Case Study : SAP HANA on Power to increase operational efficiency

Industry: Pharmaceutical

Client: Franchise retail pharmacies

Challenges:

Highly competitive market.
Increase the efficiency and performance of the company and thus continuing to stand out in the retail pharmacy industry

Solution:

A major technological shift with the implementation of SAP IS-RETAIL and SAP S/4 HANA and a new infrastructure including two IBM Power E850 servers on Linux, as well as two IBM Storwize storage units, to support the new SAP applications, replacing the existing ERP.

Benefits:

In addition to fully meeting the company’s new performance and operational efficiency requirements, the client simplified its production environment, reduced system management time, increased availability, and reduced the data center footprint.
In terms of agility and flexibility, the client is now able to support a fully virtualized environment, able to share resources and distribute workloads between production and non-production environments on the same platform.