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Orchestration: DB and Apps

We remember back to the R/3 era: Back then, the R/3 modules - now called apps - worked with numerous databases. What at first glance appeared to be a technical world sensation was, on closer inspection, a simple sleight of hand.
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
November 4, 2021
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The R/3 system used each underlying database as a rudimentary file system. The logic remained in the R/3 modules. Helpful database functions for more efficient processing were not used, so the Oracle, IBM and Microsoft databases used were beaten far below their value. With the Hana database, SAP now wants to do better.

Many years ago, it was standard practice to explain exactly which functions from the S/4 apps would now run directly on the Hana database platform - which then also brought a significant speed increase! This orchestration between Hana and other SAP apps has gone quiet. Is this idea still being pursued at SAP?

The idea of optimal synchronization and orchestration has now been taken up by Oracle. The database provider is not only focusing on cloud computing, but also on the provision of more and more apps, all of which are efficiently orchestrated with the Oracle database. An incentive to look beyond the SAP horizon for once.

Also to think outside the SAP box and still do a lot for your own SAP system, that's what the E-3 video stream offers next Wednesday, November 10, at 11 a.m. on the E-3 YouTube channel or directly with this Link. SAP partner Empirius has developed a very efficient and manageable system management suite. Together with the chief developer of Empirius, Marcus Bogenstätter, and guests, we discuss the challenges and solutions of successful system management.

Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 11:00 a.m. at E-3 Videostream, the new system management for SAP - here's the Link to bookmark and save.

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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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