Robust Backbone for SAP Workflows

Whether on-prem or in private and public clouds, Oracle helps SAP customers work faster, more securely, and more flexibly while reducing costs. SAP and Oracle have been working together for decades to provide customers with a supported SAP/Oracle environment with Oracle Database, enabling smooth SAP operations that meet demanding business requirements. 

Oracle Linux is the optimal foundation for Oracle Database and promotes high performance, scalability, and security for SAP workloads. Oracle Linux is a highly secure and optimized operating environment for developing and deploying NetWeaver-based applications across on-premises hardware platforms, Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), other leading hyperscaler cloud platforms, and multicloud environments. In addition to providing a reliable open source operating system (OS), Oracle Linux offers KVM-based virtualization, infrastructure management, Oracle Ksplice zero-downtime patching, cloud native tools, and much more.

Serving as Oracle‘s development and runtime platform, Oracle Linux forms the backbone of the Oracle Database and provides a robust, scalable foundation for compute-intensive workloads. Oracle Linux stands out from alternative Linux distributions through its deep integration with the solution stack. It includes the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK), which has been optimized specifically for Oracle Database to maximize efficiency and deliver outstanding performance. The Oracle Database and Oracle Linux development teams work closely together to continuously enhance UEK with upstream innovative solutions, performance optimizations, finely tuned system calls, and more to improve application performance. This close coupling helps improve transaction speeds and query processing for a wide range of applications, including SAP workloads. 

Deploy SAP for the cloud

Oracle is working with SAP to certify and support SAP NetWeaver-based applications on OCI. OCI runs on Oracle Linux and makes it easier for organizations to move Oracle-based SAP applications to the cloud. OCI enables customers to run the same Oracle database and SAP applications as on-premise, preserving their existing investments while reducing costs and improving flexibility. Oracle and SAP have certified SAP NetWeaver-based applications that use Oracle Database to run exclusively on Oracle Linux via OCI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. Oracle Linux is also used to deploy SAP NetWeaver-based applications with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer. 

Manage Infrastructure

Companies often face the challenge of staying up to date with critical security patches and managing operating system deployments across their application infrastructure. With Oracle OS Management Hub, customers can automate, streamline, and simplify the management and monitoring of updates and patches for Oracle Linux systems from a single management console in OCI. OS Management Hub is fully integrated with Ksplice, enabling customers to apply selected security updates to Oracle Linux without rebooting, reducing application disruption and maintaining continuous availability.

OS Management Hub manages Oracle Linux systems in distributed environments - in private data centers, OCI and supported third-party clouds. It enables IT teams to easily view and manage operating system deployments at a glance and at scale, including those supporting critical SAP workloads, to ensure security compliance and improve operational efficiency. With OS Management Hub, organizations, including SAP customers, can better manage their systems without having to worry about maintaining the underlying infrastructure, allowing administrators to focus on projects that contribute to the bottom line.

Full potential with Oracle Linux

Oracle‘s decades of experience supporting standards-based computing has resulted in a robust infrastructure stack that helps organizations worldwide reduce costs while meeting business-critical requirements for diverse workloads. For all SAP customers, using Oracle Linux as the backbone for their SAP/Oracle deployments can help lower total cost of ownership while increasing reliability. Whether the SAP/Oracle deployment is running on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment, Oracle Linux can play a fundamental role in helping to increase operational efficiency for SAP workloads.

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