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SAP customers using the Microsoft® platform are confident in choosing Microsoft BI as an optimal solution that adds value to their SAP enterprise investment. The Microsoft BI solution enables customers to experience true pervasive business intelligence in their organization at a low cost through the tools they use every day.

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This paper describes the best practices for implementing a Hyper-V™ virtualized solution for SAP applications on a Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 platform. It introduces the technologies and architecture used, describes the available options for Hyper-V infrastructure planning, and discusses possible performance optimizations. This paper also contains information about lifecycle management and using the System Center Virtual Machine Manager to manage the Hyper-V infrastructure. It is written for developers, technical consultants, and solution architects. Readers are expected to have administrator level SAP knowledge, and a basic knowledge of Hyper-V and SQL Server.

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Microsoft announces Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Certification for SAP Business Suite 7, and new enterprise support and services.

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New TPC-E performance benchmark results from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)(1) rank Microsoft SQL Server 2008 No. 1 for price/performance(2) on industry-leading hardware using Intel Corporation's new Dunnington x64 processor, and on another TPC-E release, SQL Server 2008 is No. 1 for performance(3) using the new IBM System x3950 M2 server.

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This latest benchmark demonstrates an increase of throughput of nearly a factor of three over the past four years with industry-standard hardware. With the demonstrated throughput by SQL Server 2008 x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64 running on industry-standard hardware is expected to cover scalability needs of at least 97 percent of all SAP deployments worldwide.

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