When Rohwedder AG, a market leader in automation engineering solutions, decided to migrate its enterprise software to SAP R/3 and SOMA, a mySAP All-in-Onebased mechanical and systems engineering application, the company believed the time was also right to upgrade its computer systems. To master the pioneering project – Rohwedder was the first Linux installation on HP Integrity servers, a platform based on the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor – the HP SAP Competence Center team provided service and support at any time.
Challenge
• The decision to switch to SAP R/3 and the mySAP All-in-One-based SOMA template inspired Rohwedder to reorganize its IT organization into a centralized structure
• To achieve this, Rohwedder needed a new IT infrastructure with sufficient headroom to service all domestic and international subsidiaries (a total of 800 SAP users)
• As the manufacture of custom systems is not conducive to predictable long-term resource planning, the IT infrastructure also needed to be highly scalable to handle short-term production peaks
• Rohwedder wanted to protect its investment by ensuring that the IT infrastructure would be capable of handling
Solution
• Two Intel® Itanium® 2-based systems from HP:
• HP Integrity rx2600 as a test and development system
• HP Integrity rx5670 as a production system
• 12 GB of memory each and joint hard-disk capacity of more than 1 TB
• Linux operating system: Suse Enterprise Server 8 (SLES8)
• SAP R/3 4.6C and various mySAP applications WAS, KPRO and Solution Manager as well as the mySAP All-in-One SOMA template, a certified industry solution that presents complex mechanical and systems engineering processes as easy-to-understand and practice-oriented procedures
• Support from the HP SAP Competence Center team
Results
• Integration of the new hardware and software environment successfully completed
• IT infrastructure passed its first scalability test with over 100 Rohwedder Pematech users connected in early 2004
• Significant performance improvement with HP Integrity servers despite doubling of number of users; system easily handles spikes in demand
• Itanium® 2-based Integrity servers from HP offers more than enough headroom to meet the performance demands of all Rohwedder subsidiaries – both domestic and international
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