TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
DELL AND SAP
Dell enterprise solutions leverage industry-standard technology. Scalable and stable over time, industry-standard platforms are replacing many proprietary technologies in the enterprise. Standards-based solutions can provide the flexibility, reliability, availability, and manageability previously found primarily in their proprietary counterparts.
Dell's Scalable Enterprise strategy drives standardization into the data center and helps to deliver superior value. Dell delivers scalability through a focus on customer issues and opportunities and through products, services, and alliances that address those opportunities. So you can simplify operations, improve utilization, and cost-effectively scale your systems.
Working together, SAP provides an open, collaborative application platform, and Dell offers a scalable enterprise environment that can put the advantages of the direct model to work for your business. Dell and SAP focus on joint development to help provide ease of configuration and faster time to deployment to fit your critical business needs.
Alliance Overview
An SAP global technology partner, Dell dedicates resources and investments to the partnership, providing you with the infrastructure needed to help maximize value in your SAP investments.
To ensure close collaboration with SAP, Dell operates SAP Customer Competence Centers around the globe serving as central points of contact for SAP application benchmarking on Dell equipment, as well as for information exchange.
Dell's SAP Customer Competence Centers are located in:
- Walldorf, Germany, within SAP worldwide headquarters
- Austin, Texas, within Dell headquarters
- Kawasaki, Japan
Dell and SAP Customer Competence Centers can provide custom configurations for your SAP implementations. Sizing results are generated by qualified Dell personnel who understand the SAP architecture within the technical architecture of Dell PowerEdge, PowerVault, and Dell/EMC platforms.
The centers help to increase Dell and SAP product performance, quality, service, and support through:
- Performance engineering for applications and networking
- Support services, including planning, training, and problem solving
- Product quality testing for consistency and reliability
Key Customer Benefits
You face a variety of choices as you build a truly scalable enterprise. Dell knows that many customers who choose open and standards-based computing environments benefit from more choice, more control, and lower maintenance costs. These benefits in turn provide data center flexibility, allowing IT organizations can focus on the business instead of just keeping their hardware running. Over time, standards can provide you with powerful, reliable, and affordable computing options.
Dell offers a fully scalable solution for your SAP software to help simplify operations, improve utilization, and achieve cost-effective scaling. Dell's goal is to meet your needs today while helping you prepare for growth and future needs.
With expertise in industry-standard technology, Dell is ready to help with a comprehensive server and storage product portfolio that can be customized and tailored to meet the needs of your unique environment. The portfolio is backed by life-cycle services to help you plan, implement, and manage your infrastructure needs. Small businesses, the world's largest corporations, universities, and institutions – thousands of organizations — trust their enterprise to Dell.
By choosing to deploy part or all of your SAP implementation on Dell's industry standard platform ,you can achieve performance, availability, reliability, manageability — and low maintenance costs.
Dell/SAP References
You can access a current listing of Dell and SAP customers.
Dell/SAP Knowledge Corner
Dell Power Solutions is a magazine forum for discovering solutions that work, best practices from peers, case studies, and real-life deployments in the emerging and ever-changing IT landscape. Articles of interest to SAP users include:
Dell white papers cover a variety of technical topics, including performance testing, installation, and deployment practices:
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell sells more systems globally than any other computer company, placing it at number 25 on the Fortune 500. You can obtain more information online, including Dell news direct.
Contact
For Dell technical or sizing support, visit the Dell/SAP Competence Center.