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Migrating an SAP/ERP environment to Microsoft SQL Server can reduce unplanned downtime by over 20%, cut IT labor costs by nearly 25%, and cut ongoing software support costs up to 85%. Migration from competitive databases is made easy by tools, best practices, and certified SAP migration specialists. Payback is as short as nine months, with ongoing annual savings of 30%-37% possible.

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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.

• More information is available at http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/benchmarks.aspx.

Enterprise Services Explorer for Microsoft .NET (ES Explorer) from SAP has been made available through SDN as an early sneak preview.

The ES Explorer is an add in for Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 that lets you search, browse and consume SAP web services that are published and categorized in the Enterprise Services Registry that is part from the upcoming NetWeaver CE 7.1.

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Dec, 2007 — This white paper describes all currently available interoperability options between SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft SharePoint Technologies possible. Developed jointly by experts from SAP and Microsoft it aims to provide a complete overview over all relevant concepts, technical building blocks and integration scenarios known to date.

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