Monday, December 6, 2010

Schwenk Cement KG upgraded SAP solution with

IBM's new store concept from IT infrastructure with mainframes, "TotalStorage DS8100 and DB2 database

The Schwenk cement KG, a leading manufacturer of cement, consumer goods and building materials, has reached a new IT solution significantly reduces the time needed for business-critical processes, such as for order and delivery, Finance, Con-trolling, warehousing and personnel. By installing the new IBM TotalStorage DS8100, "storage systems transaction and batch jobs running up to six times faster than the previous system. Currently, more than 15 million transactions daily.

One goal of swing was to create a central and powerful solution for data management as a "single source of information". Pivoting, turning to the IBM Business Partner Fritz & Macziol to develop a new "information on demand" solution. Here, a configuration based on the IBM mainframe, "eServer z890," is designed to run on the SAP R3 applications and IBM DB2 Universal Database. The server is connected to the DS8100 disk storage system that provides a capacity of 11 terabytes available.

Fritz & Macziol developed the concept for the configuration of the new IT infrastructure. "As the demands of customers rose to its IT systems, we sought a solution that velocities and provides scalability," said Michael Dürr, Account Manager at Fritz & Macziol. (IBM: Fritz & Macziol: ra)

No comments: