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1.2.3 SAP Industry Solutions
SAP Industry Solutions contain specific business functions for selected industries. The SAP
Business Suite provides more than 25 of such industry-specific SAP solutions.
For the Banking and Insurance sectors, SAP provides reference architectures for SAP on IBM
System z:
► SAP for Banking on System z reference architecture
► SAP for Insurance on IBM System z reference architecture
For more information, see the following SAP reference architecture documents:
► SAP for Banking on System z reference architecture
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/db2?rid=/library/uuid/a00e4718-314f-2b10-19a6-a7
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► SAP for Insurance on IBM System z reference architecture
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/db2?rid=/library/uuid/806914a9-16df-2b10-96a0-ee
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1.3 Business value of the zEnterprise System
The zEnterprise System provides business value in the following areas:
► Availability
The zEnterprise System supports hardware, firmware, operating system, and database
maintenance without business interruption and consequently helps to avoid outages
(planned or unplanned). This system is strong with respect to continuous availability
(unmatched “five nines” (99.999 percent)) and disaster recovery.
► Efficiency
Through consolidation, the zEnterprise System has been reduced in terms of complexity.
Improved efficiency is gained with the help of automation, virtualization, and central
management of z/OS, z/VM, Linux, and IBM AIX®. To improve performance while avoiding
network overhead, private networks have been introduced.
► Scalability
The zEnterprise System extends the scalability of the SAP NetWeaver AS. The ability to
attach up to 112 blades with over 800 cores, which can be used as needed, makes the
zEnterprise System more flexible compared to its predecessors. With the near-linear
vertical and horizontal scaling across multiple systems, the zEnterprise System is
unmatched in terms of scalability.
► Integration
Through the extension of IBM Power® and IBM System x® blades and enhanced by
special optimizers, the zEnterprise System improves operational integration. The
integration of SAP application and data can be managed much easier.
► Security
The zEnterprise System provides built-in hardware encryption. Through tight integration of
the blades, protection of business critical data has been improved. The private SAP server
network is yet another security improvement.
6 Running SAP Solutions with IBM DB2 10 for z/OS on the IBM zEnterprise System