digital world with SAP.To achieve better outcomes and accelerate innovation in an increasingly digital era, organizations are turning to data-intensive use cases powered by SAP.

These are fast becoming critical to improving customer experiences and driving differentiation. And they require infrastructure that delivers superior performance, protection and agility—enabling resources wherever and whenever needed.

Simplifying IT is creating new possibilities for business. Dell EMC, Intel® and SAP are delivering software and hardware solutions that provide enterprise infrastructure platforms for modern applications.

Moving from a non-HANA database to HANA and S/4HANA is a challenge for IT. And balancing the resources needed to maintain traditional SAP ERP and business warehouse (BW) systems, with the investments made in S/4HANA, means customers need greater IT agility.

They need platforms that can run classic and next-generation application workloads to manage complex SAP landscapes, accelerate SAP projects and manage application lifecycles.

And the capability to support new data-driven intelligent SAP applications and business processes.

All powered from the edge to core, to the cloud, leveraging big data, machine learning and AI.

Modernize IT to run SAP from edge, to core, to cloud.Eliminate complexity and siloed IT for SAP landscapes. Industry - leading Intel® based SAP HANA-ready compute, storage, CI/HCI, networking and data protection solutions from Dell EMC span from edge to core to cloud.

Make SAP available anytime, anywhere—providing coverage for the entire business with solutions that aren’t confined to a single location.

Support all your SAP workloads and enjoy world-record SAP application performance. The Dell EMC PowerEdge and broader portfolio of solutions for SAP modernizes your IT, reduces risk and simplifies IT management.

Deploying Dell EMC Infrastructure powered by Intel® is the best way to modernize your SAP environment.

Dell EMC provides a scalable and resilient IT foundation that assures performance and reliability for all sizes of SAP deployments and landscapes.

Dell EMC Infrastructure running on Intel® architecture provides a rich mix of compute, storage and data protection enabling density and power efficiency for transactional processing, analytics, AI and IoT.

Dell EMC's all-flash storage arrays—designed for the applications of today and tomorrow—provide the foundation of a modern data center. These help businesses consolidate classic SAP and SAP HANA landscapes onto a single platform, and deliver unmatched performance, protection and resiliency without compromise.

Lower storage admin management by up to 33%

Increase analytics workload

performance by up to 78%

Up to 50% faster invoicing

process ROI of up to 289% over three years

Application landscape management

Unified application and infrastructure operations

Lifecycle assurance | Simplified operations

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Source: SAP Forrester TEI report

And because Dell EMC’s SAP Ready Solution incorporates VMWare and Virtustream, you can deploy a hybrid cloud – for those mixed and high-value workloads – as part of your transformation strategy.

Edge-to-Core-to-CloudSetting IT framework to orchestrate data management

This means enterprise customers have access to end-to-end solutions from a single vendor.

Our solutions and infrastructure technology based on Intel® Technologies provide agile IT platforms for handling mixed SAP workloads (classic and next-generation intelligent applications), and managing complex SAP landscapes. This means you can accelerate SAP projects, data-driven applications and business processes – all powered from the edge to the core.

When you have the right products and consumption models, modernizing, automating and transforming your SAP landscape delivers the business outcomes your organization demands.

Dell EMC not only has the knowledge, expertise and tools to help you consolidate and simplify your IT for a modern SAP landscape; we also have the industry’s widest portfolio of infrastructure solutions running on Intel® architecture for SAP.

Improving SAP performance from the edge, to the core, to the cloud.

SAP Leonardo Framework

SAP S/4HANA Digital Core

Dell EMC Core Infrastructrure based on Intel® Technologies

PowerMax Isilon

Orchestrate | Store | Protectdata across distributed complex IT landscapes

SAP Data HubSAP Vora | Pipelining | Refinement | Operational Processing

Data inside S/4HANA

IoT & Big Data outside S/4HANA

SAP LeonardoIoT Edge

Processing

Dell withIntel® Gateways

for IOT

SAPHANA

PowerEdge

Our knowledge, expertise and tools help fast-track your deployment, migration and platform rebuild project. This reduces risk and delivers value from your legacy SAP ERP applications – all while saving your precious IT budget. Dell EMC’s SAP HANA-certified infrastructure solutions powered by Intel® deliver:• Predictable performance at scale for

mixed, high-value workloads. • Scale, performance protection,

availability for mission-critical S4HANA and SAP's HANA in-memory database, for real-time analytics.

