SAP HANA on IBM Power

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Gathering answers to your questions in relation to your future upgrade can save you time, money and avoid any negative business impact. We offer three workshops educating and preparing your team to deploy SAP HANA. SAP HANA Readiness Workshop SAP HANA Technical Hands-On Workshop Sizing Workshop These no-cost workshops prepare the SAP and IT teams to understand requirements and options to successfully deploy HANA.

Welcome to Clear Technologies SAP Infrastructure Practice

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We take a consultative approach ensuring your business is fully informed to right size and deploy infrastructure that is optimal for SAP solutions.

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SAP will provide mainstream maintenance for core applications of SAP Business Suite 7 Software *(EEC) until the end of 2027 followed by optional extended maintenance until the end of 2030.

Planning Your Migration Path to SAP HANA

Clear Technologies developed a methodology and framework during past migrations, implementations and conversions with our clients. Our framework is designed to maximize our clients’, time and investments and meet your specific needs and goals.

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30-Minute Discovery Call

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One-Day Readiness Workshop

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Personalized Roadmap to Migration

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Execution!

Run SAP HANA on a Platform Built for Big Data

Our designs exploit technology to reduce the amount of infrastructure required while achieving the highest levels of serviceability and availability. Representing several systems manufacturers, we know what each platform is capable of. We step through the marketing hype to educate the business on available options; whether in the cloud, on-premises or a hybrid solution ensuring the core of the business is always on and always available.

Controlling costs is important to every business, whether capital or operational costs. Clear presents options to use existing capacity, re-purpose and redeploy capacity or deploy parallel environments in a cost efficient, capacity as needed approach. SAP HANA is ideal for scale-up environments, making it ideal for smart server consolidation. This results in a lower TCA and lower ongoing operational costs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

SAP will provide mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 until the end of 2027, with optional extended maintenance until 2030. While you technically have until 2030, waiting until the last minute creates unnecessary risk and pressure. Most organizations begin planning 18-24 months before their target migration date to properly assess infrastructure needs, budget appropriately, and execute without rushed decisions or business disruption.

We offer three complementary workshops: SAP HANA Readiness Workshop (assessing your current environment and migration readiness), Technical Hands-On Workshop (preparing IT teams for deployment requirements), and Sizing Workshop (determining optimal infrastructure specifications). These workshops educate both SAP and IT teams on requirements, options, and best practices—helping you avoid costly mistakes before committing to infrastructure investments.

It depends on your specific requirements for performance, data residency, integration with existing systems, and cost structure preferences. On-premises provides maximum control and predictable costs. Cloud offers flexibility and eliminates hardware refresh cycles. Hybrid balances both. We assess your environment, workload characteristics, and business needs to recommend the optimal approach—we're not pushing a predetermined solution.

We provide end-to-end guidance through your HANA journey—from readiness assessment and infrastructure sizing through deployment planning, execution, and ongoing operations. Our consultative approach means we help you select the right infrastructure (even repurposing existing capacity when appropriate), work with your chosen System Integrator, manage project timelines, and design for 99.999% uptime. You get infrastructure expertise combined with SAP-specific knowledge many hardware vendors lack.

Possibly. SAP HANA has specific infrastructure requirements, but in many cases we can repurpose existing capacity, consolidate workloads, or deploy parallel environments cost-efficiently. Our Sizing Workshop determines exactly what infrastructure your HANA deployment requires, then we assess what you currently have and recommend the most cost-effective path forward—whether that's leveraging existing systems, targeted upgrades, or new deployment.

IBM Power Systems are specifically engineered for SAP HANA's in-memory computing requirements, offering exceptional performance, reliability, and scale-up efficiency. Power Systems achieve 99.999% uptime and enable smart server consolidation that lowers total cost of ownership. However, we're vendor-neutral in our recommendations—if another platform better fits your needs and budget, we'll tell you. Our IBM Power expertise simply means we can optimize that platform in ways generalist providers cannot.