EMPOWER YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION BY AUTOMATING SAP® ACTIVITIES

With end-to-end automation, complete copy, clone,

and refresh activities for SAP® systems in hours,

not days, and use the time and budget you save

to innovate instead.

If your business is like most others, you and your teams spend more time maintaining your

business than you do innovating it. An August 2017 SAP Business Trends blog post sums up

this ever-present reality for businesses, “Most companies today spend 75% of their resources

on running the company, aka keeping the lights on, and only 25% on innovation.”1

If your organization runs a traditionally managed SAP® environment or the SAP HANA®

platform, you likely know that reality too well. SAP applications typically require performing

system copy, clone, and refresh tasks not once, but multiple times throughout the lifecycle

of the solutions in order to develop new functionality to increase business value or to fix bugs.

If you frequently skip refreshing your SAP copies, you increase the risk of data inconsistencies

and even data corruption.

Yet, in a traditionally managed SAP environment, copy, clone, and refresh tasks are manual

and can require that several teams, such as storage admins, server admins, virtualization

admins, and more, align and collaborate. The manual tasks and multiple participants can make

copy, clone, and refresh tasks complex, tedious, time-consuming, and costly. The pre-copy,

core-database, and post-copy activities for traditional SAP and SAP HANA databases — whether

physical or virtual — can take days to complete. It’s estimated that the cost to copy, clone, and

refresh each SAP system can exceed $800,000.2

TAKE BACK TIME AND MONEYSAP system copy, clone, and refresh tasks don’t have to take days and drain valuable

resources, time, and dollars — not with your SAP solutions powered by the Pure Storage®

Data Platform for the Cloud Era. You can save both time and money with the platform’s

fully integrated end-to-end SAP system copy automation capabilities using the Pure Storage

Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for SAP.

If you and your team are responsible for SAP applications, the Pure Storage CAT for SAP

lets you automate copy, clone, and refresh tasks and focus your time and budget instead

on new, innovative solutions with the SAP HANA platform, the Internet of Things (IoT),

artificial intelligence (AI), and big data — which can drive new business.

ACHIEVE

80–90% REDUCTION IN TIME AND COST FOR SAP® SYSTEM COPY, CLONE, AND REFRESH TASKS3

EMPOWER YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION BY AUTOMATING SAP® ACTIVITIES | 1

THE PURE STORAGE® CAT FOR SAPThe Pure Storage CAT for SAP provides an end-to-end integrated process to copy, clone, and

refresh SAP systems. It automates roughly 75 percent of SAP copy functionality without any

setup or configuration.3 The time saved can equal an 80 to 90 percent reduction in annual costs.4

With just a few clicks, and selecting the source and target systems, the Pure Storage CAT for

SAP empowers admins to perform pre-refresh activities, core-database copy activities, and

post-refresh activities and to monitor activity progress and validate successful completion.

Admins also have the flexibility to easily integrate additional SAP tasks into the

process and to customize the copy, clone, and refresh tasks to meet the requirements

of individual environments.

The Pure Storage CAT is embedded into every Pure Storage® FlashArray//M and FlashArray//X

solution. There are no separate license, maintenance, or subscription costs. It runs through

Purity//Run, an open platform for running applications on Pure Storage FlashArray solutions.

FlashArray solutions and Purity//Run are key components of the Pure Storage Data Platform

for the Cloud Era. All tasks run inside Purity//Run instead of your main system, which preserves

server performance for other tasks.

The Pure Storage CAT for SAP is currently supported for physical and virtual environments

running traditional SAP systems using Oracle® or Microsoft® SQL Server® databases and SAP

HANA workloads. Additional workloads are being developed all the time.

WHY CHOOSE PURE STORAGE TO RUN SAP® SOLUTIONS

Up to 75% COST REDUCTION when using SAP HANA® Dynamic Tiering5

3X FASTER deployment6

10X ACCELERATED PERFORMANCE for SAP solutions compared to traditional relational databases7

AUTOMATE ROUGHLY

75% OF SAP® COPY FUNCTIONALITY WITH NO SETUP OR CONFIGURATION3

Pure Storage® CAT for SAP• Embedded into every Pure Storage® FlashArray//M and

FlashArray//X solution

• Currently supported for physical and virtual environments

running traditional SAP® systems using Oracle® or Microsoft®

SQL Server® databases and SAP HANA® workloads

EMPOWER YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION BY AUTOMATING SAP® ACTIVITIES | 2

AUTOMATION AND MORE FOR YOUR SAP ENVIRONMENTThe Pure Storage CAT for SAP solution’s ability to automate an end-to-end integrated process to copy, clone, and refresh

SAP systems is just one reason to choose the Pure Storage Data Platform for your SAP solutions. Additional reasons include:

• A rapid return on investment and up to a 75-percent cost reduction when you run SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering on

Pure Storage solutions — plus additional cost reductions with Evergreen™ Storage from Pure Storage, consolidation,

and 10 times less power, cooling, and space costs.5

• A solution that’s three times faster to deploy than similar solutions and requires no tuning or workload-specific setup to deploy.6

• Access to 10-times accelerated performance for SAP solutions, compared to traditional hard-disk-based environments.7

sales@purestorage.com | 800-379-PURE | @purestorage

© 2017 Pure Storage, Inc. All rights reserved. Pure Storage, the P logo, and Evergreen are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

1 Magyar, Judith. “Energy Giant Shares Secret to Successful Innovation.” SAP Business Trends. August 2017.

https://blogs.sap.com/2017/08/02/energy-giant-shares-secret-to-successful-innovation/.

2 IZEN Marketing. “Manual SAP® System Copy Drains Enterprise Efficiency.” Commissioned by Redwood.

August 2012. www.redwood.com/press-releases/manual-sap-system-copy-drains-enterprise-efficiency/.

3 Based on internal Pure Storage estimations.

4 Based on 10 refresh cycles per year and the reduction of copy/clone from five days to one day.

5 Pure Storage. “Lower Costs and Comparable Performance Justify Migrating to SAP HANA Sooner.” 2016.

www.purestorage.com/content/dam/purestorage/pdf/whitepapers/PureStorage_SAP_HANA_Dynamic_Tiering_WP.pdf.

6 Pure Storage. “Where Are You in the SAP Journey?” www.purestorage.com/solutions/applications/sap-road-to-hana.html.

7 Pure Storage. “Why Pure Storage for SAP Solutions?” 2016. www.purestorage.com/content/dam/purestorage/pdf/

datasheets/pure_storage_sap_top_ten_one_sheet.pdf.

READY TO AUTOMATE AND INNOVATE INSTEAD OF DOING REDUNDANT, MANUAL TASKS?

Learn more about using the Pure Storage CAT for SAP and about using Pure Storage for your SAP environment at www.purestorage.com/

solutions/applications/sap-road-to-hana.html or contact your Pure Storage representative today.