Eliminate Barriers Between Real-time Events and Business Decisions

IBM Systems and Technology
Solution Brief
Eliminate Barriers
Between Real-time Events
and Business Decisions
IBM System x Servers with SAP HANA, Edge
Edition Enable Operational Analytics
Highlights
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SAP HANA™, Edge Edition running
on IBM System x3690 X5, x3650 M4,
x3550 M4 and x3500 M4 servers enables
faster access to SAP data with near real-
time visibility into business operations
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IBM® System x® servers powered by
the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family
speed in-memory processing, enabling
the analysis of massive amounts of data
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Invest in a future-proof platform that will
grow along with your business
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Free up your IT department’s resources to
deliver on strategic initiatives
In today’s data-driven culture, tools for business analysis are quickly
evolving. Mid-sized organizations need new ways to leverage critical
data on the fly to not only accelerate decision making, but also to gain
insights into key trends. The ability to instantly explore, augment and
analyze all data in near-real time could deliver the competitive edge
your organization needs to make better decisions faster—as well as
take advantage of favorable market conditions, customer trends, price
fluctuations and other factors that directly influence the bottom line.
SAP HANA, Edge Edition delivered on IBM System x3690 X5,
x3650 M4, x3550 M4 and x3500 M4 servers, helps transform the
enterprise by addressing current needs while delivering the robust
scalability and performance needed to accommodate growth. SAP
HANA, Edge Edition running on powerful IBM System x servers
with Intel Xeon processor E5 family combines the speed and efficiency
of in-memory processing with the ability to analyze massive amounts
of business data—enabling mid-sized companies to eliminate barriers
between real-time events and real-time business decisions.

Solution Brief
2
Today, more than ever, information is key critical to business
success. Having the right data at the right time can drive key
decisions which can have immediate and lasting business
impact. Access to real-time analytics is critical to small and
midsize enterprises, where speed and agility are advantages.
Data warehousing projects can be large and complex. Instead,
smaller enterprises now have a way to accelerate their access
to real-time analytics while keeping the cost of building and
supporting an analytics infrastructure as low as possible.
SAP HANA, Edge edition, is a real-time in-memory analytics
platform for small businesses and midsize companies looking to
accelerate access to the wealth of insight that lies in their opera-
tional and strategic information. With a simplified IT landscape
for fast time to value, the platform offers the powerful benefits
of in-memory processing, such as greatly increased processing
speed, improved text and data mining and flexible modeling
abilities. SAP HANA, Edge edition, can be combined with SAP.
BusinessObjects BI, Edge edition, or SAP Rapid Deployment
solutions, to help create optimized operational reporting
and dashboards along with data discovery and visualization
functionality—enabling unprecedented levels of insight into
your growing business.
SAP HANA, Edge edition, can provide instant insight into your
operations by supporting rapid creation of ad hoc views across
the business, so you can analyze all available data regardless of
source and respond nimbly to changing business conditions,
no matter how sudden. Business users can make better decisions
faster with immediate access to relevant information using
analytic models that they design and own—freeing them from
reliance on the IT team and freeing IT for initiatives that add
value to your company.
Delivering real-time access to operational
insight
SAP HANA, Edge edition, offers direct access to operational
data without disrupting the performance of your operational
systems. It serves as the analytic foundation for capturing and
processing your business transactions in real time with near-
zero latency. Organizations can synchronize key transactional
tables in memory in near real time, making these tables readily
accessible for analysis with best-of-breed SAP BusinessObjects
BI solutions. BI tools powered by SAP HANA, Edge edition,
let users get to the level of detail they need to make smarter
business decisions. Empowering business users to monitor
operations anywhere they are helps your company stay agile
and widens your competitive edge.

