General Mills operates the core of its business—supply chain, product lifecycle management, finance, human resources, business intelligence and data warehouse— on SAP R/3 and an Oracle9i database running on HP-UX11i v2 on Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based HP Integrity servers. It relies on HP for its Intel-based servers and its desktop, notebook, and handheld PCs running Microsoft Windows. It has standardized on HP ProCurve Networking solutions at its network edge, depends on proactive HP Mission Critical Support services, and uses HP OpenView software to manage it all worldwide

Challenge
• Deliver a flexible, costeffective enterprise-wide IT infrastructure with the performance, reliability, and simplicity to support business change today and tomorrow

Solution
• Hardware:
- HP Integrity Superdome servers
- HP Integrity rx7620 servers
- HP Integrity rx4640 servers
- HP ProLiant DL380 / DL580 servers
- HP DC7100 PC systems
- HP NC6000 Notebook systems
- HP Compaq TC 1100 Tablet systems
- HP NR3610 Ruggedized Notebook systems
- HP COMPAQ nc4010 SubNotebook systems
- HP iPAQ Pocket PC systems
- HP Printers
- HP ProCurve Switch 5300xl series
• Software:
- HP-UX11i v2 (Mission Critical Operating Environment Bundle)
- HP Serviceguard
- HP OpenView Operations
- HP OpenView Network Node Manager
- HP OpenView GlancePlus
- HP OpenView Reporter
- HP OpenView Performance Manager
- SAP R/3 modules: ERP Operations (SD, MM, QM, PP, WM), ERP Finance (FI, CO, COPA, PS, FA, TR), SEM, HR, APO DP and SNP, PLM, BW, Enterprise Portal, XI, KPRO, TREX
- Oracle9i Database
- Microsoft Server and Microsoft Office software
• Services:
- HP Mission Critical Support for the SAP infrastructure

Results
• Achieved low cost of IT per revenue dollar
• Quickly integrated operations when the business doubled through acquisition
• Consolidated five PA-RISCm Superdome servers to three HP Integrity Superdome servers and an HP Integrity rx7620 server
• Reduced data center size by factor of seven
• Gained headroom and capacity for future growth and performance


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