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Nets
Expanding into new markets with a scalable, resilient platform for trading partner integration
Nets is growing its payment processing services into new markets—and when it comes to B2B integration, downtime isn’t an option. To provide the secure, scalable and highly available platform it needs to process billions of transactions per year, Nets relies on IBM® Watson® Supply Chain solutions to communicate seamlessly with its trading partners.
Exertis (UK) Ltd.
Gaining flexibility to drive business growth with IBM Global Financing
Leading IT distributor Exertis teamed with IBM® Global Financing for a flexible solution that supports the company in managing working capital more effectively, driving business growth, and meeting required reporting targets.
Fuga Technologies
Unlocks creativity and generates million-dollar savings for marketers with cloud-based design-as-a-service
Creating marketing materials can be a time-consuming task that distracts graphic designers from more valuable creative work. Fuga Technologies uses IBM® Cloud™ to host an innovative solution that automates repetitive design tasks, cutting manual processes by 90 percent and helping businesses unleash their designers’ creativity at much lower costs.
Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration
Striving to make every journey safe for residents and visitors with cloud-based quality management
Icelandic weather is notoriously changeable, and ensuring that the country’s roads are safe is a constant challenge. The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration (IRCA) enables employees to check procedure on the move with a cloud-hosted compliance and quality solution, helping to preserve exceptional safety standards while boosting efficiency.
Bealls, Inc.
Getting the latest fashions into customers’ hands sooner by accelerating access to data
Clothing and home retailers must react swiftly to changing trends to keep customers coming through their doors. Beall’s, Inc. sped up reporting and analytics with IBM® Storage solutions, enabling rapid insight into demand to drive better purchasing decisions. By putting the items that customers want in front of them, the company keeps sales high.
Apoteca Natura
Creates innovative personal health and wellbeing services
Italian pharmacy network Apoteca Natura has created an innovative way for you to monitor your health and get expert, personalized advice. Working with IBM and IBM Business Partner Relatech—and using IBM® Watson® and mobile technologies—Apoteca Natura is transforming access to healthcare information and services.
EDF Energy
Invests in top talent to improve energy security for years to come
As competition heats up in the UK energy sector, powering a nation with clean, low-carbon energy is becoming much harder. To stay ahead in tough market conditions, EDF Energy worked with IBM® Services to streamline HR processes with SAP® SuccessFactors®—achieving dramatic efficiency savings and helping the company prepare for the challenges ahead.
Storyline Studios
Producing compelling TV shows faster with high-speed transfers for high-resolution video
The rise of streaming video services is changing the media distribution landscape. To help accelerate the production process and deliver shows to its clients faster, Storyline Studios uses IBM® Aspera® data transfer solutions to send raw footage from its shooting locations to its post-production teams at the end of each day of filming.
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EDF Energy
As competition heats up in the UK energy sector, powering a nation with clean, low-carbon energy is becoming much harder. To stay ahead in tough market conditions, EDF Energy worked with IBM® Services to streamline HR processes with SAP® SuccessFactors®—achieving dramatic efficiency savings and helping the company prepare for the challenges ahead.
Asahi Kasei Group
Expanding fast, Asahi Kasei Group was looking for ways to streamline and optimize its back-office IT systems. How could it support growth without the cost and complexity of infrastructure refreshes? Asahi Kasei developed a scalable platform that transforms operational agility by migrating to IBM Power Systems.
Ctac
The IT services market is notoriously crowded, with competitors jostling for share, but Ctac has a trick up its sleeve. IBM® Power Systems™ and IBM Storwize® storage enabled Ctac to launch new hosting services at ultra-competitive rates – including the next-generation SAP® S/4HANA® solutions – backed by outstanding SLAs to win new business.
Deufel
Deufel has been manufacturing high-precision medical instruments for over 75 years. To continue to thrive in the digital age, the family-run company worked with trusted partner Zimmerer to move its critical SAP® applications to IBM® Cloud for SAP Applications, gaining faster insights and optimizing business processes to improve customer service.
