SAP on Alibaba Cloud

Bring the reliability, security, and smart solutions of Alibaba Cloud to your SAP workloads.

Overview

Alibaba Cloud is a trusted partner of SAP, offering the reliability and security that your business requires. The mature service infrastructure and platforms of Alibaba Cloud, when combined with the world-leading applications and Database Management System (DBMS) services of SAP, can help to simplify your overall IT infrastructure and accelerate the digital transformation of your enterprise.

Our latest collaboration extends to SAP Business One. We launched SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud (B1AC) to offer an affordable solution for easy business operations to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

How It Works

Your Challenge

SMEs often struggle with managing complex processes, achieving real-time visibility, streamlining operations, integrating business functions, and quickly deploying scalable ERP solutions to support growth.

Our Solution

  • Alibaba Cloud provides SAP Business One, an affordable ERP solution for small businesses to manage accounting, financials, purchasing, inventory, sales, customer relationships, reporting, and analytics.

  • Features

    Flexibility in Deployment with OEM and BYOL Models: You can use the OEM model (SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud - B1AC) as a ready-to-use solution or choose Bring Your Own License (BYOL) to continue with your existing licenses.

    Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Compared with the traditional on-premises SAP B1 solutions, the combination of the SAP B1 subscription license and Alibaba Cloud IaaS offers SMEs higher flexibility and lower costs.

SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud - B1AC

A ready-to-run option to deliver SAP Business One in one stop on Alibaba Cloud

BYOL With Web Client

A browser-based alternative to run SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud with your own license

BYOL Without Web Client

A classic login platform known as the “thick” client to run SAP Business One on Alibaba Cloud with your own license

Your Challenge

As business operations grow in complexity, a company may struggle to accurately predict business workloads.

Our Solution

  • This is a standard solution to deploy your SAP S/4HANA system. With this solution, your company can deploy your S4/HANA system on cloud for lower cost of ownership.

  • Features

    Deploy your S/4HANA system with the minimum cost.

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

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Your Challenge

Customers may be worried about the software failure for a standard deployment. Therefore, a high availability deployment is required with an online secondary as a standby.

Our Solution

  • This is a typical solution to deploy your SAP S/4HANA system. Choose the primary/secondary nodes for your S/4HANA system on different Alibaba Cloud ECS instances in an availability zone.

  • Features

    Deploy primary/secondary nodes for NetWeaver applications with multiple ECS instances in your target zone.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud.

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Your Challenge

Even with the HA inner zone solution, some customers are still worried about the complete site failure, so a HA cross zone feature is required.

Our Solution

  • This is a typical solution to deploy your SAP S/4HANA system. Choose the zones in which you want to deploy the primary/secondary nodes of your S/4HANA system within your target region.

  • Features

    Deploy primary/secondary nodes for NetWeaver applications in two zones.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud

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Your Challenge

For business sensitive systems, especially SAP systems, a complete site failure tolerance is required to keep business downtime as few as possible. Without the disaster recovery plan, your business may be blocked when a complete availability zone failure happens.

Our Solution

  • Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive portfolio of disaster recovery plans to ensure the online availability of your SAP S/4HANA systems, with different plans to suit your specific business requirements.

  • Features

    Deploy primary/secondary nodes for NetWeaver applications with multiple ECS virtual machines in a single zone, and deploy disaster and recovery nodes for HANA databases across multiple zones.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software.

View Detail

Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud.

View Detail

Solution Highlights

Flexible Billing Models

With Alibaba Cloud, you have the choice to choose a flexible billing model that best suits your specific requirements. You can purchase resources on a subscription basis for a lower rate, or opt for pay-as-you-go billing for greater flexibility. With our pay-as-you-go billing model, there are no upfront processing fees.

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Ensured Availability

Given the high reliability and availability models of Alibaba Cloud, which have been laid out in several different service layers and across all of our service regions, you can be assured that your SAP applications, wherever they may be deployed, will run smoothly and be secure on Alibaba Cloud.

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SAP-Specific Solutions

Alibaba Cloud has developed several exclusive SAP-related solutions. In particular, Alibaba offers such solutions as SAP systems monitoring with DataV and HANA cloud backup to Alibaba Cloud OSS using backint, and solutions that allow for better integration between SAP applications and your services running on Alibaba Cloud.

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Contact sales to learn more about Alibaba Cloud ecosystem for SAP applications

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SAP Certifications

Alibaba Cloud has SAP certifications for ECS instances, databases, SAP Netweaver based applications, and more applications as below.

Security and Compliance

We are committed to providing stable, reliable, secure, and compliant cloud computing infrastructure services across major jurisdictions around the world.
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  • CSA STAR
  • ISO 27001
  • SOC2 Type II Report
  • C5
  • MLPS 2.0
  • MTCS

Fortinet Secures the Enterprise SAP Landscape on Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud Ecosystem for SAP

Accenture

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Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

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Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

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Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

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Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

Accenture

Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

Accenture

Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

Accenture

Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

Accenture

Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

Accenture

Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

Accenture

Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

Accenture

Accenture provides a range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations to help clients improve their performance. Maximum 3 lines.

Customer Success Stories

See how companies large and small are leveraging Alibaba Cloud to grow and improve their business with SAP applications.

With Alibaba Cloud, Adira has successfully implemented the core SAP S4/HANA development, test, and production systems, and has quickly deployed SAP PO and SAP Fiori systems in the cloud. The deployment of SAP systems has helped to decrease overall IT costs and operation resource spending, allowing Adira to focus more on its core business.

Through the certificated ECS instances, block storage, and best practice guide provided by Alibaba Cloud, BSS was able to migrate their SAP systems to the cloud in a seamless manner. Via the VPN services Alibaba Cloud offers, the SAP systems could be accessed from BSS's local offices quickly and securely. Overall, migration to the cloud has helped BSS to jump start digital transformation while also achieving a lower TCO.

PT Bina Sarana Sukses (BSS), based in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a company engaged in the business of mining services and heavy equipment rental. Till now PT Bina Sarana Sukses has more than 6,000 registrars and 4,000 applications on its way to world-class mining contractor on the basis of high performance, synergy, kinship, professionalism, and resilience.

Related Resources

SAP Whitepaper

Integrating SAP Application Data with Alibaba Cloud

Describes the benefits of using SAP on Alibaba Cloud, helps you explore typical scenarios and our partner ecosystem.

SAP HANA

SAP HANA High Availability Deployment in a Single Zone

This document describes an SAP HANA high availablity deployment in a single zone.

SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA High Availability Deployment in a Single Zone

This document describes an SAP S/4HANA high availablity deployment in a single zone.

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