• Simplified SAP maintenance & upgrade cycles.

• Always-on SAP for the digital era. • Application-driven data protection and

long retention.• A cloud-enabled virtual infrastructure

(cloud operating model).

Not only will modernizing your IT simplify your siloed environments and save on operating and maintenance costs, it brings new life to your legacy SAP applications.

A modern infrastructure foundation invigorates legacy SAP ERP applications, and makes you ready to power SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA

Invigorate I Rejuvenate I RefreshPowering SAP on modernized infrastructure.

For many enterprises, too much IT budget gets trapped by operations and maintenance costs.

Dell EMC, SAP and Intel® joint forces create innovative enterprise infrastructure platforms.

As well as being the first step on a path to an intelligent SAP HANA enterprise, modernizing your infrastructure helps free this budget. By reducing the size of your siloed SAP environments, and significantly reducing those lengthy SAP maintenance and upgrade cycles, you can focus on investing more in new, value-generating business models.

Dell EMC’s SAP HANA-certified infrastructure solutions with breakthrough performance of the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are specifically designed around consolidating these landscapes, to maximize SAP performance – from edge to core.

Meeting your SAP challenges, head on.

When you invest in future-proof solutions designed to invigorate legacy SAP applications, you make the move to SAP S/4HANA easier, simplify SAP System Copy/ Refresh tasks, and reduce costs. All while taking advantage of the opportunities that edge-to-core delivers.

Dell EMC with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and SAP Platform are a powerful combination to enable you to outperform in today's digital economy.

Storage SolutionsUnlock the value of SAP data. Dell EMC Storage Solutions provide unprecedented power and scale for consolidation, automation and intelligent operations of SAP deployments.

Server SolutionsDell PowerEdge servers provide unprecedented performance for SAP deployments, and the building blocks you need to start, scale or consolidate workload-specific deployments.Data Protection SolutionsDell EMC data protection software delivers high-performance data protection of your SAP environments, enabling DBA self-service.

Converged Infrastructure SolutionsSAP HANA-certified and fully-integrated compute, network, storage and data protection solutions boost business agility, improve data center efficiency, and simplify your SAP operations.

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure SolutionsFuture-proof your data center with a Hyper-Converged infrastructure, supporting your mission-critical, performance-sensitive SAP HANA environments.

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Moving UpGlobal enterprise, Wihuri, builds an SAP S/4HANA environment on Dell EMC infrastructure.

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Global enterprise builds an SAP S/4HANA

environment on Dell EMC infrastructure

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Solutions at a glanceBusiness needs

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Wihuri | Industry and Trade Conglomerate | Finland

Wihuri needed a reliable, cost-effective hardware

platform to support a new SAP S/4HANA

deployment.

• SAP S/4HANA

• Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R920 and R930 rack servers

• Dell Compellent SC2000 storage system

• VMware virtualization

• Reduced costs for software licenses• Faster reporting

“HANA is in-memory technology, which means the whole database is written to the server’s memory. Those servers are much bigger than normal servers. They have a couple of terabytes of memory. With the database in-server memory, it’s very fast, very available for users, because it doesn’t have to be read from disk.”

Klaus Kivelä, IT Project Manager, Wihuri

Want to spend less time managing your hardware, and more time driving innovation and higher-value work? Who wouldn’t?

Dell EMC jointly with Intel® Technologies SAP infrastructure scales your SAP environment, enabling you to automate your cloud provisioning and management capabilities.

Creating and managing copies of SAP production systems for dev/test, QAS and training environments is automated – freeing up storage, server and virtualization teams, and reducing the risk of human error.

Dell EMC Storage Snaps and integrated copy management means making high-performance copies is faster – and with no cost to production database servers. And highly-efficient data-reduction intelligence reduces your storage footprint for SAP copies – cutting your costs.

