84 per cent of mainframe users ambition to abate processing ability burning says new study
Crawley, UK – 8 December, 2008 - Following a analysis activity which articular that 84 per cent of mainframe users are analytic to abate the amount at which their systems absorb big-ticket CPU accommodation in the accepted tougher bread-and-butter climate, Macro 4 has appear a ‘no gain, no fee’ programme to advice accouterment the issue.
“We’ve just accomplished a abstraction of 97 UK mainframe users in which we begin an cutting 84 per cent capital to chargeless up processing power. With budgets tightening, this can accompany huge amount savings, including dabbling purchases of cher CPU upgrades. It aswell agency actual reductions in account systems software authorization accuse which alter in band with how abundant CPU ability was acclimated in the antecedent month,” said Chris Limberger, Marketing Manager - Application Availability, Application Performance, from Macro 4, which is a mainframe achievement administration expert.
Macro 4 is alms mainframe users a abbreviate appellation consultancy activity which guarantees to accomplish processing ability accumulation account at atomic alert the amount of its fee or they will not be answerable
IT industry analysts accept estimated that a lot of ample mainframe users can apprehend their systems’ burning of processing ability to access by 15-20 per cent annually¹, abstinent in Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS). This armament them to advancement their CPU or accident slower appliance acknowledgment times and ultimately bargain abundance and chump service.
“Even in the a lot of abiding IT environments MIPS burning gradually increases over time due to baby changes to applications, environments and databases. And the abrogating accoutrement of these about accessory alterations in programming cipher can be assorted as database admeasurement and transaction volumes grow. Macro 4’s MIPS abridgement programme provides a accident chargeless way for organisations to analyze and actual these changes,” said Limberger.
The antecedent consultancy appearance of the programme uses Macro 4’s achievement administration software to agreement to chargeless up CPU accommodation agnate to at atomic 200 per cent of the activity fees or barter pay nothing.
“We accept never bootless to bear at atomic this akin of saving,” acicular out Limberger.
The antecedent abbreviate appellation assurance will aswell analyze added accumulation that could be fabricated by adventure a added abundant activity application Macro 4’s software.
According to Macro 4 the specialist programme is able to accomplish abundant greater accumulation than mainframe users could accomplish on their own, acknowledgment to an able arrangement which identifies areas of boundless MIPS consumption, calm with a actual simple ‘drill down’ access which guides users anon to inefficient affairs cipher so that it can be adapted easily.
“Each added MIPS about costs about £2,500 in accouterments and software charges. So if a aggregation active a 10,000 MIPS arrangement increases accommodation by just ten per cent per annum, the incremental amount will be in the arena of £2.5 million. That’s appealing archetypal and we appear above abounding ample organisations that are paying millions of pounds added every year due to accretion MIPS consumption,says Limberger.
“In actuality it’s acceptable that customers’ affected investments in CPU upgrades are a agency in why revenues for systems such as IBM’s z alternation servers abide to increase, while sales of added server articles are currently on a bottomward accelerate as adumbrated by IDC’s² 2008 third division abstracts appear in December,” Limberger concludes.
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¹IBM’s Mainframe Endurance Will Pose New Challenges for Users, Rakesh Kumar, Gartner Research, May 19, 2006.
²IDC, 3 December , 2008 – (www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp;jsessionid=ME1MEOVSKQTAUCQJAFDCFFAKBEAVAIWD?containerId=prUS215541080)
About the Research
Macro 4’s analysis consisted of an online analysis of 97 IT admiral alive in UK organisations that use mainframe computers.
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide. Macro 4 is headquartered in the UK and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Application Performance Solutions advice companies to access agent productiv¬ity, adjourn accouterments upgrades and advance chump account by bound detecting, diagnosing and absolute appliance achievement problems such as apathetic acknowledgment times and inefficient use of processing capacity.
About Macro 4 MIPS Reduction
For added about Macro 4’s MIPS abridgement programme, download a MIPS abridgement abstracts area from www.macro4.com.
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Macro 4 - Users 'slam' vendors for not allowance to ascendancy mainframe processor consumption
Many barter agnosticism whether mainframe vendors absolutely ambition to advice at all
Crawley, UK - 13 January, 2009 - 89 per cent of UK mainframe users ambition mainframe vendors to do added to advice barter ascendancy the advance in the amount at which their systems absorb processing power, abstinent in MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second), according to new analysis from achievement administration able Macro 4.
Users are affected to ‘shell out’ millions of pounds a year to vendors for CPU upgrades in a bid to accumulate clip with ascent MIPS consumption. This may explain why a cogent amount - 39 per cent of those polled by Macro 4 - feel it in actuality may not be in vendors’ best interests to advice abate MIPS acceptance at all.
“Without these upgrades, users accident not accepting the processing accommodation to acquiesce their mainframe business operations to run efficiently. So abounding barter feel they accept no best but to absorb the money. And they are a big allotment of the vendors’ acquirement stream,” said Chris Limberger, Product Manager - Application Performance for Macro 4, which interviewed 97 UK mainframe users.
73 per cent of those polled said anniversary CPU upgrades are a cogent amount to their business and the drive to analyze IT account accumulation in the tougher bread-and-butter altitude agency that 84 per cent ambition to acquisition means to use beneath mainframe processing power.
The bad account for users is that IT industry analysts appraisal that a lot of ample mainframe users can apprehend their systems’ burning of processing ability to access by 15-20 per cent annually¹, abstinent in MIPS.
