3 good reasons to visit SUSE and co-exhibiting partners at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017 (#559)

Please SUSE and co-exibiting partners at the SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference, May 16–18, 2017, in Orlando, Florida (booth 559). At the largest global business technology conference you will learn how SUSE and partners help companies achieve digital “warp speed” to an SAP HANA environment.

If you’re looking for answers to the following questions, please come by as we can answer them:

• How can you achieve zero-downtime for your mission critical SAP workloads?
• What are the important steps to consider to move to S/4 HANA?
• How do I move from Windows to Linux?
• As an SAP partner, where can you find guidance for migrating to S/4 HANA?
• What is the right cloud strategy for your SAP workloads? Public or Private?

Learn why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is the recommended and  supported OS of choice for SAP HANA, on premise or in the cloud and why SAP runs SUSE for its own workloads.

1. Don’t miss our co-exhibiting partners who represent a broad set of software and services offerings for the digital transformation of SAP solutions:

• BASIS TECHNOLOGIES provides automation tools that enable continuous delivery of SAP change – helping our customers to keep pace with theirs. Basis Technologies’ DevOps Toolset gives businesses across the globe the ability to adopt agile development and DevOps for SAP.
• DATAVARD helps customers to maximize the impact of their SAP investments and to turn data into competitive assets. Datavard’s solutions allow for maximized insights into user behavior, system- and data growth and help to manage IT like a business.
• PROTERA TECHNOLOGIES is a global IT leader and SAP managed services provider certified in SAP hosting, application management, cloud services, global outsourcing, and operation services for the SAP HANA platform. Protera provides total IT outsourcing for global enterprises by leveraging its state-of-the-art Protera AppCare OnDemand Delivery Platform.
• SEP AG is a manufacturer of backup and disaster recovery solutions to protect cross-platform and heterogeneous IT-environments. Reliable restores, a flexible licensing model, high product standards and an attractive price performance ratio are only four of countless arguments why organizations and enterprises in over 50 countries trust in the Hybrid Backup solution SEP sesam.
• VIRTUAL FORGE is a leading supplier of cybersecurity and quality solutions for SAP. Their products and services identify and mitigate risks efficiently ensuring the security and stability to the entire SAP landscape.

2. Learn about Digital Transformation and SAP HANA in the Cloud during our breakout sessions

Start Digital Transformation to SAP HANA/SAP Cloud Platform on Open Source (Thomas Di Giacomo (SUSE CTO), Dirk Oppenkowski (SUSE))

Thursday, May 18, (session ID: 44256)
11:30 am – 11:50 am, Theater 4
Many SAP customers need to adjust internal business processes and IT infrastructure in order to better compete in today’s digital economy. To do this, they look toward their IT infrastructure as a key driver to meet their business objectives. Learn how SUSE can help you transform your legacy technology infrastructure into a digital environment.

Your Enterprise Can Run SAP in a Public Cloud Right Now (Jon Friesen (Monocle Systems) & Peter Schinagl (SUSE))

Wednesday, May 17 (session ID: 44257)
5:00 pm – 5:20 pm, Theater 2
If you are looking for an infrastructure with greater agility, and the ability to scale as the business grow, you should consider public cloud deployments. In this session SUSE and Monocle Systems will explore the different option of deploying SAP applications into the public cloud.

3. Join our mini-theatre presentations

How are SUSE partners and customers achieving success? Listen to on-booth presentations from our ecosystem partners: AWS, Basis Technologies, CISCO, DataVard, Dell, Deloitte, Fujitsu, Hitachi,  HPE, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, NetApp,  Protera, Revelation, SAP, SEP, Supermicro, Symmetry Corp, Wipro, TCS, Virtual Forge, and others.