New Stories
IRIS Financial Services S.A., a Canon company
Encouraging the sustainability of archived financial data
Filling an overlooked market need, IBM Business Partner IRIS launched a legal archiving platform that helps simplify compliance efforts while aligning with established best practices and client confidentially demands. The solution takes advantage of the virtualization features of IBM® Power® Systems and IBM System Storage™ hardware, which is designed for reliability.
ERI Bancaire
Private banking meets the public cloud
Targeting the private banking market, IBM Business Partner ERI Bancaire enhanced its core banking system to further support a software as a service (SaaS) model. Backed by the public IBM® Cloud™, the platform delivers a browser-based, real-time solution capable of customizing processes and workflows to meet variable business practices and regulations.
Blue NAP Americas
New cloud infrastructure becomes top revenue driver for Tier IV data center
Blue NAP Americas needed a new cloud platform that could deliver cloud services to customers from its Tier IV data center. The company turned to IBM® Services™ to help design, configure and deliver a solution based on VersaStack, a converged infrastructure solution jointly developed by IBM and Cisco. As a result, cloud services have become the top seller in the company’s portfolio.
Orion Labs
Infusing intelligence to bring group communication to a whole new level
TROIA d.o.o.
The information you need with just a glance
Wanting to help its customers simplify their asset management, IBM Business Partner TROIA d.o.o. launched its new TROIA AR solution. Supported by IBM® Maximo® software, the new offering uses augmented reality (AR) glasses to deliver work orders, job plans, knowledge transfer guides and asset-related information to support field staff in real time.
The Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information
A private cloud for research and development in Slovakia
The SCSTI offers a wealth of knowledge and information. But until recently, its infrastructure lacked the computing power scientists needed to conduct their work. By engaging IBM and IBM Business Partner Atos SE to deploy a private cloud and a host of IBM solutions, the center optimized its IT environment, speeding and enhancing end-user services and flexibility of providing services.
Hydro One Networks Inc.
Restoring customers’ power 33 percent faster with AI-driven weather insights
A large utility in Ontario, Canada, Hydro One needed to maintain service quality across 310,000 square miles of power lines, even during severe storms. With the Weather Company Outage Prediction service from IBM, the utility can predict outages down to the operating center boundary level and proactively mobilize crews to address outages.
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
AI helps mass transit agency predict asset health, upping safety and efficiencies
MARTA wanted to improve its asset management operations. It conducted a proof of concept (POC) on its tunnel ventilation system using the IBM® Maximo® APM – Predictive Maintenance Insights solution deployed on IBM Cloud™. The pilot demonstrated potential cost and efficiency savings, and the solution is now in full production.
Featured Industry Client Stories
CTE
Aryzta
Techwave
Southwire
Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan
Hayleys PLC
Explore IBM Client References
IBM Client References
Showcase your unique capabilities
IBM Client Reference Videos
Client stories in action
IBM THINK Blog
Chronicling the cognitive world
IBM Client Success Field Notes
A personal approach to client stories
209 result(s) found Displaying 1 - 50 of 209
Hyundai Nishat Motor (Private) Limited
New auto company Hyundai Nishat Motor (Private) Limited looked for critical advantage to win customers in Pakistan. By driving integrated operations and digital workflows based on SAP S/4HANA® and on IBM® Power® Systems with IBM POWER9™ processors and IBM Storage, the company can deliver vehicles up to 66 percent faster than the national average.
Hellenic Glass Industry S.A.
Born in the turmoil of the global financial crisis, Hellenic Glass Industry (HGI) has vaulted from fragmented operations to integrated international success. To drive lean, efficient operations, HGI worked with IBM® Services™ to deploy SAP S/4HANA® applications using IBM Services for Managed SAP Applications, based on IBM Power Systems™ servers.
Phillips Carbon Black Limited
Aiming for global growth, specialist manufacturer Phillips Carbon Black Limited realized many of its existing processes could not scale cost-effectively. The company engaged IBM® Services™ to move from SAP ERP on-premises to a next-generation SAP S/4HANA® platform hosted on AWS, creating an integrated, scalable, fully digital business.
