SAP SPECTRUM December 2009
Customer magazine
Joining Forces
One for all? Once, perhaps. But times have changed. Real innovation is no longer driven by individual companies working under their own steam. Today, collaboration is the name of the game – and pooling ideas is the key to achieving new successes.
The Customer President
As president of Adobe Japan, Garrett Ilg experienced firsthand how SAP brought his business greater margins. Convinced, he took over the top spot at SAP Japan in September 2008, a day after the Lehman Brothers collapse. One year later and undeterred by prolonged crises, Ilg is determined to do for customers what SAP has done for his previous employer.
Miners with Market Mindset
PT Timah, the world’s second largest tin producer, has been progressively implementing SAP software, from its back office to its core processes. The solutions have enabled an attitudinal shift in the company, from production selling to demand filling. The result is greater profitability.
20.05.2009
Consolidation Through Virtualization
By: Stephan De Maria
Reduce costs, increase flexibility: A series of solutions from SAP partner Fujitsu are helping companies achieve flexible, cost-effective, and quickly implementable IT.
Reduce costs, increase flexibility – that’s what companies will always want their IT to achieve. Of course the current global economic crisis has made such demands more urgent, but there is no need for despair: Sensible concepts that meet these requirements are already available on the market.
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An example of just such a solution is FlexFrame for SAP. The platform consolidates SAP applications on standard industry platforms that companies can upgrade in small increments. SAP partner Fujitsu (formerly Fujitsu Siemens Computers) developed the product for SAP customers back in 2003.
“The flexibility gained by eliminating dependencies between certain SAP applications, operating systems, and servers makes FlexFrame a suitable platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategies and the architecture of SAP NetWeaver,” says Gunnar Dörken, who heads Fujitsu’s SAP-related IT infrastructure business. “Users with, say, 80 servers typically have to run an OS patch locally on each machine; with the FlexFrame solution, they only have to do it once centrally and then reboot all of the servers from a shared image,” explains Dörken, adding that this requires only a mouse click.
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