EURONICS Solves growth challenges and cuts costs with SAP and IBM IBM SAP Alliance EURONICS Solves growth challenges and cuts costs with SAP and IBM The need: The highly successful growth strategy at European retail company EURONICS was leading to increased data volumes, which in turn affected its SAP application performance and storage complexity. The solution: EURONICS chose to implement virtualized solutions based on IBM® XIV® Storage Systems and IBM SAN Volume Controller, supporting SAP and other business-critical solutions running on IBM Power® 770 servers and IBM AIX®. It also deployed a comprehensive backup system powered by IBM Power 740 servers, IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager software and an IBM System Storage® TS3500 Tape Library. IBM Business Partner FRITZ & MACZIOL assisted with solution strategy, design, sizing and implementation. “IBM and SAP support us in our ambitious business strategy, and we are confident that together we can further streamline our processes and expand our leading position in the market.” — Ulrich Müller, Head of IT and Organization, EURONICS Solution components: IBM® Power® 770 and 740, IBM XIV® IBM PowerHA® and PowerVM® SAP for Retail including SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, SAP Process Integration The benefits: Accelerated backup times by 10 percent and increased throughput during space reclamation processes by more than 50 percent. Reduced manual tape management by 75 percent from 2 hours per week to only 30 minutes. Cut storage requirements with up to 80 percent data compression for SAP ERP databases while improved availability avoids costs of €50,000 per hour downtime. Link SPP03191-WWEN-00