IT-Informatik: Staying ahead of the competition by cutting costs and deploying SAP systems faster
Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
- Europe
Country
- Germany
Product
- IBM Power System S822L
- IBM Storwize V7000
- IBM System Storage TS7620 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance
- IBM System Storage 3310 Tape Library
- IBM System Storage 3200 Tape Library
Tech Stack
- IBM PowerKVM
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
- SAP ERP
- SAP ERP Human Capital Management
- SAP Business Warehouse
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
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
- Software
- Professional Service
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Fleet Management
- Inventory Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
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