WESTPOLE AND SOUDAL: STICKING TO SUCCESS
The challenge
Growth comes with the necessary IT growing pains. As production plants were started worldwide, IT systems became more and more crucial as nearly all IT is consolidated in Belgium. Due to the factories running nearly 24/7 in different parts of the world, patch windows became increasingly smaller and the SAP systems in Belgium became vital to keep the factories running.
The solution
To help solve the problems of Soudal, WESTPOLE installed an infrastructure based on IBM Power systems. These UNIX based systems, that can also run multiple Linux versions, have already a higher uptime than regular x86 servers, whilst experiencing much less security issues.
The solution
WESTPOLE offered was also cost-effective thanks to consolidation of resources resulting in optimalization of licenses.
The benefits
The unique design of the IBM Power allows for the virtualization of the SAP HANA production instances,
this had multiple advantages for the customer:
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FROM THE CLIENT
Danny Verstraelen – Group ICT Director
“Although a rigid infrastructure is important for the data management within every single company. It’s the services delivered on top that can really make the difference. That’s the added value WESTPOLE offers to their clients”
Why WESTPOLE?
Soudal and WESTPOLE have a long-standing relationship and over the years WESTPOLE has been able to demonstrate it possesses the necessary skills and knowledge to select and implement the right solution. Soudal’s choice to partner with WESTPOLE to help its IT team was a logical next step.
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