TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
INTEL AND SAP
Alliance Overview
Looking for better value and a more efficient enterprise? Put the Intel and SAP alliance to work for you. Intel works with SAP on a wide range of initiatives, spanning research anddevelopment (R&D), engineering, sales and marketing, and IT. Both companies understand the challenges that your company faces, and the new pressures surfacing in today's volatile global marketplace. You must be able to assess opportunities and challenges more quickly, and adapt your strategies and execution.
More than a decade ago, Intel and SAP saw an opportunity to help our valued customers meet such challenges by providing optimized solutions on innovative platforms. This unique collaboration continues today, providing companies of all sizes with proven solutions that deliver lower costs, coupled with reliability, scalability, and performance needed to compete in today's marketplace.
Key Customer Benefits
Intel became an SAP customer in 1994, and today is one of SAP's top 40 largest customers. For over 20 years, Intel has worked with SAP to provide these and more ERP and enterprise service-oriented architecture benefits:
- Provides a common architecture for desktops, laptops, and servers optimized for the entire SAP software landscape – reducing costs and complexity with maximum agility
- Has a proven track record to reduce risk and enable business growth – 74% of new SAP customers choose Intel-based hardware platforms
- Runs SAP and shares many best practices with customers at events such as SAP TechEd
- Works closely with SAP to develop products like the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI) Accelerator – running some BI queries up to 1200 times faster
- Won the SAP Pinnacle Awards seven times as one of SAP’s best technology and sales and marketing partners
- Has an extensive ecosystem of SAP partners – and a maximum choice of hardware vendors and operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows), all based on proven Intel technologies
Leverage Intel's know-how through an annual R&D investment of over $5billion – and benefit by running SAP software on the world's most proven architecture – Intel.
Capabilities and Industry Expertise
Learn more about Intel and SAP's collaboration and the capabilities the companies jointly deliver to valued customers.
SAP Testimonials
"As customers migrate to SAP's latest product offerings, they will benefit greatly from new servers based on the Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series, since both companies are focused on delivering solutions that meet the increasing demands of our customers. The latest Intel platform is showing market leading performance with SAP ERP 6.0."
Dr. Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer, SAP
"With the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Accelerator (SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator), SAP and Intel have effectively supercharged BI, enabling customers to scan billions of transactional records in seconds without sacrificing performance....The power behind this lightening-fast, query-response time is Intel's first Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 Series, and our combined strengths and collaboration will bring the scale and momentum needed to drive this significant enterprise transformation."
Nimish Mehta, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Information Management, SAP
Alliance Focus Areas
Enterprise-class solutions optimized by Intel and SAP can dramatically improve business agility, while reducing total cost of ownership. Intel and SAP work at the engineering level to ensure that Intel server platforms provide the best scalability, reliability, and performance for SAP software. The result is a powerful, modular, and affordable hardware and software infrastructure that easily integrates into a broad range of operating environments. So you can seize new opportunities and respond to market dynamics.
More and more companies rely on Intel and SAP's proven track record for reliability and performance. And ongoing Intel innovation – including more than $5 billion annually in R&D – will bring value to companies of all sizes for years to come.
Intel and SAP serve as trusted advisors to ensure successful deployments. Integrated sales and support services can accelerate your time to value and reduce your risk. These close customer relationships give Intel and SAP insight into developing solutions that can best meet your company's needs. Each industry has its unique business requirements. With a deep understanding of each vertical industry, Intel and SAP can customize a solution that optimizes your return on investment and frees up resources for innovation.
Intel/SAP References
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Intel/SAP Knowledge Corner
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About Intel
For more than 35 years, Intel has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971, and today supplies the computing and communications industries with innovative platforms from high-end enterprise servers to business desktops and mobile devices that are the ingredients of business solutions.
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