SAP Users Benefit from Citrix Application Delivery Solutions

Presentation Server, NetScaler and WANScaler Provide Improved User Experience

“The upgrade to SAP R/3 could not have been done as quickly without Citrix. It would have taken weeks to roll out the new SAP GUI to all our depots; with Citrix software, it literally took us hours.”
     Andries van der Vyver   |   e-business manager, Engen

Citrix extends the value of SAP ERP, SAP GUI, SAP NetWeaver Portal and SAP’s Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (ESOA) through application delivery solutions that enable more people, in more locations, on any device or network to enjoy convenient, easy, HQ-fast performance of SAP.

In fact, tests conducted in the spring of 2007 at SAP Labs’ Palo Alto campus, showed that Citrix Application Delivery solutions can reduce users’ transaction response times by a staggering 50 to 99 percent—even within SAP’s ESOA.  And while SAP Portal users enjoyed these reductions in WAN-induced end-user wait times, Citrix NetScaler was was also found to reduce SAP Portal server CPU utilization by up to 60%.

Citrix solutions also significantly lower the total cost of ownership of the overall application computing environment. Today, over 10,000 SAP customers, including SAP AG and Citrix themselves, leverage Citrix application delivery to improve their application environment and increase the time to value of their SAP investment.  Together, Citrix and SAP enable customer to have more agile and responsive business by creating a flexible IT infrastructure.

A valued solution for more than 1 in 3 SAP deployments today,  Citrix provides the following benefits to long-term partner SAP and its customers:

  • Staggeringly faster performance (2–20X), for various networks and transactions
  • Expanded access to applications through the NetWeaver Portal
  • Faster return on investment (ROI) from SAP solutions
  • Greater data security
  • Improved compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
  • Real-time visibility and tools to ensure that service-level agreements (SLAs) are met

Alliance Facts:

  • SAP is a Strategic Partner within the Citrix Global Alliance Partner Program
  • Citrix is an SAP Global Technology Partner and “member of the SAP NetWeaver Partner Initiative”
  • Citrix has dedicated onsite support resource at SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany
  • Citrix has a global SAP Competence Center at SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany
  • SAP AG uses Citrix technology to manage and deliver a over 40 applications (incl. the mySAP ERP Suite) to its employees, while Citrix runs its global business on SAP
  • Over 40% of SAP’s customers use Citrix technology for their SAP environment