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Overview
Improve business efficiency
Running your SAP enterprise applications on optimized Lenovo infrastructure can help your organization align and integrate processes, automate tasks, and deliver exceptional customer experiences to increase the value of your business.
Transform and innovate
- Gain new insights from your data by instantly accessing, modeling, and analyzing all of your SAP transactional and analytical data in real time with Lenovo Solutions for SAP HANA®
- Enjoy an OpEx-based, cloud-like experience for your SAP environment with infrastructure on premises through Lenovo TruScale IaaS
Lenovo and SAP: Enabling the intelligent enterprise
Lenovo and SAP partnership
Stephen Dawson, SAP's Vice President of Cloud Architecture and Engineering, talks about the continuing partnership with Lenovo.
Collaboration with your needs in mind
Lenovo closely collaborates with SAP to develop innovative solutions for the digital economy. Our dedicated staff speaks the language of SAP customers and can translate business requirements into robust data center solutions.
Solution offerings
SAP business applications
MISSION CRITICAL
Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions for SAP Business Suite®, SAP S/4 HANA®, SAP Business One®, and all other SAP applications give you the performance, reliability and scalability needed to ensure your business runs smoothly.
SAP HANA
SIMPLE, SEAMLESS & SCALABLE
You need new ways to accelerate decision making and gain insights into key trends locked in your data. With our SAP HANA solutions, your organization will be able to optimize your SAP deployments in line with SAP's future technology direction.
Success stories
Learn how we’re helping our customers enable intelligent transformation with SAP solutions, services, and applications.
Case Study
Tabaterra enables ultra-reliable, efficient manufacturing operations
Cigarette manufacturer implements SAP HANA on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to drive mission-critical business applications.
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Servimed streamlines distribution with an as-a-Service solution
Pharmaceutical distributor runs SAP S/4HANA on Lenovo ThinkAgile VX with TruScale IaaS to power business growth.
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HUECK Group future-proofs IT to facilitate its digital transformation
Manufacturer utilizes Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 and DM5000F with MetroCluster for high availability.
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Krombacher keeps premium beer flowing to meet global demand
Brewery runs SAP S/4HANA workloads on Lenovo ThinkAgile VX to help optimize the supply chain.
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Sadina 99 accelerates international growth with data-driven business processes
Sunflower seed producer integrates digital workflows with SAP S/4HANA on Lenovo ThinkSystem to unlock operational efficiencies.
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Keeping Quito's citizens moving with public transportation
EPMMQ runs its mission-critical applications on Lenovo ThinkAgile HX to support non-stop operations.
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Jide increases sales with data-driven manufacturing
Manufacturer uses Lenovo ThinkAgile HX to boost throughput without compromising on quality.
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IRSAP keeps pace with the latest home decor trends
Designer radiator manufacturer runs its new SAP HANA environment on Lenovo ThinkAgile servers to accelerate production planning.
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Aquaservice quenches growing thirst for home water delivery
Mineral water provider refreshed its enterprise resource planning capabilities with SAP S/4HANA on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to meet growing demand.
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Strauss Romania brews up a recipe for business success
Coffee company chose a hyperconverged infrastructure from Lenovo to support its most critical SAP business applications, giving operational performance a caffeine boost.
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Lenovo delivers innovation with agility
Lenovo overhauled its IT infrastructure to better support its business-critical SAP applications with its own data center solutions.
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Callaway Golf's hyperconverged solution is well above par
Sports equipment and lifestyle company Callaway Golf used a new Lenovo Converged HX Series solution to keep their global operations swinging.
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SAP SE relies on Lenovo throughout its IT infrastructure
SAP itself uses Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to help deliver the next generation of cloud applications to customers worldwide.
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Case Study
Tabaterra enables ultra-reliable, efficient manufacturing operations
Cigarette manufacturer implements SAP HANA on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to drive mission-critical business applications.
Ensure your business runs smoothly with SAP Business Suite & S/4HANA
Lenovo solutions for your mission critical SAP Business Suite with any database and SAP S/4HANA applications with SAP HANA allow you to run core business processes efficiently and effectively.
SAP Business Suite and SAP S/4HANA
Highlights
- Exceptional scalability to provide the performance you need for memory- and CPU-intensive SAP applications
- Superior resilience keeps your servers up and running and your business thriving
- Choice of virtualization options helps enhance business agility and facilitate rapid growth without adding additional hardware
Resources
Solution Briefs:
- Lenovo ThinkSystem Solution for SAP Business Suite Applications
- Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series with SAP Business Applications
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Small business solutions with SAP Business One
Lenovo solutions for SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA enable smaller businesses and subsidiaries streamline end-to-end processes to accelerate profitable growth.