“Each added MIPS about costs about £2,500 in accouterments and software charges. So if a aggregation active a 10,000 MIPS arrangement increases accommodation by as little as ten per cent per annum, the incremental amount will be in the arena of £2.5 million. That’s appealing archetypal but if your business is growing and if you’re advancement the akin of action on your mainframe, you can apprehend abundant more,” said Limberger.
“We appear above abounding ample organisations that are paying millions of pounds added every year due to accretion MIPS consumption,” he added.
Even in the a lot of abiding IT environments MIPS burning gradually increases over time due to baby changes to applications, environments and databases. And the abrogating accoutrement of these about accessory alterations in programming cipher can be assorted as database admeasurement and transaction volumes grow.
One of the answers to authoritative MIPS advance is to use appliance affability and achievement administration techniques to actual these inefficiencies. This can acceleration up transactional throughput and abate appliance acknowledgment times. The aforementioned workload can be handled application beneath processing power, so companies charge beneath MIPS.
“Application affability and achievement administration is a bit like consistently accomplished affability your car engine to ensure it runs as calmly and bigger as possible. In our acquaintance even the a lot of well-run IT operations can accomplish CPU accumulation of about 10 per cent per annum. It can accredit you to adjourn that planned accommodation advancement whilst accompanying convalescent account levels. That’s why so abounding mainframe users are axis to it as they try to cut costs in the accepted climate,” said Limberger.
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¹IBM’s Mainframe Endurance Will Pose New Challenges for Users, Rakesh Kumar, Gartner Research, May 19, 2006.
About the Research
Macro 4’s analysis consisted of an online analysis of 97 IT admiral alive in UK organisations that use mainframe computers.
About Macro 4 MIPS Reduction
For added about Macro 4’s MIPS abridgement programme, download a MIPS abridgement abstracts area from www.macro4.com.
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Application Performance Solutions advice companies to access agent productiv¬ity, adjourn accouterments upgrades and advance chump account by bound detecting, diagnosing and absolute appliance achievement problems such as apathetic acknowledgment times and inefficient use of processing capacity.
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Crawley, UK - 13 January, 2009 - 89 per cent of UK mainframe users ambition mainframe vendors to do added to advice barter ascendancy the advance in the amount at which their systems absorb processing power, abstinent in MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second), according to new analysis from achievement administration able Macro 4.
Users are affected to ‘shell out’ millions of pounds a year to vendors for CPU upgrades in a bid to accumulate clip with ascent MIPS consumption. This may explain why a cogent amount - 39 per cent of those polled by Macro 4 - feel it in actuality may not be in vendors’ best interests to advice abate MIPS acceptance at all.
“Without these upgrades, users accident not accepting the processing accommodation to acquiesce their mainframe business operations to run efficiently. So abounding barter feel they accept no best but to absorb the money. And they are a big allotment of the vendors’ acquirement stream,” said Chris Limberger, Product Manager - Application Performance for Macro 4, which interviewed 97 UK mainframe users.
73 per cent of those polled said anniversary CPU upgrades are a cogent amount to their business and the drive to analyze IT account accumulation in the tougher bread-and-butter altitude agency that 84 per cent ambition to acquisition means to use beneath mainframe processing power.
The bad account for users is that IT industry analysts appraisal that a lot of ample mainframe users can apprehend their systems’ burning of processing ability to access by 15-20 per cent annually¹, abstinent in MIPS.
“Each added MIPS about costs about £2,500 in accouterments and software charges. So if a aggregation active a 10,000 MIPS arrangement increases accommodation by as little as ten per cent per annum, the incremental amount will be in the arena of £2.5 million. That’s appealing archetypal but if your business is growing and if you’re advancement the akin of action on your mainframe, you can apprehend abundant more,” said Limberger.
“We appear above abounding ample organisations that are paying millions of pounds added every year due to accretion MIPS consumption,” he added.
Even in the a lot of abiding IT environments MIPS burning gradually increases over time due to baby changes to applications, environments and databases. And the abrogating accoutrement of these about accessory alterations in programming cipher can be assorted as database admeasurement and transaction volumes grow.
One of the answers to authoritative MIPS advance is to use appliance affability and achievement administration techniques to actual these inefficiencies. This can acceleration up transactional throughput and abate appliance acknowledgment times. The aforementioned workload can be handled application beneath processing power, so companies charge beneath MIPS.
“Application affability and achievement administration is a bit like consistently accomplished affability your car engine to ensure it runs as calmly and bigger as possible. In our acquaintance even the a lot of well-run IT operations can accomplish CPU accumulation of about 10 per cent per annum. It can accredit you to adjourn that planned accommodation advancement whilst accompanying convalescent account levels. That’s why so abounding mainframe users are axis to it as they try to cut costs in the accepted climate,” said Limberger.
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¹IBM’s Mainframe Endurance Will Pose New Challenges for Users, Rakesh Kumar, Gartner Research, May 19, 2006.
About the Research
Macro 4’s analysis consisted of an online analysis of 97 IT admiral alive in UK organisations that use mainframe computers.
About Macro 4 MIPS Reduction
For added about Macro 4’s MIPS abridgement programme, download a MIPS abridgement abstracts area from www.macro4.com.
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Application Performance Solutions advice companies to access agent productiv¬ity, adjourn accouterments upgrades and advance chump account by bound detecting, diagnosing and absolute appliance achievement problems such as apathetic acknowledgment times and inefficient use of processing capacity.
