ConAgra chooses IBM and SAP solutions to help plan & run their business
by admin on Feb.04, 2012, under Datacenter
www.ibm-sap.com ConAgra runs their business using SAP applications on IBM System x servers, increasing processing power 400% and running 10-15 times faster speed at a lower cost with high quality. SAP BW Accelerator on IBM System x has changed the game for business reporting of ConAgra’s extremely large amounts of data. The IBM x3650 and x3850 have reduced capital costs by 60%. MSI is a local VAR providing consistent technical expertise. Transcript Gerrit Schutté: ConAgra is one of the largest manufacturers of food here in North America. You are familiar brands such as Healthy Choice, Banquet, Marie Callenders. Terry West: SAP is an extremely important system for us here at ConAgra Foods. It is our enterprise planning and reporting system. It provides us a single source of truth to both plan and run our entire business from the financials through our production systems. Gerrit Schutté: If SAP doesnt work, our company is severely impaired. Terry West: Prior to moving to the IBM System x, we were operating our SAP instance on an Enterprise Class system from a competitor and the clustering technology and the performance was becoming a problem for us. We chose to implement SAP on the IBM platform as we moved from that Enterprise Class system to the System x. Tim Darnall: I called that a trifecta win at the time. We got speed, and I am talking 10 to 15 times more speed than we had in previous environment. We had price, much cheaper price point than we were spending before in …
