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Lenovo’s Leadership in SAP HANA Solutions

04Robust Infrastructure Certified by SAP

05Unparalleled Performance

09The Server Suite

10Case Studies

11The Lenovo Advantage

06High Reliability, Availability, Scalability

07Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

08Comprehensive Solution Support

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Lenovo’s Leadership in SAP HANA Solutions

Modular design for seamless upgrades and operational savings.

No external storage necessary due to the

architecture of Lenovo’s

mission-critical servers.

Comprehensive solution support from

planning to end of life.

Easy administration with Lenovo’s advanced

management tools.

Robust infrastructure certified by SAP setting

architecture records with

scale-up (12TB) and scale-

out (48TB) S4/HANA

configurations.

Performance that broke 88 world records when

benchmarking for x86

server performance.1

#1 in Reliability among mainstream Server Hardware Platforms with

99.999% uptime.2

31% lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for

SAP HANA systems measured

with Lenovo’s X6 systems over

three years.3

1 As of November 8, 2017 on benchmarks including STAC-M3 and SPEC benchmarks.2 According to ITIC 2016–2017 Global Server Hardware/OS Reliability Survey for unplanned downtime3 Quark & Lepton, December 2016

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Robust Infrastructure certified by SAPLenovo’s research ensures that you have the best infrastructure for your SAP HANA requirements.

Next generation SAP HANA was developed using Lenovo’s ThinkSystem SR950.

Record-setting 12TB & 48TB S4/HANA configurations with scale-up & scale-out architectures respectively.

Lenovo is the SAP HANA market leader with over 8000 units shipped.1

Lenovo knows SAP having been the SAP HANA Innovation Award winner for the year 2016.

47%of the costs associated with hardware, software, and labour can be saved with SAP HANA.Forrester Study on Cost Savings with SAP HANA, 2014

1 Lenovo server shipment report, June 2017.

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Unparalleled PerformanceIn partnership with SAP, Lenovo has broken multiple world records showing that it can bring customers the best in server performance.

Lenovo+SAP provide world leading performance benchmarks.1

SD Tier-2 with 22%

performance gain (a

world record). BW-EML results show a

29% performance gain

(versus Intel Ivy Bridge-

EX processor.)

Lenovo enables faster performance & data analysis for mission critical applications.

88 world record

benchmarks held by

Lenovo servers for x86

server performance.2

Lenovo’s unparalleled innovations for internal analytics.

Lenovo and SAP innovated

with collaborations on

ITOA (IT Operations

Analytics) and

performance optimisation.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 server for mission-critical workloads holds a world record for performance in the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark..Record of 78.4 points in SPECint_base2006, held as of July 2017 when configured with 8-Socket Intel Xeon 8180, 3TB TruDDR4 memory and Linux.

1 Source: www.sap.com/benchmark2 As of November 8, 2017 on benchmarks including STAC-M3 and SPEC.

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High Reliability, Availability, ScalabilityFor over four years, Lenovo’s x86 servers have held the first spot in reliability. In fact, SAP itself uses Lenovo servers to run its business and develop the next version of SAP HANA.

#1 Reliability among

mainstream server hardware

platforms, with 99.999% uptime.

(Source: According to ITIC 2016–2017

Global Server Hardware/OS Reliability

Survey for unplanned downtime.)

99.998%

Hardware availability achieved by

mission-critical Lenovo servers, when

combined with Lenovo committed

repair service offerings. (Source:

Internal Study according to Lenovo

internal repair action statistics.)

564TB BW4HANA

is the largest scale out configuration

certified by SAP.

If you need over 2TB of HANA, SAP

recommends scale-out systems. Lenovo

offers solutions for both, scale-up and

scale-out.

“Lenovo provides the build quality, reliability and performance that we need to serve our customers efficiently and effectively – and to keep our employees satisfied and productive.”Thomas Saueressig,Chief Information Officer at SAP SE

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Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)Achieving more in the data centre on stagnant or shrinking budgets is now a realistic goal with a partner who understands the pressures you face.

Operational savings with serviceability features, and modular design for seamless upgrades.

Lenovo’s SAP HANA platform protects investment - single platform for scale-up or scale-out.

No external storage necessary. This helps reduce latency and enables faster data access.

Simplified deployment with Lenovo Professional Services for installation, integration, configuration and remote management.

47%Lower TCO for SAP HANA systems, measured with Lenovo’s X6 systems over three years.Quark & Lepton, December 2016

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Easy manageability with Lenovo’s

advanced management tools.

Easy to maintain with Lenovo’s XClarity

Administrator, XClarity Energy Manager

and XClarity Mobile app.

Solutions for better integration into

existing Data Centre.

Lenovo Solutions for SAP HANA,

for faster deployment.

SAP HANA Installation Services &

Health Check Services.

Comprehensive Solution SupportLenovo Services is able to help at every step, from planning to end-of-life, to ensure the best experience for business customers.

85%of survey respondents said that Lenovo’s x86 servers maintained an excellent record of service and support.ITIC 2015-2016 Global Server Hardware/OS Reliability Report.

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Server SuiteLenovo’s strengths for the SAP HANA solution can be seen in these two server units.

Lenovo System x3950 X6• High availability and maximum up-time for business-

critical SAP HANA applications.

• An eight-socket 8U rack-mounted server now with

Intel Xeon E7 v4 processors.

• Based on an agile system design.

• Supports up to 24 TB of RAM and all-flash drive storage.

• Advanced X6 RAS features (such as predictive failure anal-

ysis, light path diagnostics, and hot swap components.)

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Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950• Good for SAP HANA, large in-memory databases

and other workloads requiring maximum raw

processing power.

• Scalable 4U-8P system, on Intel Purley platform

with Skylake 7180/7186 series processors.

• RAM capacity upto 12TB.

• NVMe & all-flash drive support.

• Modular chassis for easy access.

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Case StudiesA brief look at how some companies have benefited from adopting Lenovo’s SAP HANA solution.

Kwizda Group, an Austrian

life sciences enterprise

enabled its pharmaceuticals

division to improve planning,

logistics and customer

service. With Lenovo’s

System x3950 X6 solution,

it used business data to gain

real-time insight, increasing

its competitive advantage

and business agility.

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The Schwan Food Company, an American frozen food

distributor improved business

insight to meet demanding

delivery deadlines. With

Lenovo’s System x3950/3850

X6 solution, it also boosted

operational and financial

reporting capabilities, for

easy access to unified service

metrics.

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V-GRASS, a Chinese fashion

retailer could react fast to

changing trends using real-

time insight into sales and

operations. With Lenovo

servers, such data-driven

decisions helped them stay in

touch with customer tastes,

and aided growth.

Read More

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#1 In Customer Satisfaction with

products, after-market technical

service and support. 1

32%Product Quality Improvement in

Lenovo x86 server quality from

2014 to early 2017. 3

#1In SAP performance and HANA

installations. Lenovo is SAP’s largest

partner, with over 50% of SAP

installs on Lenovo hardware.

88World record benchmarks

held by Lenovo x86 server

performance. 2

The Lenovo AdvantageLenovo services is able to help at every step, from planning to end-of-life, to ensure the best experience for business customers.

160+

Countries served by Lenovo. White Glove Experience

1 According to ITIC 2017 Global Server Hardware/OS Reliability Survey.2 As of November 8, 2017 on benchmarks including STAC-M3 and SPEC benchmarks3 Internal Study according to Lenovo internal repair action statistics.

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