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Macro 4 - SAP barter bent in advancement crisis
90 per cent of SAP users point to advancement challenges in new research
Crawley, UK – 22 April, 2009 - SAP barter who are planning on advance to the latest adaptation of the company’s action ability planning software, SAP ERP 6.0, are adverse a above ordeal, partly because of the aggregate of actual abstracts bottleneck up their systems, concludes a new European analysis by Macro 4.
90 per cent of the 135 SAP users from UK, France and Spain who alternate in the analysis accepted that assuming upgrades was a challenge. Their capital complaints included the time that upgrades absorb (mentioned by 73 per cent), the aggravation complex (60 per cent), and the staffing assets complex (50 per cent). 41 per cent of respondents were afraid about the accident of arrangement abortion afterward an advancement and 39 per cent were anxious about abeyant accident of data.
67 per cent of those questioned appear that a cogent admeasurement of the abstracts sitting in their SAP systems is changeless or actual advice and this is one of the arch causes of problems, according to Lynda Kershaw, business administrator at Macro 4, which is an archiving able alive with users to administer SAP data.
“Our acquaintance is that earlier advice which is actual hardly accessed constitutes as abundant as 80 per cent of SAP abstracts for abounding users. Yet alone 43 per cent of those we questioned said they currently annal this abeyant abstracts abroad from the arrangement – in the UK and Spain the abstracts were as low as 36 and 31 per cent. This apparently plays a big allotment in why upgrades are apparent as so painful.
“The bigger your SAP database, the added advice you’ll accept to drift anniversary time you advancement and the added time, aggravation and accident involved. So it absolutely pays to use archiving to accumulate your database lean, as SAP itself recommends. And with beneath abstracts in the system, you’ll aswell account from faster responses, beneath advancement and restore times and lower accumulator costs.”
81 per cent of users surveyed by Macro 4 said the charge to break on a accurate adaptation of SAP was a above disciplinarian for upgrading. This is putting added burden on IT departments as abutment for earlier versions of SAP alpha to run out amid this year and 2012.
“With all the testing required, and because it is a mission-critical appliance for a lot of customers, SAP advancement projects tend to crop 6-12 months to execute. So there is now some time burden to get upgrades completed. And some users acquisition they can alone agenda an advancement over Easter or Christmas because of the diffuse downtime,” added Kershaw.
Macro 4 explained that advance to SAP ERP 6.0 can aswell absorb a cogent access in the admeasurement of the SAP database, authoritative archiving even added important for optimising achievement and authoritative accumulator costs:
“Because of the way SAP 6.0 organises abstracts aural the database and because advance will absorb converting to the Unicode encoding methodology, this can advance to an access in the aggregate of data. An SAP 4.6c arrangement has about 32,000 database tables while the new SAP 6.0 adaptation can accept up to 100,000, for example,” explained Kershaw.
Macro 4 advises that SAP users with a database beyond than 400GB angle to account from archiving afore upgrading.
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About the Research
Macro 4’s analysis consisted of an online analysis of 135 IT admiral alive in organisations that use SAP. 55 of the sample were in the UK, 45 in France and 35 in Spain.
Macro 4 SAP archiving HealthCheck
Macro 4 is accouterment a chargeless bloom analysis to analyse users’ databases and analyze archiving possibilities. For added advice email market@macro4.com.
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Macro 4’s Document Management solutions capture, store, present and bear business-critical abstracts and abstracts electronically and physically in the a lot of adapted way to access the ability of key processes such as SAP™ ERP, appliance decommissioning and chump account via the Internet or alarm centres.
Macro 4 is a allotment of the UNICOM Group of Companies.
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Crawley, UK – 22 April, 2009 - SAP barter who are planning on advance to the latest adaptation of the company’s action ability planning software, SAP ERP 6.0, are adverse a above ordeal, partly because of the aggregate of actual abstracts bottleneck up their systems, concludes a new European analysis by Macro 4.
90 per cent of the 135 SAP users from UK, France and Spain who alternate in the analysis accepted that assuming upgrades was a challenge. Their capital complaints included the time that upgrades absorb (mentioned by 73 per cent), the aggravation complex (60 per cent), and the staffing assets complex (50 per cent). 41 per cent of respondents were afraid about the accident of arrangement abortion afterward an advancement and 39 per cent were anxious about abeyant accident of data.
67 per cent of those questioned appear that a cogent admeasurement of the abstracts sitting in their SAP systems is changeless or actual advice and this is one of the arch causes of problems, according to Lynda Kershaw, business administrator at Macro 4, which is an archiving able alive with users to administer SAP data.
“Our acquaintance is that earlier advice which is actual hardly accessed constitutes as abundant as 80 per cent of SAP abstracts for abounding users. Yet alone 43 per cent of those we questioned said they currently annal this abeyant abstracts abroad from the arrangement – in the UK and Spain the abstracts were as low as 36 and 31 per cent. This apparently plays a big allotment in why upgrades are apparent as so painful.
“The bigger your SAP database, the added advice you’ll accept to drift anniversary time you advancement and the added time, aggravation and accident involved. So it absolutely pays to use archiving to accumulate your database lean, as SAP itself recommends. And with beneath abstracts in the system, you’ll aswell account from faster responses, beneath advancement and restore times and lower accumulator costs.”
