IBM Case Studies IT-Informatik: Staying ahead of the competition by cutting costs and deploying SAP systems faster

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IT-Informatik: Staying ahead of the competition by cutting costs and deploying SAP systems faster

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Professional Service Software
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Fleet Management Inventory Management Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	IT-Informatik, a provider of SAP solution hosting and cloud services for medium-sized companies, aimed to boost retention and win new business by creating highly competitive and flexible offerings. However, its complex hosting environment made it difficult to set up client environments cost-effectively. With existing systems at or near capacity, IT-Informatik looked for ways to expand the scope, performance and capabilities of its hosting and cloud services. The company realized that if it could accelerate the deployment of new SAP application environments, it could onboard new customers more rapidly and respond faster to clients’ changing business needs. Read More
About Customer	IT-Informatik is a company headquartered in Ulm, Germany. It offers SAP consulting and hosting services. The company also develops online shops and web-based business to business applications. IT-Informatik employs more than 300 people and reports annual revenues of approximately EUR30 million (USD33.1 million). The company provides SAP solution hosting and cloud services for medium-sized companies. For example, the company hosts SAP ERP applications for financials, controlling, materials management, production planning, as well as SAP ERP Human Capital Management and SAP Business Warehouse. Read More
Solution	To simplify and optimize its SAP application hosting and cloud services, IT-Informatik used SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on an IBM Power System S822L server with IBM PowerKVM virtualization. The company runs the majority of its customers’ mission-critical solutions on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM POWER. The company recognized that consolidating its servers to a single IBM Power Systems server running multiple virtual machines would dramatically simplify the IT environment, cut costs and increase system flexibility. To expand its fully virtualized and automated environment for SAP application hosting, IT-Informatik worked with IBM to deploy an additional IBM Power System S822L server, IBM PowerKVM virtualization and the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power operating system in combination with two IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems. 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

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Professional Service

Software

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Fleet Management

Inventory Management

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

IT-Informatik, a provider of SAP solution hosting and cloud services for medium-sized companies, aimed to boost retention and win new business by creating highly competitive and flexible offerings. However, its complex hosting environment made it difficult to set up client environments cost-effectively. With existing systems at or near capacity, IT-Informatik looked for ways to expand the scope, performance and capabilities of its hosting and cloud services. The company realized that if it could accelerate the deployment of new SAP application environments, it could onboard new customers more rapidly and respond faster to clients’ changing business needs.

About Customer

IT-Informatik is a company headquartered in Ulm, Germany. It offers SAP consulting and hosting services. The company also develops online shops and web-based business to business applications. IT-Informatik employs more than 300 people and reports annual revenues of approximately EUR30 million (USD33.1 million). The company provides SAP solution hosting and cloud services for medium-sized companies. For example, the company hosts SAP ERP applications for financials, controlling, materials management, production planning, as well as SAP ERP Human Capital Management and SAP Business Warehouse.

Solution

To simplify and optimize its SAP application hosting and cloud services, IT-Informatik used SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on an IBM Power System S822L server with IBM PowerKVM virtualization. The company runs the majority of its customers’ mission-critical solutions on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM POWER. The company recognized that consolidating its servers to a single IBM Power Systems server running multiple virtual machines would dramatically simplify the IT environment, cut costs and increase system flexibility. To expand its fully virtualized and automated environment for SAP application hosting, IT-Informatik worked with IBM to deploy an additional IBM Power System S822L server, IBM PowerKVM virtualization and the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power operating system in combination with two IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems.

Impact #1	Homogeneous, cross-platform administration cuts costs and helps deploy SAP applications 75 percent faster.
Impact #2	The company has increased business agility and substantially reduced its total cost of ownership, enabling more competitive pricing.

Impact #1

Homogeneous, cross-platform administration cuts costs and helps deploy SAP applications 75 percent faster.

Impact #2

The company has increased business agility and substantially reduced its total cost of ownership, enabling more competitive pricing.

Benefit #1	Deploy SAP applications 75 percent faster.
Benefit #2	Doubled per-core performance compared to x86 servers.

Benefit #1

Deploy SAP applications 75 percent faster.

Benefit #2

Doubled per-core performance compared to x86 servers.

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IT-Informatik: Staying ahead of the competition by cutting costs and deploying SAP systems faster

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