Six Reasons to Choose IBM DB2 for SAP Applications Supported by the Real-World Experience of IBM Clients Six Reasons to Choose IBM DB2 for SAP

Six reasons to choose IBM DB2 for SAP applications Supported by the real-world experience of IBM clients Six reasons to choose IBM DB2 for SAP

1 2 3 4 5 6 Reducing Accelerating Making Enabling Leveraging Ongoing total cost of business migrations cloud & hybrid a strong investments ownership insights easier strategies ecosystem Six reasons to choose IBM DB2 for SAP

Reducing total cost of ownership

IBM® DB2® has a long history of providing a BLU Acceleration® should not only be seen This can also lead to a reduction in the platform that can lower the total cost of as a way to dramatically increase query frequency of infrastructure refreshes, and ownership for clients. speed; it can also be used to maintain the avoid the need to purchase additional same performance on a smaller number of appliances such as SAP Business Single platform processor cores – reducing hardware costs. Warehouse Accelerator. DB2 acts as a general-purpose platform that Similarly, DB2 compression features can Streamlining operations is optimized for all types of SAP application reduce storage requirements while lifting workloads – from high-volume transactional performance. DB2 can also support more efficient applications through to highly complex database administration through its These unique features of DB2 are all analytical processes. This means that DB2 is integration with SAP administration tools. included in the DB2 license for SAP, so the only database that SAP clients will need This can reduce personnel costs by allowing clients can use them at no additional cost. – avoiding the costs of licensing, supporting database administrators to focus on more and maintaining multiple single-purpose Extending infrastructure investments value-adding work. platforms. By boosting SAP application performance Finally, the release and support cycles for Unique features while lowering server and storage DB2 for SAP solutions are aligned with SAP’s requirements, DB2 can support companies release cycles. This means that both The cost savings are also partly driven by in extending the value of their existing upgrades can be completed in a single the unique features of DB2. For example, hardware investments. project, helping to reduce cost and risk.

Reducing total cost Accelerating Making migrations Enabling cloud & Leveraging a strong Ongoing investments of ownership business insights easier hybrid strategies ecosystem Six reasons to choose IBM DB2 for SAP

Finanz Informatik Technologie Service

About the company Transformation

Finanz Informatik Technologie Service FI-TS and IBM Business Partner Empirius (FI-TS) provides IT services to some of migrated SAP solutions to IBM DB2 for Linux, Germany’s leading banks, building societies, UNIX and Windows, taking advantage of finance, and insurance companies. advanced automation, ease of management Headquartered in Haar, the company and cost-effective licensing. operates a total of five offices across the “Running SAP systems on IBM Results country, employs more than 1,000 people DB2 works well – both for us and and reports annual revenues of yyEUR350,000 annual cost savings for our clients. IBM’s licensing EUR330 million. model is very appealing and many yy50% smaller data volumes for SAP Bank clients have asked us to switch their Business challenge Analyzer results in lower storage costs systems to DB2, seeing a reduction Many clients running SAP applications at yy93% faster system copying saves more in licensing costs as a result.” FI-TS were struggling to control database than 400 days in system administration licensing costs. How could FI-TS solve its – Michael Klüsener, Head of SAP Services, Finanz Informatik Technologie Service clients’ cost challenges?

BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding

About the company Transformation

The three subsidiaries, E.G.O-Group, BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding BLANCO Group and BLANCO Professional consolidated its mission-critical SAP ERP Group, here summarized as BLANC & and SAP Business Warehouse applications FISCHER Family Holding, are manufacturers onto IBM Power® System E870 servers with of electronics and industrial components, IBM AIX® and IBM DB2 with BLU kitchen sinks and medical facilities, Acceleration. “The simplified systems landscape employing 8,000 people, and achieving Results revenues of EUR1.1 billion. is more agile and contributes to yy40% lower middleware license cost thanks lower costs and greater efficiency, Business challenge to 40% faster per-core performance matching our corporate business Subgroups of BLANC & FISCHER Family objectives for enabling growth.” yy20x faster business insights improve agility Holding wanted to increase the efficiency of and customer service – Manfred Leistner, CTO, Blanc und Fischer IT their central services, cut costs, remain Services, a subgroup of BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding competitive and help their independent yy2 hours saved in administration workload business units to flourish. per week, leading to reduced operating costs