81 per cent of users surveyed by Macro 4 said the charge to break on a accurate adaptation of SAP was a above disciplinarian for upgrading. This is putting added burden on IT departments as abutment for earlier versions of SAP alpha to run out amid this year and 2012.
“With all the testing required, and because it is a mission-critical appliance for a lot of customers, SAP advancement projects tend to crop 6-12 months to execute. So there is now some time burden to get upgrades completed. And some users acquisition they can alone agenda an advancement over Easter or Christmas because of the diffuse downtime,” added Kershaw.
Macro 4 explained that advance to SAP ERP 6.0 can aswell absorb a cogent access in the admeasurement of the SAP database, authoritative archiving even added important for optimising achievement and authoritative accumulator costs:
“Because of the way SAP 6.0 organises abstracts aural the database and because advance will absorb converting to the Unicode encoding methodology, this can advance to an access in the aggregate of data. An SAP 4.6c arrangement has about 32,000 database tables while the new SAP 6.0 adaptation can accept up to 100,000, for example,” explained Kershaw.
Macro 4 advises that SAP users with a database beyond than 400GB angle to account from archiving afore upgrading.
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About the Research
Macro 4’s analysis consisted of an online analysis of 135 IT admiral alive in organisations that use SAP. 55 of the sample were in the UK, 45 in France and 35 in Spain.
Macro 4 SAP archiving HealthCheck
Macro 4 is accouterment a chargeless bloom analysis to analyse users’ databases and analyze archiving possibilities. For added advice email market@macro4.com.
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Macro 4’s Document Management solutions capture, store, present and bear business-critical abstracts and abstracts electronically and physically in the a lot of adapted way to access the ability of key processes such as SAP™ ERP, appliance decommissioning and chump account via the Internet or alarm centres.
Macro 4 is a allotment of the UNICOM Group of Companies.
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Macro 4 - Data blow threatens SAP software users
SAP Database Health Checks acknowledge accident of poor performance, blow and advancement problems
Crawley, UK – 10 June, 2009 – SAP software users are risking poor arrangement performance, blow and advancement problems by declining to abolish acting or actual abstracts from their SAP databases, according to a alternation of chump assessments agitated out by software company, Macro 4.
“We’ve been analysing the databases of UK SAP software users as allotment of a chargeless Health Check account and we’re award that their BASIS modules, which about accommodate acting abstracts such as bulletin logs, ball files and workflows, authority the additional accomplished aggregate of data. Only the Finance and Control module, which is commonly the amount of any SAP system, was begin to accommodate more. IT teams are declared to abolish BASIS abstracts as allotment of approved housekeeping, but in about 60 per cent of cases, it was larboard to accumulation up over abounding years,” explained Lynda Kershaw, business manager, from Macro 4.
The added abstracts captivated aural the SAP system, the harder it has to work, affecting achievement and acknowledgment times. More abstracts aswell agency college abstracts accumulator costs, best blow and disruption because it takes best to advancement the arrangement and to restore it in the accident of failure. Software upgrades will crop best because there is added abstracts to migrate.
The added above award from the 122 Database Health Checks conducted over the endure 18 months, was that 50 to 70 per cent of the agreeable of a lot of SAP databases is actual abstracts that could be removed from the abide SAP system.
“As able-bodied as problems with BASIS data, we begin that humans are blind on to a lot of actual data, such as balance and amount data, that no best needs to be on the system,” explained Nick Parkin, abstruse administrator at Macro 4 partner, Proceed, a abstracts archiving specialist. “When barter let their database accrue too abundant old data, we acquisition they’re hit with achievement problems such as slower acknowledgment times and timeouts on queries, as able-bodied as accumulation runs and backups demography best and acceptable harder to schedule.”
Macro 4 has been alms the limited SAP Database Health Check account to advice barter analyze how abundant actual abstracts they can annal off their systems. Customers are accustomed instructions on active a amount of specific affairs on their systems. The consistent statistical abstracts is beatific for appraisal by Macro 4’s SAP experts who accommodate a address ciphering the aggregate of abstracts that can be archived to advice advance performance.
“As you’d expect, the Finance and Control bore was about begin to authority the better aggregate of data, followed by the BASIS Module. Other modules absolute ample quantities were Payroll, Materials Management and Sales & Distribution. With the Health Check we’re able to account about how abundant of this can be archived, to accomplish achievement improvements such as bigger user responses and faster accumulation processing,” explained Kershaw.
Macro 4 is acquainted that upgrades are addition big ‘pain point’, abnormally as abounding SAP software users are currently in the average of planning upgrades to the latest adaptation of the software, SAP ERP 6.0. The ample aggregate of abstracts that users charge to drift exacerbates the aggravation complex and makes it difficult to agenda upgrades after diffuse blow abolition business operations.
“To abstain all the problems acquired by advancement a ample SAP database, users charge to accept in abode an advancing archiving action to consistently abolish actual abstracts and to bright abroad old BASIS data. This will accumulate their systems angular and active efficiently,” assured Parkin.
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Macro 4 SAP archiving Health Check
Macro 4 is accouterment a chargeless bloom analysis to analyse users’ databases and analyze archiving possibilities. For added advice email market@macro4.com.
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Macro 4’s Document Management solutions capture, store, present and bear business-critical abstracts electronically and physically in the a lot of adapted way to access the ability of key processes such as SAP™ ERP, appliance decommissioning and chump account via the Internet or alarm centres.
