SAP OEM Embedded Solutions Guide- March 2013

OEM Solutions

Embedded Solutions and Platforms for OEMs
from SAP: Solutions Guide
Reduce Your Time to Market, Minimize Risk, and Create
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Table of Contents
Business Intelligence SAP APPLICATIONS
4 SAP Crystal Reports Offerings 18 SAP Business One
6 SAP Crystal Server and SAP Crystal Reports Server, 19 SAP Convergent Charging
OEM Edition 20 Accelerated Application Delivery
7 SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Software 21 SAP Workforce Performance Builder
8 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Software
9 SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Software Enterprise Mobility
10 SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 22 SAP Mobile Platform
11 SAP BusinessObjects BI Software, Edge Edition 23 SAP Afaria
12 SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand Solution 24 SAP HANA
13 SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Software
Data Warehousing
Enterprise Information Management 25 SAP Sybase IQ
14 SAP Data Services Software 26 SAP Sybase ASE Database
15 SAP Data Integrator Software 27 SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere
16 SAP Data Quality Management Software 28 SAP Sybase Event Stream Processor
17 SAP Information Steward


As a company with an OEM relationship with SAP you can,
embed SAP® solutions and platforms directly into your appli-
cations. For your end customers, it’s the very best of both worlds:
unparalleled SAP software functionality backed by your deep
industry knowledge and expertise.

Embedding our market-leading software also frees up your
development and engineering teams to concentrate on their
core strengths. Of course, the benefits flow in both directions.
Your market expertise helps push our products to ever-greater
heights of innovation. Teaming up with SAP means that you
can accelerate your time to market, lower development costs,
and generate incremental revenue streams. With SAP platforms
and embedded solutions, you can help your customers meet
their challenges with new and innovative functionality. In short,
you can help your customers run even better.

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Business Intelligence

SAP Crystal Reports® Offerings

Design and Deliver Pixel-Perfect Reports •• The need for intensive data manipulation within the report
to meet business needs – data transformation that uses
The SAP Crystal Reports® family of offerings, the de facto report- complex business rules, layouts, and formatting based on
ing standard, enables organizations to deliver insightful infor- business logic and data values
mation to their internal and external users. Report authors work •• The high cost of ownership for maintaining an in-house
with a user-friendly interface to design pixel-perfect reports with reporting solution and delivering personalized documents
guided interactivity. They have the option to securely publish to end users
personalized reports or embed reports in business applications. •• Global and high-volume reporting needs

The key functions and features of SAP Crystal Reports allow When your customers work with SAP Crystal Reports, they
your customers to: create business value. They can:
•• Turn raw data into highly formatted, professional reports with •• Use consumable, pixel-perfect reports that enable business
guided interactivity users to make decisions quickly
•• Design very simple and extraordinary reports with maximum •• Work with a reporting solution that can easily scale as the
insight and impact business grows
•• Enjoy an optional user-friendly design environment that enables •• Disseminate information to the entire organization more
them to build reports in just a few minutes quickly and securely
•• Deliver personalized reports that are easier to consume to •• Enjoy a complete, comprehensive view of the business
end users anywhere, in any preferred format •• Access embedded reports directly from a business
•• Deliver reports at high volumes inside and outside an application so that they can stay within the application for
organization their reporting needs
•• Fulfill the varying needs of a diverse business-user community
Your customers can use SAP Crystal Reports to meet the with minimal use of technical resources
challenges they face, including:
•• The need for visually appealing, high-quality presentations and SAP Crystal Reports benefits the following:
information-rich documents with a prescribed look and feel •• IT staff and report authors who create reports for the business,
•• The need for enterprise and operational reports partners, and external customers
•• End users who need access to consumable reports with
reliable data

Teaming up with SAP means that you can accelerate your time
to market, lower development costs, and generate incremental
revenue streams.

4 Embedded Solutions and Platforms for OEMs from SAP: Solutions Guide

Why SAP? Related SAP Solutions

SAP Crystal Reports is a sound choice for you and your Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions:
customers because it provides: •• SAP Crystal Reports Server, OEM edition
•• Market-leading SAP Crystal Reports offerings with: •• SAP Crystal Reports runtime server license
–– Adoption by more than 800 OEM companies •• SAP BusinessObjects™ Dashboards software
–– Some 17.5 million users who view reports each quarter •• SAP BusinessObjects Mobile software
–– Usage in 188 countries •• SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence® software
–– Nearly 25 years of history
•• An ideal solution for enterprise reporting, including operational Find Out More
reports and external, customer-facing documents
•• Full WYSIWYG report design for faster report development For more information on how your customers can benefit from
•• Mass personalization for hundreds to tens of thousands of users the features of SAP Crystal Reports offerings, call your OEM
•• High performance and scalable report viewing relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
www.sap.com/solutions/sap-crystal-solutions/index.epx.

The SAP Crystal Reports family of offerings, the de facto
reporting standard, enables organizations to deliver insightful
information to their internal and external users.



SAP Crystal Server and SAP Crystal Reports Server,
OEM Edition

Embed, Enable, and Extend Informed Decision •• Processing limitations in a thin client environment
Making •• Scalability for Web services and hosted or software-as-a-service
environments
Extend your solution offering with the latest functionality from •• Robust end-user access to high-quality reports and dashboards
SAP Crystal Reports Server, OEM edition. The software offers
an affordable next step for independent software vendors (ISVs) When your customers work with SAP Crystal Reports Server,
that want to embed rich, dynamic reporting in their applications. they create business value. They can:
You can also intuitively scale report delivery to hundreds of end •• Deliver sought-after functionality that offers increased value
users through a dedicated report application server. for your customers and expands your portfolio of products
and services
The key functions and features of SAP Crystal Reports Server •• Provide high-quality embedded reports with little design time
software for OEMs allow your customers to: and at a high cost-value ratio
•• Leverage the power of SAP Crystal Reports software to create •• Take advantage of exclusive pricing and flexible licensing
powerful, interactive reports options
•• Use a report application server service focused on processing •• Help ensure that current investments in BI technology can
tasks with a dedicated service for report processing be leveraged for future organizational growth
•• Deploy with a single dedicated report processing service
in a flexible, lightweight deployment SAP Crystal Reports Server, OEM edition, benefits IT staff and
•• Get interactive Web viewing, exporting, printing, report creation developers who are making SAP Crystal Reports available for
and modification, and more with intuitive integration in Java other end users in their organization.
and Microsoft .NET solutions
•• Migrate to comprehensive business intelligence (BI) solutions Find Out More
as they grow
For more information on how your customers can benefit from
Your customers can use SAP Crystal Reports Server to meet the features of SAP Crystal Reports offerings, call your OEM
the challenges they face, including: relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
•• Delivery of professional reporting in commercial applications www.sap.com/solutions/sap-crystal-solutions/index.epx.
with minimal development effort and licensing impact



SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Software

Interactive Analysis for Business Insights •• Allow business analysts and information consumers to ask
spontaneous and iterative business questions of their data
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software offers business •• Enable integrated and trusted analysis online or offline
users self-service, ad hoc reporting and intuitive, interactive •• Permit the IT organization to act as a partner, driving
analysis – all through one integrated product. As a result, users business changes
at all levels of the business can find answers to their spontane-
ous and iterative business questions, turn business insights into SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence benefits the following:
effective decisions, and share trusted information and analysis •• C-level executives
across their organization. •• Line-of-business managers and business analysts
•• CIO and IT staff
The key functions and features of SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence allow your customers to: Why SAP?
•• Build their own queries from scratch or analyze an existing
report SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is a sound choice for
•• Use an interactive and user-friendly toolbar, attractive charts, you and your customers because it provides:
context-relevant menus, drag-and-drop features, and •• A user-friendly interface for business users with straightforward
multilingual functions workflow and reporting
•• View data lineage, such as definition of document filters, •• A single tool for ad hoc query, reporting, and analysis
report objects, variables, and data modifications •• Built-in search
•• Ask questions, combine data, and identify trends online
or offline Related SAP Solutions

Your customers can use SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Your customers can also benefit from SAP BusinessObjects
to meet the challenges they face, including: Dashboards software.
•• Dependence on IT staff for answers to business questions
and backlogged IT reports Find Out More
•• Need for analysis across different types of data sources
•• Need to analyze data, identify trends, and solve business For more information on how your customers can benefit from
issues online and offline the features of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software,
call your OEM relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
When your customers work with SAP BusinessObjects Web www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large
Intelligence, they create business value. They can: /business-intelligence/reporting-analysis/web-intelligence
•• Enable business users with self-service access /index.epx.
to heterogeneous sources



SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Software

See the Business Clearly •• Improve business performance based on current and accurate
information that is always ready for drill-down and further
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards software features drag-and-drop analysis, including scenario planning with what-if functions
visualization tools designed to create interactive analytics that •• Strengthen corporate security by protecting sensitive data
users can turn into powerful, personalized dashboards. Drop-down through leveraging the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
menus and sliders allow users to present complex business data
clearly, giving decision makers an easier way to interact with data SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards benefits the following:
and test business scenarios – all with a single click. •• Sales executives
•• C-level executives
The key functions and features of SAP BusinessObjects •• Operations managers
Dashboards provide your customers with: •• Field users (insurance agents, sales, and operations managers,
•• Interactive dashboards, including what-if analysis functions for example)
•• Ability to work with any data source
•• Flexible deployment options – the SAP BusinessObjects Why SAP?
Business Intelligence platform, Adobe PDF files, and Microsoft
PowerPoint presentations SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards is a sound choice for you
•• Drag-and-drop user experience for dashboard design and your customers because it:
•• Library of commonly used visualization components •• Features a community of loyal users (of SAP BusinessObjects
(such as gauges, tree maps, and maps) Dashboards and the formerly named Xcelsius® software), gurus,
•• Sample templates to expedite the creation of dashboards and experts unlike that of any other dashboard vendor
•• Integrated BI query panel that directly accesses semantic •• Delivers what-if analysis
layers (“universe”) for query building •• Provides an extensive visualization component library
•• Dedicated dashboard caching and processing servers for •• Supports KPI management, real-time data, and complex
scaling to more users business-event data
•• Multilingual support
•• Dashboard administration such as usage audit and server Related SAP Solutions
monitoring
Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions,
Your customers can use SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards especially SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, to leverage their
to meet the challenges they face, including: existing investments.
•• Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to stay on track
•• Visualizing data in an understandable and interactive Find Out More
framework
•• Delivering critical information to all users with the right context For more information on how your customers can benefit from
•• Developing and maintaining interactive dashboards without the features of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards software,
needing to code call your OEM relationship manager or visit us on the Web
•• Leveraging a BI platform to create dashboards at www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects
/large/business-intelligence/dashboards
When your customers work with SAP BusinessObjects /sapbusinessobjects-dashboards/index.epx.
Dashboards, they create business value. They can:
•• Improve decision making with visual simplicity to gain agility
and competitive advantage



SAP BusinessObjects Explorer® Software

Simplicity of Search with the Power of BI •• Secure, trustworthy, and quick deployment that delivers value
in days, not months
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer® software brings together the •• Self-service BI for all business users that delivers ROI quickly
simplicity and speed of search and exploration with the analyti-
cal power of BI to provide immediate, trusted answers to busi- SAP BusinessObjects Explorer benefits the following:
ness questions. Business users employ familiar keyword search •• CIO and IT staff
to find information hidden in data sources. They then navigate to •• Line-of-business managers
and explore data directly. Existing reports and metrics are unnec- •• Business analysts
essary. The software leverages the semantic layer, security, and •• Supervisors, team leads, and individual contributors
administration services of the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
– thereby reducing IT backlog and making it deployable in days. Why SAP?

The key functions and features of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is a sound choice for you and your
provide your customers with: customers because it provides breakthrough features such as:
•• Keyword search functionality (similar to Internet search) that •• Search keyword-driven analysis that finds a relevant data set
allows users to find information hidden in data sources and and drives initial analysis and subselection of data
applications, eliminating the need to understand the data, •• Relevance-driven guided navigation that offers unified
where it’s located, or how it’s structured navigation and analysis driven by relevance algorithms
•• Direct, intuitive exploration of data without the need for existing •• Smart visualization technology that provides instant insight
reports or metrics automatically
•• Secure, trustworthy, and readily sharable information that •• Functionality that can choose and display the best chart,
leverages existing investments in BI software based on the data selected and keywords entered
•• Contextually relevant display of details and charts •• Integration that creates an enterprise BI platform

Your customers can use SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to meet Related SAP Solutions
the challenges they face, including:
•• Poor user adoption of BI across the organization Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions:
•• Limited or no BI functions for casual information workers •• SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software
•• Failure of information to reach the business, resulting in gut-feel •• SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards software
decisions •• SAP BusinessObjects Mobile software
•• SAP Crystal Reports software
When your customers work with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer,
they create business value. They have: Find Out More
•• Simplicity and speed of search that helps any information
worker gain access to business questions immediately For more information on how your customers can benefit
•• Analytical power of BI that enables faster reactions to evolving from the features of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer software,
business challenges call your OEM relationship manager or visit us on the Web
at www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large
/business-intelligence/data-exploration/index.epx.



SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform

Relevant Business Content Within the Reach When your customers work with the SAP BusinessObjects BI
of Business Users platform, they create business value. They can:
•• Provide fact-based, high-quality information, regardless of where
The flexible and scalable SAP BusinessObjects BI platform the data resides
is designed to make it easier to discover and share insight for •• Deliver relevant information to people when and where they
better decisions. Built on service-oriented architecture, the soft- need it
ware supports a comprehensive BI suite on a single platform. •• Reduce IT workload with simplified maintenance and
With the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform, IT departments can administration options
extend insight through a single, trusted BI infrastructure that
integrates with existing applications, information sources, and The SAP BusinessObjects BI platform benefits the following:
technology investments and provides everyone with decision- •• CIO
ready information. •• IT executives
•• IT managers and administrators
The key functions and features of the SAP BusinessObjects BI
platform offer: Why SAP?
•• Information access – Self-service access to fact-based
information The SAP BusinessObjects BI platform is a sound choice for
•• Information design – Graphical design tools to create a rich you and your customers because it provides:
semantic layer (universe) •• Market leadership for a BI platform
•• Publishing – Distribution of personalized BI content to a mass •• A single infrastructure for BI and enterprise information
audience management (EIM)
•• Lifecycle management – Management of BI content throughout •• Customer validation of platform scalability
the development, testing, and production lifecycle
•• Platform administration – Management, control, and Related SAP Solutions
configuration of BI deployment from a central console
Your customers can also benefit from SAP solutions for enterprise
Your customers can use the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform information management.
to meet the challenges they face, including:
•• Poor visibility into the information necessary for critical Find Out More
business decisions
•• Increased IT support, training, and maintenance associated For more information on how your customers can benefit from
with multiple BI tools, platforms, and applications across the the features of the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform, call your
enterprise OEM relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
•• Delivery of the right information at the right time for an www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large
ever-increasing number of users inside and outside the /business-intelligence/BI-platform/index.epx.
organization, without incurring exponential infrastructure costs
•• Reduced responsiveness of IT staff to business demands due
to report and analytic backlogs

The flexible and scalable SAP BusinessObjects BI platform is
designed to make it easier to discover and share insight for better
decisions. Built on service-oriented architecture, the software
supports a comprehensive BI suite on a single platform.



SAP BusinessObjects BI Software, Edge Edition

A Comprehensive BI Solution When your customers work with SAP BusinessObjects BI
software, Edge edition, they create business value. They can:
SAP BusinessObjects BI software, Edge edition, is a compre- •• Improve visibility, insight, alignment, and accountability
hensive solution for small and midsize companies that need across sales, finance, and operations
greater efficiency and transparency. This comprehensive, ver- •• Increase sales effectiveness
satile software addresses any BI requirements – from flexible •• Enhance service for existing customers
ad hoc reporting and analysis to dashboards, visualization, •• Gain greater control over costs and cash flow
powerful data integration, and quality, along with prepackaged •• Manage the supply chain and capital assets better
data mart solutions. SAP BusinessObjects BI software is avail-
able in four versions: a standard package, a version that includes SAP BusinessObjects BI software, Edge edition, benefits the
data integration, a version that includes data management, following:
and an analytics edition. •• Department managers
•• Business users
The key functions and features of SAP BusinessObjects BI •• CIOs, CFOs, CEOs of growing companies
software, Edge edition, offer your customers:
•• Ad hoc reporting, query, and analysis for business analysts Why SAP?
•• Access to live data within Microsoft Office for business
analysts SAP is a sound choice for you and your customers because:
•• Interactive dashboard viewing for executives and managers •• It is a leader in BI.
•• Self-service search and exploration •• Its software is easier to deploy and maintain.
•• Data integration and data quality functionality in one •• Its software offers a single version of truth with data
package integration, data quality management, and analytics.

Your customers can use SAP BusinessObjects BI software, Related SAP Solutions
Edge edition, to meet the challenges they face, including:
•• Poor visibility and insight across the business that make Your customers can also benefit from the SAP BusinessObjects
it difficult to spot trends across product lines, regions, and BI platform.
years
•• Poor organizational alignment and accountability that make Find Out More
it difficult to adapt quickly to changing business conditions
•• High IT workloads and costs to deploy BI that make it difficult For more information on how your customers can benefit from
to enable business users to make informed decisions the features of SAP BusinessObjects BI software, Edge edition,
call your OEM relationship manager or visit us on the Web
at www54.sap.com/solutions/sme/software/analytics
/edge-medium-business.html.



SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand Solution

Instant Business Intelligence for Everyone When your customers work with SAP BusinessObjects BI
OnDemand, they create business value. They can:
The SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution is a cloud •• Make smarter decisions and run the business better with
solution for secure exploration, reporting, and sharing that instant insight
delivers instant insight for more-informed decision making. •• Extend on-demand and on-premise investment
It’s straightforward to acquire, learn, and use so that customers •• Ramp up quickly without prior experience with BI
can be productive in minutes.
SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand benefits the following:
The key functions and features of SAP BusinessObjects BI •• Sales, marketing, operations, procurement, and so on
OnDemand provide your customers with: •• IT directors or business analysts
•• A software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for business
intelligence Why SAP?
•• Smooth exploration, reporting, data combinations, and
sharing – in a single solution SAP is a sound choice for you and your customers because it pro-
•• An ability to work with existing on-premise and on-demand vides a complete, integrated BI solution that works with existing
investments on-demand and on-premise investments. SAP is the on-demand
•• Robust, fast reporting for Salesforce.com customer relationship business intelligence innovator and market leader since 2006.
management (CRM)
Related SAP Solutions
Your customers can use SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand
to meet the challenges they face, including: Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions:
•• Existing business intelligence solutions that are difficult to •• SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
learn and use •• Edge solutions for small and midsize enterprises
•• Inadequate resources or budget that make it difficult to try,
buy, implement, and manage BI effectively Find Out More
•• The desire of businesspeople to help themselves without
a long IT project For more information on how your customers can benefit from
the features of the SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution,
call your OEM relationship manager or visit us on the Web
at www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/ondemand
/index.epx.

The SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution is a cloud solu-
tion for secure exploration, reporting, and sharing that delivers
instant insight for more-informed decision making.



SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Software

Run Smarter Anywhere When your customers work with SAP BusinessObjects Mobile,
they create business value. They can:
SAP BusinessObjects Mobile software allows organizations to •• Analyze on the go
access information immediately from a variety of mobile devices. •• Take action on your device
Management and information workers can stay up-to-date and •• Deploy quickly and safely
make decisions using the latest information. Sales and field ser-
vice staff can provide the right customer, product, and work-order SAP BusinessObjects Mobile benefits the following:
information where and when it’s needed. All that helps shorten •• All industries and markets
the sales cycles and increase customer satisfaction. Users can •• C-level executives
drill down on and interact with familiar reports and metrics, •• Sales, operations, and line-of-business managers
change the underlying data, trigger remote actions, and take
immediate action. Why SAP?

The key functions and features of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile SAP offers a comprehensive mobile BI solution with support
provide your customers with: for major mobile devices.
•• Single-click access and navigation from mobile devices such
as BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and iPad Related SAP Solutions
•• Optimized viewing of documents created in SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP Crystal Reports Your customers can also benefit from the SAP BusinessObjects
software BI platform, which helps them leverage their existing investment
•• Support for report drilling, prompt selection, and report- in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP Crystal Reports.
to-report navigation
•• An ability to respond directly and trigger remote processes Find Out More
•• Offline access with alerts for refreshed reports
•• Smart search on smartphones for needed insight For more information on how your customers can benefit from
the features of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile, call your OEM
Your customers can use SAP BusinessObjects Mobile to meet relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
the challenges they face, including: www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/business
•• Difficult access to relevant information when outside the -intelligence/mobile/sap-businessobjects-mobile/index.epx.
office
•• Failure to meet customer expectations or answer questions
•• Limited visibility of time-critical information


Enterprise Information Management

SAP Data Services Software

Leverage an Agile, Reliable Data Foundation •• A complete view of information with a single solution that
supports enterprise-wide connectivity to databases, applications,
SAP Data Services software delivers a single enterprise-class and data stores
solution for data integration, data quality management, text •• Improved data quality with data-cleansing features across
analytics, data profiling, and metadata management solutions. free-form, structured, and unstructured data, regardless
The software allows you to move, improve, govern, and unlock of industry or operational domain
value from your enterprise information to support operational •• Improved information governance with an innovative
and analytical initiatives. business-user interface for information stewardship

The key functions and features of SAP Data Services provide SAP Data Services benefits the following:
your customers with: •• Any company that wants to standardize on a reusable and
•• Broad application and system support – Access to and consolidated solution as a foundation for critical information
integration of data sources and targets management functions to support an EIM strategy
•• Processing of native text – Ability to unlock meaning from •• Any company that requires a complete, trusted, and
unstructured text data for increased business insights from well-understood source of information for business analytics
Twitter, call logs in CRM software, or e-mail •• Customers that are implementing a BI strategy and embarking
•• Intuitive business-user interfaces – Guidance through the on a data warehouse project
process of standardizing, correcting, and matching data •• Customers with many data models, databases, data warehouses,
to reduce duplicates and identify relationships and universes
•• Data quality dashboards – Display of the impact of data quality
problems on all downstream systems or applications Why SAP?
•• Maximized productivity and simplified maintenance –
Transformation and cleansing of all types of data, regardless of SAP Data Services is a sound choice for you and your customers
industry or data domain, and the ability to leverage a centralized because it:
business-rule repository and object reuse •• Saves time and money, as a single solution for core information
•• High performance and scalability – Ability to meet high-volume management tools
needs through parallel processing, grid computing, and bulk •• Is a market leader in data integration and data quality according
data-loading support to Gartner’s July 2011 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools
and Gartner’s October 2011 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration
Your customers can use SAP Data Services to meet the challenges Tools1
they face, including: •• Supports heterogeneous data environments
•• Many complex (and nonintegrated) tools required to integrate
data and ensure data quality; high cost of installation, Related SAP Solutions
maintenance, and deployment
•• Incomplete data from a variety of data sources, reducing Your customers can also benefit from SAP BusinessObjects
visibility across the enterprise business intelligence solutions.
•• Inaccurate data, leading to poor decision making
•• Inability to audit or analyze data to ensure data quality Find Out More

When your customers work with SAP Data Services, they create For more information on how your customers can benefit from
business value. They enjoy: the features of SAP Data Services software, call your OEM
•• Faster time to value and reduced total cost of ownership relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
(TCO) with a single solution to address critical and common www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large
needs for data integration, data quality, text analytics, data /information-management/data-services/index.epx.
profiling, and metadata management



SAP Data Integrator Software

Trusted Data for More Effective Decisions and When your customers work with SAP Data Integrator, they create
Processes business value. They enjoy:
•• Insight, with a single, trusted view of their data
SAP Data Integrator software enables your organization to extract, •• Enhanced productivity, with a single user interface developing
transform, and load data from anywhere and at any frequency data integration and data quality processes
across the enterprise and outside your firewall. As a result, IT •• Trending and analysis, with timely access to information
organizations can help ensure the integrity of data, maximize
developer productivity, and accelerate data integration. SAP Data Integrator benefits the following:
•• IT and technical staff
The key functions and features of SAP Data Integrator offer •• Developers and database administrators working on data
your customers: migration or reporting projects
•• Comprehensive data integration functionality – Access to and •• Data integration or data management professionals
integration of data from any source and design of an efficient,
reliable data integration process Why SAP?
•• Extract, transform, and load (ETL) functionality – Movement
and integration of data in batch or real time SAP Data Integrator is a sound choice for you and your
•• Flexible information management – Management of change customers because it offers:
and metadata from disparate systems •• Ease of use
•• Single solution (interface, architecture, and engine) for ETL •• Faster time to value
and data quality – Rapid development of data integration and •• A single solution for data integration and data quality
quality projects thanks to breakthrough ease of use management

Your customers can use SAP Data Integrator to meet the Related SAP Solutions
challenges they face. They can:
•• Overcome data integration issues, such as information silos, Your customers can also benefit from SAP BusinessObjects
data inconsistencies, and hidden assets business intelligence solutions.
•• Tap into unstructured information sources, such as e-mail,
Web, reports, surveys, contracts, and a wide range of internal Find Out More
and external content
•• Deliver trusted information that supports operational and For more information on how your customers can benefit from
analytical initiatives, such as customer relationship management, the features of SAP Data Integrator software, call your OEM
enterprise resource planning, BI, data warehousing, data relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
migration, and master data management www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/information
-management/data-integration/dataintegrator/index.epx.



