Lenovo to Deliver Enterprise Cloud Solution for Users of SAP HANA® in China

Global technology leader Lenovo today announced an agreement with SAP under which Lenovo will deliver a new enterprise cloud solution created exclusively for customers holding licenses for the SAP HANA platform. This announcement fulfills a commitment, made as part of an expanded strategic alliance with SAP announced last year, in which the two companies unveiled plans to leverage smart-tiering memory support in solutions running SAP HANA delivering faster, more responsive data access.

Dubbed “Lenovo Enterprise Cloud designed for SAP HANA,” the new managed service is intended to open a simple and powerful migration path for customers seeking to leverage their investments in SAP HANA off-premise cloud environments. While the service will only be available in China, SAP’s decision to partner with Lenovo demonstrates the company’s ability to help customers, across the globe, implement SAP HANA solutions and smoothly transition to cloud computing.

Lenovo’s lifetime shipments of SAP HANA reached 6,800 worldwide, ranking it among the top two global leaders in this segment.

Lenovo to Deliver Enterprise Cloud Solution for
Users of SAP HANA® in China

·        Demonstrates Lenovo leadership
in helping customers capture benefits of SAP HANA

·        New managed service is latest
milestone in expanded alliance announced a year ago

Singapore, February 22,
2017 — Lenovo today
announced an agreement with SAP under which Lenovo will deliver a new
enterprise cloud solution created exclusively for customers holding licenses
for the SAP HANA® platform in China. To be named “Lenovo Enterprise Cloud designed for
SAP HANA,” the new managed service is intended to open a simple and
powerful migration path for China customers seeking to leverage their
investments in SAP HANA off premise in a cloud environment.

The new deal comes shortly
after the two companies crossed the one-year mark of an expanded
strategic alliance announced in January 2016. It follows several other
significant milestones achieved last year as part of the joint
commitment to develop new cloud solutions for the China market, pioneer global
innovations leveraging SAP HANA and Lenovo server technologies, and execute collaborative go-to-market
programs. Lenovo and SAP have been working closely together, particularly in
China, since 2010.

The solution’s cloud
environment will be customized by Lenovo, with support from SAP, to optimize
performance and availability running SAP HANA-based applications such as
real-time data analytics. The core infrastructure will employ Lenovo’s
high-performance System x3850 and x3950 X6 servers, while the System x3650 X6
will power the application servers.

Lenovo will build and
operate the end-to-end cloud data center infrastructure for the
solution in China, while also managing and supporting its SAP HANA database and
applications, including customer technical support such as a hotline service.
The cloud solution will be sold by SAP and Lenovo, furthering the drive
by SAP to expand its market presence and offer off-premise solutions to its customers in
China. SAP also will help Lenovo with quality assurance during the deployment
and support process.

With the agreement,
Lenovo gains a major new channel for its industry-leading capabilities in
deploying SAP HANA and delivering its benefits. The company currently is among
the largest SAP customers in China and also runs one of the largest instances
of SAP HANA in the Asia Pacific region. By deploying SAP HANA in-memory
database technology deeply in its own organization using its own
infrastructure, Lenovo has developed vast knowledge of how to
optimize application performance, as well as implement the technology rapidly and
efficiently, which it applies to customer engagements.

Lenovo Enterprise
Cloud designed for SAP HANA will be available from SAP and
Lenovo starting in the first half of 2017.

Latest Milestone in
Expanded Alliance

Introduction of the managed service for SAP
HANA in China culminates a year of intense collaboration between SAP and Lenovo
flowing from the companies’ expanded alliance agreement. Some of the most
significant developments in 2016 included:

·        Announcement of a
new, smart data-tiering solution for SAP® Business Warehouse powered by SAP
HANA that manages “warm”
data, allowing customers to gain cost-effective access to larger amounts of
data, thereby driving improved analytics performance.

·        Unveiling of a roadmap for expanded memory
support in solutions running SAP HANA – up to eight-socket, 8TB configurations,
an advancement that will enable customers to expand their SAP S/4HANA® footprint
and deliver faster, more responsive data access.

·        With Samsung, SAP and Lenovo outlined a vision
of in-memory systems that will leverage 128GB memory technology to unleash
further performance advancements, as well as new levels of scalability.

·        Lenovo earned an SAP HANA Innovation Award for
its internal implementation to accelerate supply chain management reporting.
The company cut the time needed to generate reports from 1-2 weeks to 6-8
minutes, while enabling near real-time cost analysis and driving about $50
million in cost savings. 

·        Lenovo’s lifetime shipments of SAP HANA reached
6,800 worldwide, ranking it among the top two global leaders in this segment.