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RISE / ERP Cloud Private Migration of the complete SAP landscape
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Industry
Retail
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>390,000 employees
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Period
since 2025/02
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SAP products used
S/4HANA 2023 / EWM / CAR / BWoH
- Migration partner for the entire migration cycle
- Lead Administrator for Migration
- Project planning
- Exchange with SAP ECS
- Performance check and tuning (HANA Deep Dive)
- Sizing
- Scale-out to scale-up migration
- Implementation of migrations according to ECS conditions
- Conception of the new operating concept
- More than 60 SAP systems with a target volume of over 50 TB in ECS
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platform
Intel / Linux / DB2 / HANA
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Environment
Source: SLES15 / DB2 / HANA 2.0 SPS05
Target: SLES15 / HANA 2.0 SPS07 / SPS08
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Number of systems
>60 SIDs
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resources
50 TB RAM
>2500 vCPUs
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Result
high-performance migration
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Project Manager
Matthias Sander
Jens Gleichmann
Support for HANA and S/4HANA updates
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Industry
Mechanical and plant engineering
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>14,000 employees
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Period
since 2025/08
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SAP products used
S/4HANA 2023
- Health Check
- HyperCare
- Optimizing SQL Performance
- Partition layout
- Linux and HANA parameter recommendations
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platform
Intel x86
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Environment
Source: SLES15 / HANA 2.0 SPS05
Target: SLES15 / HANA 2.0 SPS07
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Number of systems
3 SIDs
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resources
4 TB RAM
>80 physical cores
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Result
Runtime optimization
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Project Manager
Dominik Fiedler
Matthias Sander
S/4HANA Conversion Optimization
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Industry
Insurance
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>2,000 employees
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Period
since 2024
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SAP products used
S/4HANA 2023
- Bottleneck analysis and HANA optimization
- Partition layout and data tiering design
- Data tiering design and troubleshooting
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platform
IBM Power
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Environment
Source: AIX / Oracle
Target: SLES15 / HANA 2.0 SPS07
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Number of systems
4 SIDs
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resources
16 TB RAM
>80 physical cores
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Result
Runtime optimization
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Project Manager
Dominik Fiedler
S/4HANA Conversion Optimization
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Industry
Retail
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>25,000 employees
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Period
since 2024
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SAP products used
S/4HANA 2023 / 2025
- Bottleneck analysis and HANA optimization
- Partition layout and data tiering design
- Data tiering design and troubleshooting
- HANA and Linux parameterization
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platform
GCP
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Environment
Source: Oracle on-premise
Target: SLES15 / HANA 2.0 SPS08
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Number of systems
8 SIDs
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resources
65 TB RAM
>3000 vCPUs
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Result
Runtime optimization
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Project Manager
Jens Gleichmann
Dominik Fiedler
Data Tiering Project
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Industry
Retail
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>390,000 employees
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Period
since 2024
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SAP products used
S/4HANA 2021
- System Health Check
- Design Partitioning
- Concept development including potential savings for data tiering
- Implementation commands and documentation
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platform
Intel
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Environment
RHEL8 / HANA 2.0 SPS07
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Number of systems
3 SIDs
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resources
8 TB RAM
>200 vCPUs
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Result
HANA Sizing Optimization
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Project Manager
Dominik Fiedler
HANA Expert Services MS Azure
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Industry
industrial manufacturing
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>12,000 employees
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Period
2026
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SAP products used
IS-U, CRM
- Mapping of the workload
- Performance improvement
- Reducing main memory consumption
- Partitioning in the migration process (Interval Option)
- Health Check
- Parameterization
- Introduction NSE
- Introduction Inverted Individual Indexes
- Cost savings in Azure through instance resizing
- Introduction to Workload Classes
- HSR optimization
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platform
MS Azure
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Environment
SLES15 SP5 / HANA 2.0 SPS07
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Number of systems
12 SIDs
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resources
37 TB RAM
>1400 vCPUs
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Result
Stable and high-performance operation
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Project Manager
Jens Gleichmann
Support for SAP HANA operations
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Industry
Insurance
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>10,000 employees
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Period
since 2021
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SAP products used
S/4HANA 2021
- Planning Update
- HANA configuration
- Implementation Update
- Monitoring / performance tuning (HANA Cockpit)
- Security settings
- Certificate Management
- architecture
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platform
RHEL 8.x / HANA 2.0 / SPS07
VMware
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Number of systems
>10 SIDs
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resources
>4 TB RAM
>200 vCPUs on VMware
SAP HANA Migration
Oracle => HANA
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Industry
Furniture manufacturer
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>4,000 employees
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Period
from 2025/10
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SAP products used
ERP, EWM, SCM
- Planning Migration
- Sizing
- Implementing migration
- HANA Installation / Configuration
- SAP AS installations
- Optimizing migration runtimes
- Performance Tuning
- Troubleshooting
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platform
x86
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operating system
RHEL 8
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Number of systems
>6 SIDs
>30 AS