SAP Business One
Highlights
- An affordable SMB solution that provides visibility and insights to better manage the entire business - from accounting and financials, purchasing, inventory, sales and customer relationships to reporting and analytics
- Lenovo is the only vendor with a 1-socket solution (SR630 V2, SR650 V2 and ST650 V2 with one socket populated) certified and supported by SAP for SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA
- Lenovo Intel-based servers can be used with SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA; Lenovo Intel-based and AMD-based servers 1-socket or 2-socket servers can be used with SAP Business One with Microsoft SQL Server
- Multiple configurations available for faster time to market
Real time analytics with SAP NetWeaver® BWA
Lenovo solutions for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) provide a complete picture of your business from diverse data sources and enable near real-time analytics for those not ready to move to SAP HANA.
Take control of your data with SAP Data Intelligence
Lenovo solutions for SAP Data Intelligence allow you to get value out of ALL your organization’s data across the entire landscape.
SAP Data Intelligence
Highlights
- Enables unified analytics of multi-layer, multi-vendor, and multi-location environments
- Provides integration, pipelining, orchestration, and governance of data – including structured, unstructured and IoT data types
- Manages with seamless, unified, and enterprise-ready monitoring and landscape management capabilities
- Offers integration with Lenovo XClarity for enhanced data center analytics
SAP HANA solutions
SAP HANA with ThinkSystem servers
Drive your business forward with a server that matches your needs. Reduce costs and complexity by investing in a system that handles your organization's SAP HANA requirements today and expands to accommodate future growth.
SAP HANA with ThinkSystem servers
Highlights
- Drive enterprise-critical insights in real time with world record benchmark performance
- Optimize SAP HANA system performance with high scalability, reliability and availability
- Choose from a preconfigured appliance or custom Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) solution; scale-up or scale-out configurations
- Leverage high availability features in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Increase SAP HANA capacity and reduce business downtimes when paired with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
Additional Resources
Solution Briefs and Guides:
Article:
- The Perfect 4-Socket and 8-Socket Servers for SAP HANA
- SAP HANA and Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 – a perfect match
Videos:
- Lenovo and SAP partnership continues
- SAP HANA on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
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SAP HANA with ThinkAgile hyperconverged systems
ThinkAgile hyperconverged solutions help speed deployment, simplify management and deliver dramatic data-center efficiency for SAP HANA workloads in Nutanix-based or VMware-based clusters.
SAP HANA with ThinkAgile hyperconverged systems
Highlights
- Simple deployment with compute, storage and virtualization co-located on a single node
- More flexible and efficient utilization and management with pooled resources in a single virtualized infrastructure
- Rapid scalability to meet the growing needs of your business
- 2-socket to 8-socket VMware vSAN support with up to 24 TB single or multiple VM capacity
- ThinkAgile HX support for AHV (Nutanix) or ESXi (VMware) hypervisor
Products
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Lenovo Storage Solutions for SAP
Providing the seamless, scalable and dependable performance needed to extract strategic insights from rapidly expanding data volumes.
Lenovo Storage Solutions for SAP
Highlights
- Helps you make faster more informed decisions, even with escalating data loads
- NAS and SAN solutions to best fit your environment
- DM/DE Series offer superior reliability through their six 9's of availability and serviceability features.
- Entry through high end configurations and the ability to easily scale as the use of data grows
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SAP HANA and the Cloud
Bring the cloud to your data center with Lenovo TruScale infrastructure services. Enjoy an opex-based, pay-for-use cloud offering monitored and managed by Lenovo.
SAP HANA and the Cloud
Highlights
- Lenovo TruScale provides an OpEx-based, cloud-like experience with infrastructure on premises and is available for all SAP business application and SAP HANA implementations
- TruScale provides advisory and capacity planning, 24/7 infrastructure managed services with assigned Customer Service Manager, and single point of support
- Can be combined with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, customer data center option to provide a complete managed service through SAP
- TruScale hybrid cloud offerings with Deloitte and VMware can be used for SAP environments
Resource
Solution Briefs
- RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition, Customer Data Center Option with Lenovo TruScale
- Lenovo TruScale for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, customer data center option
- Lenovo TruScale Hybrid Cloud with VMware
- Lenovo TruScale Multi Cloud with Deloitte
Research Report
Services
Gain further insights
White Paper
Advanced data protection for SAP HANA
Learn how to implement data protection measures for production, disaster recovery, development and testing for an SAP landscape with Lenovo and Veeam.
White Paper
Evaluating the Economics of Running SAP HANA
This Prowess report highlights how the ThinkSystem SR860 V2 and SR650 V2 provide lower three-year total costs of ownership (TCO) than competing SAP HANA systems.
White Paper
Workload optimized solutions for SAP HANA
Understand the sizing and architecture requirements to achieve the highest ROI and lowest TCO for SAP HANA infrastructure with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers.