SAP Data Quality Management Software

Correct, Consistent, and Complete Data When your customers work with SAP Data Quality Management,
SAP Data Quality Management software allows organizations •• Improve business-user efficiency and deliver on compliance
to centralize the discovery, correction, and prevention of data requirements through better data governance
quality issues across the enterprise regardless of source or •• Enable employees to have full confidence in the accuracy and
type. It helps ensure the integrity and completeness of data relevance of data with data lineage for auditing
and maximizes developer productivity for operational, analytic, •• Reduce risk and maximize return on investment by leveraging
or governance initiatives. consistent, high-quality information
•• Use a drag-and-drop UI to address data quality management
As a result, your customers can leverage trusted, timely, and and integration
accurate information – so that users have a solid foundation •• Repurpose the data integration framework by using a shared
for decision making. central repository for development collaboration

The key features and functions of SAP Data Quality Management SAP Data Quality Management benefits the following:
provide your customers with: •• CIO
•• An ability to standardize, parse, cleanse, enhance, and match •• IT staff
any data source or type
•• A centralized business-rule repository for reuse and governance Why SAP?
across the enterprise
•• A global address validation engine for more than 240 countries SAP Data Quality Management is a sound choice for you and
•• Point of entry with real-time data quality validation your customers because it provides:
•• Ease of use, a user-friendly interface, quicker implementation
Your customers can use SAP Data Quality Management to meet time, and predefined business rules
the challenges they face, including: •• Global data
•• Inability to trust data due to incomplete and inaccurate data
in records Related SAP Solutions
•• Difficulty in determining the right recipients for marketing
campaigns Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions:
•• Inaccurate order information that causes delayed or lost •• SAP solutions for enterprise information management
shipments and lower customer satisfaction •• SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions
•• High costs due to account duplications, even when response
rates are low Find Out More
•• Long time needed to close the books due to poor reporting
quality For more information on how your customers can benefit from
the features of SAP Data Quality Management software, call your
OEM relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/eim
/data-quality-management/index.epx.



SAP Information Steward

A Single Solution for Profiling and Metadata •• Increase efficiency and reduce data costs with an environment
Management that enables business and IT users to collaborate more
effectively
SAP Information Steward software provides the tools needed •• Improve data management processes by using tools that
to understand and analyze the quality of enterprise informa- support better governance
tion. With integrated data profiling and metadata management •• Enhance data quality with increased visibility into the reliability,
functionality, the software provides continuous insight into the origins, and lineage of data
quality of data.
SAP Information Steward benefits the following:
The key functions and features of SAP Information Steward •• CIO
provide your customers with: •• VP of IT
•• Data profiling – Improve information trustworthiness and •• Data stewards
reduce the risk of propagating bad data •• Business analysts
•• Metadata management – Consolidate, integrate, and audit
metadata from all relevant sources Why SAP?
•• Root cause and impact analysis – Determine the origin of
data quality problems and how they impact downstream SAP Information Steward is a sound choice for you and your
processes or information assets customers because it provides:
•• Validation rule management – Define data validation rules •• An integrated solution encompassing metadata management,
against data sources and apply rules continuously to monitor business glossary, data quality assessment, data quality
data quality monitoring, and a data-cleansing solution
•• Creation of a metadata business glossary – Promote a •• One place for data stewards and business analysts
common understanding and acceptance of business terms to collaborate and govern their data assets
and build a central location for organizing them •• Various perspectives to understand and analyze the quality
•• Development of cleansing packages – Create and reuse the of data
rules, patterns, and dictionary that comprise data-cleansing
packages Related SAP Solutions

Your customers can use SAP Information Steward to meet Related solutions include SAP Rapid Marts packages for use in
the challenges they face, including: operational and analytical EIM; SAP Data Services, Edge edition;
•• Enabling collaboration between business and IT personnel and SAP Data Quality Management, Edge edition.
•• Improving governance of data quality processes
•• Increasing visibility into enterprise information Prerequisites include the following:
•• Enhancing understanding of data quality metrics via concise •• SAP Information Steward is built on the SAP BusinessObjects
dashboards and scorecards Business Intelligence platform.
•• Building a central repository for metadata management and •• A Metadata Management Multi-Source Integrators by MITI (CPU)
data validation rules license is required to connect to multiple metadata sources.

When your customers work with SAP Information Steward, Find Out More
•• Empower data stewards with a single environment to discover, For more information on how your customers can benefit
assess, define, monitor, and improve the quality of their from the features of SAP Information Steward, call your OEM
enterprise data asset relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
•• Create a collaborative environment for IT and business users www54.sap.com/solutions/tech/enterprise-information
•• Improve information governance and quality -management/software/data-integrity-steward/index.html.
•• Reduce the complexity of the IT landscape thanks to a single
solution for data profiling and metadata management


SAP APPLICATIONS

SAP Business One

Affordable, Scalable Small-Business Software •• Capture crucial data and deliver full transparency across the
enterprise, which allows them to be more effective in managing
Find innovative ways to reach new customers, maximize efficiency, priorities and optimizing resources
and drive profitable growth – with the SAP Business One appli- •• Provide real-time information to better control operations,
cation. This software designed for small businesses can help your make better-informed decisions, and anticipate and respond
customers better manage every aspect of the company – from more quickly to changes, thereby reducing risks
sales and customer relationships to financials and operations.
It’s available on premise, on demand, and powered by the SAP SAP Business One benefits IT and C-level executives at small
HANA® platform for in-memory computing: the choice is theirs. and midsize enterprises (SMEs).

The key functions and features of SAP Business One allow your Why SAP?
customers to:
•• Capture all business information in a single, scalable application •• SAP works with more than 82,000 successful SME customers
•• Automate and accelerate end-to-end business processes around the world.
•• Improve decision making and customer satisfaction with •• SME customers represent 78% of the total SAP customer base.
real-time insights •• SAP has more than 10,000 local partners to support SME
•• Supercharge application performance and analytics with customer needs.
in-memory technology
•• Give employees on-the-go access to SAP Business One with SAP Business One is a sound choice for you and your customers
our mobile app because it provides:
•• Get up and running in just two to eight weeks – and customize •• A single, affordable solution for managing the entire business,
the solution to meet your specific needs including accounting, financials, sales, service, customer
relationships, warehousing, and operations
Your customers can use SAP Business One to meet the •• The ability for small businesses to streamline end-to-end
challenges they face, including: operations, get instant and complete information, and
•• Managing costs and protecting margins – essential to a accelerate profitable growth
company’s ability to survive and thrive in various economic •• A complete and integrated world-class enterprise resource
cycles planning application that can be flexibly tailored to meet the
•• Acquiring and retaining the best customers, which requires quickly changing and industry-specific needs of small
even faster response and deeper understanding of their needs businesses as they grow
and trends •• A flexible platform with worldwide coverage, supported locally
•• Controlling cash flow and working capital, which requires by experienced resellers
companies to more precisely monitor every dollar
•• Maximizing results with scarce resources by optimizing the Related SAP Solutions
use of their limited working capital, employees, and assets
Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions:
When your customers work with SAP Business One, they create •• SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions
business value. They can: •• Edge solutions for SMEs
•• Connect their company’s assets, employees, and customers •• SAP software for enterprise mobility
to maximize operational efficiency while reducing errors and
costs Find Out More
•• Provide a complete view of their customers to tailor services
to meet their demands and exceed their expectations, thereby For more information on how your customers can benefit from
maximizing revenue the features of SAP Business One offerings, call your OEM
relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
www54.sap.com/solutions/sme/software/erp/small
-business-management/overview/index.html.