Uday Radia
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t: +44 (0)7940 584161
Crawley, UK – 10 June, 2009 – SAP software users are risking poor arrangement performance, blow and advancement problems by declining to abolish acting or actual abstracts from their SAP databases, according to a alternation of chump assessments agitated out by software company, Macro 4.
“We’ve been analysing the databases of UK SAP software users as allotment of a chargeless Health Check account and we’re award that their BASIS modules, which about accommodate acting abstracts such as bulletin logs, ball files and workflows, authority the additional accomplished aggregate of data. Only the Finance and Control module, which is commonly the amount of any SAP system, was begin to accommodate more. IT teams are declared to abolish BASIS abstracts as allotment of approved housekeeping, but in about 60 per cent of cases, it was larboard to accumulation up over abounding years,” explained Lynda Kershaw, business manager, from Macro 4.
The added abstracts captivated aural the SAP system, the harder it has to work, affecting achievement and acknowledgment times. More abstracts aswell agency college abstracts accumulator costs, best blow and disruption because it takes best to advancement the arrangement and to restore it in the accident of failure. Software upgrades will crop best because there is added abstracts to migrate.
The added above award from the 122 Database Health Checks conducted over the endure 18 months, was that 50 to 70 per cent of the agreeable of a lot of SAP databases is actual abstracts that could be removed from the abide SAP system.
“As able-bodied as problems with BASIS data, we begin that humans are blind on to a lot of actual data, such as balance and amount data, that no best needs to be on the system,” explained Nick Parkin, abstruse administrator at Macro 4 partner, Proceed, a abstracts archiving specialist. “When barter let their database accrue too abundant old data, we acquisition they’re hit with achievement problems such as slower acknowledgment times and timeouts on queries, as able-bodied as accumulation runs and backups demography best and acceptable harder to schedule.”
Macro 4 has been alms the limited SAP Database Health Check account to advice barter analyze how abundant actual abstracts they can annal off their systems. Customers are accustomed instructions on active a amount of specific affairs on their systems. The consistent statistical abstracts is beatific for appraisal by Macro 4’s SAP experts who accommodate a address ciphering the aggregate of abstracts that can be archived to advice advance performance.
“As you’d expect, the Finance and Control bore was about begin to authority the better aggregate of data, followed by the BASIS Module. Other modules absolute ample quantities were Payroll, Materials Management and Sales & Distribution. With the Health Check we’re able to account about how abundant of this can be archived, to accomplish achievement improvements such as bigger user responses and faster accumulation processing,” explained Kershaw.
Macro 4 is acquainted that upgrades are addition big ‘pain point’, abnormally as abounding SAP software users are currently in the average of planning upgrades to the latest adaptation of the software, SAP ERP 6.0. The ample aggregate of abstracts that users charge to drift exacerbates the aggravation complex and makes it difficult to agenda upgrades after diffuse blow abolition business operations.
“To abstain all the problems acquired by advancement a ample SAP database, users charge to accept in abode an advancing archiving action to consistently abolish actual abstracts and to bright abroad old BASIS data. This will accumulate their systems angular and active efficiently,” assured Parkin.
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Macro 4 SAP archiving Health Check
Macro 4 is accouterment a chargeless bloom analysis to analyse users’ databases and analyze archiving possibilities. For added advice email market@macro4.com.
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Macro 4’s Document Management solutions capture, store, present and bear business-critical abstracts electronically and physically in the a lot of adapted way to access the ability of key processes such as SAP™ ERP, appliance decommissioning and chump account via the Internet or alarm centres.
Uday Radia
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t: +44 (0)7940 584161
Macro 4 - Runaway abstracts advance poses business accident for SAP software users says new research
Survey highlights accident of advancement and restore pains, slower achievement and college accumulator costs
Crawley, UK – 9 September 2009 – New European analysis indicates that SAP software users are risking arrangement blow by blind on to ample volumes of actual information.
45 per cent of SAP software users accept their abstracts is growing faster than accepted and 69 per cent complained that their capital anguish about befitting ample volumes of abstracts in their SAP database is the time it takes to aback up and assure their system, according to a new analysis by SAP archiving able Macro 4.
“We’ve appear above organisations whose SAP databases accept developed so ample that backups crop over 15 hours, authoritative them difficult to agenda after abolition productivity,” explained Lynda Kershaw, Marketing Manager at Macro 4, which surveyed 135 SAP users in UK, France and Spain. “More importantly, abstracts restores crop abundant best than backups and we’ve announced to users with ample databases who apperceive it would crop them several canicule to get their amount business systems up and accessible afresh in the accident of failure. The appulse on sales and abundance could be catastrophic, abnormally for businesses that accomplish 24 x7, such as an online retailers.
“Some humans falsely accept that if they’re apery their abstracts at a accessory site, they’ll consistently get the arrangement aback instantly. But any bribery to abstracts at the capital website will just be mirrored to the additional location, so on abounding occasions you’re still larboard with diffuse blow as you try to restore ample volumes of abstracts from backup,” added Kershaw.
Other abrogating accoutrement of active beyond SAP databases cover the software responding added boring and abolition end user productivity, mentioned by 55 per cent of the survey. 47 per cent of respondents were anxious about greater accumulator accouterments requirements and 35 per cent articular slower accumulation performance.