Accelerating business insights

DB2 offers clients the flexibility of using both data skipping technique that only loads into Enhancing agility row-based and column-based data memory the column data that is required for Finally, BLU Acceleration is agile. It runs on schemas, depending on the workload, all processing. any x86 or IBM Power server, large or small, within the same database. The technology utilizes single instruction, and automatically adapts to the resources Columnar table structures are ideal for multiple data (SIMD) capabilities and is that are available. It can be deployed on- analytics workloads, and DB2 harnesses cache-coherency-aware, enabling it to make premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid BLU Acceleration technology to make more efficient use of CPU cores. This can environments. analytical queries fast, simple and agile. make it hundreds or even thousands of times faster than traditional row-based databases Increasing speed for analytics. BLU Acceleration is fast because it uses Embracing simplicity Fast dynamic in-memory processing and efficiently compresses the data within The simplicity of BLU Acceleration is its columnar tables. second key tenet. There is no building of DB2 BLU aggregates and indexes, and no tuning is Acceleration The data is kept compressed while data required. It is just a matter of loading the data Simple Agile manipulation is executed, and DB2 utilizes a and starting the query.

Balluff GmbH

About the company Transformation

Family-owned Balluff GmbH, headquartered Balluff’s IT team was not interested in in Neuhausen, Germany, is a world-leading incremental changes; it wanted manufacturer of sensor solutions, employing game-changing improvements for its private around 2,750 people in 50 countries. The cloud environment in information delivery company offers sophisticated technology, across its transactional and analytics “ IBM DB2 with BLU cutting-edge electronics products, applications. Upgrading its SAP applications application-specific customer solutions and and deploying DB2 with BLU acceleration Acceleration has helped Balluff highly trained service staff. was the answer. transform the speed and reliability of its enterprise information Business challenge Results delivery, giving executives fast Over a period of rapid business growth, yy5x faster access to business documents insight into critical information growing data volumes created practical yy7x acceleration in batch operations and helping us seize new business difficulties; sales and business development opportunities.” reports were taking longer to produce, and yy30% reduction in backup times processing tasks normally scheduled to run – Bernhard Herzog, Team Manager Information overnight were almost running into business yy98% reduction in complex reporting cycles Technology SAP, Balluff GmbH hours.

Knorr-Bremse

About the company Transformation

The Knorr-Bremse Group is a leading Knorr-Bremse migrated to IBM DB2 with manufacturer of braking systems for rail and BLU Acceleration to run its growing SAP commercial vehicles. Headquartered in Business Warehouse faster with in-memory Munich, Germany, Knorr-Bremse operates technology without the need to invest in new more than 100 production sites in infrastructure or training. 29 countries around the world and employs Results “One of the main advantages of more than 23,900 people. The company IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration achieved sales revenues of EUR5.2 billion yy55x faster insights enable real-time (USD5.8 billion) in 2014. response to changing markets is that we can roll it out step by step online and without downtime, Business challenge yy2.4x quicker analytics in SAP Strategic ensuring operational processes are Enterprise Management To grow profits and productivity, not disrupted.” Knorr-Bremse wanted to integrate acquired yy64% additional data compression reduces – Marc Motejat, Director IT Technology & companies into its SAP application storage costs Infrastructure, Knorr-Bremse landscape, but data growth was slowing analytics capabilities and pushing up costs.

Ekornes

About the company Transformation

Ekornes, the largest furniture manufacturer in Ekornes upgraded to the latest IBM DB2 with the Nordic region, produces and markets a BLU Acceleration database to accelerate range of well-known, high-quality brands, reporting capabilities and give sales and including Stressless – one of the world’s marketing managers rapid access to crucial most famous furniture lines. Ekornes figures. employs over 2,300 people and achieves “With IBM DB2 with BLU Results annual profits of NOK160.5 million Acceleration, employees can get (USD20.1 million). yyEmpowers employees to make timely, answers to sales-related questions data-driven decisions and increase sales flexibly, as and when they need Business challenge yy10x faster business insight by moving to them.” To help grow revenues, particularly of column-organized database tables – Tor Ervland, System and Application Manager, underperforming brands, Ekornes wanted to Ekornes enable key staff to access enterprise-wide yy5 hours per week saved on sales reporting sales figures, but sheer volume of data presented significant challenges.

