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1. IBM Systems and Technology
Solution Brief
Eliminate Barriers
Between Real-time Events
and Business Decisions
IBM System x Servers for SAP Business One
Analytics, powered by SAP HANA
Highlights
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SAP Business One Analytics, powered
by SAP HANA™ running on IBM System
x3650 M4, x3550 M4 and x3500 M4 serv-
ers enables faster access to SAP data
with near real-time visibility into business
operations
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IBM® System x® servers powered by the
Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family speed
in-memory processing, enabling the anal-
ysis of massive amounts of data
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Invest in a future-proof platform that will
grow along with your business
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Free up your IT department’s resources to
deliver on strategic initiatives
In today’s data-driven culture, tools for business analysis are quickly
evolving. Small and 9-sized organizations need new ways to leverage criti-
cal data on the fly to not only accelerate decision making, but also to gain
insights into key trends. The ability to instantly explore, augment and
analyze all data in near-real time could deliver the competitive edge your
business needs to make better decisions faster—as well as take advantage
of favorable market conditions, customer trends, price fluctuations and
other factors that directly influence the bottom line.
Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA delivered on
IBM System x3650 M4, x3550 M4 and x3500 M4 servers, helps
transform the enterprise by addressing current needs while delivering
the robust scalability and performance needed to accommodate growth.
Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA running on powerful
IBM System x servers with Intel Xeon processor E5 family combines
the speed and efficiency of in-memory processing with the ability to
analyze massive amounts of business data—enabling small and mid-sized
companies to eliminate barriers between real-time events and real-time
business decisions.
Today, more than ever, information is key critical to business success.
Having the right data at the right time can drive key decisions which can
have immediate and lasting business impact. Access to real-time analytics
is critical to small businesses, where speed and agility are advantages.

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Solution Brief
IBM Systems and Technology
Data warehousing projects can be large and complex. Instead,
smaller enterprises now have a way to accelerate their access to
real-time analytics while keeping the cost of building and sup-
porting an analytics infrastructure as low as possible.
Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA, is a real-time
in-memory analytics platform for small businesses looking to
accelerate access to the wealth of insight that lies in their opera-
tional and strategic information. With a simplified IT landscape
for fast time to value, the platform offers the powerful benefits
of in-memory processing, such as greatly increased processing
speed, improved text and data mining and flexible modeling
abilities. Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA, can
be combined with SAP Business One to help create optimized
operational reporting and dashboards along with data discovery
and visualization functionality—enabling unprecedented levels
of insight into your growing business.
Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA, can provide
instant insight into your operations by supporting rapid cre-
ation of ad hoc views across the business, so you can analyze
all available data regardless of source and respond nimbly to
changing business conditions, no matter how sudden. Business
users can make better decisions faster with immediate access to
relevant information using analytic models that they design and
own—freeing them from reliance on the IT team and freeing
IT for initiatives that add value to your company.
Delivering real-time access to operational
insight
SAP Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA, offers
direct access to operational data without disrupting the perfor-
mance of your operational systems. It serves as the analytic
foundation for capturing and processing your business transac-
tions in real time with near-zero latency. Organizations can syn-
chronize key transactional tables in memory in near real time,
making these tables readily accessible for analysis with best-of-
breed SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions. BI tools powered by
SAP HANA, Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA,
let users get to the level of detail they need to make smarter
business decisions. Empowering business users to monitor
operations anywhere they are helps your company stay agile
and widens your competitive edge.
The IBM Systems solution for SAP HANA – Business One
Analytics, powered by SAP HANA, provides a flexible, cost-
effective, real-time approach for managing data, allowing orga-
nizations to dramatically reduce the hardware and maintenance
costs typically associated with running separate operational and
analytics systems. It works within your IT environment with
your choice of data types and sources. You can start today with
SAP Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA, and
achieve a faster time to value than you could hope to have if
you spent resources to develop a data warehouse that might
not ultimately fit your organization’s needs.
The analytics powered by SAP HANA run behind the scenes of
SAP Business One, a single integrated business management
application for small businesses that supports all core business
functions across your entire company. This means all of the
IBM System x3550 M4