The analysis indicates that a big allotment of the botheration is earlier advice which is hardly accessed. 67 per cent of respondents accepted that static, actual abstracts makes up a cogent admeasurement of their SAP data, but alone 43 per cent said they annal this abeyant abstracts off the system. In the UK and Spain archiving use was even lower - 36 per cent and 31 per cent respectively.
Archiving can crop actual abstracts abroad from the capital SAP database so that it no best impacts on arrangement assets or clogs up the advancement and restore process. Storage costs are bargain because earlier abstracts is removed from big-ticket harder deejay accumulator and placed on lower amount online media area it is captivated in acquiescence with industry regulations and charcoal accessible.
“It’s not just the amount of harder deejay amplitude that you’ll save by affective abstracts to beneath cher accumulator hardware, but the amount of managing the harder disk. IT industry analyst close Gartner estimates that the accumulator administering costs for managing one terabyte of harder deejay amplitude are 5 to seven times college than the amount of the harder deejay itself,” explained Kershaw from Macro 4, which works with SAP software users to administer their data.
Another point that Macro 4 was agog to accent is that abstracts confused into an SAP annal is just as accessible as if it were still abide aural the system:
“The archiving action is absolutely cellophane to the end user and a lot of humans would apprehension no aberration whether they were calling up something from the annal or from the abide environment,” said Kershaw
Nick Parkin, abstruse administrator at specialist SAP abstracts archiving consultancy, Proceed, credibility out that archiving is a alive action for the abounding companies who are currently advertent advance to the latest adaptation of SAP’s software, SAP ERP 6.0:
“Many organisations acquisition that the ample volumes of abstracts complex can beggarly it takes several canicule to apparatus upgrades, authoritative them a daydream to agenda - a lot of firms can’t acquiesce to be after their SAP arrangement for such a continued time. So it makes faculty to annal the aggregate of your actual advice afore you upgrade. You’ll accept beneath abstracts to migrate, authoritative the advancement faster and beneath complex. Generally we acquisition that upgrades generally run a third faster afterwards archiving so that disruption can be minimized.”
For organisations that are apprehensive if archiving would account them, Parkin suggests they attending at their accumulation achievement times:
“If you’re captivation too abundant abstracts in your SAP database, slower accumulation achievement and timeouts on queries are a allotment of the aboriginal things you’ll notice. Over time if you don’t abode the issue, things will get worse and you’ll get end users award the arrangement active boring and potentially even bigger problems such as crashes and downtime.”
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About the Research
Macro 4’s analysis consisted of an online analysis of 135 IT admiral alive in clandestine and accessible area organisations that use SAP. 55 of the sample were in the UK, 45 in France and 35 in Spain.
Macro 4 SAP Database Health Check
Macro 4 is accouterment a chargeless bloom analysis to analyse users’ databases and analyze archiving possibilities. For added advice email market@macro4.com.
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Macro 4’s Document Management solutions capture, store, present and bear business-critical abstracts electronically and physically in the a lot of adapted way to access the ability of key processes such as SAP™ ERP, appliance decommissioning and chump account via the Internet or alarm centres.
Macro 4 is a allotment of the UNICOM Group of Companies.
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Crawley, UK – 9 September 2009 – New European analysis indicates that SAP software users are risking arrangement blow by blind on to ample volumes of actual information.
45 per cent of SAP software users accept their abstracts is growing faster than accepted and 69 per cent complained that their capital anguish about befitting ample volumes of abstracts in their SAP database is the time it takes to aback up and assure their system, according to a new analysis by SAP archiving able Macro 4.
“We’ve appear above organisations whose SAP databases accept developed so ample that backups crop over 15 hours, authoritative them difficult to agenda after abolition productivity,” explained Lynda Kershaw, Marketing Manager at Macro 4, which surveyed 135 SAP users in UK, France and Spain. “More importantly, abstracts restores crop abundant best than backups and we’ve announced to users with ample databases who apperceive it would crop them several canicule to get their amount business systems up and accessible afresh in the accident of failure. The appulse on sales and abundance could be catastrophic, abnormally for businesses that accomplish 24 x7, such as an online retailers.
“Some humans falsely accept that if they’re apery their abstracts at a accessory site, they’ll consistently get the arrangement aback instantly. But any bribery to abstracts at the capital website will just be mirrored to the additional location, so on abounding occasions you’re still larboard with diffuse blow as you try to restore ample volumes of abstracts from backup,” added Kershaw.
Other abrogating accoutrement of active beyond SAP databases cover the software responding added boring and abolition end user productivity, mentioned by 55 per cent of the survey. 47 per cent of respondents were anxious about greater accumulator accouterments requirements and 35 per cent articular slower accumulation performance.
The analysis indicates that a big allotment of the botheration is earlier advice which is hardly accessed. 67 per cent of respondents accepted that static, actual abstracts makes up a cogent admeasurement of their SAP data, but alone 43 per cent said they annal this abeyant abstracts off the system. In the UK and Spain archiving use was even lower - 36 per cent and 31 per cent respectively.
Archiving can crop actual abstracts abroad from the capital SAP database so that it no best impacts on arrangement assets or clogs up the advancement and restore process. Storage costs are bargain because earlier abstracts is removed from big-ticket harder deejay accumulator and placed on lower amount online media area it is captivated in acquiescence with industry regulations and charcoal accessible.
