Become an intelligent, sustainable enterprise with HPE and SAP

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by Sunil Patel

Sunil is the current head of the Global SAP Alliance and Ecosystem sales. Sunil is responsible for the SAP focused ecosystem leadership, go to market (GTM) strategy, accelerated execution and associated co-innovation. Sunil has 12 years of experience at SAP in various senior leadership roles across sales, delivery and transformation. In addition Sunil has multiple years of experience across Private Equity, McKinsey & Co, IBM, Dell, and Oracle bringing a wealth of experience and skills to the team.

Longstanding and outstanding
With a commitment to co-innovation, the longstanding—and outstanding—Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and SAP partnership helps organizations advance their journey to the intelligent, sustainable enterprise.

A golden anniversary
Before we dive into the topic, though, we’d like to recognize and congratulate SAP on its 50th anniversary. Founded in 1972 by five people it is now a global powerhouse of more than 100,000 employees supporting more than 460,000 customers across 140 countries.

HPE and SAP—a multifaceted relationship
HPE began its relationship with SAP in 1994 and is a strategic SAP Customer, SAP Global Technology Partner, and SAP Data Center Supplier. Some 30 years on, HPE is the #1 systems provider for SAP HANA delivering the highest scale and performance to meet the needs of the most demanding SAP environments and solutions.

Together, HPE and SAP help 25,000 joint customers worldwide leverage an extensive portfolio of assets with right-fit infrastructure, software, and services to create an integrated, clean core in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Partner—and customer
The scope and scale of the HPE SAP partner relationship is mirrored in the relationship of HPE as an SAP customer. With 60,000 employees worldwide and $27.8 billion in revenue (HPE FY2021), HPE is implementing business transformation with SAP HANA on a global scale with one of largest SAP footprints in the world.

Resilient, profitable, and sustainable
Now back to the main topic—the intelligent, sustainable enterprise. What does that mean? SAP defines it as an enterprise “that consistently applies advanced technologies and best practices within agile, integrated business processes.” The HPE and SAP partnership is uniquely positioned to help make that a reality, enabling customers to:

• Use powerful technologies to collect insights about customer, partner, and employee sentiment to sense opportunities, risks, and trends.
• Infuse AI and Machine Learning into your business processes.
• Employ tools to understand what is happening across your business and why.
• Build flexible value chains and apply leading-edge industry practices to understand and manage your environmental impact.
• Implement vertical-industry-specific processes in the cloud to run your value chain end to end.

Choices to fit for your business needs 
The HPE GreenLake platform supports two different deployment options enabling complete, purpose-built, and pre-configured solutions based on SAP HANA.

1. HPE GreenLake for SAP: a scalable pay-per-use offering from HPE and partners featuring SAP-certified hardware, operating system, and services, managed for you, providing cloud agility while keeping your SAP landscape on-premises.
2. Rise with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, customer data center: a separate offer managed by SAP, which offers monthly subscription-based pricing from SAP with HPE GreenLake for infrastructure support and administration.

HPE GreenLake for SAP
With the HPE GreenLake platform, SAP customer outcomes benefit from the agility and flexibility of the cloud within the security, data sovereignty, compliance, visibility, and cost controls of an on-premises SAP deployment. By bringing the cloud experience to your SAP applications and data at the edge, in the core, on-premises, and within the cloud, HPE GreenLake for SAP can reduce or eliminate information silos and increase enterprise-wide collaboration. Figure 1 shows how it works.

Figure 1 HPE GreenLake for SAP bring your own license offering

RISE with SAP
RISE with SAP delivers outcome-based services to drive business innovation with a package of solutions centered around SAP S/4HANA as shown in figure 2. For companies with specific data sovereignty and regulatory requirements, SAP offers the option to run RISE with SAP in their own data center with the RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, customer data center (PE CDC) option.

With this option, HPE will supply, install, and manage the required infrastructure for the customer’s landscape in a secured environment. HPE’s infrastructure technology has been proven in verifiable SAP benchmarks to scale to substantial demands from SAP customers.

Figure 2 SAP RISE PE CDC turnkey managed license offering

This subscription-based cloud environment meets data security and privacy regulations by staying on premises or in a colocation. Computing and concierge managed services are delivered by SAP and infrastructure support and deployment options reside with the HPE GreenLake platform.

Delivering optimal experiences
HPE provides the infrastructure support for the SAP foundation that enables companies to break down departmental silos and adopt dynamic, cross-functional business processes with the cloud that comes to them.

Simplify and consolidate your IT landscapes and applications. Reimagine your transformation initiatives. Effectively reinvent your business model to drive new revenue and profits. Attain a level of agility to change at the speed today’s world demands. Become an intelligent, sustainable enterprise with HPE and SAP.

Please join HPE in Orlando, FL, May 10–12, 2022
SAP Sapphire & ASUG Accelerate is coming up fast and more than attending as a customer, HPE is also participating as an SAP partner. It is a tremendous opportunity for us to gain invaluable insights from our customers and partners as we continue to transform business with SAP solutions. We hope to see you there.