SAP and Information Management Software

IBM and SAP® have been partners in delivering solutions to the market for over 30 years. As trusted, long standing partners IBM and SAP have worked together to develop integrated, proven, top-to-bottom, end-to-end joint solutions that help customers navigate the path to realize immediate business value and sustainable business growth. Nowhere else will a customer be able to find the breadth of solutions, intellectual capital, and industry expertise than with IBM and SAP.

The strength of the partnership is evidenced by the fact that IBM itself is a SAP customer with nearly 30,000 users, and SAP is an IBM customer. SAP application developers have gained years of experience with IBM DB2®, as more than 400 internal SAP systems currently run on DB2. Our DB2 teams at the IBM-SAP Competency Centers have logged thousands of hours in complimentary services, providing benchmarks, white papers, customer briefings, technical assistance and product integration and testing with SAP's development teams to ensure that every DB2 implementation is a success.

Further building on our success, SAP announced in 1999 plans to extend their relationship with IBM by adopting DB2 as the strategic platform for SAP internal development and production systems. Since that announcement, SAP and IBM have leveraged their joint strengths to provide compelling solutions to over 10,000 customers worldwide, growing our partnership to be one of the strongest in the industry.

DB2 offers:

• the most universally scalable database for SAP.
• significant savings over Oracle and an overall lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
• the leading benchmark performance for SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW).
• the only parallel database for SAP BW.
• the only database with optimization and automation features (55KB) specifically for the SAP environment.
• outstanding benchmark performance in almost every category.
• uncompromised reliability for the most demanding workloads with the IBM DB2 z/OS database platform (33KB).
• the broadest platform support — AIX, OS/400, z/OS, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, SUN, HP-UX and Linux.
• unparalleled support — 24x7 availability for worldwide operations.

Additional IBM Information Management software for SAP solutions:

• DB2 CommonStore for SAP: IBM’s certified archiving solution for SAP R/3.

IBM Global Business Services consultants specialize in every phase of SAP implementation. We can also offer the ultimate SAP endorsement: "IBM rebuilt its own business corporate-wide with SAP R/3."

For technical pre-sales assistance, contact the IBM SAP International Competence Center.

• Learn more about the IBM-SAP alliance.