Boost SAP Performance with AMD64-Powered Solutions

Today's enterprise business applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer resource management (CRM), and human capital management (HCM), demand the highest levels of sophistication and performance. Businesses are confronting new challenges on an epic scale, such as globalization, industry consolidation, process and workflow optimization, supply chain management, and an aging core workforce.

Business applications vendors such as SAP, are developing solutions to support some of the most complex business processes imaginable. The applications designed to support these processes are very complex, and these sophisticated solutions depend on equally sophisticated hardware platforms.

Application platforms that use the Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor can realize significantly improved performance of business critical enterprise applications such as SAP. AMD Opteron™ processors have several technology advantages that can help improve the performance of your SAP application. AMD64 with Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport™ technology helps eliminate the bottlenecks inherent in traditional front-side bus-based systems by directly connecting processors, memory, and I/O devices to each core. By directly connecting these key system components, an AMD Opteron-based server can move data more efficiently throughout the system. The net effect is higher transaction rates and reduced response times in effect, allowing an enterprise to host a greater number of users on fewer servers.

Using AMD64-based solutions, your enterprise can consolidate servers, simplify operations, and reduce total cost of ownership without sacrificing productivity. In fact, AMD's customers have seen SAP processing times cut in half while simultaneously consolidating servers.

With seamless support for 32- and 64-bit SAP applications, choose the AMD Opteron processor to help your transition to 64-bit performance.

Explore the advantages of running SAP on the AMD Opteron processor

Improve performance

Boost response times and enterprise productivity.

• Proven 70% performance advantage on SAP two-tier SD benchmark results for 2-way and 4-way servers.
• Direct Connect Architecture addresses and helps reduce the real challenges and bottlenecks of system architectures.
• HyperTransport Technology provides a scalable bandwidth interconnect between processors, I/O subsystems and other chipsets.
• AMD Opteron processors consume only 190 watts of power per dual-core processor, providing better performance per watt than the competition while reducing cooling and floor space requirements.

Lower total cost of ownership

Consolidate servers. Save on operations and maintenance.

• Excellent performance further enables consolidation of application and database servers.
• A single management infrastructure administers all servers.
• Industry standard x86 servers with Linux® or Microsoft® Windows® operating systems save on training and support.

Prepare for the 64-bit future

Supports SAP's product releases on Linux x64 and Windows Server x64 edition Operating Systems.

• Simultaneously run 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same platform.
• Excellent performance for 32-bit and 64-bit applications.