SAP AG today announced a new offering that simplifies and speeds adoption of the SAP HANA platform for customers running SAP Business Suite software. Rapid database migration of SAP Business Suite to SAP HANA enables IT professionals to more easily replace their conventional relational database with the high-performance of SAP HANA. The offering automates the migration process through a series of preconfigured software, implementation services, standardized content and end-user enablement. The rapid database migration of SAP Business Suite to SAP HANA is available for all customers and partners. SAP Consulting offers a fixed price and scope implementation that helps reduce the risk of delays, downtime, overriding costs security violations and integration challenges.

Database migrations have historically vexed IT professionals, especially when it comes to revamping long-standing transaction systems. A difficult migration may put business operations at risk, drive up costs and stymie productivity. The rapid database migration puts SAP HANA in the reach of more SAP Business Suite customers.

An SAP Rapid Deployment solution enables customers that are running SAP Business Suite to more easily move to the SAP HANA platform. After the migration, customers can enjoy more business value, reduced IT cost, and better user experiences enabled by the SAP HANA platform: business interactions become smarter with real-time analytics and execution, business processes run faster, and the IT landscape becomes a lot simpler..

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