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Fraport AG cuts costs and boosts performance for SAP Migrating from Oracle to IBM DB2

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • Europe
Country
  • Germany
Product
  • IBM DB2
  • IBM AIX
  • IBM Power Systems servers
  • IBM System Storage DS8000
  • SAP ERP
Tech Stack
  • IBM DB2
  • IBM AIX
  • SAP ERP
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Databases
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
  • Aerospace
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
Use Cases
  • Process Control & Optimization
  • Predictive Maintenance
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
For 75 years, Fraport AG has been a leading airport operator. Frankfurt Airport is one of the top ten airports worldwide. Furthermore, Fraport is a major shareholder in a two other companies that operate twelve additional airports on four continents. In total, it transports more than 164.7 million passengers and 3.6 million tonnes of cargo every year. Fraport Group has 20,000 employees worldwide, and achieved sales of nearly €2.2 billion in 2010. Like all aspects of air transport, the airport management industry is highly competitive and operates on very tight margins. As a result, Fraport maintains a continual focus on operational efficiency, seeking to cut costs across every aspects of its business while maintaining and improving service levels. The company’s IT teams make a key contribution to this cost reduction effort – both by developing innovative solutions that automate business processes, and by minimising the operational costs of the systems themselves.
The Challenge
Fraport AG operates Frankfurt International Airport and is involved in 12 other airports around the world. To succeed in this highly competitive industry, the company needs to keep its costs as low as possible while maintaining excellent service levels. The SAP® systems are a key component of operations at Frankfurt International Airport; but data volumes were growing rapidly, making these systems increasingly expensive to support. Due to these large data volumes – and the resultant need for additional high-speed disk storage and processing power – the cost of maintaining the SAP environment was rising rapidly. Fraport began to look for ways to improve the situation, and IBM suggested migrating from Oracle to the DB2 database platform.
The Solution
Working with IBM®, the company migrated its SAP applications from the Oracle database platform to IBM DB2®. Following a successful proof of concept project and a month of careful planning, the main migration of the 26 SAP systems hosted in the data centre in Frankfurt was completed within just five months. Subsequently, Fraport AG upgraded its server landscape to the latest IBM POWER7® technology, delivering further benefits. Using the same migration process that had been established during the proof of concept, the Fraport team was able to migrate 26 SAP systems (including production, development and quality assurance environments) from Oracle to DB2 within a period of just five months. The main applications include SAP ERP 6.0, SAP ERP Human Capital Management (HCM), SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM), SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW), and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI).
Operational Impact
  • Reduced total cost of ownership for the SAP database platform by 45 percent.
  • Compressed and reorganised databases, reducing sizes by an average of 47 percent and saving nearly 6 TB of disk storage.
  • Improved SAP performance by 10 percent on average, and up to 25 percent on critical billing processes.
  • Simplified management processes, minimising the need to retrain database administrators.
  • Utilised IBM POWER7 technologies to boost performance by a further 30 percent, even while reducing the total number of processors by half.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Reduced total cost of ownership for the SAP database platform by 45 percent.
  • Reduced sizes of databases by an average of 47 percent and saved nearly 6 TB of disk storage.
  • Improved SAP performance by 10 percent on average, and up to 25 percent on critical billing processes.
  • Boosted performance by a further 30 percent, even while reducing the total number of processors by half.

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