Oracle Database for SAP

Oracle leads the market for databases supporting enterprise business applications such as the SAP Business Suite. More than two-thirds of all midsize to high-end SAP customers in every industry entrust their application deployments to Oracle databases.

Organizations are running SAP applications with Oracle databases on the same code base on Unix, Linux, Windows, and the Oracle Solaris operating system. And with the release of Oracle Database 11g Release 2, SAP customers are benefitting from innovative features such as self-tuning database components, sophisticated partitioning schemes, and data compression that enables high performance, greater scalability, and optimal use of hardware resources for enterprise applications.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 is now certified for use in an SAP environment on Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms.

• Read the White Paper: Oracle: The Database of Choice for Deploying SAP Solutions (PDF)

The Oracle Database is the #1 database among SAP customers around the globe. This very large and growing customer base gains a cost benefit from the two companies’ technologies in the long term and receives first-class database support from both Oracle and SAP.

SAP R/3 was originally developed on Oracle, and the companies have a deep relationship at the technical level. Subsequent SAP products, such SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) have also been developed using the Oracle database. Oracle's assistance during incorporation of new database features, performance testing, bug fixing, and customer problem escalations has been invaluable to the large number of SAP customers running on Oracle.

Oracle deploys a significant amount of resources at SAP locations around the world to deliver safe, reliable, and scalable DB technology and round-the-clock services with a dedicated, long-term commitment to the mutual customer base.

The Oracle Database offers a wide range of benefits for SAP customers in terms of:

In addition to delivering unified support with SAP, technical experts in Oracle’s Solution Support Center for SAP also provide a variety of services, workshops, and engagements tailored to specific customer needs through Advanced Customer Services, including:

Advanced Customer Services offerings include:

• Advanced Support Assistance
• Business-Critical Assistance
• Solution Support Center
• Technical Skill Workshops
• Assisted Services Engagements
• Data Sheet: Advanced Customer Services—Database Services for SAP Environments