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Strategic Services
We provide the following high value-added services to technical design and deploy Intelligent Enterprises:
SAP Technical Architecture Design
Technical Architecture Design of the intelligent Suite, which is a collection of the different SAP solutions in an integrated way:
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP BW/4HANA
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- SAP Ariba
- SAP SuccessFactors
- SAP Concur
... And more
Cloud Infrastructure (SAP on AWS)
Technical Design and Deployment of secure, high-available and scalable SAP landscapes on AWS, whether you are looking to re-platform to reduce costs or migrate to SAP S/4HANA.
SAP Security Design and Implementation
Implementation of different technologies to cover all the different security scenarios commonly found in the hybrid (on-premise + cloud) SAP landscapes of customers nowadays:
- NetWeaver AS Components and Communication Security
- Authentication and Single Sign-On
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- RFC Security
- Integration B2B
- Infrastructure
SAP Technical (Basis) Review Report
SAP Technical Review assess the healthiness of the customer’s SAP systems according to SAP best practices but looks beyond the common metrics covered by automatic reports like SAP Early Watch Alert (EWA).
Some of Our Projects
Role: SAP Technical Architect (SAP on AWS)
Utilization of the SAP Cloud Identity Services to integrate with Azure AD (Delegated Authentication) using SAML protocol, so that users can access SAP Technology Platform subaccounts and SAP Cloud Applications by using single sign-on.
With this in place, the complexity to configure single sign-on to new SAP BTP subaccounts and SAP Cloud Applications is drastically reduced as well, by just “trusting” the Cloud Identity Services as application Identity Provider to new scenarios.
Kerberos was used for SAP GUI SSO for project users that require SAP GUI using Microsoft Active Directory on-premise as the user store.
Finally, the SAML protocol was used for HTTP SSO scenarios (Fiori, WebDynpro, WebGUI). Azure AD (using AD Connect Sync) as the user store.
Role: SAP Technical Architect / AWS Security Engineer
Redesign of rules to accommodate new hosts and applications exposed externally (to the internet).
Activities: Technical Design and Documentation / New ACL rules implementation / Regular Expression (Regex) modifications / SAP Webdispatcher rules adjustments / Alignment and coaching of 2nd Level Support team
Role: SAP Technical Architect (SAP on AWS)
Technical guidance as a trusted advisor regarding SAP on AWS topics within a major digital transformation project, acting as a primary point of contact for technical topics, ensuring the SAP workloads remained operationally healthy whilst reducing cost.
Some of the Activities:
Centralized SAP Logon
Summary: Allows central management of SAP Logon Landscape XML
Activities: Technical Architecture Design / Update scripts creation / Ongoing updates and operation
SAP PO Implementation
Summary: SAP PO 3-tier landscape deployment
Activities: Technical guidance / Focal Point and facilitator between the customer and SAP partner
GRC and BW/4HANA Single Sign-on
Summary: SNC and SAML Single Sign-on configuration on GRC and BW/4HANA environment.
Activities: Requirement Document Creation / Pre-Sales Support / Technical Guidance
xECM Deployment
Summary: Installation of OpenText xECM Solution
Activities: Technical Architecture Design / Requirement Document Creation / Technical Support
SAP HCM (ECC) Migration
Summary: Deployment of AWS infrastructure & SAP HANA installation
Activities: Technical Architecture Design / Requirement Document Creation / Technical Guidance
AWS TAG Normalization
Summary: Normalization of AWS TAGs according to customer’s definition
Activities: Mass updates CLI scripts creation / Technical Guidance and Revision
Role: SAP Senior Technology (Basis) Consultant
A specific HANA table had a total memory consumption of 273 GB.
A quick win for HANA memory usage optimization is to activate NSE (Native Storage Extension) for the table to keep less frequently accessed data in disk, instead of keeping all data in memory.
It can result in potential cost savings, freeing up most of the 273GB of RAM memory currently used by the table, allowing possible downsizing of the HANA instances not only for production but for quality and development systems (if using the cloud).
Result: 99,52 % Memory consumption reduction of the referred table.
Role: Technical Architect / AWS Cloud Engineer
One important aspect of their foundation is organizing their AWS environment following a multi-account strategy.
Using multiple AWS accounts to help isolate and manage your business applications and data can help you optimize across most of the AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars, including operational excellence, security, reliability, and cost optimization.
Role: SAP Technical Architect (SAP on AWS)
Architecture design of an SAP Information Management landscape (SDI/SDA) comprised of development, quality and production environments (using high availability)
Provisioning of SAP HANA databases with SDI/SDA (HANA_IM_DP) components + data provisioning agent servers on Linux.
Role: SAP on AWS Technical Architect
Technical design of a print server solution using SAP PAL (Printing Assistant for Landscapes) from Solution Manager to centralize printers’ configuration and 2 Linux servers with CUPS services running under an AWS NLB (Network Load Balancer) to guarantee high-availability.
Role: SAP Technical Architect and SAP on AWS Consultant
Technical design and implementation of SAP BW on HANA on cloud (AWS), including Windows/Linux servers provisioning and FTP service configuration for data integration.
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