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Welcome to our page for SAP on SUSE Linux where we hope you will find lots of useful information. If you require further help, please don't hesitate to contact the SAP Alliance team at SUSE

Through SUSE's close collaboration with SAP, customers worldwide benefit from tight integration of products and services as well as comprehensive operating system service and support options. As a result, Tens of thousands of SAP and SAP HANA customers running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. It's the leading platform for SAP solutions on Linux and the recommended and supported OS of choice for SAP HANA. Don't take our word for it. Take a look at the results real companies are getting from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications.

SUSE in the News

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Provides Operating Environment for SAP HANA®, Express Edition
• LuLu Group Leans on SUSE for High Availability and Lower Costs, Improving Response to Opportunities ...
• New SUSE Connect Program Links Customers with Resources Supporting Their SAP Solutions, Improving IT Responsivenes...
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching Rescues Businesses from Planned Downtime
• SUSE Boosts Business Flexibility by Expanding Availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP A...e
• Newest SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP® Applications Now Available

SUSE on Youtube

• See why SUSE has 95% HANA market share
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching
• SUSE videos including SAPPHIRE 2016
• SUSE music videos

Webinars

• What You Need to Know about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

SAP on suse.com

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Application product page
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP HANA solution page
• SAP Solutions on SUSE
• SAP HANA on SUSE
• SAP on SUSE Communities

SUSE Blogs on SCN & SUSE.com

• SUSE supports SAP HANA, Express Edition by Sabine Soellheim
• 3 Ways to Keep Those Pesky SAP Users Happy by Michael Tabron
• SUSE at SAP TechEd Las Vegas, September 19-23 – booth 114  by Sabine Soellheim 
• Using SAPInstance to control non-productive SAP HANA database in the cost-optimized scenario by Fabian Herschel
• Stacking the Deck in Your Favor  by Michael Tabron
• Towards Zero Downtime for Your Digital Architecture at SAP TechEd by Sabine Soellheim
• New Whitepaper for High Availability for SAP HANA: Cost-optimized scenario by Sabine Soellheim
• News-Blog around SUSEs SAPHanaSR Automation by Fabian Herschel
• About Penalties, European Championship and SAP HANA guest blog by Tania Stepan, SUSE
• What You Need to Know about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications by Michael Tabron
• How to Set Up a Performance-Optimized SAP HANA Total Infrastructure by Sabine Soellheim
• Winning the game with SAP Performance by Michael Tabron
• OpenSource with Linux, OpenStack, Hadoop, Ceph, Cloud for SAP by Friedrich Krey
• SAP HANA on Power with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications by Friedrich Krey
• HANA: Design and Setup by Friedrich Krey
• Video: Better disaster recovery for SAP HANA by Sabine Soellheim
• Fail-Safe Operation of SAP HANA®:  SUSE Extends Its High-Availability Solution by Fabian Herschel
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 by Hannes Kuehnemund
• SUSE Connects Partners to Customers by Joanne Harris
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is now available, on demand, via Amazon Web Servic... by Joanne Harris
• SAP HANA, running on SUSE Linux Enterprise, coming to Azure by Joanne Harris
• SUSE at SAPPHIRE NOW 2016 - Booth 655 by Joanne Harris
• Join SUSE at SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference in Orlando by Sabine Soellheim
• One more essential step towards zero downtime: SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching by Ulrich Schraier
• Securing SAP HANA with the Operating System by Markus Guertler

Do you want to read more, check out all blogs from fabian.herschel/content, friedrich.krey2/content, hakuehnemund/content, ulrich.schairer/content, ssoellheim/content, michael.tabron/content, markus.guertler/profile and mike.nelson3/content

Best Practice Guide

SUSE, SAP and other partners have created best practice guides covering different aspects of setting up and configuring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications together with your mission-critical software solutions.

The best practice guides are technical documents designed to help system administrators and technical consultants to integrate highly available SAP business applications into an existing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server infrastructure.

Best practise guides are available for:

• Setting up a performance or cost-optimized SAP HANA SR infrastructure
• Best practices for running SAP NetWeaver on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with High Availability
  

Download your best practice guide

Read the addendum for SUSE Whitepapers and Best Practices - SAP NetWeaver HA

Technical Documentation on SCN

• HOW TO SET UP SAPHanaSR IN THE COST OPTIMIZED SAP HANA SR SCENARIO - PART II
• HOW TO SET UP SAPHanaSR IN THE COST OPTIMIZED SAP HANA SR SCENARIO - PART I
• One more essential step towards zero downtime: SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching
• Connecting sapstartsrv and cluster frameworks using the components saphascriptco.so and sap_vendor_c...
• Manual Page of sap_vendor_cluster_connector
• What is sapconf or how to prepare a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for running SAP systems?
• Automate SAP HANA System Replication with SLES for SAP Applications
• ClamSAP - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Integrates Virus Protection for SAP
• Installation Wizard from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: Ready-to-Run SAP Solutions in Just a Few Step...
• Setting Up an SAP Environment with SUSE® Cloud

