Globalization now affects every aspect of the automotive industry. While the auto market has reached the saturation point in Western economies, this level has yet to be attained elsewhere. With the emergence of Russia as an independent country in the early 1990s, the state entered a historic era of economic development and growth.

Challenge
•Implement a server infrastructure able to support AVTOVAZ’s continued growth
•Improve efficiency of AVTOVAZ’s corporate information system and speed the crucial end-of-month reporting procedures
•Boost workforce efficiencies and information availability at management and factory-floor levels

Solution
•Consolidation from 29 RISC-based servers to just two high-performance HP Integrity servers based on the Intel Itanium 2 architecture
•Migrate enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to two Itanium 2–based HP Integrity Superdome servers running Oracle® 9.2, doubling the number of concurrent users and speeding the delivery of businesscritical data
•HP notebook PCs based on Intel Centrino mobile technology enable management staff and factory workers to access corporate information portals from anywhere in the wirelessly enabled headquarters or on the factory floor

Results
•Reduced software licensing costs significantly while making system support far easier and less timeconsuming
•Increased the speed of system transactions by 250%
•Doubled the number of concurrent users that could access the system
•Provided thousands of employees, including the management team, with access to production reports and data analysis when they need them
•Enabled faster, more informed decision-making


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