SUN ANNOUNCES SAP CONSULTING PRACTICE
SUN ANNOUNCES SAP CONSULTING PRACTICE
Sun Experts Design and Deploy Scalable Computing Environments for SAP R/3 Applications
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European Sapphire, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - June 11, 1997 - Building on its leadership position in architecting client-server IT infrastructures, Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced an SAP Consulting Practice to help customers design and implement optimized computing environments to support their SAP R/3 business applications.
SAP, headquartered in Germany, is a leading provider of client- server business applications designed to help manage complex computing environments. The SAP R/3 system can provide sales and distribution, manufacturing, logistics, finance, accounting and human resources solutions for the enterprise. Sun’s SAP Consulting Practice helps customers build and execute a technical infrastructure designed for future growth, offering optimal scalability, performance and stability.
Sun’s SAP Practice is dedicated exclusively to help customers integrate SAP on SPARC™ Solaris™ environments. Sun has been helping customers build SAP SPARC platforms for over two years. Sun Professional Services’ SAP consultants helped design and deploy the largest user-based SAP installation in Switzerland. Sun consultants worked with Swiss Federal Railways to define and integrate a mission-critical SAP computing environment. Sun’s new SAP Practice represents a consolidation of expertise and commitment to SAP customers.
“The co-operation with Sun was already very agreeable during the evaluation phase and so it has remained till today. The Sun members of the staff seem to understand our concerns,” said Daniel Hofstetter, responsible for the SAP strategy for Swiss Federal Railways. “We are all sitting in the same boat; we always co-operate and manage to find a solution based on partnership.”
Sun consultants concentrate on their core competency - deploying mission-critical technical infrastructures - while collaborating with leading SAP systems integrators who focus on the SAP R/3 application customization, process re-engineering and organizational change management.
“We leverage the skills and expertise of our SAP Practice and our relationships with key systems integrators to build total SAP solutions for enterprise customers,” said Paul Rochester, vice president and general manager of Sun Professional Services.
The SAP Consulting Practice provides a comprehensive portfolio of SAP services designed to complement the customer’s SAP deployment project timeline by spanning the entire SAP implementation project lifecycle with the following types of services:
SAP IT Assessment Service: helps customers evaluate their initial IT environment, including technical preparedness for an SAP R/3 deployment.
SAP IT Architecture Services: develop and design a complete technical infrastructure encompassing system topology, legacy data integration requirements, security needs, scalability, systems and network management, and data storage and management solutions.
SAP Integration Services: provide expert resources for deploying the defined SAP R/3 IT architecture by creating and executing pilot systems to test the system functionality, scalability and performance prior to roll-out. SAP Systems Management Services: help ensure continuing system availability, performance and manageability by assisting customers to implement efficient operating standards based on industry best practices. Sun Professional Services’ global organization includes a worldwide network of consultants and backline support from Sun/SAP Competence Centers to provide timely answers to questions about specific customer solutions. Sun’s SAP consultant visibility to the SPARC Solaris installed-base customers allows them to share best practices with new Sun customers. Sun’s SAP consultant expertise coupled with their robust support infrastructure results in reduced time to implementation for Sun SAP customers.
Competence Centers to provide timely answers to questions about specific customer solutions. Sun’s consultant visibility to the SPARC Solaris installed-base customers allows them to share best practices with new Sun customers. Sun’s customers.Sun Offers Total SAP Solution
As a worldwide leader in enterprise computing, Sun has made substantial investments in systems, software, service and partnerships with leading solution providers like SAP. Sun’s high-end server, the Starfire™ Ultra™ Enterprise™ 10000 system, can handle larger deployments than any other platform, so it’s ideal for SAP implementations. Solaris, Sun’s proven operating environment, enhances performance and offers unmatched scalability.
Sun’s Starfire system is an excellent platform for SAP R/3 deployment due to Starfire’s unsurpassed scalability that complements SAP R/3’s industry-leading business process functionality.
“Sun’s SAP Integration Services, based on our proven methodology for integrating SAP on the SPARC Solaris platform, together with our record-breaking Starfire benchmark results, allow SAP customers to quickly deploy and benefit from the industry’s most powerful and scalable UNIX server,” said Matt Williams, director of Sun Professional Service’s SAP Consulting Practice. Customers also need support and training to ensure their SAP enterprise systems operate at top efficiency. SunSpectrum™, Sun’s flexible support offering, allows customers to tailor their coverage to fit their specific SAP R/3 enterprise computing needs. SunVIP, part of SunSpectrum mission-critical contracts, is designed to resolve technical software problems. Sun’s unique program provides frontline support, where joint contract customers can call Sun or SAP directly to resolve the call and backline support where Sun and SAP support engineers will communicate with one another to resolve the problems. The proliferation of software applications makes it increasingly difficult to pin-point which application is responsible when a problem arises. SunVIP manages these difficult software issues by creating a virtual solution center that combines the best available expertise on Sun and SAP products. For training, Sun offers an SAP/Solaris Administration Skills Analysis service and an SAP R/3 on Solaris curriculum to assess students’ needs and provide training on SAP R/3 interconnectivity, Java™ frontend, troubleshooting, performance management and tuning. Sun’s SAP curriculum transfers the skills and knowledge for managing, operating and administerting Sun systems running SAP R/3.
enterprise systems operate at top efficiency. SunSpectrum™, Sun’s flexible support offering, allows customers to tailor their coverage to fit their specific R/3 enterprise computing needs. SunVIP, part of SunSpectrum mission-critical contracts, is designed to resolve technical software problems. Sun’s unique program provides frontline support, where joint contract customers can call Sun or directly to resolve the call and backline support where Sun and products. For training, Sun offers an /Solaris Administration Skills Analysis service and an R/3 on Solaris curriculum to assess students’ needs and provide training on curriculum transfers the skills and knowledge for managing, operating and administerting Sun systems running R/3.Pricing and Availability
Sun’s SAP consulting and integration services are available in major cities worldwide. For more information, contact a Sun Microsystems sales representative, or visit our Web Site at http://www.sun.com/sunservice/sunps. Worldwide availability of services will vary by country.
About SunService
SunService, a Division of Sun Microsystems, Inc., provides systems and network support and management services, training and education services and consulting, and professional consulting and implementation services for Internet and corporate intranet services. SunService supports more than 700,000 systems worldwide and is the largest UNIXtraining organization in the world, training more than 74,000 people each year.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, “The Network Is The Computer ™ ,” has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDQ “SUNW”), to its position as a leading provider of hardware, software, and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $8 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the WorldWide Web at http://www.sun.com.