SAP APPLICATIONS

SAP Convergent Charging

Billing and Revenue Innovation Management When your customers work with SAP Convergent Charging, they
Solutions create business value. They can:
•• Boost competitiveness and profitability by monetizing services
The SAP Convergent Charging application allows companies to •• Price any type of service in any type of business, add new
gain pricing, rating, and packaging flexibility while supporting high services more easily, and up- and cross-sell new services
performance, low total cost of ownership, and proven integration •• Design pricing and promotion plans more easily with a GUI
with operational and business systems. and test profitability before launch
•• Compute royalties and commissions
The key functions and features of SAP Convergent Charging •• Manage massive transaction volumes at low cost
provide your customers with:
•• Unconstrained pricing functionality – Complete pricing SAP Convergent Charging benefits the following:
flexibility with high performance and no compromises •• Chief technology officers
•• Pricing and profit simulation – Definition of optimum price •• Heads of product management
structures and bundles for customer segments •• Heads of product marketing
•• Advanced rating features – Combination of different rate •• Marketing, pricing, and revenue settlement managers
types within a single plan •• Anyone involved in pricing, rating and charging, monetizing
•• Real-time balance management – Full control of pricing services, and cross-selling services
of services and bundles
•• Subscriber controls – Spending controls on a per-service Why SAP?
basis
SAP Convergent Charging is a sound choice for you and your
New Ways to Monetize Services Efficiently customers because it provides:
•• Ease of use, a user-friendly interface, quick implementation
Your customers can use SAP Convergent Charging to meet the time, and predefined business rules
challenges they face, including: •• Global data
•• Pricing, packaging, and rapidly introducing new integrated
services to the market Find Out More
•• Offering services to all customers, regardless of their payment
choice, while eliminating credit risk For more information on how your customers can benefit from
•• Proposing innovative, hybrid payment methods for service the features of the SAP Convergent Charging application, call
differentiation your OEM relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
•• Handling high volumes of customers and transactions www1.sap.com/lines-of-business/sales/next-generation-billing
•• Monetizing and bundling services from multiple parties while /convergent-charging-solution.epx.
properly compensating all partners


SAP Applications

Accelerated Application Delivery

Overcome Network Performance Issues When your customers work with AccAD, they create business
value. They can:
Accelerated application delivery (AccAD) enables users to access •• Improve the user experience with an application and, as a result,
their SAP applications over WAN (Internet) from anywhere in the increase productivity
world at near-LAN speed. •• Provide major improvement for SAP application-specific
acceleration and up to 40% average improvement in the
The key functions and features of AccAD provide your performance of Web-based SAP applications2
customers with:
•• The ability to provide worldwide access to Web-based AccAD benefits IT managers and administrators.
applications from SAP at near-LAN speed
•• Optimization of generic third-party Web sites and Web-based Why SAP?
applications
SAP is a sound choice for you and your customers because
Your customers can use AccAD to meet the challenges they it provides:
face, including: •• Better performance gains than a generic acceleration tool
•• Slow performance, navigation, and login response times •• Use of SAP GUI compression
•• High network latency
•• Low bandwidth and network congestion Find Out More

For more information on how your customers can benefit from
the features of AccAD, call your OEM relationship manager.

SAP has thousands of application partners and some 20 million
users. SAP supports more than 17 platforms, including leading
enterprise systems and mobile devices, and has many years
of experience with data management and synchronization.


SAP APPLICATIONS

SAP Workforce Performance Builder

Building the Skills That Build Value When your customers work with SAP Workforce Performance
Builder, they create business value. They can:
Boost operational efficiency by giving your workforce the •• Promote a competent, confident workforce able to help build
SAP end-user training it needs, whenever employees need it. and sustain ROI thanks to well-designed tools
Easily create, edit, deploy, and track context-sensitive user •• Reduce user errors and lower help-desk costs via accurate,
help, transaction documentation, simulations, test scripts, up-to-date process documentation and context-sensitive help
and rapid e-learning materials. •• Achieve a lower total cost of ownership with significant savings
in change management, training, support, documentation, and
The key functions and features of SAP Workforce Performance user-acceptance testing
Builder software provide your customers with:
•• The ability to create user help intuitively – as easily SAP Workforce Performance Builder benefits the following:
as recording a transaction •• CIO
•• Single-source recordings that you can distribute to your •• IT managers
workforce in various formats •• Services and education managers
•• Immediate publishing and use of recordings
•• Modified outputs to include additional text, rich media, Why SAP?
or any degree of custom formatting
•• Recordings that are automatically recreated with texts and SAP Workforce Performance Builder is a sound choice for you
screens in multiple languages and your customers because it provides integration with your
existing SAP investments to help you reduce your total cost of
Your customers can use SAP Workforce Performance Builder ownership.
to meet the challenges they face, including:
•• Delivering a rapid ROI from your SAP solution and sustaining Find Out More
and growing it in the long term
•• Reducing the costs of content development, process For more information on how your customers can benefit from
documentation, and training the features of SAP Workforce Performance Builder, call your
•• Providing end users with context-sensitive help, accurate OEM relationship manager or visit us online at
documentation, and e-learning courses www.sap.com/training-and-education/learning-software
•• Supporting change management efforts with rapid information -and-services/workforce-performance-builder/index.epx.
development and deployment