Customer Success Stories

• SAP achieved achieved 99.999% system availability on SUSE
• APA-IT simplified SAP software deployment and maintenance
• Ceylon Biscuits offers more than 98 percent availability for business-critical ERP system
• China Minsheng Banking slashed TCO of IT infrastructure by 80 percent
• The European Space Agency (ESA) slashed system maintenance costs by 40 percent in year one
• Emmelibri boosts processing capacity for business-critical SAP applications
• Dimension Data provides SAP application environments on SUSE OS in SAP-certified data centers
• Greenply accelerated business insight, cutting report run-times from hours to minutes
• Kiabi cut time-to-market for new services from weeks to hours
• MBV SI enabled clients to deploy new SAP HANA systems rapidly
• Lulu Group gained a high-performance platform for business analytics
• University Leiden gained a stable, cost-efficient and flexible platform for SAP
• NIIT achieved 100% availability and no unplanned downtime ensure high-quality client services
• Oxya delivered TCO savings of up to 80 percent
• Pacific Textiles provides a highly available platform for mission-critical ERP applications
• Rusan Pharma offers 40 percent lower costs compared to alternative platforms
• Standard Media offered lower costs compared to alternative platforms
• TVS Infotech utilizes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications to boost performance and ava...
• New South Wales Fire Brigades significantly reduced its infrastructure costs while improving the ava...
• WT Wien Ticket GmbH achieved 100-percent uptime for ticketing application
• Vonpar reduced hardware costs by 75%, software costs by 20% and power costs by 12.5%
• Vienna Hospital Association reduced IT costs while securing reliability and high performance for SAP...
• SHS Group - Speeding sales insight with 100 times faster reporting on SAP HANA
• CIR foods invests in SAP HANA with savings from migration of systems running SAP ERP to SUSE Linux E...
• Calzedonia Group saved 70% on hardware acquisition costs, 90% on hardware maintenance costs and achi...
• Pakistani engineering and construction company Descon Engineering Limited wanted to maintain its lea...
• Geberit Improved SAP system performance by up to 60%.
• Evonik decided to move its SAP applications from IBM AIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
• Fabbrica Automatismi Apertura Cancelli (FAAC) wanted to find a more effective platform for its core ...
• SUMOL+COMPAL needed to implement a uniform IT infrastructure that it could deploy with minimum disru...
• Mahindra Retail  selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the platform for its SAP ERP environment
• Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Ltd required a cost-effective platform for its new SAP ERP applications
• National Foods Limited chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to implement SAP ERP
• Britehouse enabled low-cost, high-performance platform for SAP applications
• Infonet Nederland B.V. significantly reduced its IT operational costs and administrative workload
• Wolters Kluwer Italia runs SAP on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with XEN virtualization
• Orbis Oy improved flexibility and performance while significantly reducing its total cost of ownersh...
• The Burton Corporation required high availability of its mission-critical applications
• Café Coffee Day uses SLES Priority Support for SAP Applications to protect its ERP environment
• Baldor Electric using SUSE Linux Enterprise as streamlined, highly available platform for its missio...

White Papers

SAP HANA and SUSE Linux Enterprise

• Why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server selected for use with SAP HANA?
• SUSE Linux gives SAP HANA wings

HA & DR for SAP HANA

• SAP HANA SR Performance Optimized Scenario

Migrating SAP from UNIX to Linux

• Migrating SAP solutions to Linux? Three Steps to Success EN DE ES FR IT
• Migrating from SPARC/Oracle Solaris to x86/SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
• Migrating from Itanium/HP-UX to x86/SUSE®Linux Enterprise Server
• Migrating from POWER/AIX to x86/SUSE®Linux Enterprise Server
• Research Brief: Linux Continues to Gain Momentum in Enterprise Server Market
• Forrester Analyst Video on Unix to Linux migration
• 7 things to look for when choosing a Linux platform for SAP workloads
• Realize the Benefits of Migrating SAP Applications from UNIX to Linux: Discover how migrating your SAP applications from Itanium/HP-UX to IBM Flex System/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server can provide tremendous opportunity for reducing energy consumption, shrinking your data center footprint and lowering operational costs.
• The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP Data Centers: This white paper explains what's really going on with UNIX to Linux migration from REALTECH, an international full-service consulting company that specializes in SAP technology consulting.

Contacts:

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