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SAP on Alibaba Cloud

Bring the reliability, security, and smart solutions of Alibaba Cloud to your SAP workloads.

Overview

Alibaba Cloud is a trusted partner of SAP, offering the reliability and security that your business requires. The mature service infrastructure and platforms of Alibaba Cloud, when combined with the world-leading applications and Database Management System (DBMS) services of SAP, can help to simplify your overall IT infrastructure and accelerate the digital transformation of your enterprise.

Our latest collaboration extends to SAP Business One. We launched SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud (B1AC) to offer an affordable solution for easy business operations to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

How It Works

Your Challenge

SMEs often struggle with managing complex processes, achieving real-time visibility, streamlining operations, integrating business functions, and quickly deploying scalable ERP solutions to support growth.

Our Solution

  • Alibaba Cloud provides SAP Business One, an affordable ERP solution for small businesses to manage accounting, financials, purchasing, inventory, sales, customer relationships, reporting, and analytics.

  • Features

    Flexibility in Deployment with OEM and BYOL Models: You can use the OEM model (SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud - B1AC) as a ready-to-use solution or choose Bring Your Own License (BYOL) to continue with your existing licenses.

    Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Compared with the traditional on-premises SAP B1 solutions, the combination of the SAP B1 subscription license and Alibaba Cloud IaaS offers SMEs higher flexibility and lower costs.

SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud - B1AC

A ready-to-run option to deliver SAP Business One in one stop on Alibaba Cloud

BYOL With Web Client

A browser-based alternative to run SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud with your own license

BYOL Without Web Client

A classic login platform known as the “thick” client to run SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud with your own license

Your Challenge

As business operations grow in complexity, a company may struggle to accurately predict business workloads.

Our Solution

  • This is a standard solution to deploy your SAP S/4HANA system. With this solution, your company can deploy your S4/HANA system on cloud for lower cost of ownership.

  • Features

    Deploy your S/4HANA system with the minimum cost.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud

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Your Challenge

Customers may be worried about the software failure for a standard deployment. Therefore, a high availability deployment is required with an online secondary as a standby.

Our Solution

  • This is a typical solution to deploy your SAP S/4HANA system. Choose the primary/secondary nodes for your S/4HANA system on different Alibaba Cloud ECS instances in an availability zone.

  • Features

    Deploy primary/secondary nodes for NetWeaver applications with multiple ECS instances in your target zone.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud.

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Your Challenge

Even with the HA inner zone solution, some customers are still worried about the complete site failure, so a HA cross zone feature is required.

Our Solution

  • This is a typical solution to deploy your SAP S/4HANA system. Choose the zones in which you want to deploy the primary/secondary nodes of your S/4HANA system within your target region.

  • Features

    Deploy primary/secondary nodes for NetWeaver applications in two zones.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud

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Your Challenge

For business sensitive systems, especially SAP systems, a complete site failure tolerance is required to keep business downtime as few as possible. Without the disaster recovery plan, your business may be blocked when a complete availability zone failure happens.

Our Solution

  • Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive portfolio of disaster recovery plans to ensure the online availability of your SAP S/4HANA systems, with different plans to suit your specific business requirements.

  • Features

    Deploy primary/secondary nodes for NetWeaver applications with multiple ECS virtual machines in a single zone, and deploy disaster and recovery nodes for HANA databases across multiple zones.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software.

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud.

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Solution Highlights

Flexible Billing Models

With Alibaba Cloud, you have the choice to choose a flexible billing model that best suits your specific requirements. You can purchase resources on a subscription basis for a lower rate, or opt for pay-as-you-go billing for greater flexibility. With our pay-as-you-go billing model, there are no upfront processing fees.

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Ensured Availability

Given the high reliability and availability models of Alibaba Cloud, which have been laid out in several different service layers and across all of our service regions, you can be assured that your SAP applications, wherever they may be deployed, will run smoothly and be secure on Alibaba Cloud.

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SAP-Specific Solutions

Alibaba Cloud has developed several exclusive SAP-related solutions. In particular, Alibaba offers such solutions as SAP systems monitoring with DataV and HANA cloud backup to Alibaba Cloud OSS using backint, and solutions that allow for better integration between SAP applications and your services running on Alibaba Cloud.