Enterprise Mobility

SAP Mobile Platform

With our mobile enterprise application platform, SAP provides the •• Gain faster time to market and ROI on existing development
industry’s most scalable, secure, and reliable solution for deliv- expertise
ering enterprise applications to heterogeneous mobile devices. •• Achieve a strategic approach to enterprise mobility that
SAP Mobile Platform tames the complexity of developing and is scalable
deploying multiple mobile applications. This approach delivers
a comprehensive infrastructure that enables an enterprise to SAP Mobile Platform benefits the following:
quickly roll out applications for task and knowledge workers who •• VP of IT
need to be connected to business processes and information. •• Line-of-business managers
•• Project leads
The key functions and features of SAP Mobile Platform provide
your customers with: Why SAP?
•• A powerful 4GL tooling environment integrated with common
integrated development environments (IDEs) SAP Mobile Platform is a sound choice for you and your
•• Smooth integration to a variety of back-end data sources, with customers because it provides:
online and offline access to data •• Flexible, open infrastructure to strategically respond to evolving
•• A single administrative console to centrally manage, secure, device type and data source needs
and deploy mobile data, applications, and devices •• Mobile business workflow without the need for development
•• Tight integration with SAP Business Suite applications expertise
•• Integrated mobile device management and application
Your customers can use SAP Mobile Platform to meet the provisioning
challenges they face, including: •• Tight integration with SAP Business Suite
•• Desiring to deploy multiple back-end systems to multiple
device types Related SAP Solutions
•• Desiring to make existing business processes (such as
workflows) mobile Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions:
•• Requiring mobile business processes to be secured and •• SAP Afaria® mobile device management solution
managed •• Mobile productivity and line-of-business applications

When your customers work with SAP Mobile Platform, they Find Out More
create business value. They can:
•• Unwire the enterprise to drive real-time decision making For more information on how your customers can benefit from
•• “Future-proof” customer investments to reduce the complexity the features of SAP Mobile Platform, call your OEM relationship
of extending enterprise applications to mobile devices manager or visit us on the Web at www.sap.com/mobile/sup.

With our mobile enterprise application platform, SAP
provides the industry’s most scalable, secure, and reli-
able solution for delivering enterprise applications to
heterogeneous mobile devices.


Enterprise Mobility

SAP Afaria

The SAP Afaria mobile device management solution is a powerful, •• Take advantage of a scalable future-proof investment that
flexible, and secure option for managing mobility across the enter- reduces the complexity of extending enterprise applications
prise. SAP Afaria simplifies the complexity of managing a wide to heterogeneous mobile devices
range of devices over any network.
SAP Afaria benefits the following:
SAP Afaria helps ensure the management and security of mobile •• VP of IT
devices over any network for any size of deployment. In addi- •• CIO
tion, it is highly customizable to meet specific needs and can •• Chief security officer
be deployed in either a hosted or on-premise implementation. •• IT manager and project leads

The key functions and features of SAP Afaria provide your Why SAP?
customers with:
•• A way to keep the security responsibility away from end users SAP Afaria is a sound choice for you and your customers because
and within the control of IT personnel it provides:
•• Support for a wide variety of client types from a single •• The ability to manage both personally owned and
Web-based console corporate-owned devices at an application level – including
•• Control across all mobile devices, data, and applications e-mail
from a single console •• Comprehensive functionality across a broad range of mobile
•• The ability to push out software updates automatically devices
and install them on devices without user intervention for •• A delivery model that meets the needs of any organization –
business-critical device and application management including any size deployment over any network with either
on-premise implementation or a hosted “managed mobility
Your customers can use SAP Afaria to meet the challenges offering”
they face, including:
•• The need to manage multiple mobile device types, including Related SAP Solutions
iOS (iPhone and iPad) or Android deployments
•• Security issues related to employee use of mobile devices Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions:
for business •• SAP Mobile Platform
•• Mobile productivity and line-of-business applications
When your customers work with SAP Afaria, they create
business value. They can: Find Out More
•• Secure enterprise data with full confidence
•• Support employee-friendly, productivity-enhancing mobile For more information on how your customers can benefit from
device policies the features of SAP Afaria, call your OEM relationship manager
•• Minimize mobile user downtime or visit us on the Web at www.sap.com/mobile/afaria.


Data Warehousing

SAP HANA

Real-Time Insight for Real-Time Decisions When your customers work with SAP HANA, they create business
value. They can:
The SAP HANA platform enables organizations to analyze a •• Gain real-time insight into large volumes of operational data
large volume and variety of operational data in real time. This to help ensure timely and accurate decisions
modern platform for real-time analytics and applications can •• Dramatically reduce IT costs associated with purchase and
be deployed as an appliance or delivered via the cloud. maintenance of data infrastructure
•• Take advantage of a flexible and innovative application
The key functions and features of SAP HANA provide your foundation for future analytic applications
customers with:
•• A flexible, multipurpose, data source–agnostic in-memory SAP HANA benefits the following:
appliance •• Organizations with large data volumes stored in SAP ERP
•• The ability to analyze business operations, using huge volumes or other non-SAP data sources
of detailed information to instantly explore and analyze all •• CIO and IT professionals
transactional and analytical data in real time from virtually •• Business users
any data source •• Business analysts
•• Combined SAP software components optimized on hardware
provided and delivered by leading SAP technology partners Why SAP?
•• Operational data captured in memory, as it occurs, with flexible
views to expose analytic information at very fast speeds SAP HANA is a sound choice for you and your customers
•• Direct access to operational data without affecting the because it provides:
performance of the SAP ERP application and other •• Complete high-performance analytics including both
operational systems, allowing organizations to synchronize software and hardware components for a plug-and-play
key transactional tables, in near-real time, into memory – appliance offering
making these tables readily accessible for analysis and lookup •• Ability to provide deep integration to SAP ERP landscapes,
•• An easier-to-use modeling experience to further increase the and business processes supported by SAP ERP
autonomy of business users •• Open standards agnostic to a customer’s existing IT landscape
•• Integration with the full business intelligence functions •• Well-established partner community to help ensure smooth
of SAP BusinessObjects solutions to directly leverage SAP implementations while leveraging industry expertise
HANA in-memory data, giving business users a complete
range of insight and analysis capabilities Related SAP Solutions
•• Quick ROI with rapid deployment
Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions:
Your customers can use SAP HANA to meet the challenges •• SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions and
they face, including: SAP solutions for enterprise information management
•• Lack of real-time insight into operational data for timely •• Analytic applications from SAP
decisions
•• High total cost of ownership in maintaining current data Find Out More
landscapes to handle large and complex data volumes
•• Complex business models required to perform critical For more information on how your customers can benefit from
analysis the features of SAP HANA, call your OEM relationship manager
•• Storage costs and performance limiting the amount or visit us on the Web at www.sap.com/solutions/technology
of stored data /in-memory-computing-platform.