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Solution Brief
IBM Systems and Technology
transactional and operational information within your SAP
Business One application is available for instant insight. You can
see your business as it exists right now—not as it existed when
you did your custom data extract, which was the case with pre-
vious generations of analytics and reporting technology. As a
result, users at all levels can make better decisions faster because
they have real-time access to information—along with the abil-
ity to explore and investigate more information before making
those decisions. For example, people can run simulations or
“what-if” scenarios instantly, as well as access fast-running
reports and dashboards that leverage the SAP HANA database.
In addition, they can access all your data in SAP Business One
with freestyle enterprise search and query large amounts of data
instantly. This means they can utilize more complete informa-
tion for more accurate insight. Equally important, this solution
can help increase productivity by putting users in control of
information. For instance, they can create and run ad hoc
reports without IT assistance and use the Microsoft Excel
interface to explore and report on data—all from within SAP
Business One. You benefit from empowered employees, lower
operational and IT costs, and faster information processing.
With a simplified analytic landscape having fewer layers,
Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA, forms the
technology foundation for new, innovative analytic applications
based on in-memory technology—such as planning, forecasting,
operational performance, and simulation solutions—enabling
business users to make informed decisions. Your company can
focus on innovation with a clearer, faster understanding of what
is working and what your market wants.
Delivered on IBM System x servers that provide the ultimate
balance of uptime, performance, density and cost efficiency,
SAP Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA effi-
ciently processes and analyzes massive amounts of data by pack-
aging SAP’s use of in-memory technology, columnar database
design, data compression and massive parallel processing
together with essential tools and functionality such as data
replication and analytic modeling.
Innovative servers provide the ultimate
balance between cost and performance
Depending on your datacenter needs, you have the flexibility to
choose either the 2U rack optimized System x3650 M4, 1U
System x3550 M4 or the more scalable System x3500 M4 tower
server. The IBM System x3650 M4 blends outstanding uptime,
performance and I/O flexibility for cost efficiency and rock-
solid reliability making it an excellent platform for your SAP
Business One applications including Business One Analytics
Powered by SAP HANA. This powerful server offers an
energy-smart, affordable, and easy-to-use rack solution with a
pay-as-you-grow design to help lower costs and manage risks.
IBM System x3500 M4

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Solution Brief
IBM Systems and Technology
With more computing power per watt and the latest Intel Xeon
E5-2600 series processors, advanced memory support, and
greater disk capacity for businesses requiring extreme storage,
the x3650 M4 offers balanced performance and density for
your SAP Business One Analytics powered by SAP HANA.
Redundant hot-swap fans, disks and power supplies, provide the
x3650 M4 with a resilient architecture ideal for business-critical
applications. Predictive Failure Analysis and light path diagnos-
tics provide advanced warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs,
disks, processors and memory. Redundant hot-swap compo-
nents make it easy to replace failures without taking your
system down.
The IBM System x3550 M4 is rack optimized server designed
for clients’ business challenges and offers the ultimate balance
of uptime, performance, density and cost efficiency for Business
One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA workloads in a 1U rack
package. It includes significantly more memory capacity than
previous models and new on demand features to help keep costs
low. Equipped with up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 series pro-
cessors, the System x3550 M4 offers up to twice the perfor-
mance as previous generation servers. With redundant and
hot-swap fans, disks and power supplies, the x3550 M4 provides
a resilient architecture ideal for business-critical applications
such as SAP Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA.
Predictive failure analysis and light path diagnostics provide
advanced warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs, disks, pro-
cessors and memory. Redundant, hot-swap components make
it easy to replace failures without taking your system down.
IBM System x3650 M4
Robust features accommodate growth
A high-performance dual-socket tower server, the IBM System
x3500 M4 can deliver the scalability, reliable performance and
optimized efficiency for SAP Business One Analytics, powered
by SAP HANA. Start with the basics and upgrade as your busi-
ness changes without jeopardizing existing investments. The
IBM System x3500 M4 is a tower server with an optional rack
conversion kit. It is designed for clients that need a larger
capacity system for more disk capacity or IO slots. It also
includes more memory capacity and new value on demand
features to allow clients to add new features or keep their costs
low. Equipped with up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 series
processors, the System x3500 M4 offers up to twice the perfor-
mance of previous generation servers. The x3500 M4 supports
the latest Intel micro-architecture, delivering intelligent
performance enhancements that adapt to your workload
environment. The x3500 M4 provides triple the storage
capacity of the x3500 M3 without the cost of external devices.
A flexible design and consolidated server help optimize inten-
sive workloads and provide greater utilization, making the
x3500 M4 a great choice for small and medium businesses.

