EMC's longstanding partnership with SAP offers a proven path to optimal performance for the SAP NetWeaver platform and the SAP Business Suite family of business applications. EMC delivers enhanced flexibility, accelerated deployment, and time to value for SAP solutions.

In 2005, EMC was named a charter member of the SAP Titans of Technology. EMC is also an SAP global technology partner, a software partner, and a member of the SAP Enterprise Services Community.

Alliance Overview

Reduce project implementation time, accelerate upgrades and migrations, and minimize downtime – all while mitigating operational risk. EMC's information infrastructure solutions help you reach these goals in complex SAP software environments. EMC also helps you enhance the flexibility of the SAP NetWeaver platform.

EMC offers solutions for SAP software in the following areas:

• Content-enabled SAP solutions and collaborative business process management
• Extend SAP software to leverage multiple information types, including images and e-mail
• Create collaborative workflow processes that interact with SAP software
• Business intelligence and data warehousing
• Optimized performance, protection, and management
• Accelerated extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities
• Archiving
• Reduce costs for preserving historical information for SAP software
• Ensure timely, compliant access to historical information when needed
• Application life-cycle management
• Accelerate time to value for new functionality
• Assist with migrations, refreshes, and consolidations
• Information security
• End-to-end protection against information misuse
• Security auditing and assurance
• Data protection
• Ensure that critical information is available when needed
• Help your company meet recovery time objectives
• Landscape optimization
• Reduce resource requirements for SAP applications
• Minimize the operational effort required to manage an SAP software infrastructure

Key Customer Benefits

EMC delivers important benefits, including the following:

• EMC expertise in data center migrations and consolidation can help you improve return on investment when implementing or consolidating SAP applications.
• With EMC you have the world leader in applications business continuity and disaster recovery solutions -- critical expertise for the success of your mission-critical applications.
• EMC automated software solutions help you reduce risk and speed the application development life cycle.
• EMC is the leader in networked storage technology and utilizes jointly developed, SAP-endorsed best practices to implement infrastructure solutions with a lower total cost of ownership.
• EMC's tiered storage offerings categorize SAP software storage needs based on criticality, time sensitivity, and information value – so you can optimize your infrastructure for simplicity, performance, and cost.
• EMC supports and offers products that are compatible with the SAP NetWeaver platform's advanced programming interfaces (APIs), providing proven solutions and simplifying implementation.
• EMC's industry-leading service organization has teamed with SAP to provide joint escalation support – ensuring that your SAP sofware environment receives the highest levels of service.

EMC helps your company to better manage application life-cycle demands with:

• Faster implementations
• Tools to support higher quality testing
• Business continuity solutions that reduce risk
• Improved infrastructure manageability
• Scalable solutions and offerings to align the IT infrastructure with the changing value of information

Capabilities and Industry Expertise

EMC delivers enhanced flexibility and accelerated deployment and time to value for SAP solutions. By integrating EMC products and services into your SAP landscape, you can:

• Speed up deployment with automated data replication and landscape optimization
• Reduce risks and costs with automated back up and recovery and with a consistent business landscape
• Enable growth through data and document archiving, enterprise content management, and tiered service and storage

Testimonials

For the first time, information management offerings will be 'business process aware,' meaning customers can fully leverage the way their solutions from EMC and SAP optimize business processes by leveraging … service-oriented architecture. The development of a portfolio of ILM offerings, which are 'enterprise-services ready,' will allow our mutual customers to strengthen control over critical information assets, while at the same time, increasing operational efficiency, reducing costs and minimizing risks, as they deploy innovative business processes."
Peter Graf, Executive Vice President of Solution Marketing, SAP

Alliance Focus Areas

EMC will:

• Support SAP customers who migrate to the SAP ERP application
• Expand the EMC information infrastructure for the SAP NetWeaver technology platform and service-oriented architecture
• Continue to deliver new product interfaces for SAP solutions

EMC/SAP References

EMC and SAP share more than 5,000 mutual customers, and many of the world's largest and most complex SAP implementations run on EMC products. Joint customers include:

• Cincinnati Insurance
• Danfoss
• Home Depot
• ISE
• Jebsen & Jessen
• OfficeMax
• Techem Energy Services
• Toyota Motorsports
• T-Systems

EMC/SAP Knowledge Corner

• Techem Energy Services success story
• OfficeMax success story
• Cincinnati Insurance success story
• EMC solutions for SAP

You can find more information about EMC solutions for SAP.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Visit EMC online.

Contacts

Keith Gamble
Kurt Roedszus