For all SAP® environments, efficient resource usage and systems management is mandatory. Reduction of IT operations costs facilitate investments in new business opportunities and align the infrastructure to the business needs. IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Services for SAP® Business Suite helps an enterprise to meet these requirements. IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Services provides offerings that assess a customer's operational processes and help to improve them thru automation. This kind of automation allows enterprises to react quickly and dynamically to changing business requirements, like seasonal fluctuations, month-end annual accounts, legal requirements, or the introduction of new SAP® solutions.
IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Services for SAP® Business Suite implements solutions for IT optimization, that integrate IBM technologies like server virtualization and software products of Tivoli's Systems Management portfolio. These process automation solutions support, complement and extend SAP's Adaptive Computing on IBM eServer™ platforms and IBM storage systems. It establishes On Demand Operating Environment (ODOE) functionality and value for SAP® system landscapes. Simplified systems management through more automation and efficient usage of hardware resources help enable IT Optimization from an operational point of view.
These solutions can help reduce the high management effort for growing SAP® system landscapes, speed up the deployment of new SAP® solutions, improve the utilization of systems, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). This is reached by automation of time consuming tasks within a customer's operational processes. Automated process tasks increase also the quality of service. With IBM Dynamic Infrastructure services, shared resource pools and dynamic or automated system provisioning enable better infrastructure exploitation, which can help achieve major cost reductions. For example, the process of creating additional SAP® application servers can be executed much faster, since manual process tasks are now automated and executed without human interaction.
IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Services projects are conducted world-wide by a Lab Services team of SAP® and Tivoli system management experts.