Maximize the Value of SAP HANA Database Investments
Dramatically reduce HANA Database maintenance costs
Rimini Street independent, third-party support for SAP HANA database enables clients to save 50% on annual support fees and up to 90% on total support costs by avoiding expensive forced upgrades and self-support. By maintaining flexibility to use the database platform that best meets their needs without regard to full support deadlines or pressure to upgrade, savings can be reinvested to enable innovation that drives true business value.
Expert, personalized support for SAP HANA Databases
Switching to Rimini Street award-winning support helps SAP licensees maximize their investment in the SAP HANA database platform and avoid unnecessary upgrades throughout their entire SAP landscape. Clients can receive support for their entire SAP environment, eliminate the uncertainty of stopping SAP HANA full support for environment components, and improve service levels. Additionally, clients with support for SAP HANA database can receive strategic advisory services on interoperability, configuration, performance tuning, and application roadmapping at no extra cost.
Why Rimini Street
Rimini Street Support for SAP HANA database offers all the benefits of a single-provider, integrated support solution for databases and applications.
Better process
Engineers on the front lines mean clients aren’t burdened with multiple hand-offs of tickets or delays in SAP HANA database requests. Industry-leading SLAs of 10 minutes or less mean high priority P1 issues are addressed quickly with hyper-responsive care.
Better people
Rimini Street leverages Primary Support Engineers (PSEs) averaging more than 20 years of experience working closely with SAP HANA databases and SAP applications. The highly experienced team is on the front line for clients, leveraging years of knowledge in resolving issues, and proactively anticipating needs.
Better outcomes
Freed time and resources enable IT teams to address higher-priority, strategic projects knowing that SAP HANA database is supported by expert engineers.
Compare the value
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Named, regional primary support engineer with an average of 20 years of experience |
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10-minute guaranteed response SLA for P1 critical cases with 2-hour update communications |
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Full support with no required upgrades |
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Full support of current release for at least 15 years from contract date |
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Technical, functional, and application roadmap advisory services |
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Significant reduction in operating costs (budget, people, time) |
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Additional Database Solutions
Advanced Database Security
Database Management Services
“Moving to Rimini Street was an easy decision for us — a big move with very little effort.”
Featured Clients
The central applications run as expected, which provides peace of mind and allows the IT organization to focus on higher-value strategic objectives.”
– Walter Eckardt Head of IT
Rimini Street adapts to what we want to do. It is truly an extension of my internal SAP support team. ”
– Erik Looi CIO
Rimini Street has helped us to maximize the lifespan of our SAP system and to avoid unnecessarily spending money on upgrades. We’ve been able to redirect those funds into acquisitions and developing new products. We’re now spending money on growing NIBCO, not just keeping the lights on.”
– Jeff Miller Director, Business Relationship Management
Additional Resources
Drive Innovation for SAP with Expert Support
Now you can drive innovation for SAP by optimizing your current roadmap strategy. Find out how, in an informative thought leadership panel on SAP support services, featuring Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang, T-Mobile’s Senior Director of Product and Technology Erik LaValle, and Rimini Street SAP Support Services Leader Jennifer Perry. If you’re like most companies, your budgets are already stretched to the limit. Meanwhile, CIOs and IT leaders are under unrelenting pressure to drive innovation for SAP and manage the high cost of SAP support services. Not surprisingly, SAP seemingly wants you to follow its roadmap, timeline, and SAP strategy regardless of the impact on your company’s innovation. In this engaging panel discussion, you’ll hear Ray’s views on the state of SAP support services today and the growing challenges facing IT leaders. Plus, Eric will discuss T-Mobile’s practical approach to achieving critical innovations, flexible solutions, and superior customer experiences by leveraging Rimini Street support services for SAP.
Rimini Street Advanced Database Security (ADS)
Rimini Street Advanced Database Security is a next-generation database security solution enhanced with technology from McAfee that protects databases from known and unknown vulnerabilities by monitoring and analyzing database memory, and blocking attempted attacks using virtual patching before they reach the database.
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Drive transformation that creates competitive advantage
Today the #1 CEO priority is growth. With a majority of CEO’s seeing technology as a key enabler of growth, CIOs now have a mandate to innovate with investments in new technology initiatives. There is a catch though, budget. CIOs are typically spending as much as 90% of their IT budget on ongoing operations, leaving just 10% of the budget for innovation. In order to drive the business transformation that creates competitive advantage, today’s CIO must take control of their IT roadmap by creating a Business-Driven Roadmap designed around their business objectives, not the vendor’s. A roadmap that continues to utilize the vendor’s software and solutions, but on the CIO’s own terms and timeline, providing the flexibility, funding, and freedom to focus on initiatives that support the growth of the business. Eric Robinson, former CIO of Color Spot Nurseries discusses the strategy he took to increase Color Spot’s SAP footprint while driving down costs and enabling him to create a 5-year Business-Driven Roadmap with Rimini Street that leverages best of breed technology to support the needs of the business. Michael Louie, Director of Product Marketing hosts this 30-minute, interactive session.
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