IBM Invests in the Delivery of SAP(R) Applications on System z Mainframe

IBM Invests in the Delivery of SAP(R) Applications on System z Mainframe

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it intends to invest up to $40 million over the next five years to test, enable and support SAP® applications on System z solutions, and to enhance existing SAP technical centers. This ongoing investment in IBM System z Technology Centers for SAP Applications in Germany and the U.S. enables a strong technical relationship between IBM and SAP that continues to be dedicated to the delivery and deployment of SAP® applications on System z.

The Technology Centers help support the new System z9 Advantage for SAP Applications — a series of offerings designed to provide customers with an advantage in implementing and running SAP applications on the mainframe platform. These offerings can leverage the IBM System z9 mainframe’s just-released specialty System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) for data-centric applications, the IBM DB2 database as well as services and offerings from IBM System z9 Technology Centers and IBM Global Technology Services.

The new offerings are intended to help improve price performance and reduce total cost of ownership for a wide range of large and medium-sized customers who look for high levels of system availability, data management, and security. “Customers in the U.S. and Canadian markets will be among the first that can benefit from incentives up to $250,000, with similar pricing planned to be introduced in Europe in the future,” said Jim Stallings, general manager, System z. “Compelling pricing combined with the mainframe’s legendary reliability and security features are attributes that organizations running SAP applications will find very appealing.”

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