IBM Case Studies Driving competitive advantage with real-time applications, enabled by SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

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Driving competitive advantage with real-time applications, enabled by SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

IBM

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Ctac, an ICT solution provider and SAP Value Added Reseller, noticed a growing trend among its customers towards more flexibility, faster business processes, and real-time analytics. The company realized that if it could enable its customers to leverage rapid insights into business data cost-efficiently, it could help them gain a competitive advantage. However, Ctac wanted to build a solution that would allow its customers to optimize their business processes without high up-front investments in IT. The company decided to look for the right configuration for core customer workloads that would enable synergies among traditional and new real-time analytics SAP workloads in a single environment utilizing its resources as efficiently and flexible as possible. Read More
About Customer	Ctac is an ICT solution provider and SAP Value Added Reseller headquartered in Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, with offices in Belgium and France. Offering business consultancy, cloud services, and software development, Ctac’s 486 employees generate annual revenue of EUR83.4 million. The company's core focus is on SAP solutions and it wanted to support its customers’ business process innovations with a robust, in-memory cloud solution, helping them to benefit from real-time insights and gain new competitive advantages. Read More
Solution	Ctac built a new, highly flexible and scalable cloud infrastructure to offer customers a robust environment for SAP Business Suite, SAP Business Warehouse and cutting-edge SAP S/4HANA applications and SAP Fiori mobile apps. The company partnered with IBM and SAP and created a tailored data center integration solution to provide innovative cloud services, based on SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems. The company deployed IBM Power System E870 servers with the latest IBM POWER8 processors, the leading IBM PowerVM virtualization technology, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. To provide fast and cost-efficient data storage, Ctac selected IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems with the integrated IBM Easy Tier technology, ensuring automated performance optimization across all systems and applications. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Ctac, an ICT solution provider and SAP Value Added Reseller, noticed a growing trend among its customers towards more flexibility, faster business processes, and real-time analytics. The company realized that if it could enable its customers to leverage rapid insights into business data cost-efficiently, it could help them gain a competitive advantage. However, Ctac wanted to build a solution that would allow its customers to optimize their business processes without high up-front investments in IT. The company decided to look for the right configuration for core customer workloads that would enable synergies among traditional and new real-time analytics SAP workloads in a single environment utilizing its resources as efficiently and flexible as possible.

About Customer

Ctac is an ICT solution provider and SAP Value Added Reseller headquartered in Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, with offices in Belgium and France. Offering business consultancy, cloud services, and software development, Ctac’s 486 employees generate annual revenue of EUR83.4 million. The company's core focus is on SAP solutions and it wanted to support its customers’ business process innovations with a robust, in-memory cloud solution, helping them to benefit from real-time insights and gain new competitive advantages.

Solution

Ctac built a new, highly flexible and scalable cloud infrastructure to offer customers a robust environment for SAP Business Suite, SAP Business Warehouse and cutting-edge SAP S/4HANA applications and SAP Fiori mobile apps. The company partnered with IBM and SAP and created a tailored data center integration solution to provide innovative cloud services, based on SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems. The company deployed IBM Power System E870 servers with the latest IBM POWER8 processors, the leading IBM PowerVM virtualization technology, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. To provide fast and cost-efficient data storage, Ctac selected IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems with the integrated IBM Easy Tier technology, ensuring automated performance optimization across all systems and applications.

Impact #1	Ctac can now provide the SAP HANA platform to a new customer within a few hours, cutting deployment time by more than 95 percent.
Impact #2	The company can offer the SAP HANA platform and applications like SAP S/4HANA in a pay-per-use model, allowing customers to start small and grow or shrink their systems as needed.
Impact #3	The advanced virtualization technology IBM PowerVM allows fine-grained assignments of server resources to customers to offer right-sized solutions and utilize the system capacity more efficiently.

Impact #1

Ctac can now provide the SAP HANA platform to a new customer within a few hours, cutting deployment time by more than 95 percent.

Impact #2

The company can offer the SAP HANA platform and applications like SAP S/4HANA in a pay-per-use model, allowing customers to start small and grow or shrink their systems as needed.

Impact #3

The advanced virtualization technology IBM PowerVM allows fine-grained assignments of server resources to customers to offer right-sized solutions and utilize the system capacity more efficiently.

Benefit #1	95% faster deployment of SAP HANA thanks to cloud technologies
Benefit #2	Up to 1000x performance improvements cost-efficiently

Benefit #1

95% faster deployment of SAP HANA thanks to cloud technologies

Benefit #2

Up to 1000x performance improvements cost-efficiently

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Driving competitive advantage with real-time applications, enabled by SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

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