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Learnings From a Recent Large Cloud Migration Project
Introduction Over the last one year Microsoft has been working with Accenture to move a large global multi-national company from an end of life AIX pSeries/DB2 platform to a pay per use consumption...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 improvements for SAP (BW)
SAP recently released support for SQL Server 2016 for some SAP NetWeaver based systems, see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saponsqlserver/2016/10/04/software-logistics-on-sql-server-2016. SQL Server...
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Simplified and faster SAP BW Process Chains
Based on customer feedback over the course of the last 12 months we implemented several improvements in SAP BW. The code changes improve SAP platform migrations of very large SAP BW instances from...
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Moving from SAP 2-Tier to 3-Tier configuration and performance seems worse
Lately we were involved in a case where a customer moved a SAP ERP system from a 2-Tier configuration to a 3-Tier configuration in virtualized environments. This was done because the customer...
View ArticleSAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v6.1 November 2016
The FAQ document attached to this blog is the cumulative knowledge gained from hundreds of customers that have moved off UNIX/Oracle and DB2 to Windows and SQL Server in recent years. In this document...
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Improved SAP compression tool MSSCOMPRESS
SAP program MSSCOMPRESS is a tool for reducing disk space usage of SAP NetWeaver based systems. In addition, it is often used as a monitoring tool. MSSCOMPRESS has been released by SAP over 6 years...
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Top 14 Updates and New Technologies for Deploying SAP on Azure
Below is a list of updates, recommendations and new technologies for customers moving SAP applications onto Azure. At the end of the blog is a checklist we recommend all customers follow with planning...
View ArticleSAP Now Supports Azure Resource Manager (ARM) for Windows and Linux
On 13/12 SAP updated SAP Note 1928533 (login required) to include support for SAP systems on Windows on virtual machines that are created using the Azure Resource Manager. The documentation on...
View ArticleRecent SAP BW improvements for SQL Server
Over the course of the last few months we implemented several improvements in SAP BW. We already blogged about two improvements separately:...
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BW Queries by factors faster using FEMS-pushdown
Complex SAP BW queries often contain FEMS-filters. These filters used to be applied on the SAP application server, which was not very efficient. A new SQL statement generator in SAP BW implements an...
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Windows 2016 is now Generally Available for SAP
Windows 2016 has been released by Microsoft and is now Generally Available for any SAP NetWeaver 7.0 or higher components. Release information can be found in SAP Note 2384179 – SAP Systems on Windows...
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SAP Business Objects support of SQL Server 2016 and Azure products
These days, we get a lot of questions around SAP Business Objects components supporting SQL Server 2016. As of February 2017, the support situation looks like: SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1: As...
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Large Australian Energy Company Modernizes SAP Applications & Moves to Azure...
This blog is a technical overview of a project recently completed by a large Australian Energy Company (the Company) over the past 12 months to transform the Company’s SAP Solution from an End of Life...
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SAP on SQL: General Update for Customers & Partners March 2017
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the SAP on SQL Server platform. The key objective of the SAP on Windows SQL port is to deliver the best performance and...
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More Questions From Customers About SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption –...
Recently many customers have been moving from AIX and HPUX to Windows 2016 & SQL Server 2016 running on Azure as these UNIX platforms are no longer mainstream, developed or invested by their...
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Using Columnstore on ERP tables
SQL Server columnstore indexes are optimized for aggregations of large amounts of data. Therefore, they are successfully used in SAP’s data warehouse system SAP BW since years. ERP systems typically...
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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) acceleration for SQL 2016 in Windows Azure
Today we want to show you the speed improvements we get by supporting the Intel AES-NI instruction set for transparent data encryption (TDE) on Windows Azure. This instruction set reduces the CPU...
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SAP on Azure: General Update for Customers & Partners April 2017
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure cloud platform. The objective of the Azure cloud platform is to provide the same performance, product...
View ArticleSAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v6.2 April 2017
The FAQ document attached to this blog is the cumulative knowledge gained from hundreds of customers that have moved off UNIX/Oracle and DB2 to Windows and SQL Server in recent years. In this document...
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Performance evolution of SAP BW on SQL Server
In SAP customer support, we still see several customers running old SAP BW code that cannot leverage the improvements we delivered within the last years. In this blog, we want to demonstrate the huge...
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