FlexFrame® Orchestrator
Uniform management for all SAP environments Discover the benefits that FlexFrame Orchestrator has to offer. This Fujitsu platform solution supports consistent and uniform management of all SAP landscapes, including SAP HANA infrastructures, in enterprise environments – for every kind of IT provisioning model, regardless of whether the applications are run in the customer’s own data center, delivered as a managed service or a hosting service from an external provider, or deployed from the cloud. Transparency through central management for classical SAP operations and SAP HANA FlexFrame Orchestrator satisfies two important demands expressed by many SAP customers: They want to implement innovations from SAP much faster, and they want to make the overall operation of their SAP environments simpler, more efficient and less expensive. This also applies to SAP HANA. FlexFrame Orchestrator is the only solution on the market that offers real-time management of productive SAP environments, which means that it optimally supports the paradigm shift initiated by SAP. It is worth taking a closer look at this paradigm shift: Today some of the transactional data, for example from SAP ERP or SAP CRM, is transferred to independent systems for dedicated data analyses (e.g. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse). In the future, all transactional data and additional information, even unstructured data from sources such as social networks, will be collected in a central in-memory database. This enables business enterprises to conduct and improve decision-making processes that are supported by real-time analytics. Thus the in-memory database is becoming a mission-critical factor in all kinds of enterprises. And with FlexFrame Orchestrator, these businesses are ready to cope with this fundamental change: Thanks to central and transparent management, the solution provides the security and efficiency required for the entire SAP environment, including the SAP HANA database. Are you looking for ways to manage your SAP landscape with high levels of operational stability and security? Do you want to optimize your business processes? Are cost savings a top priority in your IT budget? If so, FlexFrame Orchestrator is the perfect solution for SAP applications in your data center.
FlexFrame Orchestrator ■ Uniform and consistent management of classical SAP operations and HANA infrastructures ■ Comprehensive automation of administration and maintenance tasks ■ Consistent administration of physical and virtual resources ■ Integrated automatic high availability – even for HANA ■ Support for every IT provisioning model ■ Support for hardware from other vendors (certification program)
Benefit now from the advantages of FlexFrame in all SAP infrastructures For ten years now FlexFrame has been the proven solution for running SAP applications efficiently in businesses of all sizes and in all types of industries. The unique and holistic solution concept that enables consistent management of SAP environments, from the hardware layer to the application layer, improves processes related to planning, operations and change management. The end-to-end virtualization of servers, storage, networks and application services masks over the complexity of modern infrastructures. Expensive and complicated cluster technologies are no longer needed to achieve high-availability for systems and applications, and disaster-resilient solutions across two sites are easy to realize. What’s more, the extensive automation of administration and maintenance tasks lightens the workload for IT personnel while increasing the productivity and service quality of SAP operations. This leads to remarkable savings that enable enterprises to cut the overall cost of running an SAP ERP environment by 50% or more, depending on the specific configuration parameters. FlexFrame Orchestrator thus enables enterprises to leverage these effects in favor of their SAP HANA environments.
High performance and availability for HANA environments FlexFrame Orchestrator can be integrated in heterogeneous data center environments without interrupting live operations. When setting up and running an SAP HANA-optimized infrastructure, FlexFrame Orchestrator provides highly developed and integrated management functions – it is also a perfect fit when SAP NetWeaver® Landscape Virtualization Management is deployed. FlexFrame Orchestrator is a solution that enables enterprises to automate and reduce the complexity of their SAP administration tasks across all departments. Implementation, operation and enhancements all feature high levels of automation. To ensure efficient provisioning of optimal performance, system resources can be allocated dynamically, and workloads can be distributed with flexibility. At the same time, FlexFrame Orchestrator guarantees higher availability of HANA infrastructures thanks to a flexible and automated failover concept – there is no need to manage complex clusters. Disaster recovery installed at two different sites can also be realized without needing to take additional steps. FlexFrame Orchestrator is open to third-party providers For the first time, Fujitsu offers FlexFrame Orchestrator as an open solution by lifting the restrictions that had applied to certain hardware and software components – the solution is now available purely as a software appliance. Thus even more users can take advantage of the benefits offered by FlexFrame technology. A certification program ensures that FlexFrame Orchestrator functions smoothly and seamlessly with data center components from third-party suppliers.
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■ Reduces the complexity of SAP infrastructures ■ Drastically lowers the cost of investment and operation ■ Combines classical SAP operations and HANA infrastructures ■ Can be integrated in every data center environment ■ Available as a software appliance
FlexFrame Orchestrator is an open SAP management platform that combines the operation of SAP ERP environments and SAP-HANA infrastructures in one solution. IT organizations can deploy the solution to consistently optimize processes and achieve high levels of quality for all SAP services.
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