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by Georg Fischer and Stefanie Kübler, SAP AG SAPinsider All companies want to cut operating costs, reduce the communication efforts for the IT staff, and become all-around more agile entities. In this article, you’ll learn how system consolidation and system decommissioning projects can help you reach these goals. You’ll also discover why combining these two projects not only nets the benefits of a lean data center more quickly, it also means huge savings in time and money.
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by Tobias Kutning and Bernd F. Lober, SAP AG SAPinsider Originally introduced to boost quality assurance, SAP standard application benchmarks are also used to test and verify the scalability, concurrency, power efficiency, and multi-user behavior of system software components, relational database management systems (RDBMSs), and business applications. This article takes a closer look at these benchmarks and explores some of the record-breaking results achieved this year.
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by Tanja Kaufmann and Helmut Stefani, SAP AG SAPinsider SAP is rolling out the new SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management 7.02. With it comes improvements in usability, automation, and predelivered content. To understand how these improvements can help your company more easily implement an information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy, this article takes a step-by-step look at the role the improvements will play in two key ILM scenarios: retention management and legacy system decommissioning.
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by Tobias Kutning, SAP AG SAPinsider How can a company be sure that the energy-efficient server it chooses is truly a sustainable one? To help, SAP, in close cooperation with its partners, introduced the SAP server power standard application benchmark, which tests a vendor's server, allowing that vendor to demonstrate the server's efficiency — and enabling customers to evaluate it before purchasing. Explore the results from one SAP partner, Fujitsu, which earned the first SAP server power standard application benchmark
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by Georg Fischer and Helmut Stefani, SAP SAPinsider In an age where technology gives companies access to an increasingly large amount of data, it is easy to lose sight of how to best leverage that information. That's why it is imperative to have an information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. This article takes a close look at how SAP's ILM solution suite provides functionality that allows users to successfully manage data in a variety of circumstances.
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by Armin Hechler-Stark, SAP AG, and Swapan Saha, SAP Labs SAPinsider When a large SAP customer experienced a complex performance and scalability problem, SAP used its development processes and tools to identify and fix performance issues in that customer’s landscape. Learn how you can use these same tools to diagnose problems in your own landscape and get an introduction to SAP’s method for testing these fixes to make sure that the production landscape can handle the business’s needs.
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by Clarissa Götz and Sebastian Schmitt, SAP AG SAPinsider As energy prices continue to rise, companies must take a hard look at the amount of energy their IT landscapes consume. Learn how SAP is helping companies decommission their inefficient legacy systems—without losing access to valuable data—and giving them the tools they need to select more energy-efficient servers in the future.
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by Susanne Janssen, SAP AG, and Fayçal Hadjiat, EDF SAPinsider Load tests are critical for any company undergoing an implementation or upgrade. Yet too many companies overlook the most crucial load testing considerations. This article, which includes tips from Electricité de France’s hugely successful and productive load test project, explores a two-pronged approach to ensuring that your load tests — and your go-lives — are mistake-free.
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by Hannes Kuehnemund, SAP AG SAPinsider Virtualization is here to stay — are you prepared? This article details two fundamentally different approaches to virtualization: the proprietary approach and the multi-vendor approach. Find out which is right for your company and what you need to do to make your virtualization implementation a success.
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by Dagmar Kirsamer and Sebastian Schmitt, SAP SAPinsider By determining your sizing requirements before you shop around for hardware, you'll ensure that your hardware purchase will meet your business and performance requirements. You’ll also lower your costs and reduce TCO. Walk through the four steps of using Quick Sizer — a self-service tool available for free on SAP Service Marketplace — to predict the hardware capacity needed to run your business smoothly.
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