SAP®, the world’s largest business software company, provides a comprehensive range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to empower every aspect of business. Organizations deploying SAP have invested a significant amount of time and money in these powerful applications. By taking advantage of F5’s Application Ready infrastructure for SAP, tested and validated at SAP, organizations can achieve a secure, fast and available network infrastructure that reduces the total cost of operation and increases ROI. And F5’s FirePass SSL VPN, BIG-IP Local Traffi c Manager and WANJet appliance have been certified by SAP for integration with SAP ERP 6.0 based on NetWeaver 7.0.
APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE
SAPComprehensive Application Ready infrastructure that enhances the security, availability and performance of SAP deploymentsSUMMARY
SAP®, the world's largest business software company, provides a comprehensive
range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to empower
every aspect of business. Organizations deploying SAP have invested a signi? cant
amount of time and money in these powerful applications. By taking advantage
of F5's Application Ready infrastructure for SAP, tested and validated at SAP,
organizations can achieve a secure, fast and available network infrastructure that
reduces the total cost of operation and increases ROI. And F5's FirePass SSL VPN,
BIG-IP Local Traf? c Manager and WANJet appliance have been certi? ed by SAP for
integration with SAP ERP 6.0 based on NetWeaver 7.0.
F5 technology provides an adaptable network framework for SAP deployments
that allows organizations to ensure quality of service and manageability, apply
business policies and rules to content delivery, support increasing traf? c volumes,
deliver applications securely, enjoy operational ef? ciency and cost control, and
remain ? exible to future application and infrastructure changes to protect their
investments. The result is elegant and powerful solutions to protect you from
security threats, network failures and traf? c congestion, while providing an
optimized architecture for the future.
2F5 APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE: SAP
Bene? ts and F5 value
and excess data (re)transmitted between the SAP Application PerformanceUser Experience and (in seconds)browser and the web application, F5 mitigates Application Performance the effects of WAN latency, networking 50sDeploying a core suite of applications like errors, and packet loss. This functionality SAP involves careful planning and execution. also signi? cantly reduces the amount of data In many cases, only after the application is downloaded without requiring the users to Defaultput into production, organizations realize download special software or making changes 40s F5 Optimizedthat although the application is con? gured to the browser.optimally, the network infrastructure ends up SAP deployments contain multiple application slowing the performance of the application for components that provide a variety of 30sthe end users. An organization's IP network business critical services. F5 ensures that is commonly a shared resource by a variety of these vital applications aren't bogged down other services including email, VOIP and general with processor-intensive tasks that are not 20sinternet access. These services, by consuming relevant to the core application. F5 provides network resources, can negatively impact SAP a comprehensive solution to of? oad many applications. of these types of burdensome or repetitious 10sPoor performance of applications, due to functions (such as compression, caching, and network conditions, IT infrastructure challenges, SSL of? oad) onto centralized and high powered or other factors, can be problematic by network devices, which greatly improves server 0simpeding adoption rates and introducing ef? ciency. In recent testing, one scenario unnecessary delay into business processes. involved simulating 500 users connecting and Users faced with a new application are already interacting with the SAP application over the F5 Optimizations provide a signi? cant resistant to change. If the performance of that WAN. The result? Using F5 technology reduced decrease in page download times for application is less than ideal, even if it's not the CPU utilization of the SAP servers from 68% to clients using a small link (for example a fault of the application itself, adoption rates 38%. remote of? ce or home users)and attitudes can plummet, both of which To further enhance end user performance, F5 negatively impact business productivity. These provides extensive connection management F5 isolates, controls, and independently types of performance issues impede not only and TCP optimization capabilities that increase optimizes user and SAP server connections user productivity by introducing unnecessary server performance and dramatically speed to provide the best performance for every delay into the process, but ca... [download for more]