White Paper
Best practices for SAP HANA solutions with ThinkAgile VX
VMware-based ThinkAgile VX hyperconverged systems seamlessly pool compute and storage to deliver high performance virtual workloads without the need for a SAN or NAS.
White Paper
Best practices for SAP HANA solutions with ThinkAgile HX
Nutanix-based ThinkAgile HX hyperconverged systems seamlessly pool compute and storage to deliver high performance virtual workloads without the need for a SAN or NAS.
White Paper
Lower the overall cost of the SAP HANA platform
This Prowess report highlights how the ThinkSystem SR950 provides a better three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) than competing SAP HANA appliances for scale-out and scale-up configurations.
Performance benchmarks
From innovation to design to components, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers yield top-tier performance in SAP environments ‐ so your enterprise can do the same.
Benchmark
ThinkAgile HX7821: SAP BW edition for SAP HANA benchmark (24.7B records)
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX7821 (based on ThinkSystem SR950) server delivers world record performance for the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 3, with 24.7 billion initial records.
Benchmark
ThinkSystem SR860 V2: SAP BW edition for SAP HANA benchmark (7.8B records)
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V2 server delivers world record performance for the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 3, with 7.8 billion initial records.
Benchmark
ThinkSystem SR650 V2: SAP BW edition for SAP HANA benchmark (5.2B records)
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V2 server delivers world record performance for the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 3, with 5.2 billion initial records.
Benchmark
ThinkSystem SR950: SAP BW edition for SAP HANA benchmark (10.4B records)
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 4-socket server delivers world record performance for the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 3, with 10.4 billion initial records.
Benchmark
ThinkSystem SR650 V2: SAP BW edition for SAP HANA benchmark (1.3B records)
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 2-socket server delivers world record performance for the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 3, with 1.3 billion initial records.
Benchmark
ThinkSystem SR655: SAP SD two-tier benchmark result
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR655 1-socket server delivers world record performance for the SAP SD 2-tier standard application benchmark.
Benchmark
ThinkSystem SR860 V2: SAP SD two-tier benchmark result
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V2 4-socket server delivers world record performance for the SAP SD 2-tier standard application benchmark.
Benchmark
ThinkSystem SR860 V2: SAP BW edition for SAP HANA benchmark (5.2B records)
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V2 server delivers world record performance for the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 3, with 5.2 billion initial records.
Benchmark
ThinkSystem SR860 V2: SAP BW edition for SAP HANA benchmark (1.3B records)
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V2 4-socket server delivers world record performance for the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 3, with 1.3 billion initial records.
Certifications
SAP and Lenovo work jointly to ensure compatibility of Lenovo servers with SAP applications. Lenovo focuses on thorough technical quality assurance and a seamless customer experience with the infrastructure components for SAP application landscapes in the data center.
SAP Business Suite on Windows
Lenovo systems certified for use with the SAP Business Suite and SAP NetWeaver® technology family of software applications for use with the Microsoft® Windows Server® operating system.
SAP Business Suite and SAP HANA on Linux
Lenovo systems certified for use with the SAP Business Suite (SAP NetWeaver) family of applications and SAP HANA with the Linux operating system.
SAP HANA
Lenovo systems on the certified and supported SAP HANA hardware directory. SAP has broken down the systems into categories for better presentation. There is no difference in the quality of the certifications across categories.
Thought leadership
Hear from Lenovo subject matter experts on topics of interest through SAP programs.
Article
Customer support: humans vs. the machines
When customers need help, which model works best - Artificial Intelligence or humans? Join experts from Lenovo, Google Cloud and SAP in this panel discussion.
Video
Transparent supply chain
Learn how the pandemic has presented new security challenges, and how transparent supply chain tools can help provide additional security so companies can operate at scale.
Podcast
Digitizing your supply chain
Dr. Ajay Dholakia joined the Digital Supply Chain Podcast with host Tom Raftery to discuss Lenovo's supply chain and how digitization has helped them.
Services
TruScale Infrastructure Services
Lenovo TruScale is an as-a-service, cloud-like experience with on-prem security and control. It scales very easily, to give you all the power and strategic advantage of the latest data center hardware through a pay-as-you-go business model.
Professional Services
We’ll design the best way to get you from where you are to where you want to be by manging end-to-end architecture, hardware installation, data migration, and system deployment, accelerating your time to productivity and maximizing your ROI.
Support Services
Enjoy one-call support with Premier Support warranty upgrades and extensions. For more complex issues, a Technical Account Manager with in-depth expertise, serves as a single point of accountability for all your infrastructure services.
Managed Services
Lenovo Managed Services helps businesses like yours, to gain better performance, limited downtime and peace of mind. With a tailored service, you control and predict your costs and improve system availability and capacity, while reducing your operating expenses.