India Glycols
India Glycols wanted to improve manufacturing and business efficiency, but in an app-driven world its users were stuck with inflexible legacy systems. By moving to SAP S/4HANA® powered by IBM® Power® Systems H922, India Glycols is enabling digital transformation based on robotic process automation, AI and SAP Fiori apps.
Consumer products manufacturer
To manage a complex global supply chain with limited IT resources, this leading consumer products manufacturer uses IBM® Services™ for Managed SAP® Applications to run its SAP® ERP workloads on the IBM® Cloud™; helping it deliver the right product at the right time to consumers and free up IT resources for innovation.
StarKist Co.
StarKist is the canned tuna market share leader in the U.S. How could it manage a complex global supply chain with limited IT resources? By using IBM Services for Managed SAP Applications to run its SAP ERP workloads on the IBM Cloud, StarKist delivers the right product at the right time to consumers and frees up IT resources for innovation.
Pharmaoverseas
To drive sales, specialist pharmaceuticals distributor Pharmaoverseas wanted to offer new products and personalized promotions to pharmacists. By moving to SAP S/4HANA® applications powered by IBM® Power Systems™ and IBM Storage, the company is enabling a breakout growth strategy delivered by AI, conversation chatbots and operational excellence.
Dilip Buildcon Limited
Dilip Buildcon is creating the infrastructure that underpins India’s economic ambitions. With costs up to 50 percent of revenues, tighter control of spending would be vital as it took on capital-intensive projects. With integrated processes based on SAP S/4HANA in a managed IBM® Cloud™, the company is driving savings of USD 7 million in year one.
C.Vale
C.Vale trusts SAP ERP applications to run its food and distribution operations efficiently. To power new applications and analytics, C.Vale moved to IBM® Power Systems™ E980 servers and IBM Storwize® V7000 storage, boosting compute capacity by 42 percent while cutting operational costs by 23 percent, all designed to produce better food for Brazilians.
Cementos Pacasmayo
As the construction industry in Peru booms, leading cement producer Cementos Pacasmayo wanted to offer value-added services to direct-sales customers. With IBM® Services™, the company deployed SAP S/4HANA® on-premises and in IBM Cloud™, gaining operational excellence and insight to help drive strategic transformation, and reaching new markets.
Valorec Services
Valorec Services offers energy, maintenance and recycling to industrial enterprises, relying on efficiency and excellence to win clients and grow its business. By adopting IBM® Services for Managed SAP Applications, Valorec Services has cut IT costs by 60 percent, reduced administration workload, and focuses time and budget on future innovation.
Whirlpool Corporation
Seeking to improve consumer experience with innovative solutions, Whirlpool Corporation turned to IBM® Services™ for Managed SAP Applications. It migrated its SAP® ERP powered by SAP HANA solutions to IBM Power Systems™ in the IBM Cloud™, using the opportunity to modernize its global SAP ERP environments and drive business growth.
Tapal Tea
Tapal Tea wanted to improve manufacturing efficiency, cut costs and boost sales. To unlock deeper insight into operations and sales, the company implemented SAP® S/4HANA®, IBM® Power Systems™, and IBM Storage, delivering real-time information dashboards that drive opportunity and growth.
Porrúa
To compete against online retailers, Porrúa, a publisher and the largest bookstore chain in Mexico, relies on efficient inventory, logistics and business management. By implementing SAP® ERP powered by SAP HANA® on IBM Power® Systems and IBM® Storage, Porrúa can focus on enhancing the unique bookstore experience that builds loyalty and sales.
Volkswagen Sachsen
E-mobility heralds a new environmentally conscious era for the automotive industry. To ensure that manufacturing is fully profitable and eco-friendly, Volkswagen Sachsen worked with IBM® Services™ to deploy SAP S/4HANA®, helping it standardize and streamline its financial processes, unlocking insight into manufacturing costs and efficiency.