“It’s not just the amount of harder deejay amplitude that you’ll save by affective abstracts to beneath cher accumulator hardware, but the amount of managing the harder disk. IT industry analyst close Gartner estimates that the accumulator administering costs for managing one terabyte of harder deejay amplitude are 5 to seven times college than the amount of the harder deejay itself,” explained Kershaw from Macro 4, which works with SAP software users to administer their data.
Another point that Macro 4 was agog to accent is that abstracts confused into an SAP annal is just as accessible as if it were still abide aural the system:
“The archiving action is absolutely cellophane to the end user and a lot of humans would apprehension no aberration whether they were calling up something from the annal or from the abide environment,” said Kershaw
Nick Parkin, abstruse administrator at specialist SAP abstracts archiving consultancy, Proceed, credibility out that archiving is a alive action for the abounding companies who are currently advertent advance to the latest adaptation of SAP’s software, SAP ERP 6.0:
“Many organisations acquisition that the ample volumes of abstracts complex can beggarly it takes several canicule to apparatus upgrades, authoritative them a daydream to agenda - a lot of firms can’t acquiesce to be after their SAP arrangement for such a continued time. So it makes faculty to annal the aggregate of your actual advice afore you upgrade. You’ll accept beneath abstracts to migrate, authoritative the advancement faster and beneath complex. Generally we acquisition that upgrades generally run a third faster afterwards archiving so that disruption can be minimized.”
For organisations that are apprehensive if archiving would account them, Parkin suggests they attending at their accumulation achievement times:
“If you’re captivation too abundant abstracts in your SAP database, slower accumulation achievement and timeouts on queries are a allotment of the aboriginal things you’ll notice. Over time if you don’t abode the issue, things will get worse and you’ll get end users award the arrangement active boring and potentially even bigger problems such as crashes and downtime.”
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About the Research
Macro 4’s analysis consisted of an online analysis of 135 IT admiral alive in clandestine and accessible area organisations that use SAP. 55 of the sample were in the UK, 45 in France and 35 in Spain.
Macro 4 SAP Database Health Check
Macro 4 is accouterment a chargeless bloom analysis to analyse users’ databases and analyze archiving possibilities. For added advice email market@macro4.com.
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
US and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Macro 4’s Document Management solutions capture, store, present and bear business-critical abstracts electronically and physically in the a lot of adapted way to access the ability of key processes such as SAP™ ERP, appliance decommissioning and chump account via the Internet or alarm centres.
Macro 4 is a allotment of the UNICOM Group of Companies.
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Macro 4 - Macro 4 Launches New Archiving Offering in Support of SAP® Solutions
Fast install archiving amalgamation speeds accomplishing of SAP solutions, improves achievement and enhances adversity recovery
Crawley, UK - 29th September, 2009 - Macro 4 today appear the barrage of its Data Archiving Packaged Service, a quick-to-implement, entry-level abstracts archiving account aimed at enabling faster upgrades of SAP® software solutions, by abbreviation the aggregate of abstracts that needs to be migrated.
“Many SAP barter are in the action of advance to the latest adaptation of SAP ERP 6.0 software,” said Lynda Kershaw, business administrator at Macro 4. “As SAP’s software is generally a business-critical system, upgrades charge to be completed as fast as possible, with basal blow and disruption. Our new service, which combines Macro 4 archiving software with specialist consultancy services, aims to get archiving projects abide as bound as possible, by affective older, changeless abstracts off the SAP database and into a abstracted archive. With beneath abstracts to migrate, upgrades are about completed 25-30 per cent faster.”
By abbreviation the aggregate of abstracts captivated aural the abide SAP database, archiving aswell cuts the processing workload, abbreviation acknowledgment times and enabling faster accumulation operations. Similarly, adversity accretion is improved, as there is beneath abstracts to aback up and restore.
Macro 4’s band-aid maintains archived advice in a aeroembolism anatomy on a secure, low amount accumulator server, from area users are able to acceptance it as accustomed through the SAP software application. Storage amount accumulation can be significant, as Kershaw explains:
“Saving a individual terabyte of deejay amplitude through archiving could abate your accumulator costs by as abundant as £150,000. This amount takes into anniversary accurate overheads such as personnel, training and accumulator administration systems, which collectively accomplish up about 75 per cent of absolute accumulator costs.”
The new abstracts archiving alms is allotment of SAP’s Packaged Services Programme in the U.K. and Ireland, which is advised to accommodate easy-to-implement, off-the-shelf solutions to abode acutely authentic business problems.
“SAP recommends archiving afore upgrading, authoritative the action quicker,” said Geoff Watts, arch of Business Development (Consulting) at SAP U.K. & Ireland. “The abatement of bombastic abstracts will aswell advice ensure that systems run added efficiently. As abounding of our barter will be advance to SAP ERP 6.0 over the next 12 months, we apprehend to see abundant appeal for the Data Archiving Packaged Service.”
Customers will be offered an antecedent database “health check” to actuate their abeyant for application archiving to chargeless up database capacity. Consultancy admonition is provided as allotment of the packaged account to advice barter adjudge which SAP applications are the best candidates for archiving. Assistance is aswell provided with implementing and configuring the Macro 4 archiving software and agents training.
The amalgamation is advised to be implemented for a individual SAP appliance and can be broadcast to cover added applications.
“The Data Archiving Packaged Service is the absolute best for organisations that ambition a fast, low-risk abstracts archiving solution. In a amount of weeks they can offload bombastic data, get their arrangement alive added calmly and accelerate their next SAP upgrade,” added Kershaw.
