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Chapter 1. Overview of <strong>IBM</strong> System z and<br />
SAP<br />
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In business today, meet the requirement of around-the-clock availability has become more<br />
important. SAP customers keep their systems running 24x7, 365 days a year to ensure<br />
business continuity, to avoid business interruptions, and to reduce revenue loss. To accomplish<br />
this goal, enterprises need efficient and robust business backbones. In addition, the IT<br />
infrastructure must be flexible and agile enough to support customers in their rapidly changing<br />
environments. One of the biggest challenges is to continuously manage and analyze vast<br />
amounts of data and to cope with the increasing complexity of a suitable IT infrastructure.<br />
The <strong>IBM</strong> System z portfolio provides a premier infrastructure to fulfill these requirements for<br />
SAP customers. It adds significant value to business processes, enables better utilization of IT<br />
assets, improves the return on investment, and interoperates seamlessly with SAP solutions.<br />
The <strong>IBM</strong> System z mainframe platform provides an infrastructure with strong integration of<br />
hardware, a comprehensive database, operating system, and business applications. The<br />
tightly integrated solutions and zero downtime capabilities make DB2 on System z the ideal<br />
platform for SAP applications. These capabilities are important especially because large<br />
enterprises are using SAP business software in almost all functional areas.<br />
System z with its robust, highly available hardware and advanced virtualization concepts<br />
provides, for example, several mechanisms for system management. Its ability to upgrade<br />
software and hardware components with all systems up and running is unique.<br />
This chapter provides a brief overview of the SAP NetWeaver products and hardware. It also<br />
highlights the software implementations when DB2 10 for z/OS is used as the database<br />
server. This chapter includes the following sections:<br />
► <strong>IBM</strong> DB2 on System z and SAP<br />
► SAP solution portfolio<br />
► Business value of the zEnterprise System<br />
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