Technical University of Munich
The ProteomicsDB at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) offers vital support to researchers and medics developing radical new life-saving treatments. Working with IBM, the team moved the underlying SAP HANA® database from a cluster to the IBM® Power Systems™ platform, dramatically accelerating the analysis that helps fight deadly diseases.
itelligence Poland
As IT service providers jostle for market share, victory will come to the companies that outperform on cost-efficiency and service quality. By running SAP® ERP powered by SAP HANA® hosting services on IBM® Power Systems™ and IBM FlashSystem®, itelligence Poland can offer first-class SLAs at ultra-competitive prices, shaking off the competition.
Global Omnium
Global Omnium is dedicated to clean, fresh drinking water. The company looked for ways to optimize performance and maintenance, realizing that digital technologies could hold the answers. To manage the flood of data from new IoT sensors across its network, Global Omnium migrated its SAP® ERP applications to SAP HANA® running in the IBM® Cloud™.
Specialty chemicals company
Growing organically and through acquisition, this chemicals company’s business processes had become overly complicated. To reach a new target operating model based on fresh digital processes, the company required a new strategy. With SAP® S/4HANA® offering the enabling technologies, how could it maximize business value from this major investment?
Fulcrum
As change sweeps through the global legal industry, firms struggle to keep pace. Fulcrum offers digital legal business platform solutions, built using tailored SAP® applications hosted on IBM Cloud™ bare metal servers certified by SAP for production SAP HANA® and SAP NetWeaver workloads, helping lawyers to focus on delivering world-class legal services.
Corning
Glass, ceramics and optics specialist Corning saw HR costs creeping up. How could it better manage the skills, resources and capabilities of its 45,000 employees? By deploying SAP® SuccessFactors® with assistance from IBM® Services, Corning gained crystal-clear visibility of its global workforce, cut operational costs, and boosted HR performance.
Large Latin American Insurer
By migrating its SAP® ERP and SAP Business Warehouse applications to the SAP HANA® database and deploying IBM® Power Systems™ servers and IBM Storwize® V7000 storage, this Latin American insurer realized 30 percent cost savings, releasing funds for investment in client-facing activities.
Cascades
A happy workforce equals a flourishing business. To compete more successfully with other big players in the packaging industry, Cascades engaged IBM® Services and SAP SuccessFactors to transform its approach to HR, focusing on raising employee engagement and satisfaction.
I-D Foods
Business processes that served family-owned I-D Foods in the past were now strained to the breaking point and bursting at the seams. How could the company streamline and optimize operations to make huge growth a reality? Using SAP S/4HANA®, IBM® Power Systems™ and IBM Storwize®, I-D Foods is transforming its business to deliver better customer service.
Logoplaste
How could plastics packaging manufacturer Logoplaste deliver perfection and optimize the business? Working with IBM® Services to integrate SAP® S/4HANA®, SAP Leonardo, SAP Ariba® and SAP Fiori® solutions, Logoplaste created scalable, zero-touch business processes, helping to satisfy the world’s thirst.
OSRAM
OSRAM has rapidly transformed from a traditional lamp manufacturer to a state-of-the-art lighting specialist, providing solutions for autonomous driving, facial recognition, entertainment and more. To adapt its business to meet fresh requirements, OSRAM harnesses superb agility from the IBM® Cloud™ and the IBM Cloud for SAP Applications.
Credendo
Every day, enterprises rely on Credendo to protect trade ventures against commercial and political uncertainty—but how does this leading credit insurer safeguard its own success? Credendo engaged IBM® Services to harmonize group-wide financial reporting on SAP® applications, delivering insight to help plan an even brighter future.
Granules India
Granules India is targeting ambitious growth, expanding its portfolio and entering new markets. To drive profitability, the company sharpened its decision-making by unlocking new insight into margins across products, manufacturing facilities and regions, thanks to SAP S/4HANA® deployed by IBM® Services.
Construction materials supplier
Have you ever given up on a purchase because the ordering process was a nightmare to navigate? This building materials supplier has transformed its digital strategy to make it simple for customers to buy and browse 24/7—online, in store and on mobile—thanks to SAP HANA® on IBM® Power Systems™.
Carhartt
To steer its transformation into a fully digital business, Carhartt worked with IBM Services to deploy IBM and SAP solutions. In doing so, the company released employees from manual working, enabling them to devote more time and energy to strategic initiatives.