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Contact sales to learn more about Alibaba Cloud ecosystem for SAP applications

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SAP Certifications

Alibaba Cloud has SAP certifications for ECS instances, databases, SAP Netweaver based applications, and more applications as below.

ECS GenerationInstance TypeDRAM (GB)vCPU CountsvCPU: MEMOLTP WorkloadOLAP Workload
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.r6.8xlarge256321:8SupportedNot Supported
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.r6.13xlarge384521:7SupportedSupported
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.r6.26xlarge7681041:7SupportedSupported
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.re6.8xlarge512321:16SupportedSupported
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.re6.13xlarge768521:15SupportedSupported
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.re6.16xlarge1024641:16SupportedSupported
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.re6.26xlarge15361041:15SupportedSupported
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.re6.32xlarge20481281:16SupportedSupported
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.re6.52xlarge30722081:15SupportedSupported
v6 Cascade Lakeecs.ebmre6-6t.52xlarge61442081:30SupportedSupported
v5 Skylakeecs.r5.8xlarge256321:8SupportedSupported
v5 Skylakeecs.r5.16xlarge512641:8SupportedSupported
v4 Broadwellecs.se1.14xlarge480561:8SupportedSupported, with Scale-Out
v4 Broadwellecs.re4.20xlarge960801:12SupportedSupported, with Scale-Out
v4 Broadwellecs.re4.40xlarge19201601:12SupportedSupported, with Scale-Out
v4 Broadwellecs.re4e.40xlarge38401601:24SupportedNot Supported
ECS GenerationInstance Type FamilyvCPU CountDRAM (GB)vCPU:MEMLargest Instance Certified
v7 Ice Lakeg72 - 648 - 2561:4ecs.g7.16xlarge
v7 Ice Laker72 - 12816 - 10241:8ecs.r7.32xlarge
v6 Cascade Lakec6e2 - 324 - 641:2ecs.c6e.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Lakeg6e2 - 328 - 1281:4ecs.g6e.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Laker6e2 - 3216 - 2561:8ecs.r6e.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Lakec62 - 324 - 641:2ecs.c6.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Lakeg62 - 328 - 1281:4ecs.g6.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Laker62 - 3216 - 2561:8ecs.r6.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Lakere616 - 208256 - 30721:15 / 1:16ecs.re6.52xlarge
v5 Skylakeg52 - 328 - 1281:4ecs.g5.8xlarge
v5 Skylaker52 - 3216 - 2561:8ecs.r5.8xlarge
v4 Broadwellsn2ne2 - 568 - 2241:4ecs.sn2ne.14xlarge
ECS GenerationInstance TypeDRAM (GB)vCPU CountsvCPU:MEMBusiness One for HANA Workload
v5 Skylakeecs.c5.8xlarge64321:2Supported
v5 Skylakeecs.g5.8xlarge128321:4Supported
v5 Skylakeecs.r5.8xlarge256321:8Supported
V4 Broadwellecs.se1.14xlarge480561:9Supported
Certified databasesDefinitionFeatures
SAP HANASAP HANA is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP.Its primary function as database server is to store and retrieve data as requested by the applications. In addition, SAP HANA performs high-performance analysis and real-time data processing to address customers’ rapidly growing requirements on business analysis.
SAP MaxDBSAP MaxDB is the database management system developed and supported by SAP SE.SAP MaxDB is available on Microsoft Windows, Linux and UNIX and for the most prominent hardware platforms as well as Public Cloud.
Microsoft SQL ServerSQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed and marketed by Microsoft.Microsoft SQL server on Alibaba cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) just like when you installed on-premises, you are responsible for installation, administering the database, including backups and recovery, patching the operating system and the database.
SAP ASESAP ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise), originally known as Sybase SQL Server, and also commonly known as Sybase DB or Sybase ASE, is a relational model database server which modernize and accelerate your transaction-based applications on premise and in the cloud.This high-performance SQL database server uses a relational management model to meet rising demand for performance, reliability, and efficiency in every industry.
IBM Db2IBM Db2 is a family of data management products that helps you more effectively manage structured and unstructured data in on-premises and cloud environments.SAP NetWeaver based applications with IBM Db2 have been certified on Alibaba Cloud as standalone and HA without cluster manager scenario.
Certified applicationsDefinitionFeatures
SAP S/4HANASAP S/4HANA is an ERP business suite based on the SAP HANA in-memory database that allows companies to perform transactions and analyze business data in real-time.SAP released S/4HANA in February 2015 to much fanfare, and the company now views it as one of its flagship products that customers will migrate to as the next-generation successor to the SAP Business Suite ERP platform.
SAP Business SuiteSAP Business Suite is a bundle of business applications that provide integration of information and processes, collaboration, industry-specific functionality and scalability. SAP Business Suite is based on SAP's technology platform called NetWeaverSAP Business Suite has five constituents: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).
SAP Business WarehouseSAP Business Warehouse (BW) integrates data from different sources, transforms and consolidates the data, does data cleansing, and storing of data as well.SAP Business Intelligence (BI) means analyzing and reporting of data from different heterogeneous data sources. It allows you to acquire data from multiple data sources, data staging, which can be further distributed to different BI systems.
SAP Business OneSAP Business One is business management software designed for small and medium-sized enterprises. It was designed with the idea that smaller companies need ERP software to help manage their business, but not the kind of ERP that large and complex organizations need.It has functional modules for finance, customer relationship management (CRM), warehousing and production management, purchasing and procurement, and reporting and analytics.
SAP BW/4HANABW/4HANA is an evolution of BW that is completely optimized and tailored to SAP HANA.The BW/4HANA code can only run on SAP HANA as it is interwoven with SAP HANA engines and libraries.
Certified applicationsDefinitionFeatures
SAP Content ServerThe SAP Content Server is a stand-alone component in which a large quantity of electronic documents of any format and with any content can be stored.The SAP applications concerned must support the use of the SAP Content Server. The documents can be saved either in one or more MaxDB instances or in the file system.
SAP LivecacheSAP LiveCache is a database which resides in memory that is used to speed up material planning scenarios in SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM).With SAP LiveCache you can complete resource-intensive material planning activities, such as demand planning (DP) as a forecast up to on demand available to promise (ATP) scenarios.
SAP Data HubSAP Data Hub is a data sharing, pipelining, and orchestration solution that helps companies accelerate and expand the flow of data across their modern, diverse data landscapes.SAP Data Hub provides visibility and access to a broad range of data systems and assets; allows the easy and fast creation of powerful, organization-spanning data pipelines; and optimizes data pipeline execution speed with a “push-down” distributed processing approach at each step.
SAP BusinessObjectsSAP BusinessObjects (BO or BOBJ) is an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI).Its components provide performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, as well as enterprise information management. BusinessObjects also offers consulting and education services to help customers deploy its business intelligence projects.
Operating SystemWhat Does It Support?Required Versions
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxIt supports SAP NetWeaver-based applications and SAP HANA. The image of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with High Availability and Update Service is available on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with High Availability and Update Service 7.7 or later versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with High Availability and Update Service 8.1 or later versions
SUSE Linux EnterpriseIt supports SAP NetWeaver-based applications and SAP HANA. The image of SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications is available on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for SAP Applications SP2 or later versions
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 for SAP Applications SP1 or later versions
Microsoft Windows ServerIt supports SAP NetWeaver-based applications. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, or 2019