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About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
U.S. and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Macro 4’s Document Management solutions capture, store, present and bear business-critical abstracts and abstracts electronically and physically in the a lot of adapted way to access the ability of key processes such as SAP ERP, appliance decommissioning and chump account via the Internet or alarm centres.
Macro 4 is a allotment of the UNICOM Group of Companies.
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SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several added countries.
All added artefact and account names mentioned are the trademarks of their corresponding companies.
SAP Forward-looking Statement
Any statements absolute in this certificate that are not actual facts are advanced statements as authentic in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “predict,” “should” and “will” and agnate expressions as they chronicle to SAP are advised to analyze such advanced statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to about amend or alter any advanced statements. All advanced statements are accountable to assorted risks and uncertainties that could could cause absolute after-effects to alter materially from expectations The factors that could affect SAP's approaching banking after-effects are discussed added absolutely in SAP's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including SAP's a lot of contempo Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to abode disproportionate assurance on these advanced statements, which allege alone as of their dates.
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Crawley, UK - 29th September, 2009 - Macro 4 today appear the barrage of its Data Archiving Packaged Service, a quick-to-implement, entry-level abstracts archiving account aimed at enabling faster upgrades of SAP® software solutions, by abbreviation the aggregate of abstracts that needs to be migrated.
“Many SAP barter are in the action of advance to the latest adaptation of SAP ERP 6.0 software,” said Lynda Kershaw, business administrator at Macro 4. “As SAP’s software is generally a business-critical system, upgrades charge to be completed as fast as possible, with basal blow and disruption. Our new service, which combines Macro 4 archiving software with specialist consultancy services, aims to get archiving projects abide as bound as possible, by affective older, changeless abstracts off the SAP database and into a abstracted archive. With beneath abstracts to migrate, upgrades are about completed 25-30 per cent faster.”
By abbreviation the aggregate of abstracts captivated aural the abide SAP database, archiving aswell cuts the processing workload, abbreviation acknowledgment times and enabling faster accumulation operations. Similarly, adversity accretion is improved, as there is beneath abstracts to aback up and restore.
Macro 4’s band-aid maintains archived advice in a aeroembolism anatomy on a secure, low amount accumulator server, from area users are able to acceptance it as accustomed through the SAP software application. Storage amount accumulation can be significant, as Kershaw explains:
“Saving a individual terabyte of deejay amplitude through archiving could abate your accumulator costs by as abundant as £150,000. This amount takes into anniversary accurate overheads such as personnel, training and accumulator administration systems, which collectively accomplish up about 75 per cent of absolute accumulator costs.”
The new abstracts archiving alms is allotment of SAP’s Packaged Services Programme in the U.K. and Ireland, which is advised to accommodate easy-to-implement, off-the-shelf solutions to abode acutely authentic business problems.
“SAP recommends archiving afore upgrading, authoritative the action quicker,” said Geoff Watts, arch of Business Development (Consulting) at SAP U.K. & Ireland. “The abatement of bombastic abstracts will aswell advice ensure that systems run added efficiently. As abounding of our barter will be advance to SAP ERP 6.0 over the next 12 months, we apprehend to see abundant appeal for the Data Archiving Packaged Service.”
Customers will be offered an antecedent database “health check” to actuate their abeyant for application archiving to chargeless up database capacity. Consultancy admonition is provided as allotment of the packaged account to advice barter adjudge which SAP applications are the best candidates for archiving. Assistance is aswell provided with implementing and configuring the Macro 4 archiving software and agents training.
The amalgamation is advised to be implemented for a individual SAP appliance and can be broadcast to cover added applications.
“The Data Archiving Packaged Service is the absolute best for organisations that ambition a fast, low-risk abstracts archiving solution. In a amount of weeks they can offload bombastic data, get their arrangement alive added calmly and accelerate their next SAP upgrade,” added Kershaw.
-Ends-
About Macro 4
Macro 4 is a all-around software aggregation that helps organisations to advance the achievement of their analytical business applications by authoritative the circuitous simple. Macro 4’s solutions for appliance performance, certificate administration and appliance availability are simple to use, fast to apparatus and bear amount bound in even the a lot of circuitous IT environments.
U.S. and European subsidiaries and a arrangement of all-embracing business ally represent the aggregation in every above bazaar worldwide.
Macro 4’s Document Management solutions capture, store, present and bear business-critical abstracts and abstracts electronically and physically in the a lot of adapted way to access the ability of key processes such as SAP ERP, appliance decommissioning and chump account via the Internet or alarm centres.
Macro 4 is a allotment of the UNICOM Group of Companies.
# # #
SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several added countries.
All added artefact and account names mentioned are the trademarks of their corresponding companies.
SAP Forward-looking Statement
Any statements absolute in this certificate that are not actual facts are advanced statements as authentic in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “predict,” “should” and “will” and agnate expressions as they chronicle to SAP are advised to analyze such advanced statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to about amend or alter any advanced statements. All advanced statements are accountable to assorted risks and uncertainties that could could cause absolute after-effects to alter materially from expectations The factors that could affect SAP's approaching banking after-effects are discussed added absolutely in SAP's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including SAP's a lot of contempo Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to abode disproportionate assurance on these advanced statements, which allege alone as of their dates.
CloudNine PR
Watford WD17 4LN
UK
Contact: Uday Radia
Tel: +44 (0)7940 584161
Email: uradia@cloudninepr.com
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