Clothing retailer
As this clothing retailer undergoes a radical transformation to create a new, nimble business, its focus on the customer experience is paying off – with shoppers buying clothes every five months (rather than every two years previously), and web traffic up by 80 percent.
WMF Group
When you sip a foamy cappuccino at a luxury hotel, there’s a fair chance your beverage was made by a WMF coffee machine. To spur innovation while keeping production running, WMF Group shifted its SAP® ERP applications to the latest IBM® Power Systems™ and IBM FlashSystem® solutions, and migrated its SAP Business Warehouse solution to SAP HANA®.
Shared Services Provider
To grow its business and help its parent company achieve even greater economies of scale, this company set out to provide its shared services to a broader range of industries. To meet new clients’ demands for enhanced support in logistics, inventory and more, the company worked with IBM® Services to deploy SAP S/4HANA®.
LiquidPower (LSPI)
When LSPI planned to become a standalone company within Berkshire Hathaway, how could it migrate systems and processes with zero disruption to customers? With IBM® Services and IBM Cloud Migration, LSPI migrated to the IBM Cloud for SAP Applications – a transition overseen by one internal IT manager – all in a year of growth.
The Kraft Heinz Company
To seize a bigger slice of the Russian market and to address new customer segments, The Kraft Heinz Company purchased a baby-food factory in Ivanovo. To onboard the new acquisition, The Kraft Heinz Company engaged IBM® Services to migrate the factory to SAP® ERP, unlocking deeper operational insight and major time savings on reporting.
Juhayna
Developing new products was the key to Juhayna’s growth – but adding new manufacturing processes and systems to an aging IT infrastructure threatened to harm efficiency and eat into margins. Today, Juhayna can onboard new manufacturing facilities seamlessly and without disruption, enabling it to bring new products to market and support its growth objective.
Würth Group
To ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction and to sharpen its competitive edge, Würth Group improves business efficiency by leveraging the latest technologies from IBM and SAP. The company aims to generate game-changing sales insights, to help drive increased revenues and further enhance customer service.
Saint-Gobain CPS
With limited visibility of delivery processes, Saint-Gobain CPS could not give clients precise information on when shipments would arrive. Today, using a mobile app fed directly with updates from SAP® ERP and the company’s delivery drivers, clients have instant access to real-time information for efficient planning and operations.
Freudenberg IT
To win a bigger share of the crowded IT services market, you need to outperform rivals on cost, availability, service and performance. With SAP HANA® on IBM® Power Systems™, Freudenberg IT (FIT) has the perfect recipe – undercutting public cloud providers’ fees and delivering superb service quality to boost client satisfaction and win new business.
Technische Universität München (TUM)
To support its latest hosting services offering based on SAP® HANA®, the SAP University Competence Center (UCC) at TUM needed a cost-effective platform that is agile enough to meet changing customer demands at low cost. By selecting efficient, low-management IBM solutions, the university is able to run fast, simple and smart – protecting its reputation as a leader in putting research into action.
UOL Group
In the face of competitive pressures in the retail and hospitality industries, UOL Group uses SAP® ERP powered by SAP HANA® running on state-of-the-art IBM® Power Systems™ servers to facilitate analysis of data from its shopping malls, offices and hotels.
Faurecia
To provide longer windows for system maintenance, Faurecia chose to split its existing single global SAP instance into regional instances. The company worked with IBM® Services to perform the split and create a new dedicated SAP landscape for each of its three operational regions: EMEA, North and South America, and Asia-Pacific. A new central instance handles SAP master data for global consistency.
Grace Co., Ltd.
Grace worked with partner Lotus Business Consulting to build integrated business processes based on SAP® Business One® solutions in the SoftLayer® cloud—supporting growth while keeping operational costs lean.
Petrochemicals giant
In a hugely competitive market, this Arabian Gulf petrochemicals giant constantly seeks cost efficiency. Based on SAP® solutions for shared services (finance, procurement, HR, sales) and operations (maintenance, production, logistics, HSE) delivered by IBM, the company is embracing integration and automation, transforming into a leaner enterprise.
