Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi) Case Studies Animex Foods Enhances Productivity with Hitachi’s High Availability Data Storage

	Animex Foods Enhances Productivity with Hitachi’s High Availability Data Storage Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi)

Animex Foods Enhances Productivity with Hitachi’s High Availability Data Storage

Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi)

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Cement Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions	Maintenance Procurement
Use Cases	Construction Management Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	Animex Foods, one of the largest meat producers in Poland, faced a significant challenge in maintaining its processing plants' reliability to maximize productivity. The company, with over 11,000 employees and twelve plants, had a robust digital process and advanced data analytics supporting its business operations. However, as the company grew, it reached a point where it needed to add storage capacity. Its existing storage infrastructure could not be expanded, and the storage arrays had become too slow to support the fast-paced business effectively. The company needed a solution that could ensure continuous business operations, increase plant reliability, and maximize production output. Read More
About Customer	Animex Foods is one of the largest meat producers in Poland, with over 11,000 employees and twelve operational plants. The company has been recognized as the best employer in the agricultural and food industry in Poland. It owns successful brands such as Krakus for Polish ham and smoked meats and Morliny and Berlinki for sausages and hot dogs among others. Its processing facilities continuously monitor all its livestock and every stage of production. Its digital processes and advanced data analytics support business operations along the entire value chain—from procurement to delivery. Read More
Solution	To address the challenge, Animex Foods, in collaboration with its long-time implementation partner WASKO, deployed Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer. This tool helped them understand the performance issues they were facing with their existing storage systems. The metrics from Ops Center Analyzer enabled Animex to identify bottlenecks and reliability problems. Its machine learning capabilities generated recommendations for improving resource utilization. Based on these insights, the team decided to replace the entire storage environment at its plants. They deployed 16 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E590 systems across all its plants, plus additional arrays for backup and other infrastructure services. For its central SAP business applications and SAP HANA databases, Animex upgraded its existing storage solution to a new VSP E990 system. The company also relies on Hitachi Data Protection Suite to ensure business continuity at all times. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Cement

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Procurement

Use Cases

Construction Management

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Animex Foods, one of the largest meat producers in Poland, faced a significant challenge in maintaining its processing plants' reliability to maximize productivity. The company, with over 11,000 employees and twelve plants, had a robust digital process and advanced data analytics supporting its business operations. However, as the company grew, it reached a point where it needed to add storage capacity. Its existing storage infrastructure could not be expanded, and the storage arrays had become too slow to support the fast-paced business effectively. The company needed a solution that could ensure continuous business operations, increase plant reliability, and maximize production output.

About Customer

Animex Foods is one of the largest meat producers in Poland, with over 11,000 employees and twelve operational plants. The company has been recognized as the best employer in the agricultural and food industry in Poland. It owns successful brands such as Krakus for Polish ham and smoked meats and Morliny and Berlinki for sausages and hot dogs among others. Its processing facilities continuously monitor all its livestock and every stage of production. Its digital processes and advanced data analytics support business operations along the entire value chain—from procurement to delivery.

Solution

To address the challenge, Animex Foods, in collaboration with its long-time implementation partner WASKO, deployed Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer. This tool helped them understand the performance issues they were facing with their existing storage systems. The metrics from Ops Center Analyzer enabled Animex to identify bottlenecks and reliability problems. Its machine learning capabilities generated recommendations for improving resource utilization. Based on these insights, the team decided to replace the entire storage environment at its plants. They deployed 16 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E590 systems across all its plants, plus additional arrays for backup and other infrastructure services. For its central SAP business applications and SAP HANA databases, Animex upgraded its existing storage solution to a new VSP E990 system. The company also relies on Hitachi Data Protection Suite to ensure business continuity at all times.

Impact #1	Since moving to the latest Hitachi Vantara solutions, Animex Foods has achieved impressive performance improvements. The company has relied on SAP ERP for many years, and its main database is now almost 20 TB in size. Thanks to the ultra-low latency Hitachi storage, all 2,500 business users can access data from SAP ERP and SAP Business Warehouse almost instantly, enabling them to work more productively. The new storage has also enabled Animex to accelerate critical database maintenance tasks from 12 hours to just minutes. With new features such as Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR), which provides compression and deduplication, Animex has also cut costs by increasing effective storage capacity. Animex takes full advantage of Hitachi Ops Center to consolidate the management of its storage environment.

Impact #1

Since moving to the latest Hitachi Vantara solutions, Animex Foods has achieved impressive performance improvements. The company has relied on SAP ERP for many years, and its main database is now almost 20 TB in size. Thanks to the ultra-low latency Hitachi storage, all 2,500 business users can access data from SAP ERP and SAP Business Warehouse almost instantly, enabling them to work more productively. The new storage has also enabled Animex to accelerate critical database maintenance tasks from 12 hours to just minutes. With new features such as Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR), which provides compression and deduplication, Animex has also cut costs by increasing effective storage capacity. Animex takes full advantage of Hitachi Ops Center to consolidate the management of its storage environment.

Benefit #1	Increased plant reliability and maximized production output.
Benefit #2	Reduced critical database maintenance windows from 12 hours to just minutes.
Benefit #3	Accelerated key month-end closing reports and improved financial management.

Benefit #1

Increased plant reliability and maximized production output.

Benefit #2

Reduced critical database maintenance windows from 12 hours to just minutes.

Benefit #3

Accelerated key month-end closing reports and improved financial management.

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Animex Foods Enhances Productivity with Hitachi’s High Availability Data Storage

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