IBM FlashSystem and IBM POWER8 servers help German Hydraulics Company HANSA-FLEX Deliver Parts to Customers in 24 hours
IBM has been recognized as a “Leader” in the June 23, 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays report.
This inclusion comes a month after IBM was identified as the number one worldwide solid-state array vendor in unit shipments and petabytes of data delivered for 2014 in Gartner’s Market Share Analysis: SSDs and Solid-State Arrays Worldwide Report for 2014, by Joseph Unsworth and John Monroe, published May 1, 2015.
Headquartered in Bremen, Germany, the HANSA-FLEX Group operates 380 branches and a fleet of 298 rapid-response service vans in 39 countries and migrated its SAP enterprise resource planning applications to a new infrastructure built on IBM FlashSystem 840 and IBM Power System S824 servers to deliver vital hydraulic system spares to clients within 24 hours of receiving their orders.
The IBM Power Systems S824 combined with IBM I operating system, along with the freedom to run SAP solutions and software defined flash environment, allowed HANSA-FLEX to improve its service response times by 56 percent, improving overall employee productivity. The new systems and storage infrastructure was also able to speed process background tasks by 55 percent and accelerate database processing by up to 70 percent.
“Hydraulic technology is increasingly important in all kinds of manufacturing processes, and when a crucial hydraulic system needs repair or replacement, manufacturers cannot afford to wait,” said Jürgen Kaemena, Head of IT, HANSA-FLEX. “By using IBM storage and systems for our core business operations, we were able to create a faster logistics environment that scales easily and responds to customer demands quickly.”
