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Data is an organization’s most critical asset. It is the key to unlocking the insights that can inspire your company’s greatest innovations and help differentiate you as a leader in your industry. High-quality, trusted, and readily available data is the foundation of an intelligent enterprise, but achieving that level of data integrity requires a modern, future-ready enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite.
SAP S/4HANA is an all-inclusive, intelligent ERP system that is designed exclusively for modern-day organizations. SAP S/4HANA embeds advanced technologies that help organizations integrate and manage their core business functions, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics. At the heart of SAP S/4HANA is the integrated in-memory SAP HANA database, which is designed to help companies solve more complex problems while handling high volumes of data considerably faster than any of its predecessors.
The new-generation SAP applications are designed to use the unique features of SAP HANA that make it so powerful: simplification of the database structure, removed aggregates, and optimized objects and code. To be successful, SAP HANA needs an infrastructure that does not limit how it can be used. As a business-critical in-memory database, SAP HANA requires high performance, a large memory capacity, and high availability (HA) and reliability.
You can choose between a cloud deployment and an on-premises deployment of SAP HANA to align with your business and data center needs. One on-premises delivery approach is the “all-in-one-box” appliance. SAP HANA is deployed as a standardized and highly optimized appliance that comes with preinstalled SAP software components on certified hardware that is provided by SAP hardware partners. The second on-premises delivery approach, SAP HANA Tailored Data center Integration (TDI), is more flexible. TDI enables you to choose your preferred hardware vendors and infrastructure components from a list of certified SAP HANA hardware, and use certain hardware components that are already in your data center. TDI delivery helps reduce hardware and operational costs, shortens implementation cycles, and allows better consumption of hardware innovations.
Various Dell PowerEdge and Dell S5000 Series server configurations are certified by SAP to ensure successful SAP HANA TDI implementations. For more critical and larger SAP landscapes, where the TDI solution requires more than 6 TB of memory or six or more CPUs, the S5000 Series servers based on the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors are the ideal platform. With up to 24 TB of memory and 16 sockets, these servers provide the power, scalability, and reliability that are needed to run mission-critical SAP HANA environments.