Novell and SAP

On May 5, 2008 Novell announced the industry's most comprehensive and integrated platform of identity and security management solutions optimized for SAP NetWeaver Platform and SAP Business Software. Targeted to address enterprise needs for end-to-end enterprise management solutions, Novell's identity and security management products augment SAP's governance, risk and compliance (GRC), human resources and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. See full press release. See Novell FAQ.

On March 17, 2008 Novell and SAP announced to broaden and deepen their strategic agreement. See full press release. See Novell and SAP Partner FAQ.

SAP Recommends Novell

This joint offering between Novell and SAP provides a single support entry point, from the operating system through the application, to streamline resolution of support incidents, reduce complexity and lower the total cost of ownership.

SAP Business All-in-One

The planned integrated SAP Business All-in-One offerings will be first based on SUSE Linux Enterprise, which will provide an unmatched TCO to small companies and midsize businesses.

Identity & Security

Novell delivers new portfolio of Identity and Security Management solutions for SAP Enterprise Software Applications.

Visit the new Identity & Security Management Solutions for SAP environments resource center. +

Read the Realtech white paper: The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP Data Centers

Identity and Security Management Solutions for the SAP environment whitepaper

Integrated, Fully Supported Virtualization for SAP flyer

"Organizations worldwide are increasingly turning to open source solutions with Linux as their core platform, so teaming with Novell and offering our customers SAP applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise meets a direct customer need. Our cooperation goes beyond Linux to leverage industry-leading technologies from each company to give customers high-value, low-complexity solutions to pressing challenges such as regulatory requirements and optimizing applications in virtualized environments. This relationship marks another step forward in SAP's support of open source and standards-based computing."

Léo Apotheker, deputy CEO and president of Customer Solutions and Operations, SAP

Novell has been named by SAP a Pinnacle Awards 2008 Finalist in the award category Technology Co-Innovation for Core Business. Novell is very proud of this achievement and is honored to be part of such a high calibre list of finalists with projects showcasing complementary technologies, supporting key industries, and addressing unique customer market segments. Novell's reception of such certification indicates SAP's recognition of great collaboration and commitment to joint mutual business.

Certifications

SUSE Linux Enterprise

Find out which SAP solution is certified for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server +

Identity and Security Management

Identity Management Certification matrix +

Success Stories

SUSE Linux Enterprise

IDM

SIM

SecureLogin

SVA (Novell)

White Papers

SUSE Linux Enterprise

Solutions for SAP

SUSE Linux Enterprise

Identity and Security Management

News & Events

SAPPHIRE 2008
New Ideas, New Strategies, and New Opportunities
Plan now to attend SAPPHIRE 2008 Orlando, May 4 - 7, or SAPPHIRE 2008 Berlin, May 19 - 21. You'll discover how today's open technologies and business networks can help you achieve and maintain profitability, efficiency, and growth. Plus, you'll learn how SAP's strategy for co-innovation with a growing ecosystem of partners will give you more solution options than ever before. Join us at the Novell booth and see the SAP recommended Linux platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise at work, register now.

SAP supports Virtualization from Novell
Optimize your SAP Infrastructure with Virtualization from Novell:
SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell with integrated XEN virtualization technology decreases TCO and increases ROI now officially supported on commodity hardware by SAP without any need for additional 3rd party virtualization software, backed by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Priority Support for SAP. +

SAP supports Virtualization from Novell
Forward-looking enterprises are choosing server virtualization as a way to maximize hardware utilization, eliminate server sprawl and dynamically respond to rapidly changing resource and application needs. Virtualization can dramatically reduce purchase, provisioning and maintenance costs by consolidating business applications and services to run on a limited number of highly scalable and reliable enterprise-class servers and now as well on commodity hardware officially supported by SAP. By implementing this innovative technology you can gain reduced management costs, due to being able to lower the overall complexity of your IT landscape while increasing the overall IT agility and last but not least minimize maintenance downtimes with the live migration capabilitiy. Profit from virtualization as one of the industry standard of the future which enables you to deploy, re-deploy, automate, manage, secure and commoditize your IT environment. +

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Priority Support for SAP
Customers who run their SAP applications based on the Virtualization solution from Novell, now have a single support entry point, from the operating system through the application, to streamline resolution of support incidents, reduce complexity and lower the total cost of ownership. Branded as “SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Priority Support for SAP applications”, the offering is a maintenance and support package provided by Novell that will be integrated through the SAP Solution Manager application management solution into the SAP global support backbone for managing the entire life cycle of SAP applications +

SAP TechEd: Enterprise SOA - Put the Power to Work!
Come to SAP TechEd'07, Las Vegas - Munich - Bangalore - Shanghai. +

Global “SAP Is Open” Road Show
Learn more about the openness of SAP and its partners (AMD, IBM and Novell) in terms of integrating with open source and other software under and around SAP by leveraging industry and open standards and joint co-innovation. Read more +

SAP and Novell Deliver Expanded Linux Support Options for Customers
Novell and SAP plan to work together in the future to further optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP application platforms, including SAP NetWeaver and SAP Business Suite. Further, SAP recommends SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a preferred platform for customers who want to deploy SAP applications on Linux. The combination of SAP Business Suite on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server will provide consistent manageability of SAP applications in mixed, open source and commercial software environments. Read more +

SAPPHIRE 2008: New Ideas, New Strategies, and New Opportunities
Plan now to attend SAPPHIRE 2008 Orlando May 4 - 7, or SAPPHIRE 2008 Berlin, May 19 - 21. You'll discover how today's open technologies and business networks can help you achieve and maintain profitability, efficiency, and growth. Plus, you'll learn how SAP's strategy for co-innovation with a growing ecosystem of partners will give you more solution options than ever before +

Join us at the Novell booth and see the SAP recommended Linux platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise at work. Register now +.

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