Security and Compliance

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  • ISO 27001
  • SOC2 Type II Report
  • C5
  • MLPS 2.0
  • MTCS

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Customer Success Stories

See how companies large and small are leveraging Alibaba Cloud to grow and improve their business with SAP applications.

With Alibaba Cloud, Adira has successfully implemented the core SAP S4/HANA development, test, and production systems, and has quickly deployed SAP PO and SAP Fiori systems in the cloud. The deployment of SAP systems has helped to decrease overall IT costs and operation resource spending, allowing Adira to focus more on its core business.

Through the certificated ECS instances, block storage, and best practice guide provided by Alibaba Cloud, BSS was able to migrate their SAP systems to the cloud in a seamless manner. Via the VPN services Alibaba Cloud offers, the SAP systems could be accessed from BSS's local offices quickly and securely. Overall, migration to the cloud has helped BSS to jump start digital transformation while also achieving a lower TCO.

PT Bina Sarana Sukses (BSS), based in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a company engaged in the business of mining services and heavy equipment rental. Till now PT Bina Sarana Sukses has more than 6,000 registrars and 4,000 applications on its way to world-class mining contractor on the basis of high performance, synergy, kinship, professionalism, and resilience.

Related Resources

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SAP S/4HANA High Availability Deployment in a Single Zone

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