Alliance Overview

Sun Microsystems delivers a flexible IT infrastructure for SAP customers. Sun applies people and technology in equal parts to build a computing environment for SAP solutions so that you can getter manage your data center, secure your enterprise, and integrate your heterogeneous IT environment.

Key Customer Benefits

Many of the largest installations of SAP software run on Sun systems. Sun's solutions improve both the cost and the revenue side of your business. You can measure the value of Sun's solutions through:

• Reduced cost and complexity through more efficient and effective IT operations
• Improved productivity through improved information access and management
• Reduced risk through improved security and identity management
• Increased return on investment through greater IT adaptability that better serves your business needs

Capabilities and Industry Expertise

Sun Microsystems provides the advanced technology and service required of demanding SAP landscapes.

The Sun N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions is a complete virtualization solution to optimize your SAP environment. The architecture provides a proven methodology and software tools to enable a virtualized SAP environment – delivering flexibility and availability while reducing costs.

With Sun Network Services for SAP Solutions you can create an extended enterprise that is cost-effective, flexible, and highly secure. You gain a comprehensive set of identity services and secure access – so you can reap the benefits of collaborative business while maintaining security and costs.

Sun can help you streamline SAP upgrades and optimize SAP software. You can take advantage of new innovations from SAP – and optimize and simplify your SAP solution landscape for greater business agility, better use of hardware resources, and improved service levels.

Sun understands that your global network is crucial to your success and that technology leadership alone is not enough. Your network demands world-class service and support through every phase of its life cycle – from initial development to enterprise-wide deployment and ongoing system management. Sun provides that world-class service through Sun Global Solution Centers. These centers and SAP Customer Competence Centers provide solution blueprints for mission-critical applications that deliver sustained business advantages for your enterprise.

Sun/SAP References

Sun and SAP have thousands of joint customers across the globe in every major industry. To learn more about the successes of our joint customers, visit Sun's partner Website.

About Sun

Since 1982, Sun has brought together the world's brightest technical minds to solve the world's biggest technical problems. Our vision of "everyone and everything participating on the network" means that when people are networked, they share, they interact, and they solve problems. For more information, visit Sun 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