5. 5
Solution Brief
IBM Systems and Technology
Simple to manage, easy to use
The Integrated Management Module 2 (IMM2) and
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS give the
IBM System x3650 M4, x3550 M4 and x3500 M4 a consistent
system level code stack for superior setup, configuration, and
ease of use. Optional remote control features provide the ability
to manage, monitor and troubleshoot from anywhere. Powerful
and easy-to-use tools can help you manage both physical and
virtual resources
With a unique combination of expertise, experience and proven
methodologies—and a history of shared innovation—IBM can
help strengthen and optimize your information infrastructure
to support your SAP applications. IBM and SAP have worked
together for 40 years to deliver innovation to their shared
customers. Since 2006, IBM has been the market leader for
implementing SAP’s original in-memory appliance, the SAP
NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA). Hundreds
of BWA deployments have been successfully completed in mul-
tiple industries. These BWA appliances have been successfully
deployed on many of SAP’s largest business warehouse imple-
mentations. IBM and SAP offer solutions that help move
business forward and anticipate organizational change by
strengthening your business analytics information infrastructure
for greater operational efficiency and offering a way to make
smarter decisions faster.
Summary
SAP Business One Analytics, powered by SAP HANA running
on IBM System x3650 M4, x3550 M4 and x3500 M4 servers
provides a real-time, in-memory analytics platform that
empowers small business to accelerate access to their opera-
tional and strategic information. It offers a simplified, easy to
manage IT landscape that provides access to real-time analytics
is critical to small business, where speed and agility are advan-
tages. Now you can have a powerful business analytics solution
that runs effortlessly with your SAP Business One application.
Because the analytics functionality is in the background, you
only see the incredible results—not the technology.
Tower Rack
Server System x3500 M4 System x3550 M4 System x3650 M4
Processor 2 x E5-2670
2.6 GHz/1600 MHz/20 MB
2 x E5-2670
2.6 GHz/1600 MHz/20 MB
2 x E5-2670
2.6 GHz/1600 MHz/20 MB
Memory 128 GB 128 GB 128 GB
SSD 8 x 128GB SATA 2.5in MLC HS
Enterprise Value SSD
8 x 128GB SATA 2.5in MLC HS
Enterprise Value SSD
8 x 128GB SATA 2.5in MLC HS
Enterprise Value SSD
RAID ServeRAID M5100 Series SSD
Performance Key
ServeRAID M5100 Series SSD
Performance Key
ServeRAID M5100 Series SSD
Performance Key
DVD UltraSlim Enhanced SATA DVD-ROM UltraSlim Enhanced SATA DVD-ROM UltraSlim Enhanced SATA DVD-ROM
Operating System SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for
SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for
SAP Applications
Options Rack mount kit

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Why IBM?
IBM System x stands out from the competition by offering
a full suite of innovative networking and storage options so
clients can take advantage of new technologies without disrupt-
ing their IT infrastructure, the financing to allow your clients
the room to maneuver, the services to deploy and run your
IT infrastructure, and software to power your clients’ business.
Finally, we utilize a business model that emphasizes our
dedicated sales force as well as local partners who have the
skills and expertise to implement and service your information
technology needs.
For more information
To learn more about the IBM Systems solution for
SAP HANA – SAP HANA, Business One Analytics,
powered by SAP HANA please contact your IBM representa-
tive or IBM Business Partner, or visit the following website:
www.ibm-sap.com/hana
Additionally, IBM Global Financing can help you acquire the
IT solutions that your business needs in the most cost-effective
and strategic way possible. We’ll partner with credit-qualified
clients to customize an IT financing solution to suit your
business goals, enable effective cash management, and improve
your total cost of ownership. IBM Global Financing is your
smartest choice to fund critical IT investments and propel
your business forward. For more information, visit:
ibm.com/financing
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