Given today’s economic climate, companies are under pressure to cut costs while delivering real business benefits through strategic IT projects. Companies face numerous challenges when managing and integrating information across enterprise business processes. Customers need faster analysis and deeper business insight to improve their decision making and to respond to changing business needs. Companies frequently choose an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to fulfill these business requirements. The leading ERP applications with the greatest market share are the mySAP ERP and SAP R/3 industry solutions from SAP AG.

A critical challenge in implementing a mySAP solution is the selection of a data platform that can deliver the advanced features and capabilities needed to support the most demanding workloads. In many organizations, SAP applications have outgrown the memory addressing capabilities of 32-bit platforms. For example, frequent out-of-memory errors can occur when running large batch jobs on SAP application servers. In this situation, increasing memory capabilities in some 32-bit SAP processes requires complicated workarounds that reduce performance. For those SAP users considering a migration from a proprietary platform, HP Integrity servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 bring the cost of ownership advantages of Windows and standards-based servers, an affordable level of scalability, reliability, and flexibility to applications that previously required these expensive, proprietary solutions.