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