Sona BLW
Sona BLW makes precision gears and driveline technologies for cars, with production spanning two continents, relying on just-in-time manufacturing. To optimize its critical supply chains, Sona BLW implemented SAP® ERP powered by SAP HANA® on IBM® Power® Systems and IBM Storage, helping it identify and analyze its performance, and tune up its business results.
Sensor Manufacturer
Disruptive digital technologies have kick-started a fourth industrial revolution, and with companies looking to gain the benefits of automation, business is booming for this leading sensor manufacturer. To support operations, the company upgraded its SAP® applications to SAP HANA® running on IBM® Power Systems™, supported by IBM Storage.
Dataport
Four federal state authorities in Germany rely on SAP applications hosted by Dataport to help them provide best-value services to taxpayers. To cut operational costs and improve system availability, Dataport migrated 82 SAP databases to just two IBM® Z® servers and DS8886 storage systems, ensuring cost-efficient delivery for every citizen.
Ryerson
How could leading U.S. metals company Ryerson differentiate its offerings in a competitive market? By deploying SAP® Business Suite powered by SAP HANA® on IBM® Power® Systems, Ryerson enabled its customer services to shine, paving the way for advanced digital self-service and mobile capabilities that drive business success.
Evoqua
For Evoqua, a global leader in water technologies, the top priority is ensuring safe water supplies to municipalities and companies – but its IT environment was holding it back. Evoqua leveraged the renowned expertise of IBM® Services™ to implement SAP S/4HANA®, gaining greater operational insight and data visibility, and improving performance.
Electricity Company
In today’s digitally-driven business world, timely decision-making driven by reliable data is critical for every company. To lead the fight against power theft, an electricity company selected SAP HANA® on IBM® Power Systems™, providing analytics-driven fraud detection that helps to ensure customer satisfaction.
Aceros Arequipa
Aceros Arequipa set out to reinforce its position in the Latin American steel market. To improve data visibility and streamline processes through business transformation, the company engaged IBM® Services™ to convert its SAP® ERP to SAP S/4HANA® on IBM® Power Systems™ and IBM® Storage, driving efficiency and enabling deeper insight into operations.
Vivo Energy
Vivo Energy is a leading fuel retailer in high-growth African markets. The company engaged IBM Services™ to implement SAP S/4HANA®, powered by IBM® Power Systems™ servers and IBM Storwize® V7000 storage systems, with SAP® SuccessFactors®, SAP Cloud for Customer and SAP Integrated Business Planning, creating an intelligent enterprise.
Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd.
Mitsubishi worked with IBM® Services to migrate its SAP® infrastructure to IBM Cloud™. Now, the organization’s infrastructure scales automatically, seamlessly handling natural fluctuations in automotive sales volume. The solution also improves disaster preparedness and allows salespeople to spend more time on the sales floor.
BRF
Launching operations across the globe, Brazil-based food producer BRF has expanded rapidly over the past decade. To improve application performance and ensure compliance with new Brazilian regulations, the company migrated its SAP® ERP Central Component (ECC) environment to SAP HANA® on IBM® Power® Systems and IBM System Storage® solutions.
Groupe Bastide
When delivering medical devices to the healthcare sector, consistent quality is essential. Fast-growing provider Groupe Bastide preserves exceptional standards while pursuing its expansion strategy with help from IBM® Power Systems™ servers running SAP® ERP powered by SAP HANA®, enabling it to onboard new users without loss of performance.
itelligence Malaysia
As companies stretch to keep up with digital transformation, itelligence Malaysia supports them with slick, agile IT services. The company uses IBM® FlashSystem® A9000 solutions to provide its clients with ultra-fast data storage that is also highly flexible, compact and efficient, enabling high performance and competitive fees.