Veolia Australia & New Zealand
Veolia Australia & New Zealand (Veolia ANZ) worked with IBM Services to harmonize Finance and Procurement processes across its three core business units using the SAP® S/4HANA® solution. Vital systems reliability has reduced internal IT support requirements and managers are empowered to complete tasks on-the-go using SAP Fiori® on mobile devices.
Sociedad Militar Seguro de Vida
By deploying integrated SAP® ERP solutions, SMSV is able to align core financial processes with stringent industry regulations. Real-time financial information helps to support company-wide best practices, and the solution provides the capacity and scalability required for future needs.
Egyptian Refining Company (ERC)
ERC worked with IBM Services to deploy SAP solutions, helping the company better manage its business and reach aggressive construction deadlines.
CEWE
To retain its competitive edge and drive revenues in a shrinking market, CEWE deployed an e-commerce platform based on IBM® WebSphere® Commerce software, delivering a seamless retail experience to incentivize purchases, while expanding into new markets.
Motul Russia
Harmonizing business processes and deploying a single integrated ERP system has enabled Motul Russia to operate more efficiently and align its practices with those of other Motul Group companies.
AUDI AG
Working with IBM, Audi migrated more than 100 SAP systems from HP-UX with an Oracle database to IBM® AIX® with IBM Db2®. This huge migration was completed in just six months, with no disruption to Audi’s business. The SAP landscape now runs on a dual-data-center, ‘private cloud ready’ infrastructure, hosted by Audi and managed by IBM.
gkd-el
The stakes are high for IT service provider gkd-el, as even brief downtimes for its public-sector clients could impact the satisfaction of citizens who rely on municipal services. With the IBM® Z® platform, gkd-el can offer exceptional performance and availability for a range of SAP workloads at low operational cost.
Mengniu Dairy
Consumers in China have a growing appetite for dairy products. With its sights set on growth, Mengniu Dairy wanted to serve these customers better, by tailoring its offerings to suit local tastes. By empowering regional offices with deep insight into data from SAP® Business Warehouse, Mengniu is ramping up sales and satisfying a hungry marketplace.
International Textile Limited
To bring luxury bath towels to even more washrooms across the globe, International Textile Limited (ITL) is ramping up production – expanding its factories and reaching out to new markets. To serve customers even more rapidly, the company freshened up its SAP ERP applications, migrating to the SAP HANA database running on IBM® Power Systems™.
Union Bank
Union Bank has been on a steady growth trajectory since partnering with TPG Capital. As its staff expanded, the Bank required a more agile management approach. Union Bank partnered with IBM® Services to transform employee performance management, powered by SAP® SuccessFactors®. Now, strong employee contribution drives its undisputed success.
Asahi Beverages
Asahi Beverages outsourced support and maintenance of their business-critical applications such as SAP to IBM Global Business Services, enabling the company to focus on brand, product, distribution and customer service excellence as it continues to grow.
Columbia Sportswear
Working with Aviana, an IBM Business Partner, Columbia Sportswear implemented IBM® Cognos® TM1® and integrated the solution with its existing IBM Cognos Business Intelligence software and ERP systems.
Jordanian Electric Power Company
The Jordanian Electric Power Company is creating fresh revenue streams by building new offerings on the IBM® Cloud for SAP Applications.
SAP University Competence Center at Technical University of Munich
SAP University Competence Center (UCC) at Technische Universität München (TUM) implemented an integrated stack of next-generation IBM infrastructure and cloud management solutions, gaining a reliable, high-performance cloud platform to run SAP ERP, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA and also the innovative SAP S/4HANA suite.
United Breweries
United Breweries enjoys the taste of success, with 50% faster back-end jobs, by switching to SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems servers.
Avebe
Avebe transformed its agility by switching to a cloud-based solution integrated with SAP ERP for rapid, automated financial consolidation. Users can now view up-to-date performance data anytime, anywhere, for better decision-making, while cutting the time and cost of reporting.
Camposol
To build a unified company handling both processed and fresh foods, Camposol engaged IBM Services to transform the business, optimizing advanced SAP® ERP and SAP HANA® solutions.