Category: Releaseplanning

SAP on Azure: General Update – June 2018

by Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager // 0 Comments

SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure platform. The key objective of the Azure cloud platform is to deliver the best performance and availability at the lowest TCO and simplest operation. This blog includes updates, fixes, enhancements and best practice recommendations collated over recent months. 1. M-Series is Certified… Read more

SAP on SQL Server: General Update – January 2018

by Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager // 1 Comments

SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the SAP on SQL Server platform. The key objective of the SAP on Windows SQL port is to deliver the best performance and availability at the lowest TCO and simplest operation. This blog includes updates, fixes, enhancements and best practice recommendations collated over recent… Read more

SAP on Azure: General Update – January 2018

by Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager // 2 Comments

SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure cloud platform. This blog includes updates, fixes, enhancements and best practice recommendations collated over recent months. 1. M-Series, Dv3 & Ev3-Series VMs Now Certified for NetWeaver Three new VM types are certified and supported by SAP for NetWeaver AnyDB workloads. AnyDB refers… Read more

Performance evolution of SAP BW on SQL Server

by Martin Merdes // 1 Comments

In SAP customer support, we still see several customers running old SAP BW code that cannot leverage the improvements we delivered within the last years. In this blog, we want to demonstrate the huge performance improvements which can be achieved even without hardware replacements. Until 2011, the standard configuration of BW queries on SQL Server… Read more

SAP Business Objects support of SQL Server 2016 and Azure products

by Juergen Thomas - MSFT // 0 Comments

These days, we get a lot of questions around SAP Business Objects components supporting SQL Server 2016. As of February 2017, the support situation looks like: SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1: As of SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1 SP09, SAP introduced support for SQL Server 2016 which got released for SAP NetWeaver in 2016 already… Read more

BW Queries by factors faster using FEMS-pushdown

by Martin Merdes // 0 Comments

Complex SAP BW queries often contain FEMS-filters. These filters used to be applied on the SAP application server, which was not very efficient. A new SQL statement generator in SAP BW implements an optimized algorithm for FEMS processing. We have seen performance improvements up-to factor 100. The actual performance improvement varies heavily for different BW… Read more

Recent SAP BW improvements for SQL Server

by Martin Merdes // 0 Comments

Over the course of the last few months we implemented several improvements in SAP BW. We already blogged about two improvements separately: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saponsqlserver/2016/11/14/simplified-and-faster-sap-bw-process-chains https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saponsqlserver/2016/11/25/improved-sap-compression-tool-msscompress In this blog we want to describe a few, additional improvements BW query performance of F4-Help Some BW queries were not using intra-query parallelism, because the BW statement generator did not… Read more

How to install or upgrade SAP Systems to SQL Server 2016 *updated*

by Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT // 2 Comments

On 4/10/2016, SAP released support for SQL Server 2016 for some SAP NetWeaver based systems. In this blog we will talk about how you can update your existing installations on SQL Server to SQL Server 2016, what you need to do when installing a new SAP NetWeaver based system on SQL Server 2016 and what… Read more

Top 14 Updates and New Technologies for Deploying SAP on Azure

by Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager // 0 Comments

Below is a list of updates, recommendations and new technologies for customers moving SAP applications onto Azure. At the end of the blog is a checklist we recommend all customers follow with planning to deploy SAP environments on Azure. 1. High Performance & UltraPerformance Gateway The UltraPerformance Gateway has been released. This Gateway supports only… Read more

SQL Server 2016 improvements for SAP (BW)

by Martin Merdes // 2 Comments

SAP recently released support for SQL Server 2016 for some SAP NetWeaver based systems, see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saponsqlserver/2016/10/04/software-logistics-on-sql-server-2016. SQL Server 2016 contains many new features which can be used by SAP. For SAP BW, particularly the improved columnstore features are relevant. An overview of SQL Server Columnstore in SQL Server 2014 is published here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saponsqlserver/2015/03/24/concepts-of-sql-server-2014-columnstore. The most… Read more