Data Warehousing

SAP Sybase® IQ

Smarter Answers Now SAP Sybase IQ benefits the following:
•• Enterprises that need to:
The SAP Sybase® IQ server is a highly optimized analytics engine –– Analyze large quantities of data
used by companies worldwide for advanced analytics, predictive –– Improve business performance through data-driven decisions
modeling, stringent regulatory compliance, and rapid reporting. –– Maintain and improve customer relations through customer
It is designed from the start for the most challenging analytics, analytics
with unsurpassed query performance on very large data sets and –– Depend on timely reporting despite ever-changing report
with large numbers of users. types and demands
•• CIO and IT professionals
The key functions and features of SAP Sybase IQ provide your •• Business users
customers with: •• Business analysts
•• High-performance analytics delivering 10 to 100 times faster
performance over traditional systems Why SAP?
•• An architecture for heavy ad hoc querying and many users
•• Compression that reduces data storage by more than 70% With more than 20 years devoted to architectural refinement,
•• The ability to reduce administrative cost by up to 75% SAP has a large installed base of more than 3,600 companies.
•• Quick ROI with rapid deployment SAP Sybase IQ is a sound choice for you and your customers
•• Support for virtually all hardware and OS configurations because it provides:
•• Independent computing power and storage capacity providing •• Support for text data
scalability – at a reasonable cost •• Ability to compress data to 1/10th the size of competing
solutions
Your customers can use SAP Sybase IQ to meet the challenges •• Easier data management
they face, including:
•• Slow delivery of reports Related SAP Solutions
•• Inability to meet data delivery service-level agreements
•• Failure to provide analysts with information in a timely Your customers can also benefit from related SAP solutions:
fashion •• SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions
•• Storage costs and performance that limit the amount •• SAP solutions for enterprise information management
of stored data
Find Out More
When your customers work with SAP Sybase IQ, they create
business value. They can: For more information on how your customers can benefit from
•• Answer previously unanswerable analytic problems with the features of SAP Sybase IQ, call your OEM relationship man-
10 to 100 times performance improvement ager or visit us on the Web at www54.sap.com/solutions/tech
•• Reduce storage costs through integrated compression /database/software/sybase-iq-big-data-management/index.html.
•• Move from reporting on business to predicting business


Data Warehousing

SAP Sybase ASE Database

A Sophisticated Transactional Database •• Native interoperability with SAP HANA and SAP Sybase
Replication Server® software
The SAP Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE) •• The ability to manage the data explosion with data compression,
database is a world-class extreme transactional processing data- saving disk space and reducing retrieval times
base that supports mission-critical data applications address- •• Integrated application and database administration via standard
ing enterprise reliability and scalability with a lower overall TCO. SAP tools
It can be used to speed up deployment of SAP Business Suite •• Highly efficient processing and storage capacity, requiring less
applications and custom development. storage and less server processing power

The key functions and features of SAP Sybase ASE provide your SAP Sybase ASE benefits the following:
customers with: •• CIO
•• Support for extremely high concurrent users •• Director of data management
•• Support for constantly growing, terabyte-size databases, •• Database administrators and SAP application administrators
achieving millions of transactions per minute
•• Dramatic reduction of storage requirements by compressing Why SAP?
both relational and unstructured data
•• Protection from internal and external security breaches and SAP Sybase ASE is a sound choice for you and your customers
data loss with encryption and directory services without because it provides:
impacting performance •• Low and predictable TCO (license, support fee, maintenance
•• Increased resource usage efficiency and simplified efforts)
administration with integrated administration tools •• No support fee lock-in through contract consolidation
•• Simplified business and deployment planning through a single
Your customers can use SAP Sybase ASE to meet the challenges vendor – a trusted business partner
they face, including: •• Synchronized product lifecycle and maintenance policies
•• Support risks and cost, including ongoing database with SAP applications, avoiding unnecessary upgrades
maintenance labor costs •• Integration with SAP applications
•• Limited choice that results in costly hardware •• Proven, low-stress migration from legacy database
•• Capacity overload, with application workload typically growing
at 50% per year and maintenance cost growing in proportion Find Out More

When your customers work with SAP Sybase ASE, they create For more information on how your customers can benefit from
business value. They can take advantage of: the features of SAP Sybase ASE, call your OEM relationship
•• A database optimized for both SAP applications and technology manager or visit us on the Web at www.sap.com/solutions
offerings /technology/database/adaptive-server-enterprise/index.epx.

SAP Sybase ASE is a world-class extreme transactional pro-
cessing database that supports mission-critical data appli-
cations addressing enterprise reliability and scalability with
a lower overall TCO.


Data Warehousing

SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere®

For On-Premise, On-Device, and On-Demand •• Resource efficiency: minimal memory footprint, small disk
Applications space requirements, and smart usage of computing resources
(memory, CPU)
The SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere® suite is a comprehensive offer- •• Impressive performance on inexpensive hardware
ing providing data management and data exchange technolo- •• Scalability to thousands of users; hundreds of GB of data
gies that enables the rapid development and deployment of •• Self-tuning features like query optimizer, interquery and
database-powered applications. SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere is intraquery parallelism, and snapshot isolation that result
an embedded database technology that is ideal for OEMs that in faster queries
resell an application or a solution that requires a data store.
SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere can provide data management for SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere benefits the following:
on-premise, on-device, and on-demand (SaaS) applications. •• CIO
This solution also includes synchronization technology that •• VP of IT
enables any data captured in SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere •• Business analysts
to be integrated with any leading enterprise system. •• Database administrators

OEMs are looking for best-of-breed components to build native Why SAP?
applications. When it comes to an embedded database, they want:
•• Low development costs SAP has thousands of application partners and some 20 million
•• Low maintenance costs and high reliability users. SAP supports more than 17 platforms, including leading
•• Flexible deployment enterprise systems and mobile devices, and has many years
•• Widespread feature set of experience with data management and synchronization.
•• Future-proof longevity SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere is a sound choice for you and your
customers because it provides:
The key functions and features of SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere •• An offering proven to scale from 1 to 150,000 users
provide your customers with: •• Self-managing and self-tuning data management
•• Support for standard programming languages and development •• Proven capacity to integrate data with the data center quickly
environments to leverage existing investments and securely
•• Database administration with no IT staff required
•• The ability to run it on any hardware, from commodity Related SAP Solutions
to high-end computers
•• Flexibility for implementing unique functionality You and your customers can also benefit from related SAP
•• Support for leading platforms in the large enterprise market, solutions:
as well as those used by small and midsize businesses, and •• SAP Sybase PowerBuilder® application development tool
an open environment allowing for easier integration with •• SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions
data centers •• SAP Mobile Platform

When your customers work with SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere, Find Out More
they create business value. They can take advantage of:
•• Enterprise-caliber technology without bulky characteristics For more information on how your customers can benefit from
and with no artificial restrictions imposed on memory, CPU, the features of SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere, call your OEM
or database file size relationship manager or visit us on the Web at
www.sap.com/solutions/technology/database/sql
-database-management-software/index.epx.


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