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IBM IT Optimization for mySAP™ Business Suite

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The goal
A dynamic infrastructure rapidly aligns to business needs
High administration and IT costs. Error-prone and time-consuming manual processes. Limited responsiveness. Ineffective operations. IT should be transparent so you can focus on the projects that directly improve quality of service and core business operations. IBM IT Optimization for mySAP™ Business Suite can help you create a dynamic infrastructure that can improve utilization of system resources and align IT asset use with business goals.

The advantage
Rely on our industry and implementation experience
IBM IT Optimization for mySAP Business Suite, you can benefit from the knowledge and experience IBM and SAP have gained while working closely together on hundreds of projects.
  • More than 30 years strong-the IBM and SAP alliance represents one of the longest of all IBM business relationships.
  • IBM is one of the largest implementers of SAP solutions, and we support this solution with a variety of consulting and implementation services.
  • SAP is a leading provider of business software solutions-with more than 32,000 customers in over 120 countries.
  • IBM has a certified interface to the SAP Adaptive Computing Controller which highlights the cooperation between the SAP's Adaptive Computing and IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure solution.

The benefits
Improve effectiveness, responsiveness
Align IT resources with your organization's objectives by simplifying and improving systems management. IBM can help you improve resource utilization and flexibility using consolidation, virtualization, provisioning and orchestration technologies.
  • Simplify: consolidate servers, storage and network assets for greater efficiency and reduced complexity.
  • Virtualize: IT resources are used across applications without regard to where they physically reside.
  • Provision: replace error-prone manual tasks and repetitive IT resource capacity management tasks.
  • Orchestrate: dynamically allocate IT capacity to meet business goals for increased infrastructure agility and growth readiness.

IBM IT Optimization for mySAP Business Suite offers a predefined, proven and accelerated approach to help you:
  • Align your IT expense with your business priorities by improving resource utilization, reducing costs and enabling more effective IT services.
  • Build a flexible infrastructure that is easier to manage and upgrade while being less expensive to run.
  • Achieve full cost transparency for each IT service you offer through usage-based metering of resource consumption.
  • Reduce maintenance and support costs.
  • Increase resource utilization, flexibility and response times.
  • Automate error-prone manual capacity and workload management tasks.
  • Improve ability for IT infrastructure to respond to changing business needs.
  • Provide 24x7 availability and integration using automation techniques to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Standardize and centralize systems to accommodate varying levels of demand across your business.
  • Flexibly adapt to the inevitable changes and fluctuations in your marketplace.

The approach
Optimized IT resources with IBM and SAP
A global consumer products company wanted to increase usage, flexibility, availability and manageability of their systems and achieve a lower total cost of ownership. After implementing IBM IT Optimization for mySAP Business Suite, the company is better able to grow and manage their business.
Benefits gained include:
  • A reduced number of systems leading to lower costs.
  • More processing capacity with fewer resources.
  • The resources to support business globally.
  • Faster, automated provisioning of resources.

The financial advantage
Reduce TCO, operational costs
With your IT budgets under constant scrutiny, we can help you leverage your resources so you can build or maintain technologies that support your vision and goals. Our approach is designed to help:
  • Improve operating efficiencies and staff effectiveness.
  • Optimize existing assets so upgrade expenses can be deferred.
  • Rapidly respond to changing business priorities and a growing customer base.
  • Deploy standard applications and systems quickly and efficiently to meet customer demands faster.
  • Integrate new custom applications and systems into your existing environment with ease.
  • Effectively manage IT as a business with full cost control and flexible cost accounting on an IT service level.

Next steps
 
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