YAZAKI Europe Limited

About the company Transformation

YAZAKI is one of the world’s leading YAZAKI Europe worked with IBM, automotive suppliers in Electrical and IBM Business Partner All for One Steeb, and Electronic Distribution Systems (EEDS). SAP to optimize its logistics processes Headquartered in Japan, the company has based on IBM DB2 databases for best major operations across Europe with a performance with SAP software, even under workforce of more than 40,000 employees in high degree of utilization. “Our project to streamline logistics 51 locations and 20 countries, and is an Results important partner for the automotive was the perfect opportunity for industry. yyFaster insights into business performance us to start using the innovative performance features of IBM DB2 Business challenge yyEnsures timely delivery and avoids costly with BLU Acceleration.” overtime and logistics expenses To meet the automotive industry’s demand – Jürgen Laudien, Manager Infrastructure Europe, for same-day delivery, YAZAKI Europe needs yy2x acceleration in end-of-month YAZAKI Europe extremely efficient logistics – which means consolidation processes eliminating delays and manual processing.

Making migrations easier

By moving from other databases to IBM The migration factory team understands that DB2, clients are able to take advantage of when SAP clients are considering moving to the full benefits of their SAP implementation. DB2, their number-one concern is risk This can help them to accelerate time to mitigation. value and become business-ready for the That’s why migration projects begin with a future challenges of the real-time economy. rapid assessment, conducted by SAP- Over a decade ago, IBM created a migration certified migration professionals. The team is “We have successfully executed factory in order to make the transition from dedicated to helping clients achive a smooth, other databases to DB2 as smooth, fast, and seamless migration to a well-designed target hundreds of SAP migration projects secure as possible. environment, and provides support from the to DB2, and we are delivering as initial planning phases through the we speak. Most importantly we have With years of SAP migration experience, implementation to post-go-live support. never failed in a migration project!” IBM’s team of SAP-certified migration personnel have proven expertise in migrating As a result, the service is designed to give – Alexander Seelert, Principal & Senior Managing Consultant for SAP Database Solutions, IBM tens of thousands of SAP instances to DB2 clients a rapid, cost-effective, low-risk successfully, regardless of where the solution migration, with relatively little disruption to is deployed, whether on-premises, in the their business. cloud, or both.

Lonza Group

About the company Transformation

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Lonza highlighted database costs for its SAP Lonza Group is a leading supplier to the applications as a critical issue, and chose to pharmaceuticals, healthcare and life science migrate from Oracle software to IBM DB2 for industries. Lonza operates 45 major sites Linux, UNIX, and Windows, assisted by IBM around the world, employs 11,800 people, Global Technology Services®. and in 2012 achieved sales of CHF3.925 “IBM DB2 offers a range of Results billion. automation capabilities and yy10% improvement in application Business challenge very close integration with performance SAP software ... the migration Global life sciences company Lonza yy65% reduction in software license costs reduced license costs and simplified constantly seeks to increase its business database administration efficiency, looking for ways to reduce costs yy50% reduction in disk space requirements substantially.” while increasing service capacity. Lonza must also comply with regulatory obligations, yyReduces database administration – Fredy Zenklusen, SAP Basis Manager, Lonza Group reporting both externally and internally. workload

Leading chemicals manufacturer

About the company Transformation

This leading chemicals manufacturer The manufacturer standardized and produces and supplies paints, coatings and simplified its processes by moving to an specialty chemicals to a wide range of integrated SAP ERP platform. By migrating industries and consumers around the world. its databases from Microsoft SQL Server to IBM DB2, the company has built a platform Business challenge that can scale efficiently to support several “The total migration per business thousand additional users. This leading chemicals manufacturer needs unit was completed in just 25 hours. deep visibility into operations to drive Results manufacturing excellence—how could it cut By ensuring a smooth transition, we through complexity to boost business yy50% lower total cost of ownership were able to ensure that there was performance and reduce waste? almost zero impact on business.” yy10x faster report generation enables rapid insight into operations – Spokesperson, Leading chemicals manufacturer

