New BLOG location
After many years being hosted on blogs.msdn.com, we moved our blog to the Techcommunity site of Microsoft. The link to our new blog site, which also contains the old articles is...
View ArticleSAP on Azure High Availability Systems with Heterogenous Windows and Linux...
SAP HANA is the well-known technology from SAP, powering different SAP applications like SAP S/4 HANA, SAP BW for HANA, SAP Business Suite on HANA, etc. High availability (HA) is a current commodity...
View ArticleS/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 that you can experience the overall process and get ready for your landscape deployment. If so, this...
View ArticleSAPS 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 major criteria for selecting a certain VM is the throughput requirement of the SAP workload. SAP...
View ArticleMoving SAP on SQL Server and Windows into Azure – what SQL Server and Windows...
As Azure became a very popular secure and scalable platform to deploy mission critical workload like SAP application on it, Microsoft itself tries to lower the bar to move your application to Azure...
View ArticleOrica’s S/4HANA Foundational Architecture Design on Azure
This blog is a customer success story detailing how Cognizant and Orica have successfully deployed and gone live with a global S/4HANA transformation project on Azure. This blog contains many details...
View ArticleSAP Support for SQL Server 2017
We are happy to share that SAP released support for SQL Server 2017 for some SAP NetWeaver based systems. In this blog we will talk about how you can update your existing installations on SQL Server to...
View ArticleSAP 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 to URL. Creating a typical .Net configuration file to disable a proxy server will allow...
View ArticleInstallation and Setup of Oracle 12.2 ASM on Oracle Linux on Azure –...
This short blog contains videos showing the end to end installation process to setup Oracle 12.2 ASM on Azure. The videos and documentation in this blog are being used to get formal certification for...
View ArticleInstallation Procedure for Sybase 16. 3 Patch Level 3 Always-on + DR on Suse...
In recent months we saw several customers with large investments into Hana technologies approach Microsoft for information about deploying large mission critical SAP applications on Azure with the...
View ArticleSAP on Azure: General Update – June 2018
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure platform. The key objective of the Azure cloud platform is to deliver the best performance and availability at...
View ArticleFlat Cube became default in SAP BW
Overview The following features have been optionally available in SAP BW on Microsoft SQL Server for several years: SQL Server Columnstore for BW cubes (as of SAP BW 7.0) See also...
View ArticleColumnstore became default in SAP BW
Overview The following features have been optionally available in SAP BW on Microsoft SQL Server for several years: SQL Server Columnstore for BW cubes (as of SAP BW 7.0) Columnstore Optimized Flat...
View ArticleVery Large Database Migration to Azure – Recommendations & Guidance to Partners
SAP systems moved onto Azure cloud now commonly include large multinational “single global instance” systems and are many times larger than the first customer systems deployed when the Azure platform...
View ArticleSetting 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. From an architecture perspective of HANA Large Instances, the usage of HANA System Replication as...
View ArticleSAP on SQL Server: General Update – January 2018
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the SAP on SQL Server platform. The key objective of the SAP on Windows SQL port is to deliver the best performance and...
View ArticleSAP on Azure: General Update – January 2018
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure cloud platform. This blog includes updates, fixes, enhancements and best practice recommendations collated over...
View ArticleImprove SAP BW Performance by Applying the Flat Cube
Overview SAP released the Columnstore Optimized Flat Cube over two years ago. We want to give a brief explanation of the benefits and advantages of using the Flat Cube – and in consequence engage...
View ArticleCustomer Experience with Columnstore on ERP
SAP released the report MSS_CS_CREATE a few months ago. Using this report, customers can create an additional Nonclustered Columnstore Index (NCCI) on any SAP ERP table. This has already been described...
View ArticleSAP NetWeaver Installation on HANA database
This blog describes the SAP NetWeaver installation steps on the SAP HANA database – a step by step installation guide with the real screenshots! In this setup, the HANA Large Instance server is used to...
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