Siemens is one of the largest technology companies with six major business divisions. They chose DB2 and SAP for scalability, performance, increased savings, and lower TCO.
Here we operate one of six application management centers. We operate global applications like our SAP portal and local applications like finance, control, logistics, supply chain and business intelligence.
Siemens uses SAP applications to run our business. We are migrating our SAP business intelligence landscape from a competing database onto DB2.
There are three main reasons we chose to move our SAP applications onto DB2: better performance, a less expensive hardware infrastructure, and a lower SAP total cost of ownership.
Siemens is one of the largest technologies companies. We have six major business divisions: communications, automation, power, transportation, medical and lighting.
Siemens is headquartered here in Munich, Germany, as well as in Berlin. We employ 480,000 people in more than 190 countries. We reported global sales of 87 billion euros in fiscal year 2006.
Here we operate one of six application management centers. We operate global applications like our SAP portal and local applications like finance, control, logistics, supply chain and business intelligence.
Siemens uses SAP applications to run our business. We are migrating our SAP business intelligence landscape from a competing database onto DB2.
There are three main reasons we chose to move our SAP applications onto DB2: better performance, a less expensive hardware infrastructure, and a lower SAP total cost of ownership.
We tested SAP Business Warehouse on DB2 and on a major competitor. And DB2 performance was significantly better. In the future, with DB2 9, we expect the performance to be even faster.
We were limited by the performance of our existing database and we expect that our SAP business warehouse will grow tremendously. We moved to DB2 9 to gain improved performance.
With our previous database, we could only run our SAP business warehouse on a dedicated server - so when we reached our performance limits we had to move to a bigger server, which is a major cost. With the data partitioning feature of DB2 9, we can use several smaller servers in a cluster. When we need more power, we just add another server. So we will have nearly unlimited scalability and a significant savings.
We were able to reduce the total cost of ownership of SAP by building an optimized infrastructure. In the future we expect savings on our SAP total cost of ownership of 25 percent.
We believe we will recover our return on investment within the first year. This kind of positive ROI is very important for companies like Siemens.
IBM did the migration for us. And it was an easy migration, and it was finished on time and within budget.
We had great support. IBM flew in experts from the U.S. and Germany to tell us about the combined IBM/SAP development roadmap. We are getting great business benefits from the strategic partnership between IBM and SAP.