Solution Brief
3
SAP HANA, Edge edition, provides a flexible, cost-effective,
real-time approach for managing data, allowing organizations
to dramatically reduce the hardware and maintenance costs typ-
ically associated with running separate operational and analytics
systems. It works within your IT environment with your choice
of data types and sources. You can start today with SAP HANA,
Edge edition, and achieve a faster time to value than you could
hope to have if you spent resources to develop a data warehouse
that might not ultimately fit your organization’s needs.
With a simplified analytic landscape having fewer layers,
SAP HANA, Edge edition, forms the technology foundation
for new, innovative analytic applications based on in-memory
technology—such as planning, forecasting, operational perfor-
mance, and simulation solutions—enabling business users to
make informed decisions. Your company can focus on innova-
tion with a clearer, faster understanding of what is working and
what your market wants.
Delivered on IBM System x servers that provide the ultimate
balance of uptime, performance, density and cost efficiency,
SAP HANA, Edge Edition efficiently processes and analyzes
massive amounts of data by packaging SAP’s use of in-memory
technology, columnar database design, data compression and
massive parallel processing together with essential tools and
functionality such as data replication and analytic modeling.
Innovative Servers to Meet Your Growing
Business Needs
Depending on your datacenter needs, you have the flexibility to
choose either the 2U rack optimized System x3650 M4 or
x3690 X5, 1U System x3550 M4 or the more scalable System
x3500 M4 tower server. The IBM System x3690 X5 is part of
the enterprise offering for SAP HANA and offers SAP HANA,
Edge Edition customers the ability to upgrade to 256 GB of
memory and support multi-node scale-out configurations with
high availability should they require HANA enterprise
capability.
The IBM System x3650 M4 blends outstanding uptime, perfor-
mance and I/O flexibility for cost efficiency and rock-solid
reliability making it an excellent platform for your SAP
Business All-in-One applications including SAP HANA, Edge
Edition. This powerful server offers an energy-smart, afford-
able, and easy-to-use rack solution with a pay-as-you-grow
design to help lower costs and manage risks. With more com-
puting power per watt and the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 series
processors, advanced memory support, and greater disk capacity
for businesses requiring extreme storage, the x3650 M4 offers
balanced performance and density for your SAP HANA,
Edition applications. Redundant hot-swap fans, disks and power
supplies, provide the x3650 M4 with a resilient architecture
ideal for business-critical applications. Predictive Failure
Analysis and light path diagnostics provide advanced warning
on power supplies, fans, VRMs, disks, processors and memory.
Redundant hot-swap components make it easy to replace
failures without taking your system down.
IBM System x3550 M4

Solution Brief
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The IBM System x3550 M4 is rack optimized server designed
for clients’ business challenges and offers the ultimate balance
of uptime, performance, density and cost efficiency for SAP
HANA, Edge Edition workloads in a 1U rack package. It
includes significantly more memory capacity than previous
models and new on demand features to help keep costs low.
Equipped with up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors,
the System x3550 M4 offers up to twice the performance as
previous generation servers.
With redundant and hot-swap fans, disks and power supplies,
the x3550 M4 provides a resilient architecture ideal for
business-critical applications such as SAP HANA, Edge
Edition. Predictive failure analysis and light path diagnostics
provide advanced warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs,
disks, processors and memory. Redundant, hot-swap compo-
nents make it easy to replace failures without taking your
system down.
Robust features accommodate growth
A high-performance dual-socket tower server, the
IBM System x3500 M4 can deliver the scalability, reliable
performance and optimized efficiency for SAP HANA, Edge
Edition. Start with the basics and upgrade as your business
changes without jeopardizing existing investments.
The IBM System x3500 M4 is a tower server with an optional
rack conversion kit. It is designed for clients that need a larger
capacity system for more disk capacity or IO slots. It also
includes more memory capacity and new value on demand
features to allow clients to add new features or keep their costs
low. Equipped with up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 series
processors, the System x3500 M4 offers up to twice the
performance of previous generation servers.
The x3500 M4 supports the latest Intel micro-architecture,
delivering intelligent performance enhancements that adapt to
your workload environment. The x3500 M4 provides triple the
storage capacity of the x3500 M3 without the cost of external
devices. A flexible design and consolidated server help optimize
intensive workloads and provide greater utilization, making the
x3500 M4 a great choice for small and medium businesses.
Simple to manage, easy to use
The Integrated Management Module 2 (IMM2) and Unified
Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS give the System
x3650 M4, x3550 M4 and x3500 M4 servers a consistent
system level code stack for superior setup, configuration, and
ease of use. Optional remote control features provide the ability
to manage, monitor and troubleshoot from anywhere. Powerful
and easy-to-use tools can help you manage both physical and
virtual resources.
IBM System x3500 M4

