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Pixit Media
Takes the media and entertainment industry by storm with solutions that keep the action rolling
As visual effects get more sophisticated, the computational demands of media and entertainment have risen sharply. In response, Pixit Media has become the UK’s leading provider of post-production software-defined solutions based on IBM Spectrum Storage™ technology, providing reliable performance and cost-efficiency to support blockbuster growth.
EBPI
Expands its service portfolio with IBM Financial Transaction Manager
Looking to grow, transaction management service provider The European Business Process Institute (EBPI) wanted to launch a new SWIFT Payment Bureau service. With existing systems struggling to cope, EBPI selected IBM® Financial Transaction Manager on an IBM LinuxONE™ Rockhopper server, helping expand operations to 8 million transactions per month.
Amret MFI
Cuts overnight processing by 50% and accelerates in-branch services
Fast customer service is vital in banking: nobody likes waiting in line. At Amret MFI, growth in customers and transactions was impacting system response times and occasionally caused overnight batch processing to overrun into the working day. To maintain speedy service, the MFI upgraded to the latest IBM® Storwize® and IBM Power® technologies.
Techcombank
Tapping into new growth opportunities with fast, scalable and cost-efficient IBM systems
When market demand booms, firms must scale up or risk getting left in the dust. To position itself as the go-to bank for a new generation of upwardly mobile consumers, Vietnam’s Techcombank is embracing more customer-centric operations—using IBM® LinuxONE™ systems to power super-fast, always-on services, even as business volumes soar.
Quion
Serves up rich insight for investors
As interest rates stagnate, many investors are looking at the Dutch mortgage market as a cost-effective, low-risk option. To boost its appeal to investors, the Blauwtrust Group’s Dutch Mortgage Portfolio Management (DMPM) subsidiary looked to internal company Quion to optimize reporting, enabling richer insights that increase value.
Meridian IT Inc.
Solves clients’ business problems time after time with agile, cost-efficient cloud solutions
Cloud service providers can’t afford to play catch-up when responding to client requests – they must be able to adapt fast. To align customer environments to changing needs, Meridian IT Inc. relies on IBM solutions for agile storage management, helping it to bring enterprise cloud solutions to a wider market and to build a USD 200 million business.
Bank of Montreal (BMO)
Transforming customer interactions into real-time sales opportunities
BMO knows that every time a customer reaches out is a chance for deeper engagement. To drive conversion, the bank uses IBM® Interact to help deliver tailored, relevant and compelling offers on every channel—inspiring customers to embrace more of its services and boosting conversion by as much as three times the previous rate.
ProSearch Strategies Inc.
Finding evidence faster with the IBM Watson Explorer platform and expertise from The Dayhuff Group
ProSearch engaged IBM Business Partner The Dayhuff Group to deploy the IBM® Watson® Explorer cognitive platform. Trained to learn and understand legal terminology, the solution analyzes large email and chat data sets for clues and correlations indicative of bribery, helping accelerate the e-discovery process.
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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.
Balluff GmbH
Rapid growth resulted in large data volumes and complex IT systems for Balluff GmbH, greatly impacted the business’s productivity. Balluff deployed integrated IBM solutions and moved its SAP® Business Warehouse to IBM® Db2® with BLU Acceleration®, cutting complex report execution time by up to 98 percent.
Duas Rodas achieves 80 percent manufacturing productivity gains
Duas Rodas designed new enterprise-wide business processes and best practices, and deployed SAP ERP applications on an IBM Power Systems server platform to support the new way of working.
Knorr-Bremse
Expanding rapidly through acquisition, Knorr-Bremse needs to integrate new companies quickly and efficiently to transform business growth into profits and improved productivity. With IBM DB2® with BLU Acceleration, the company gets business insights 55 times faster despite rapid growth.
SEIDOR
Working with SAP and IBM, SEIDOR implemented SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems servers in the cloud.
Vestel Elektronik
To facilitate future expansion into fast-growing European markets, Vestel Elektronik designed integrated business processes supported by SAP® ERP managed in the IBM® Cloud—predicted to slash the cost, risk and time required to provision the business systems to support new operations.
Baldor Electric Company
Today, being able to order exactly what you want – to arrive when you want it – is central to everyone’s buying experience. Baldor Electric Company (“Baldor”) focuses on delivering excellent service to its industrial electric motors customers by utilizing back-office systems that can handle, store and analyze huge volumes of transaction data.
Cementos Pacasmayo
Cement company Cementos Pacasmayo is looking to transform into an ultra-fast enterprise, driven by near real-time data. By leveraging SAP HANA® solutions deployed with assistance from IBM® Services, the company has become more agile, responding to customers more quickly.
Danish Defence
An army marches on its stomach, but it wouldn’t get far without other essential supplies. To help ensure that military operations run smoothly, the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization accelerated reporting to support operational decision-making by upgrading to the latest technologies from IBM and SAP.
Estra S.p.A.
Utilities company Estra recognizes that reliable, always-on service is key to customer retention, but over-running overnight IT tasks threatened to affect customer-facing services. By deploying an IBM solution that increases the efficiency and accelerates the processing of night-time operations, the company is improving the customer experience.
HERA
Running largely paper-based business processes, HERA knew it would struggle to meet the new industry requirements. Now, with an automated, integrated solution from SAP, delivered by IBM, the company can monitor core activities rapidly and reliably, complying with new standards to keep cities cleaner.
Indus Motor Company
If you had to choose between hundreds of vehicles from dozens of well-known international brands, how would you pick your next car? As competitors surged into Pakistan’s auto market, Indus Motor Company knew quality would be key to stand out from the crowd—and the company is transforming its business to inspire customers with superior-quality cars.
Mengniu Dairy
Demand for milk in China is booming, creating a huge opportunity for Mengniu Dairy. The company is building an enterprise capable of scaling up to capture the market growth, ensuring fresh milk deliveries for consumers throughout the country. By automating financial processes, Mengniu is efficiently supporting its business development strategy.