Successful transformation requires strategy and planning for seamless migration with minimal disruption. In a mission critical implementation, performance, predictability and cost transparency are crucial. To accelerate SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) customers’ migration and digital transformation, SAP and Dell Technologies have partnered to deliver RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, customer data center option with Dell Technologies APEX. This offering draws synergies from the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software, SAP¹, and No.1 cloud IT infrastructure platform vendor², Dell Technologies, to achieve highest outcome results.
RISE for SAP, powered by APEX provides a turnkey, fully managed SAP subscription service that allows customers to keep their landscape software and data within their own data center environment, or colocation (co-lo) facility, while reaping the benefits of a cloud operating model. With this solution customers get a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model that provides the capability to employ digitization and simplify complex IT landscapes with better insights into data, on the journey to become intelligent enterprises.
SAP will be the single point of contact for the full platform and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) operation. To SAP’s specification and architecture, Dell Technologies will supply, install, monitor and manage infrastructure needs for SAP. The APEX offering will reduce complexities and risks arising from managing multiple variables with an integrated portfolio of servers, storage, networking and data protection infrastructure. APEX will help accelerate time to value and simplify the business transformation as the focus shifts from managing infrastructure to accelerating innovation.
With APEX as the SAP S/4HANA infrastructure foundation, customers will gain operational, technical and resourcing readiness. The data center will be agile and flexible to ease the migration from traditional SAP ECC (on third-party database) to intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition (using SAP’s HANA real-time in-memory database).
Scalability
APEX is highly flexible and customizable. Customers can better respond and adapt to change. Scaling workloads can be achieved by extending infrastructure scalability to the database and applications with potential acceleration in provisioning speed. The size of SAP instances can correlate with workload peaks and project needs. APEX provides the agility and efficiency needed to respond to changing market conditions and business needs.
Risk Mitigation
With APEX, customers implementing the customer data center option of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition will have the confidence they can rely on the best of breed infrastructure that powers their landscape. The SaaS model alleviates the burden of customer IT teams from having to keep up with the pressures of changing demands. There is peace of mind knowing their data and workloads are housed in their own datacenter or a colocation provider of choice. APEX helps reduces risk with end-to-end processes security and integrated controls to protect customer data and operations.
Workforce Productivity
Customers can leverage all the benefits of a cloud operating model while freeing up resources and increasing in agility to expand with change. They do not need to manage the infrastructure themselves. Resources can therefore engage on strategic initiatives thus achieving an increase in productivity and performance.
Best in Class Support
Dell Technologies has deployed hundreds of solutions across more than 30 countries with thousands of support personnel. Skilled personnel work closely with SAP to deliver service and support to customers.
Dell Technologies is an industry leader in hardware infrastructure. Customers can be confident they are getting premier support from a company that is the No.1 vendor in cloud infrastructure plaform², No.1 in servers³, No.1 in external enterprise storage4 and the No.1 HCI5 provider. Dell Technologies is a leading provider and has one of the broadest portfolios of IaaS offers from a single vendor. RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, customer data center option with Dell Technologies APEX is optimized to integrate with VMware’s Cloud Foundation.
We invite you to learn more about APEX or contact your Dell Technologies account manager today.
¹ SAP is a market share leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP), analytics, supply chain management, human capital management, master data management, data integration as well as in experience management.
² IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, Q2 2021, October 1, 2021. Based on vendor revenues (US$M) from sales of infrastructure products (compute and storage) for cloud IT
³ IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2021, September 9, 2021. Based on vendor shipments.
4 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, Q2 2021, September 9, 2021. Based on Vendor revenues (US$M) from the sale of external enterprise storage systems.
5 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, Q2 2021, September 16, 2021. Based on vendor revenues (US$M) of hyperconverged systems as branded.