yy44% faster response times streamline workflows

Enabling cloud & hybrid strategies

As the speed of business increases, SAP NetWeaver applications on Native encryption enterprises are increasingly looking to boost IBM Bluemix® bare metal servers – giving To address security and data privacy flexiblity and make optimal use of IT budgets clients the flexibility to build test, concerns, either on-premises or in the cloud, by moving SAP applications into the cloud. development and sandbox environments in DB2 provides native encryption that helps to the cloud much more easily. Bluemix makes And even for organizations that are not ready protect business data at rest. it simple to connect SAP applications to to move to a public cloud infrastructure, the bare-metal DB2 servers, or to DB2 on Cloud. With native encryption enabled, DB2 flexibility of a private or hybrid cloud automatically encrypts and decrypts data environment for provisioning and managing Private and hybrid clouds before it is read from or written to disk, so new SAP environments can be attractive. For clients who prefer to keep all or part of production data, backup images, log files To meet these needs, DB2 offers a range of their SAP infrastructure on-premises, DB2 and database dumps are unreadable even if compelling public, private and hybrid cloud makes it easy to take a private or hybrid the physical hardware is stolen. options for SAP. cloud approach. Advanced support for The latest versions of DB2 also provide virtualization and close integration with SAP IBM Bluemix IaaS enterprise key management, which makes it administration tools such as SAP Solution easy for administrators to manage In addition to its fully managed IBM Cloud for Manager and SAP DBA Cockpit make it easy encryption across multiple databases from a SAP Applications service, IBM also now to configure and spin up new DB2 instances single point of control. offers infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) for when the business needs them.

Hirschmann Automotive

About the company Transformation

Hirschmann Automotive specializes in Hirschmann Automotive deployed an supplying parts such as connector systems, on-premises cloud environment built on sensors and cables to major vehicle cutting-edge IBM POWER8® servers, IBM manufacturers across the world. Boasting DB2 databases and virtualized IBM storage double-digit annual revenue growth, the to drive its central SAP ERP application. company is headquartered in Rankweil, “IBM has provided us with a Results Austria, employs around 4,500 people and powerful on-premises cloud platform has operations across the world. yy50% faster backups enable better that supports our mission-critical preparation for the threat of disaster SAP ERP applications and will help Business challenge yy2-3x quicker capacity planning helps us meet our future goals, too.” Hirschmann Automotive needs to operate respond faster to short-notice customer 24/7 to satisfy the demands of just-in-time – Bernhard Bösch, Team Leader Network and Data orders Center, Hirschmann Automotive manufacturing – yet existing systems suffered outages and lacked the required yy50% reduction in materials planning times scalability and performance. helps to enable smoother production processes

Balluff GmbH

About the company Transformation

Family-owned Balluff GmbH, headquartered Balluff migrated its SAP applications and in Neuhausen, Germany, is a world-leading DB2 database to a private cloud environment manufacturer of sensor solutions, employing on IBM Power Systems™ servers, using IBM around 2,750 people in 50 countries. The Business Partner FRITZ & MACZIOL’s company offers sophisticated technology, Dynamic Power Cloud Manager tool for ease “The private cloud platform, based cutting-edge electronics products, of management application-specific customer solutions and Results on IBM technology, enables us to set highly trained service staff. up new systems much more quickly yy85% reduction in data volumes with DB2 Business challenge than before, improving our business compression helps boost agility in agility and making sure that we can Balluff wanted to streamline the provisioning and managing private cloud react quickly to new requirements.” management of its SAP infrastructure by environments creating an architecture that would boost – Bernhard Herzog, Team Manager Information yyFaster deployment of sandboxes and test Technology SAP, Balluff GmbH flexibility and enable faster provisioning environments

yyReduced administrative overhead for infrastructure management

Leveraging a strong ecosystem

Exploring a network of partner solutions

IBM and SAP are not the only organizations investing in DB2 – there is also a vibrant ecosystem of partners that develop innovative solutions built on DB2 technology.

These solutions allow clients to leverage partners’ domain expertise in dozens of key industries and technical areas, extending core SAP capabilities to handle specific business needs.

For example, Every Angle provides analytics solutions that simplify development and put power in the hands of business users. Meanwhile, PBS Software specializes in information lifecycle management, harnessing DB2 for big data management.

Every Angle

Self-service operational and transactional In this respect, the Every Angle solution reporting solutions from Every Angle are closely aligns with the design principles of different from other reporting tools. Typically, IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration for SAP. clients can go live in three to five days, and Speed to value, simplicity, throughput and start providing end-users with real self- enhanced business insight are the hallmarks service insights. that both solutions are designed to achieve.

“Every Angle helps SAP clients With easily understandable business-aligned Most importantly, both DB2 and Every terminology and enablement, Every Angle Angle’s solutions can be deployed in weeks, harness the power of DB2 with solutions can help clients avoid the need to or even days. They can be installed either BLU Acceleration to deploy self- develop, implement, maintain and manage on-premises or in a hosted environment service transactional and operational customized reports. The aim is to avoid the without the need for costly, risky or disruptive reporting in days – minimizing need for complex data curation, and help database technology migrations. complexity, cost and risk.” users get the results that they are looking for Finally they fully leverage clients’ existing IT even if they do not have deep SAP data – Fred Hermans, CEO, Every Angle skills to accelerate adoption and reduce structure knowledge. administration and support costs.

