Accelerating SAP Cloud Integration through Collaboration
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Although deployment of SAP cloud solutions is a highly beneficial strategy, it is a complex process that requires companies to tackle various challenges.
⇨ While organizations need to be wary of such issues as data migration, application compatibility, and integration challenges, they also need to meet growing compliance and security requirements even after cloud deployment.
⇨ To make the journey of cloud integration successful, collaborations like the one between Intel and SAP can equip businesses with technologies that enable them to deploy the RISE with SAP solutions quickly and smoothly.
In the process of deploying SAP cloud solutions, organizations prepare themselves for a variety of future benefits: scalability, cost savings, flexibility, and improved security. However, at the same time, companies face such issues as data migration, application compatibility, and integration challenges during their digital transformation.
The journey does not stop there: during and after cloud deployment, SAP users also need to meet growing compliance and security requirements while striving for faster, more secure, and integrated business processes. Achieving that may not be a walk in the park. However, with providers of valuable software and add-ons for SAP seeking innovative collaborations, this goal can be reached and sustained by companies in the long-term.
Take Intel and its recently announced strategic collaboration with SAP. Together, the companies are planning to improve the performance, TCO, security, and efficiency needed to run businesses. Specifically, Intel and SAP are developing stronger and more secure instances for SAP landscapes in the cloud by powering them with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Using SAP Application Performance Standard benchmarks, Intel’s 4th Gen Xeon processors enable significantly higher performance numbers when compared to previous generations of Xeon processors. Additionally, Intel enables current virtual machine (VM) sizes up to 24TB with a goal to ramp up to VM sizes of 32TB with the RISE with SAP solution. This way, SAP customers can enjoy faster processing speeds and improved performance with up to 38% CPU power savings, while also benefitting from the scalability and flexibility of the cloud.
Intel and SAP announced that they are also planning to explore cases to leverage confidential computing for SAP HANA Cloud to serve future requirements around enhanced data security and encryption. An example of collaboration like this shows that companies can look forward to technologies that enable them to deploy the RISE with SAP solutions quickly and smoothly.
“By working with Intel and our joint infrastructure-as-a-service partners, we are able to bring the best of our respective technologies together to create a truly innovative and powerful cloud computing solution for our customers,” said Scott Russell, executive board member, Customer Success, SAP.
“This effort is a testament to our commitment to delivering value to our customers through RISE with SAP, and we look forward to working closely with Intel to continue innovating in the cloud.”