With so many Dell EMC infrastructure design configurations and deployment options available, you can use sizing tools to make it easy to determine the SAP system requirements. You then work with Dell EMC representatives to configure and deploy your solution.

AutomateOptimizing service delivery for rapid time to value.

SAP landscape management software

SAP applicationsS/4HANA | CRM | ERP | BW | SCM

IT infrastructure

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This offers greater agility and higher-value features, including: self-service, orchestration and application lifecycle management.

Choosing the right cloud operating model is vital. That’s why Dell EMC and Intel® are your ideal partners. Our solutions for SAP incorporate leading cloud technologies, offering on-premises, off-premises and hybrid consumption models.

Virtustream was purpose built for running the most complex,mission-critical enterprise applications in the cloud.

And Dell EMC’s solutions for SAP incorporate Virtustream running on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, built for mission-critical workloads, and to automate your cloud provisioning.

When you choose to run SAP applications in an off-premises cloud, Virtustream helps them more efficient, more economical, and more resilient than ever.

Running SAP in the cloud starts with a future-proof Intel®-powered infrastructure foundation designed to run traditional SAP ERP and BW, with intelligent applications powered by SAP HANA and S/4HANA.

Dell EMC’s on-premises based on Intel® Technologies for SAP incorporate VMware, providing an agile data center platform. VMware Virtualized SAP HANA with Dell EMC Storage ensures high availability (HA), significant cost savings, and fast provisioning of SAP HANA instances.

TransformEmbracing next-generation capabilities. Tomorrow’s digital economy needs to be at the heart of every forward-thinking organization’s business strategy today. And as SAP embraces transformative technologies, such as AI, IoT, ML, Blockchain and advanced data analytics, Dell EMC and Intel® continue to develop an infrastructure portfolio to drive your business transformation strategy.

The technology you need to drive your digital transformation has been innovated and engineered by SAP and Intel®. SAP Platform running on Intel® architecture provides you blazing-fast in-memory database solution for transactional and analytical applications.

The Global partnership between SAP and Intel® delivers innovative enterprise infrastructure platforms like Data Management Suite, Edge Computing, Machine Learning capabilities, and expand to accelerate business adoption and best practices for Blockchain solutions in the enterprise. Dell PowerEdge integrated accelerators, give you faster AI modelling

and inferencing – meaning you can act on insights and make vital business decisions more quickly.

When you need more than high volume storage, backup and archiving for unstructured data, Dell EMC Isilon gives you superior scale and performance for AI modelling and inferencing.

Today’s IT has to work with data types from every source. Dell EMC’s SAP Leonardo-certified devices power your edge services, processing data in real-time.

Today’s applications demand a flexible network architecture, and Dell Open Networking and Software Defined Networking (SDN) make adopting new innovations easier.

Dell EMC infrastructure together with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors built for mission-critical multi-cloud workloads provide broad support for intelligent data-driven applications and processes – from advanced data analytics, AI and ML to data lakes and Hadoop clusters. And when you’re ready to fully embrace SAP Leonardo running on Intel® IOT Platform, Dell EMC accelerates your time-to-market by simplifying deployment, integration, and management.

Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory is set to be a game-changer for users of the SAP HANA® platform and other in-memory databases. By putting more data closer to the processor, it dramatically improves system performance; leading to better, faster insights. And as data remains in memory through power cycles, restart times are a fraction of disk loading times, resulting in more SAP HANA® system uptime.

Dell EMC’s priority is to deliver the right infrastructure for AI across six key areas of innovation. These are the core building blocks that make sure you get full value from your investment in SAP S/4HANA Leonardo.

Powerful accelerated compute. Dell EMC jointly with Intel® technologies and processor capabilities offer many new servers, designed with AI in mind. These are capable of landing lots of compute accelerators to power the data era.

Compute and analytics at the edge. Our expertise in the data center enables us to build out the edge compute layer. From Intel® gateways to the latest purpose-built tech for 5G networks, Dell EMC and Intel® continue to innovate in this area.

