OVERVIEW

To enable digital transformation, you need to modernize your business with new platforms, applications and capabilities, such as cloud, analytics and internet of things (IoT). Hitachi Solution for the SAP HANA Platform is pivotal to this transformation in SAP landscapes. You also need a trusted partner with the experience and vision to build next-generation SAP infrastructure to deliver better business insights.

Gain Business Insight for Competitive Advantage

Harness the Power of Your Data and Optimize Your SAP Environment

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Optimize Your SAP HANA Landscapes With Hitachi Solution for the SAP HANA Platform

Hitachi is an experienced SAP partner with over 20 years of SAP engineering expertise, and SAP-certified infrastructure and software.

Building blocks of compute, storage, and networking deliver dependable SAP HANA performance while remaining resilient to the demands of your business.

With three global SAP Centers of Excellence worldwide in Waldorf, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; and Santa Clara, California; customers can be confident that Hitachi Vantara is well poised to provide them with the expertise they are looking for in a successful SAP HANA deployment.

Driving business innovation, achieving faster time to market, improving the customer experience, leveraging analytics for insights, and exploring IoT value are all key priorities for business leaders today. These challenges and goals require formulating strategies that digitally transform the business and leverage IT resources to monetize data and guarantee application availability.

Hitachi Vantara provides infrastructure platforms, software, and integrated management to help you meet these challenges and goals. We modernize your SAP landscapes with performance and agility to attain insights from corporate, mobile, social, cloud and IoT data to drive business innovation.

Deeper Business Insights Pave the Way for Business Innovation

We are very impressed by just how much Hitachi invests in optimizing its technology for SAP HANA. As an SAP services provider, it was absolutely critical for us to select an infrastructure partner with these kinds of credentials, and Hitachi certainly ticked all the boxes.

Morten KlankDirector of IT Infrastructure itelligence group – Global SAP and Consulting Services

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Purpose-Built Technology for SAP HANAHitachi Solution for the SAP HANA Platform is built on decades of experience producing real-time data processing performance for SAP solutions. The systems combine enterprise-class reliability with 24/7 monitoring to deliver the highest business value.

Certified, factory tested, integrated and ready-to-deploy solutions developed specifically for SAP HANA platform simplify deployment, help ensure predictable high-performance results, and keep data-intensive applications running.

Scalable Architecture for Growth and InnovationHitachi Unified Compute Platform converged infrastructure scales up and out to meet demanding SAP workloads. Tested and certified for SAP HANA platform via both its Appliance and Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) programs, Hitachi systems ensure seamless integration and deployment.

Fuel innovation and gain business insights from a scalable architecture that expands compute and storage resources to support data growth and real-time analysis.

All-Inclusive SAP Managed Cloud ServicesoXya, a Hitachi Group company and a specialized leader in SAP hosting and managed services, deploys more than 700 architects and technical SAP experts worldwide to support customers’ on-premises and off-premises private clouds.

With oXya running SAP HANA platform as a service, you can move from a capital to operational expenditure (capex to opex) model, and devote more time to your business.

SAP Consulting and Functional Design ServicesProfessional services and consulting from Hitachi employ a structured approach to SAP HANA and S/4 HANA business suite migration, based on preconfigured scenarios and best practices, from new implementations and system conversion to SAP S/4HANA landscape transformation.

Hitachi Consulting helps you create road maps and define the right detailed plan, and supports you through the entire process, to accelerate your time to value.

Data Protection for SAP HANA DeploymentsHitachi Data Instance Director (HDID) protects the SAP HANA database and configuration files in the event a recovery is needed. HDID’s true value is in automating and orchestrating application-consistent storage-based snapshots and clones, ensuring seamless recovery.

A nondisruptive, automated data protection solution, HDID enables organizations to meet strict recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTOs and RPOs).

Simplify Your Path to Business InnovationHitachi Vantara offers purpose-built technology for the SAP HANA platform to provide real-time data processing intelligence with a single source of trusted support. A global partner ecosystem of data experts combined with Hitachi cloud hosting services provides the optimal solution for the SAP HANA landscape.

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Tap Into Data Intelligence To Drive Digital TransformationTo succeed, you need to maximize the value of your investment and take the next step toward a data-driven enterprise. It’s important to choose a trusted advisor for your SAP HANA environment with the expertise to transform your data into business value to drive digital transformation.

Scalability, Reliability and Performance Deploying the SAP HANA platform requires rapid scalability and proven performance to accommodate real-time business decisions, while ensuring the highest levels of reliability and availability for business-critical, data-intensive SAP applications.

Flexibility Converged platforms with a wide range of configurations and scalability are required to accommodate diverse and dynamic SAP workloads.

Expert SAP and Data Guidance and SupportSuccess in your industry requires you to optimize SAP investments today, while identifying and capitalizing on emerging trends. Full-service partners, with deep expertise in data and a proven SAP track record can help accelerate time to value.

Specialized Solutions and Industry Expertise Partners with unique solutions expertise for SAP applications across industries and technologies are needed to solve specific problems and apply technology to enable business transformation.

Proven SAP Partner SAP HANA platform promises great value. A proven SAP partner like Hitachi, with more than 20 years of SAP expertise, helps maximize outcomes to develop a strategy for the future and help you execute with less effort and risk.

“Hitachi’s extensive testing for SAP HANA ensures that customer satisfaction is optimized at initial deployment as well as on an ongoing basis. Furthermore, Hitachi delivers customers with a factory-built and integrated SAP HANA appliance directly from their datacenter as opposed to SAP HANA appliances that may come from multiple vendors or multiple sources that required onsite assembly.”Carla Dubois, Carl W. Olofson, IDC: IDC Whitepaper

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Transform Your Business Into a Data-Driven EnterpriseHitachi Vantara’s approach to enabling digital transformation begins with your data. It ends with your business, customers and partners having the tools they need to extract and maximize value and power from your data.

Key Data Points

●● Optimize your SAP environment to manage the risk and cost of your SAP HANA environment.

●● Partner with a trusted SAP advisor, supported by a global team of SAP experts that can help design, deploy, manage and modernize your SAP environment.

●● Harness the power of your data to make smart and real-time business decisions.

●● Pave the way for innovation of your business with Hitachi Vantara’s enterprise architecture and managed services for SAP environments.

For over 20 years, Hitachi and SAP have partnered to help enterprises find innovative ways to achieve business goals. Hitachi leverages this strategic alliance along with a global partner ecosystem to modernize your SAP landscapes to realize dramatic business outcomes.

Find out more about how you can modernize your IT infrastructure, gain advanced analytics and unlock the full potential of IoT with Hitachi Solution for SAP HANA.

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