From digital twins and real-time analytics to the Internet of Things and even blockchain, digital technology applications are now deeply embedded in the fabric of manufacturing innovation scenes. More and more enterprises are relying on automation to enable smart factories, efficiently drive big data analytics, reduce labor needs and costs, and improve platform operation efficiency. As Deloitte’s 2024 Manufacturing Outlook points out, technology will play a key role in helping businesses regain confidence and face challenges as digitalization permeates production, supply chain, after-sales and customer service.

Access production data in near real-time, traversing millions of data points in seconds to gain insight into key business links such as manufacturing and logistics, and expand your supply chain on demand…… If SAP in a sense has become the “weight and measure” of manufacturing digitization, then what core qualities should the IT basic platform behind its robust operation have?

For enterprise IT, the results and benefits of running SAP on different platforms can be very different.

Optimal solutions and balance techniques

From the industry’s premier SAP runtime environment to the broadest support for architecture, virtualization, container runtime, storage, and networking options for business-critical Linux, a Linux platform that ensures high availability, rapid deployment, and easy infrastructure management is the right answer for enterprises to optimize SAP deployments,SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP Applications.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is the leading Linux platform for SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA solutions, optimized specifically for SAP solutions. Whether on-premises or in the cloud, through SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP By deploying SAP solutions on Applications, enterprises can effectively reduce the risk of service outages, reduce system maintenance workload, and improve deployment operational efficiency, so that they can respond faster to market demands and realize innovative value.

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Enhance SAP service reliability. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications has built-in automatic system error detection and failover capabilities for recovery, both of which help significantly reduce downtime on critical SAP systems. The solution also provides improved comprehensive security features to effectively protect enterprise SAP systems from unauthorized access, and system monitoring helps IT administrators proactively identify and prevent potential issues from impacting business operations.

Deploy SAP services faster. SLES for SAP applications can help enterprise IT deploy SAP services more quickly, automate SAP deployment and migration across on-premises and cloud environments, streamline operations, and accelerate value. Drawing on extensive project implementation experience,SUSE also provides best practices to help IT speed up the server and cloud instance configuration process and minimize errors.

Reduce IT management complexity. With the automatic mechanism,SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications greatly simplifies system operation and maintenance management and effectively reduces labor costs. With guided configuration wizards for setting up and maintaining systems,IT teams can further reduce SAP-related workload, freeing them from heavy routine maintenance and focusing on business innovation tasks.

Barbier Group, a well-known player in the circular economy in Europe, is advancing its vision of Industry 4.0 with the new capabilities of SAP HANA. A combination of SAP HANA, IBM Power Systems and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications helps Barbier The Group efficiently realizes rapid response to production data queries, provides solid data insights for business line feedback and management decision-making, continuously promotes performance levels and improves operational efficiency.

Greenpanel has grown to become one of the largest wood panel manufacturers in India, eager to enhance the supply chain, reduce manufacturing costs and improve operational efficiency. At the same time,Greenpanel produces and transports goods around the clock and places a high value on business continuity, requiring exceptional high availability of the system platform. For this reason, a platform optimized for SAP ERP and SAP HANA database environments is available – meeting real-time insight needs while ensuring that critical business processes such as production and logistics run efficiently. Unlike other Enterprise Linux vendors,SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is particularly known for its ease of use, scalability, and economy.

Digital innovation: to have the source of living water

“When you turn on the tap, just hope the water will keep coming out. For IT infrastructure platforms, the story is much the same.” Behind the scenes of a wide variety of digital innovations,SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has become the ideal cornerstone for businesses to build data-driven businesses. At the same time, more and more enterprises favor open source options, choosing the open technology route, and the days of being locked into a single vendor’s proprietary software are “gone forever.” Based on the longer product life cycle of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, enterprises can significantly reduce the potential licensing costs of system upgrades and do not have to pay for additional features such as high availability. In virtualized environments, for example,SUSE’s unlimited virtual machine license for a single host means that enterprise IT can run any number of virtual machines on top of it, which is especially important for large SAP environments.

Tracing the history of SUSE’s partnership with SAP, you can travel back more than 20 years. In fact,SUSE was the industry’s first foundation software vendor to study SAP’s public cloud, and SLES was the first highly available solution to be officially certified by SAP. In recent years,SUSE and SAP have been deeply invested in cloud computing, working closely with AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, etc., to seamlessly transplant the powerful capabilities of SAP’s basic platform to the cloud, redefining the industry standard for cloud computing and platform as a service.