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The digital era offers exceptional opportunities for businesses, while also bringing formidable challenges. IT departments struggle to derive fresh insights from complex, isolated systems. As replacements for classic SAP Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), SAP Business Warehouse (BW), and SAP Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA and BW/4HANA address those concerns. SAP S/4HANA and BW/4HANA are enabled with real-time insights, machine learning (ML), and AI, bringing corporate business data together with big data and the Internet of Things (IoT).
The challenge of enabling SAP applications to run in a digital economy requires more than a quick investment and switching the applications on and off. Most SAP customers must maintain traditional SAP ERP and SAP BW systems running on storage-based databases, while transitioning to an SAP HANA in-memory database and making the ultimate move to SAP S/4HANA. Every organization’s path to transforming IT for SAP is unique, but most have some common objectives, starting with sustaining and invigorating classic SAP deployments while migrating to SAP HANA and S/4HANA.
The following figure depicts this migration path:
The purpose of this Dell Validated Design (DVD) is to consolidate and simplify IT and to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO), while delivering increased performance and productivity by running traditional SAP ERP landscapes on infrastructure that is SAP HANA-certified.