APL
How could pharmaceuticals distribution company APL win and retain new clients and better serve the people of the world’s largest island nation? By building digital workflows based on SAP HANA® applications running on IBM® Services for Managed SAP Applications, APL cuts costs and enables deep insight into healthcare needs.
Trung Nguyên Legend Corp.
Vietnamese coffee company Trung Nguyên Legend Corp. is targeting business growth on an epic scale with its sights set on becoming a global brand. To gain the agility and flexibility to support international expansion, the Group migrated its SAP® ERP business applications from on-premises infrastructure to IBM® Services for Managed SAP Applications.
itelligence Denmark
To stand out in the crowded IT service provider market, itelligence Denmark needed a differentiator. To spice up its SAP hosting services, the company deployed IBM® Power Systems™ servers and IBM Storwize® storage that can be securely shared between clients – enabling the company to deliver top performance and reliability at enticing rates.
CTE
CTE sells, rents and services construction and industrial machinery, and its Carolina CAT unit focuses on Caterpillar products. To enhance customer loyalty, CTE wanted to offer value-add services. With IBM® Services, CTE deployed SAP S/4HANA®, building a unified view of performance and enabling detailed analytics.
Aryzta
Consumer habits are changing, with people paying greater attention to the ingredients in the food they buy. To provide supermarkets and restaurants with detailed ingredients sourcing information, Aryzta worked with Freudenberg IT (FIT) and IBM to deploy SAP HANA® on IBM® Power Systems™ in a private cloud, for rapid data analytics.
Techwave
Managed services provider Techwave saw that legacy processes and systems often prevented enterprises from reaching their digital transformation objectives. By migrating clients’ infrastructures to IBM® Cloud™ bare metal servers, Techwave equips them with the agility, performance and scalability they need to evolve their businesses.
D+P, Dosier- u. Prüftechnik GmbH
D+P, Dosier- u. Prüftechnik GmbH builds high-precision dosing systems that measure and deliver grease, oil and other pasty media. To handle increased demand, D+P wanted to grow its SAP® ERP landscape, and chose to migrate to IBM® Services for Managed SAP Applications – enjoying seamless digital processes at greater efficiency than ever before.
Entegris
Specialty chemicals and advanced materials solutions provider Entegris serves the semiconductor and high-tech sectors, where precision and purity dominate. How could Entegris scale operations to meet massive demand? Entegris deployed SAP® Business Suite powered by SAP HANA®, using IBM® Cloud™ for SAP Applications and IBM Cloud Managed Services to build a new digital future.
Southwire
To transform the customer experience, Southwire worked with IBM® Services to launch a new online portal based on SAP® Commerce. This gives customers access to a rich online catalog, path to purchase, plus real-time order information on a self-service basis. Customers enjoy better service, and employees can devote more time to other tasks.
Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan
Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan’s iconic products bring bright smiles and clean clothes. In order to strengthen its capabilities, the company upgraded its SAP® ERP applications and migrated to the SAP HANA® database, powered by IBM® Power Systems™ servers.
Hayleys PLC
To maintain its market-leading position, Sri Lankan conglomerate Hayleys needed a clearer view of performance across its diverse lines of business. To adopt leading practices, Hayleys teamed with IBM® Services to deploy SAP S/4HANA®, running on IBM Power Systems™ servers and IBM Storwize® storage in four of its sectors.
SIFI
Ophthalmic firm SIFI targeted global expansion, but its ambitions were hindered by sluggish manual processes. Working with IBM Business Partner H.T. High Technology, SIFI deployed leading-edge SAP® solutions hosted on IBM® Cloud™ bare metal servers certified by SAP, which deliver speed, automation and cost-efficiency to drive international growth.
Papel San Francisco
Mexican paper manufacturer Papel San Francisco looked to grow its business – but to do so, it would need to adapt to huge seasonal peaks in demand. By moving its SAP® applications to IBM® Cloud™ bare metal servers, Papel San Francisco has gained the perfect combination of flexibility and cost-efficient operations to meet its business ambitions.
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™.
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.