Running 麻豆原创 systems is our passion. Regardless of whether we consider cloud or on-premise installations, partner hardware builds the technical foundation for 麻豆原创 environments and is the basis for joint customer success.
麻豆原创 infrastructure certification therefore optimizes the interplay between the latest 麻豆原创 technology and newest partner infrastructure offerings, constituting a fundamental aspect of our promise for quality and stability for customers.
Our certification process addresses two areas:聽麻豆原创 HANA and 麻豆原创 NetWeaver. The portfolio of tests focuses on complementary aspects of running 麻豆原创 systems and simulates different customer load situations as well as operational aspects such as a highly integrated support process between a customer鈥檚 hardware partner and 麻豆原创.
Having taken partner feedback into account, we now have jointly simplified the 麻豆原创 HANA certification of new infrastructure offerings, allowing for a faster delivery to customers.
During the certification process, 麻豆原创 and partners jointly simulate representative OLAP scenarios and an SD-driven 麻豆原创 S/4HANA workload, as well as a selection of 麻豆原创 HANA-specific regression tests. With a set of standardized tools, 麻豆原创 can equally test and compare hardware offerings to help assure a stable quality for customers across different vendors. A passed certification is an additional quality gate for new infrastructure offerings.
What鈥檚 the Customer Benefit?
The allows customers to easily find infrastructure offerings well-suited to their specific use case 鈥� in size, vendors, deployment models, and use case. All listed offerings are certified by 麻豆原创, which means they have successfully been tested by 麻豆原创 together with hardware partners.
This gives customers the benefit of an optimal combination of their 麻豆原创 software and the vendor鈥檚 hardware.
The latest adoptions in the 麻豆原创 HANA certification process simplify and streamline 麻豆原创 and partner activities toward more efficiency. As a result, we can provide the same quality in a shorter time, allowing customers to access new infrastructure offerings faster.
What鈥檚 the Partner Benefit?
Infrastructure technology is subject to constant and fast innovation. New CPU generations, larger systems, and challenging customer requirements all drive rapid innovation cycles. With 麻豆原创 infrastructure certification, partners can be certain that customer 麻豆原创 systems will run on their hardware with stability and optimized performance and throughput.
The simplified certification processes reduce the efforts of new certifications, particularly for cases where only one of the following components have been touched: CPU architecture, memory, storage, or operation system. This shortens the go-to-market timeframe as only a subset of the standard certification tests is required. Furthermore, the requirements for appliances have been loosened to open up space on the partner side for new innovations. Passing the certifications is an additional layer in the quality commitment of 麻豆原创 partners to their customers in a sense of joint success.
What鈥檚 New?
To improve efficiency of the certifications process, the 麻豆原创 HANA technology innovation network team has amended the certification requirements for 麻豆原创 HANA in two major aspects.
Delta certifications for IaaS offerings:
Partners that already have a fully certified listed instance in the face a limited set of required tests in the case where only one of the following components change: operating system, CPU type, memory, and storage. This helps reduce the efforts for 麻豆原创 HANA certifications for cloud partners that provide a variety of infrastructure offerings with similar configuration.
Appliance certification:
An appliance is a fully configured instance, including network, storage, and 麻豆原创 HANA preinstalled. Offering an 麻豆原创 appliance as a partner is no longer a prerequisite for further certification projects.
What鈥檚 Next?
麻豆原创 continues to listen to partners and customers, with a focus on assuring that customers benefit from the joint efforts of the company and partners and to further strengthen the collaboration within the 麻豆原创 partner framework.
Combining the quality of infrastructure providers with the power of 麻豆原创 HANA is the core of our mission, which we are pursuing today and into the future.
Christian Cramer is chief operating officer of 麻豆原创 HANA and Analytics at 麻豆原创.