Solution Brief
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Tower Rack
Server System x3500 M4 System x3550 M4 System x3650 M4 System x3690 X5
7147-HAx
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Processor 2 x E5-2670
2.6 GHz/1600 MHz/20 MB
2 x E5-2670
2.6 GHz/1600 MHz/20 MB
2 x E5-2670
2.6GHz/1600MHz/20 MB
2 x E7-2870 10C 2.40GHz
Memory 128 GB 128 GB 128 GB 128 GB
SSD 8 x 128 GB SATA 2.5in MLC
HS Enterprise Value SSD
8 x 128 GB SATA 2.5in MLC
8 x 128 GB SATA 2.5in MLC
10x 200 GB eXFlash
RAID ServeRAID M5100 Series
SSD Performance Key
ServeRAID M5100 Series
SSD Performance Key
ServeRAID M5100 Series
SSD Performance Key
ServeRAID M5015 SAS/
SATA Controller
DVD UltraSlim Enhanced
SATA DVD-ROM
UltraSlim Enhanced
SATA DVD-ROM
UltraSlim Enhanced
SATA DVD-ROM
IBM UltraSlim Enhanced
SATA Multi-Burner
Operating
System
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
for SAP Applications
for SAP*, IBM GPFS† and
SAP HANA
Options Rack mount kit
With a unique combination of expertise, experience and proven
methodologies—and a history of shared innovation—IBM can
help strengthen and optimize your information infrastructure
to support your SAP applications.
IBM and SAP have worked together for 40 years to deliver
innovation to their shared customers. Since 2006, IBM has been
the market leader for implementing SAP’s original in-memory
appliance, the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
(BWA). Hundreds of BWA deployments have been successfully
completed in multiple industries. These BWA appliances have
been successfully deployed on many of SAP’s largest business
warehouse implementations.
IBM and SAP offer solutions that help move business forward
and anticipate organizational change by strengthening your
business analytics information infrastructure for greater opera-
tional efficiency and offering a way to make smarter decisions
faster.
Summary
SAP HANA, Edge edition running on IBM System x servers
provides a real-time, in-memory analytics platform that
empowers small and midsize enterprises to accelerate access
to their operational and strategic information. It offers a simpli-
fied, easy to manage IT landscape that provides access to
real-time analytics is critical to small and midsize enterprises,
where speed and agility are advantages.
Why IBM?
IBM System x stands out from the competition by offering
a full suite of innovative networking and storage options so
clients can take advantage of new technologies without disrupt-
ing their IT infrastructure, the financing to allow your clients
the room to maneuver, the services to deploy and run your
IT infrastructure, and software to power your clients’ business.
Finally, we utilize a business model that emphasizes our
dedicated sales force as well as local partners who have the
skills and expertise to implement and service your client’s IT.

For more information
To learn more about the IBM Systems solution for SAP
HANA – SAP HANA, Edge Edition please contact your
IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the
following website: www.ibm-sap.com/hana
Additionally, IBM Global Financing can help you acquire the
IT solutions that your business needs in the most cost-effective
and strategic way possible. We’ll partner with credit-qualified
clients to customize an IT financing solution to suit your busi-
ness goals, enable effective cash management, and improve your
total cost of ownership. IBM Global Financing is your smartest
choice to fund critical IT investments and propel your business
forward. For more information, visit: ibm.com/financing
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SAP HANA, Edge Edition is not an IBM product or offering. SAP HANA,
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Please Recycle
* These IBM models include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
Applications with 3 year SUSE priority support.
† IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) on x86 Single Server for
Integrated Offerings with a 3-year software subscription and support.
‡ The 7147-HAx is a preconfigured System x workload optimized
server model that includes SUSE Linux with 3 year 24x7 support
and IBM GPFS single Server for x86 software licenses x represents
a placeholder for the region specific designation. Please refer to
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/solutions/sap/hana/browse.html
for more information about this model.
These IBM computer systems are preinstalled with a copy of the
SAP High In-Memory Appliance (SAP HANA) software which
includes SYBASE REPLICATION SERVER 15, SAP HOST
AGENT 7.2, APACHE TOMCAT 5.5, PERL 5.8, SAP In-Memory
Database which has been integrated or pre-installed as part of the
IBM hardware system. You are not licensed to use the copy of SAP
software contained in the IBM hardware system until you have
purchased or licensed the use of the SAP software from SAP or its
authorized distributors. Usage of the SAP software is subject to the
applicable SAP end-user license agreement. Your purchase of the
IBM hardware system does not include a license to use the SAP
software to be preinstalled, or to any other SAP software. SAP is
under no obligation to license the preloaded SAP software to you.
Please contact your responsible SAP representative to obtain the
appropriate license rights to use the SAP software.
General information about the SAP HANA can be found on
SDN: www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/in-memory
The installation is described in the SAP OSS Note 1523337:
https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=
01100107900000000342&_EVENT=DISPL_TXT&_NNUM=1523337&
XSS03112-USEN-00

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