IBM® Power® has a variety of options to meet clients where they are on their journey to SAP S/4HANA. Whether you are considering SAP HANA or the next-generation S/4HANA, IBM Power offers on-premises, off-premises or fully-managed (RISE with SAP) solutions, built to run mission-critical applications like SAP, help accelerate your ERP and application deployments, and help maximize the impact they can have on your data management, data integration, automation and business processes.
The key to IT efficiency and business continuity is a platform that integrates with your current infrastructure while simultaneously supporting digital transformation. IBM Power servers are purpose built for data-intensive applications such as SAP HANA and S/4HANA that require large amounts of in-memory computing but still let you maintain the high availability and flexibility required for your hybrid cloud.
Dynamically accommodate changes to your SAP HANA platform resources, depending on your changing business needs.
Optimize processor utilization and data processing with shared-pool support for your production SAP HANA database.
Reduce planned downtime with Virtual Persistent Memory, which gets your infrastructure up and running faster.
IBM Power supports your goal of becoming an intelligent enterprise by integrating mission-critical data sources that run on IBM Power to downstream AI platforms, such as a data fabric or lakehouse. This allows for inferencing and machine learning or fine-tuning training on IBM Power with an in-core AI acceleration, large memory capacity (beyond limited GPU memory) and optimized AI libraries.
Protect critical data and applications from cyberthreats with end-to-end security, including new and transparent in-memory encryption with no performance impact.
PowerVM® provides a secure and scalable server virtualization environment for your applications, built upon the advanced RAS features and leading performance of the IBM Power systems platform.
“As a result of the transformation to SAP S/4HANA, we have reduced our 75 TB ERP 6.0 AnyDB database to approximately 5.5 TB. SAP S/4HANA on IBM Power delivers sustainability, performance and capacity for Pfizer."
Learn how Bosch delivers performance gains of up to 75% while cutting energy consumption by 20% using IBM Power10 servers.
Ecogas deploys SAP HANA 2.0 in a hybrid environment based on IBM Power10 servers, extending high-quality digital services to over one million people “Moving to SAP HANA 2.0 on IBM Power10 played a key role in allowing Ecogas to maintain high service levels throughout the pandemic. In fact, around 80% of our customers now use digital channels as their primary touchpoint—all enabled by our IBM and SAP solutions.” Pablo Contreras Infrastructure and Telecommunications Leader, Ecogas
Using the latest Power10 processors and IBM Power Private Cloud with Shared Utility Capacity, OEDIV achieved up to 25% cost savings for SAP HANA on IBM Power. With IBM PowerVC and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, they can provision systems more efficiently and 20%–30% faster.
By using IBM Power servers for their new SAP Basis infrastructure in the SUBERB program, FOITT was able to achieve a very high degree of automation, which minimizes manual work and increases the efficiency of our IT processes
Winterhalter consolidated their server landscape from seven to four servers, increased performance and capacity, and yet cut energy consumption by almost 50%. In addition, they calculated more than 80% savings on energy over five years when compared with Intel-based alternatives.
Pablo Contreras
Infrastructure and Telecommunications Leader
Ecogas