Running SAP Applications on the Microsoft Platform
This blog provides information about running SAP Applications on the Microsoft Platform. The blog is written by people who are working with SAP on the Microsoft Platform for decades.
New BLOG location
After many years being hosted on blogs.msdn.com, we moved our blog to the Techcommunity site of...
Date: 05/20/2019
SAP on Azure High Availability Systems with Heterogenous Windows and Linux Clustering and SAP HANA
SAP HANA is the well-known technology from SAP, powering different SAP applications like SAP S/4...
Date: 03/12/2019
S/4H Installation in Azure - SETUP AND CONFIG IN ONE DAY
Overview You want to perform a setup of SAP S/4 HANA in Azure. And you do want to do it quick so...
Date: 02/12/2019
SAPS ratings on Azure VMs – where to look and where you can get confused
Moving SAP software to Azure, you need to decide which Azure VM types you want to use. One of the...
Date: 11/04/2018
Moving SAP on SQL Server and Windows into Azure – what SQL Server and Windows release should I use
As Azure became a very popular secure and scalable platform to deploy mission critical workload like...
Date: 11/02/2018
Orica’s S/4HANA Foundational Architecture Design on Azure
This blog is a customer success story detailing how Cognizant and Orica have successfully deployed...
Date: 08/23/2018
SAP Support for SQL Server 2017
We are happy to share that SAP released support for SQL Server 2017 for some SAP NetWeaver based...
Date: 06/28/2018
SAP on SQL Server on Azure – How to Bypass Proxy Server During Backup to URL
This short blog discusses how to avoid overloading an on-premises or Azure Proxy server with Backup...
Date: 06/25/2018
Installation and Setup of Oracle 12.2 ASM on Oracle Linux on Azure – Installation Videos & Backup Strategies
This short blog contains videos showing the end to end installation process to setup Oracle 12.2 ASM...
Date: 06/24/2018
Installation Procedure for Sybase 16. 3 Patch Level 3 Always-on + DR on Suse 12. 3 – Recent Customer Proof of Concept
In recent months we saw several customers with large investments into Hana technologies approach...
Date: 06/18/2018
SAP on Azure: General Update – June 2018
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure platform....
Date: 06/18/2018
Flat Cube became default in SAP BW
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Date: 04/26/2018
Columnstore became default in SAP BW
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Date: 04/26/2018
Very Large Database Migration to Azure – Recommendations & Guidance to Partners
SAP systems moved onto Azure cloud now commonly include large multinational "single global instance"...
Date: 04/10/2018
Setting Up Hana System Replication on Azure Hana Large Instances
This blog details a recent customer deployment by Cognizant SAP Cloud team on HANA Large Instances....
Date: 02/10/2018
SAP on Azure: General Update – January 2018
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure cloud...
Date: 01/04/2018
Improve SAP BW Performance by Applying the Flat Cube
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Date: 01/03/2018
Customer Experience with Columnstore on ERP
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Date: 12/18/2017
SAP NetWeaver Installation on HANA database
This blog describes the SAP NetWeaver installation steps on the SAP HANA database - a step by step...
Date: 11/21/2017
File Server with SOFS and S2D as an Alternative to Cluster Shared Disk for Clustering of an SAP (A)SCS Instance in Azure is Generally Available
We are excited to announce general availability of clustering of an SAP (A)SCS instance on Windows...
Date: 11/14/2017
Distributed Availability Groups extended
SQL Server 2016 supports distributed availability groups (AG) as additional HA feature of the...
Date: 10/12/2017
Few interesting findings on HANA with MDC
Few interesting findings on HANA with MDC I was working on HANA with MDC and had few very...
Date: 09/21/2017
New SQL Server 2016 functionality helps SAP supportability
Due to the combined effort of the SAP - Microsoft Porting group the SQL Server Development team...
Date: 08/18/2017
High Available ASCS for Windows on File Share – Shared Disk No Longer Required
SAP Highly Available ASCS Now Supports File Share UNC Source SAP has released documentation and a...
Date: 08/10/2017
Migrating to SAP HANA on Azure
The S/4HANA platform on the SAP HANA DBMS provides many functional improvements over SAP Business...
Date: 07/01/2017
Customer experience with SAP BW FEMS-Pushdown
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Date: 06/30/2017
End to End Setup for SAP HANA Large Instances
So, you are ready for "SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances" deployment, Great! And, you want to know...
Date: 06/01/2017
Parallel Processing in SAP
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Date: 05/18/2017
Performance evolution of SAP BW on SQL Server
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Date: 05/08/2017
SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v6.2 April 2017
The FAQ document attached to this blog is the cumulative knowledge gained from hundreds of customers...
Date: 05/08/2017
SAP on Azure: General Update for Customers & Partners April 2017
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure cloud...
Date: 05/04/2017
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) acceleration for SQL 2016 in Windows Azure
Today we want to show you the speed improvements we get by supporting the Intel AES-NI instruction...
Date: 04/21/2017
Using Columnstore on ERP tables
SQL Server columnstore indexes are optimized for aggregations of large amounts of data. Therefore,...
Date: 04/13/2017
More Questions From Customers About SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption – TDE + Azure Key Vault
Recently many customers have been moving from AIX and HPUX to Windows 2016 & SQL Server 2016...
Date: 04/04/2017
Large Australian Energy Company Modernizes SAP Applications & Moves to Azure Public Cloud
This blog is a technical overview of a project recently completed by a large Australian Energy...
Date: 03/27/2017
SAP Business Objects support of SQL Server 2016 and Azure products
These days, we get a lot of questions around SAP Business Objects components supporting SQL Server...
Date: 03/09/2017
Windows 2016 is now Generally Available for SAP
Windows 2016 has been released by Microsoft and is now Generally Available for any SAP NetWeaver 7.0...
Date: 03/07/2017
BW Queries by factors faster using FEMS-pushdown
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Date: 03/06/2017
Recent SAP BW improvements for SQL Server
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Date: 01/05/2017
SAP Now Supports Azure Resource Manager (ARM) for Windows and Linux
On 13/12 SAP updated SAP Note 1928533 (login required) to include support for SAP systems on Windows...
Date: 12/16/2016
How to install or upgrade SAP Systems to SQL Server 2016 updated
On 4/10/2016, SAP released support for SQL Server 2016 for some SAP NetWeaver based systems. In this...
Date: 12/09/2016
Top 14 Updates and New Technologies for Deploying SAP on Azure
Below is a list of updates, recommendations and new technologies for customers moving SAP...
Date: 12/04/2016
Improved SAP compression tool MSSCOMPRESS
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Date: 11/25/2016
SAP OS/DB Migration to SQL Server–FAQ v6.1 November 2016
The FAQ document attached to this blog is the cumulative knowledge gained from hundreds of customers...
Date: 11/24/2016
Moving from SAP 2-Tier to 3-Tier configuration and performance seems worse
Lately we were involved in a case where a customer moved a SAP ERP system from a 2-Tier...
Date: 11/21/2016
Simplified and faster SAP BW Process Chains
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Date: 11/14/2016
SQL Server 2016 improvements for SAP (BW)
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Date: 11/11/2016