For over 15 years Sun and SAP Microsystems have provided mission-critical enterprise solutions for collaborative, adaptable, open services architecture. Sun's products and services address customers' concerns for increasing demands to network access, bandwidth, and storage driven by explosive growth. Innovating at all system levels, Sun and SAP's partnership provides value and choice for our joint customers.

Key Highlights

• Sun's relentless drive for innovation with value, quality of products and services, and operations keeps Sun at the forefront of industry and corporate recognition.
• SAP NetWeaver provides complete support for Java technology
• SAP solutions are certified for all Sun server and storage platforms.
• Sun Solaris is optimized for running your SAP solutions.

Alliance Overview

With an exponential surge in data demands during tough economic times, you need to run your business as efficiently as possible. Sun and its business partners understand the demands of implementing, deploying, and upgrading SAP software landscapes to improve productivity, increase system usage, and transform your technology infrastructure into an eco-friendly datacenter.

Key Customer Benefits

Many large installations of SAP software run on Sun systems, which help you improve both cost and revenue. You can measure the value of Sun's solutions through:

• Increased return on investment with greater IT adaptability that better serves your business needs
• Lower cost and complexity through improved productivity and system utilization rates through virtualization and consolidation
• Reduced risk through improved security and identity management

Sun is committed to building smarter, safer, and more eco-responsible product and packaging – from design, to power usage, to our global take-back and recycling programs.

Capabilities and Industry Expertise

Sun provides world-class service through Sun Solution Centers worldwide. Located in Walldorf, Germany, the Sun Solution Center for SAP Competency provides technical expertise and comprehensive services for the SAP Business Suite solution – providing solution blueprints for mission-critical applications that deliver sustained business advantages.

With Sun's Professional Services' portfolio of SAP software integration services, professionals with a thorough understanding of Sun technology deliver expertise in distributed computing architectures, SAP software implementation, and system management mastery.

Testimonials

Brown Forman Corporation

"In our opinion, the Solaris OS performs in a stellar fashion for 'heavy lift' applications. From a TCO standpoint, it was a bit of a no-brainer for us to choose Solaris Containers. We plan to use virtualization to push consolidation to the limit and decrease our datacenter footprint by 50%. The flexibility of Solaris Containers also allows us to create containers for on-the-fly sandbox space, providing a safe environment for experimenting and testing new SAP solutions."
Mitch Zebrun, Lead Engineer, SAP Enterprise Software Administration, Brown-Forman Corporation

"After an operating period of two years, we can confirm that virtualization goes hand in hand with consolidation. We need less physical hardware and less energy than before, and we continue to use an environment with a stable response and good performance."
Dr. Holger Wittges, Executive Director at SAP UCC, Technical University of Munich

Learn how companies around the world use Sun to consolidate SAP environments and cut costs.

Sun and SAP: Communities of Innovation

• SAP on Sun Wiki – Connect with SAP software infrastructure experts within Sun who share innovative concepts, ideas, news, tips, and tricks.
• SAP on Solaris on SDN – Get answers about developing and deploying SAP applications on the Solaris OS.

Sun/SAP Knowledge Corner

Get more information on strategic initiatives and solutions for SAP and Sun.

About Sun

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision – "The Network is the Computer" – Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development, and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and online.

Contacts

Markus Voigt, Partner Executive – Sun-SAP Global Alliance and APAC
Baibenjamin Li, Alliance and Sales Development – APAC
Sasan Moaveni, Alliance and Sales Development – EMEA
Tina Scarbrough, Alliance and Sales Development – Americas