Alliance Overview

Oracle databases are available for SAP applications on all major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Unix. Oracle and SAP have long-term agreements to ensure continued development, optimization, and support of Oracle database technology under the SAP software for mutual, large-enterprise customer base.

Key Customer Benefits

Offering best-of-breed and optimized database technology for SAP products, Oracle features utilized by SAP software include:

• Oracle Database 10g and Real Application Clusters (RAC) – Designed as the first database for grid computing, it is the most flexible and cost-effective way to manage enterprise information. The database cuts management costs, while providing quality of service and performance enhancements. Oracle Database 10g significantly reduces costs of managing the IT environment with a simplified installation, greatly reduced configuration and management requirements, and automatic performance diagnosis and SQL tuning.
• Oracle Advanced Security – Provides robust encryption solutions to safeguard sensitive data and address regulatory compliance requirements. With transparent data encryption, you get protection against unauthorized access to sensitive data at the operating system level or through theft of hardware or backup media.
• Oracle Partitioning – Enables tables and indexes to be split into smaller, more manageable components and is a key requirement for any large database with high- performance and high-availability requirements.
• Oracle Data Guard – Provides disaster recovery for the Oracle database and helps SAP customers increase availability and data consistency plus reduce downtime and adds a superior level of data protection.
• Oracle Data Mining Connector 2.0 – Provides SAP customers with advanced analytics embedded in the Oracle 10g database. Data and business analysts benefit from the wide range of state-of-the-art data mining functionality that is exposed through the SAP data mining framework.

Capabilities and Industry Expertise

Oracle and SAP have developed capabilities and expertise by coordinating a global support process for the following:

• Proactive risk mitigation for introduction of new products with the goal to reduce the amount of support related assistance requests
• Single, consistent service relationship with a dedicated long-term team of Oracle technical analysts who provide queue management and direct customer contact to SAP customers using Oracle databases

Alliance Focus Areas

• The Oracle databse development team onsite in St.Leon Rot, Germany , manages and executes joint Oracle/SAP database integration projects.
• The Oracle Global Technology Centers for SAP in Germany and the United States provide presales support.
• The Oracle database support teams are onsite at SAP support centers in Tokyo , Japan ; Palo Alto , California , USA ; and St.Leon Rot/Walldorf, Germany.

Oracle/SAP References

Read details about Oracle databases for deploying SAP software.

Oracle/SAP Knowledge Corner

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) software has become the clustering technology of choice for a growing number of SAP customers. Using SAP applications with Oracle RAC provides high availability, scalability, and cost reduction. The following documents provide best practices on how to migrate an existing single-instance SAP installation to a multiple-instance Oracle RAC cluster-database configuration:

• SAP Customers Depend on Oracle Real Application Clusters for High Availabilityand Scalability
• Configuration of SAP NetWeaver for Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters
• SAP NetWeaver/Oracle Database 10gR2 RAC on Windows 2003. A Best Practices Guide
• Providing High Availability for SAP Resources
• SAP Note – Oracle License Scope: Required Oracle Options (740897)
• SAP Note – Oracle RAC Support in the SAP Environment (527843)

Contact

Oracle for SAP Global Technology Center in Walldorf Germany
Altrottstr. 31. 69190 Walldorf, Germany
+49 6227 8398-120