Private Cloud Solution for SAP

Many CIOs are looking for an SAP infrastructure refresh that will address business needs for increased performance, greater differentiation and lower total cost of ownership with immediate effect.

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Accenture has developed a private cloud solution specifically for SAP that aims to meet those needs. Created collaboratively with leading vendors in this field, including SAP, Cisco, NetApp, EMC, VCE, VMWare and Red Hat, this private cloud solution for SAP can dramatically shorten the time to provision new SAP environments from days to hours and provides clients with the differentiation of SAP’s analytics and mobility capabilities.

What’s more, because it's run in the cloud, the solution can reduce costs while improving scalability, flexibility and recovery of systems.

Using the Accenture Innovation Center for SAP, Accenture has tested the unique package of technologies and SAP solutions that comprise our private cloud solution for SAP: Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), NetApp or EMC Storage, VMware vSphere virtualization and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.

In short, our private cloud solution for SAP offers clients the opportunity to reduce both operational and capital expenses through a fixed-price solution—while upgrading their SAP capabilities, which will help enable greater technology and business performance. Accenture is one of SAP’s major implementation allies and a leading innovator in the use of technology to drive high performance.

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Accenture has more than 30 years of technology, industry and business process experience. Accenture has been SAP’s largest services ally for several years, and has close, established alliances with the leading vendors who helped develop the solution. The Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP were used to build and test this solution, and offer clients a way to simulate their own environments in order to transform them.

Accenture is able to leverage its field-tested experience in implementing large, complex technology solutions and strong vendor ecosystem to deliver a solution that consists of offerings from the following:

• SAP—The market leader in enterprise application software and has a rich history of innovation and growth. Our private cloud solution for SAP features SAP Analytics, SAP Mobility, and SAP’s Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise database.

• Cisco UCS—With a reputation for design excellence and reliability, the Cisco Unified Computing System offers differentiated and market-tested amount of processing and memory capability for the SAP environment.

• NetApp—Builds the cloud’s foundation with the flexibility and efficiency of a shared storage infrastructure. It delivers application-aware; integrated data protection to raise the availability; and enables a variety of use cases, from secure multi-tenancy to automated and fenced SAP system copies, to accelerate provisioning of SAP landscapes.

• EMC—Is a global leader in information infrastructure, helping its customers transform their SAP environments using Virtualization to achieve greater agility and drive higher business value from their SAP environments.

• Red Hat—The worldwide leader for Linux, an open source operating system. Open source software is highly collaborative, and thus far $10 billion has been invested in innovation.

• VCE— Is a leader in converged cloud infrastructure systems. Optimized for SAP virtualized landscapes as a service, VCE delivers an integrated architecture with predictable performance, one-stop customer support, and security.

• REALTECH—An independent consulting firm and a founding member of the SAP Linux Lab, contributes its specialist operating system/database migration skills

Our private cloud solution for SAP includes a unique combination of services, offered at a fixed price and fixed duration:

• Potential benefits of an infrastructure refresh and operating system migration with virtualization:

  • Reduction of total cost of ownership while boosting SAP performance by up to 30 percent.

  • Helps you to launch new SAP systems in hours rather than days.

  • Increase server utilization by up to 35 percent.

  • Improve recovery of SAP systems by up to 95 percent.

  • Simplified storage management with support for a mix of applications.

• Application and Infrastructure Management. Helps to simplify systems and application management, as well as staffing, so that companies can direct scarce resources to IT programs that will contribute towards creating greater business value.

• SAP Analytics. Provides more intuitive data access and self-service capabilities for more robust reporting.

• SAP Mobility. Allows foundational mobile access to SAP Business Suite software.

• Database migration. Can reduce total cost of ownership for SAP databases and positions the enterprise for in-memory technologies.

Client Successes:

• Working with its partners, Accenture created a private cloud architecture, transforming the global ERP installation for Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, to meet its diverse demands for infrastructure scalability, flexibility and manageability.

• Accenture created a hybrid cloud delivery model to help Metso Mining and Construction achieve its vision for a reliable, high-availability global SAP system with consolidated support.

• Accenture helped EMC Global IT implement an SAP private cloud as part of its largest IT transformation ever, virtualizing the company’s SAP applications, middleware and database tiers providing greater flexibility, scalability, recoverability and performance across the system.