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resources
>40 TB RAM
>400 vCPUs x86 Baremetal
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Project manager
Jens Gleichmann
SAP HANA NSE
Industry
Retail
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>170,000 employees
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Period
from 2021/04
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SAP products used
S/4 Retail, MDG, TM, CAR, F&R
- Analysis of NSE candidates
- Optimizing resource utilization
- KPI Definition
- NSE deployment at table level
- Partitioning
- Monitoring for NSE
- Performance tuning
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platform
MS Azure
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Environment
Source: SLES15 SP4 / HANA 2.0 SPS5/7
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Number of systems
18 SIDs
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resources
200 TB RAM
>12000 vCPUs
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Result
Savings of over 26TB of main memory
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Project Manager
Jens Gleichmann
SAP HANA NSE on BW/4HANA
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Industry
Retail
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>170,000 employees
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Period
from 2023/10
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SAP products used
BW/4HANA 2022, IQ
- Analysis of NSE candidates
- Optimizing resource utilization
- KPI Definition
- NSE deployment at table level
- Identification BW Troubleshooting Notes
- Use of Inverted Individual Indexes
- Optimization Concat Attributes
- Optimization of Key Attributes (Key Fields)
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platform
Bare Metal / VMware
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Environment
Source: SLES15 SP5 / HANA 2.0 SPS07
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Number of systems
4 SIDs
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resources
60 TB RAM
>1800 vCPUs
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Result
Savings of over 15TB of main memory
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Project Manager
Jens Gleichmann
HANA Performance Tuning
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Industry
Construction and industry
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Location
Denmark
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Number of employees
>1,000 employees
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Period
from 2021/12
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SAP products used
ERP
- Architektur
- Sizing
- Health Check
- HANA SQL Performance Tuning
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platform
IBM Power
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Environment
Source: SLES15 SP4 / HANA 2.0 SPS05
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Number of systems
3 SIDs
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resources
>6 TB RAM
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Project Manager
Matthias Sander
zyklische HANA Health Checks
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Industry
IS-U
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>11,000 employees
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Period
from 2024/12
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SAP products used
HANA 2.0 XSA native
- architecture
- Sizing
- VMware optimizations
- HA/DR concept
- Scalability
- HANA Partitioning
- Workshops for knowledge transfer of new HANA features
- HANA Performance Tuning
platform
VMware
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Environment
Source: SLES15 SP5 / HANA 2.0 SPS07
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Number of systems
3 SIDs
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resources
>4 TB RAM
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Project Manager
Jens Gleichmann
Dominik Fiedler
SAP S/4HANA Migration
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Industry
Conglomerate
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>80,000 employees
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Period
from 2024/11
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SAP products used
ERP
- architecture
- Sizing
- Identifying potential savings
- Migration optimization
- Scalability
- HANA Partitioning
- Workshops for knowledge transfer of new HANA features
- HANA SQL Performance Tuning
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platform
IBM Power
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Environment
Source: Oracle / AIX
Target: SLES15 SP6 / HANA 2.0 SPS07
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Number of systems
15 SIDs
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resources
>80 TB RAM
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Project Manager
Dominik Fiedler
Jens Gleichmann
Matthias Sander
SAP HANA Health Check
Workload Management
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Industry
Equipment and machinery for agriculture and forestry
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>19,000 employees
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Period
from 2024/06
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SAP products used
ERP, S/4HANA
- Optimizing resource utilization
- Partitioning
- KPI Definition
- SQL optimization
- HANA Monitoring
- Limitation via workload classes
- HANA Workshop
- NSE Forecast
- HSR: multi-tier replication
platform
IBM Power
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Environment
Source: SLES15 SP5 / HANA 2.0 SPS07
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Number of systems
>20 SIDs
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resources
>25TB RAM
>200 CPUs
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Result
Stabilization / Performance Improvement
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Project manager
Dominik Fiedler
Matthias Sander
SAP HANA Health Check
Workload Management
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Industry
Heating technology
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>15,000 employees
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Period
from 2023/12
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SAP products used
ERP, S/4HANA
- Optimizing resource utilization
- Housekeeping / Archiving
- Partitioning
- KPI Definition
- SQL optimization
- HANA Monitoring
platform
IBM Power
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Environment
Source: SLES15 SP4 / HANA 2.0 SPS07
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Number of systems
>20 SIDs
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resources
>32TB RAM
>1000 vCPUs
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Result
stabilization
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Project manager
Dominik Fiedler
Matthias Sander
SAP operation support
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Industry
Furniture manufacturer
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Location
Germany
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Number of employees
>4,000 employees
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Period
from 2022/06
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SAP products used
ERP, EWM, SCM
- SAP/OS Maintenance
- SAP Upgrades
- HANA Upgrades
- SAP installations
- Performance Tuning
- Troubleshooting
- Integration of new architectures
- Activating new HANA features
- continuous sizing / growth analyses
- Health checks
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platform
x86 VMware
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operating system
RHEL 8
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Number of systems
>30 SIDs
>40 HDBs
>60 AS
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resources
>25 TB RAM
>400 vCPUs on VMware
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Project manager
Michael Hermsen
Jens Gleichmann