High-performance storage and data protection. As #1 in enterprise storage*, and the market leader in purpose-built backup appliances**, Dell EMC's enormous portfolio delivers high performance, high capacity and high resiliency.

Multi-cloud operating models. You need all your clouds to work together and offer the same experience across them all. VMware hybrid and multi-cloud environments built on Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors extend, streamlining management for the device edge.

Software-defined infrastructure (SDN). The digital economy demands an agile infrastructure. SDN means you can easily change the behavior of compute clusters to reallocate resources on demand.

Data mobility. Knowing where your data is, being able to move or synchronize it in the right place for the processing, is critical. Dell EMC is among the innovation leaders and we’re reinventing data synchronization, starting from the point of multiple clouds.

Dell EMC and Intel® is innovating in all these areas, including edge gateways, powerful AI workstations, super-charged servers and lightning-fast storage arrays and leading-edge, pre-validated and simplified Ready Solutions for AI. And with VMware, Pivotal and Boomi, we can help with the abstraction of AI workloads and data management.

These innovations mean you don’t have to build solutions yourself. And if you’re just beginning to explore the value of AI, these give you the flexibility and simplicity to scale as your journey progresses.

In the digital economy, AI is everywhere – in the core, in multi-cloud environments, and at the edge. And the biggest driver for modernizing your SAP landscape, is unlocking the value of this transformational technology.

#1 in enterprise storage: Ranking by 3Q2018 vendor revenue.IDC WW Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, 2018 Q3 historical release, December 12, 2018.Based on IDC WW Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Systems Tracker, 3Q18 (revenue), December 2018.

Dell EMC together with Intel® is a strategic SAP technology and software partner. And for over two decades, Dell EMC and SAP have been collaborating closely, and we’ve implemented hundreds of customer solutions across a wide variety of industries.

The Dell EMC Global SAP Center of Excellence (GSCoE) is a focus team, centralized at SAP’s headquarter campus in Walldorf (Germany). It provides thought leadership, best practices, research, support and training in SAP business solutions. Customers and partners are invited to make use of this great facility.

Dell EMC is a leader in server and storage performance benchmarks for SAP HANA® and SAP applications.

In 2015, Dell EMC won the SAP Customer Innovation Award for its Business Management Solution on SAP HANA and the SAP Technology Award for its Business Intelligence Solution on SAP HANA. Dell EMC offers certified hardware solutions (server, network and storage) for SAP & SAP HANA.

A powerful combination for delivering innovative SAP solutions.

Find out more about the Dell EMC Global SAP Center of Excellence Here

The wide range of solutions for SAP modernization and SAP S/4HANA deployments includes:

Cloud FlexCloud Flex brings a cloud-like subscription model to our hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio. And offers a flexible financial structure that eliminates initial capital costs, and spreads payments over time, with no long-term obligation.

Flex on DemandFlex on Demand eliminates storage overprovisioning, so you only pay for the capacity you use. Dell EMC offers the lowest capacity commitment of any technology company, along with flexible payment options for all our storage products.

Transformational License AgreementsA Transformational License Agreement (TLA) is a highly-customized software contract that offers unprecedented flexibility. Alter how your software titles are consumed and maintained, as your requirements change over time.

DellFinancial ServicesFinancing your modernization projects

Dell Financial Services deliver ways to transform your organization and the way you work, improve productivity, accelerate growth and gain a competitive edge.

The host of leasing and financing options can help you manage capital expenditure, operating expenditure, and cash flow.

They also provide a wide range of payment plans, that make it easier than ever, to meet your needs.

SummaryWhether you’re consolidating and simplifying your infrastructure, moving your mission-critical SAP applications to the cloud, or transforming your organization with intelligent new capabilities, Dell EMC delivers the solid foundation you need.

With market-leading products and consumption models, Dell EMC delivers the strategy for modernizing, automating and transforming your SAP landscape, that’s right for you.

Our knowledge, Ready Solutions and expertise combine to accelerate your time to value in becoming an intelligent enterprise, ready to thrive in the digital economy.

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