PBS Software GmbH

For more than 25 years, PBS Software has The innovative column-based features of been a trusted provider of add-on solutions IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration enable PBS to help clients improve their SAP systems in Software to provide its customers with the areas of SAP Information Lifecycle excellent data retrieval performance and Management, data archiving, nearline huge data compression. This has become storage and compliant storage. an outstanding benefit, expecially for PBS state-of-the-art nearline storage solutions With PBS solutions, users have complete and customers with vast amounts of “The cooperation with IBM has and seamless access to their SAP application data. application data – not only “hot” data, but boosted our data retrieval features also rarely used and even archived data. excellently. Our customers can benefit from cutting-edge technology to speed their analysis needs for all kind of SAP data. Thanks to DB2 BLU, big data in SAP has lost its fear.”

– Günther Reichling, Founder and Managing Director, PBS Software GmbH

Ongoing investments, part 1

The road ahead DB2 V11.1 extends native encryption to the Hybrid Transactional Analytical enterprise level, using the Key Management Processing (HTAP) IBM and SAP remain committed to Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), the industry protecting their customers’ investments. We The emergence of HTAP enables analytics standard for key management. will continue to deliver database innovations and transactions to run in the same for SAP workloads such as SAP Business DB2 BLU Acceleration also now supports database, as opposed to being architected Suite and SAP Business Warehouse, without large scale-out environments, enabling it to separately. It can help to redesign the way disruption. be used in the largest SAP Business business processes are designed and Warehouse environments. executed, because advanced real-time DB2 V11.1 analytics becomes an integral part of the For DB2 pureScale®, there has been a focus DB2 V11.1 achieved certification for use by transactional business process itself, rather on ease of deployment and operation, SAP customers in mid 2017. Key new than a separate activity. helping SAP customers protect mission- features include comprehensive enterprise critical systems from outages, and offering A key imperative when creating an integrated security, simplified deployment, better continuous availability. Combined with the system for transaction and analytics usability, a streamlined upgrade process, high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) processing is: “Don’t move the data!” – enhancements to very large databases, and feature, pureScale clusters can now span move analytics processing to the data vast improvements to BLU Acceleration. large distances. instead. The DB2 roadmap aims to support this vision.

Ongoing investments, part 2

Core Data Services For example, important CDS features like In practical terms, this means that CDS can currency conversion, date and time be used to align SAP ABAP code re- To help accelerate applications, SAP conversion, and optimized processing of engineering and optimization efforts with continues to enable and develop Core Data complex SQL queries, have already been DB2 in the near- and mid-term IT investment Services (CDS) as a database abstraction optimized in DB2. and planning horizon. layer.

Complex business objects and functions (for example, currency and unit conversion) are “pushed down” to be implemented at the Application CDS approach programming database level, instead of at the application Traditional Intensive models level. IBM continues to develop, optimize and approach computations align DB2 capabilities to support CDS in database Intensive functionality. layer computations in application Database layer

Reducing total cost Accelerating Making migrations Enabling cloud & Leveraging a strong Ongoing investments of ownership business insights easier hybrid strategies ecosystem Six reasons to choose IBM DB2 for SAP

Ongoing investments, part 3

PureScale pureScale clusters also make high availability even easier to achieve: the active-active IBM DB2 pureScale is a clustering SAP configuration enables seamless continuity technology that provides continuous applications even if a node fails. availability and transparent application scaling for both online transaction Designed for organizations that want to run processing (OLTP) and online analytical their SAP applications on distributed processing (OLAP) workloads. SAP and IBM systems, pureScale also enables individual IBM DB2 pureScale cluster have been closely cooperating to provide the workloads to be assigned to specific nodes benefits of this new exciting technology for of the pureScale cluster. SAP installations. This makes it easy to tune the performance pureScale extends the scope of DB2 by and availability requirements to meet specific enabling a “scale-out” paradigm that aligns service level agreements (SLAs) for each with modern developments in distributed application - an increasingly critical computing architectures. requirement for enterprises that need to support large, complex and mission-critical Data SAP application landscapes.

Authors

Elke Hartmann- Martin Mezger Liwen Yeow Karl Fleckenstein James Honey Bakan SAP Business Worldwide DB2-SAP Senior Technical Product Marketing, IBM Development, IBM Technical Sales, IBM Specialist, Data Server Data Management [email protected] Solutions, IBM Product Marketing, IBM [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017

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