IT organizations and service providers such as CenturyLink, Valley Proteins, and Mohawk Industries are selecting Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and SAP HANA to streamline operations and optimize profitability.
In addition, Cisco and SAP are also working to optimize the SAP-UCS customer experience with features for smoother manageability and better return-on-investment (ROI).
IDC survey of 300 respondents currently using SAP or planning to in the 24 months, found that Cisco UCS is the leading platform for SAP HANA deployments, as well as the leading storage infrastructure vendor for SAP HANA, with 20.4 percent vendor share in both categories.
“The combination of SAP HANA on Cisco UCS offers enterprise customers business applications, analytics, and ERP,” said Liz Centoni, senior vice president and general manager for Cisco’s Computing Systems Group.
The US-based enterprise networking company said UCS is the ideal platform for SAP service providers that offer SAP HANA-as-a-Service.
Cisco said its innovations in SAP-HANA are a key component of Cisco’s Data Center vision, the ASAP Data Center, which stands for analyze-simplify-automate-protect. Cisco ASAP Data Center will help customers reduce cost, drive agility and accelerate business readiness.
CenturyLink
CenturyLink, headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, offers SAP managed cloud solutions, based on Cisco UCS.
“Our collaboration with Cisco and SAP brings a new dynamic to customers using SAP: converged infrastructure with complete automation for SAP HANA Services that is both highly intuitive and secure,” said Gary Gauba, president, Advanced Solutions Group in CenturyLink’s IT & Managed Services business unit.
Mohawk Industries
Mohawk Industries, the world’s largest flooring company based in Georgia, has recognized that SAP HANA was key to providing real-time, actionable information with in-memory analytics capabilities. Working with Cisco, Dell EMC, and VMware, Mohawk implemented a hybrid cloud environment based on Vblock Systems converged infrastructure technology for simple management and the power to get the most out of SAP HANA.
“With SAP HANA, we’re bringing market data, machine data, and ERP system-based transactional data to one database so that all departments can get the information that they need instantly,” said Jevin Jensen, vice president of Global Infrastructure.
Valley Proteins
Valley Proteins, which provides recycling services for the collection, rendering and recycling of animal processing and supermarket waste, centralized data from 25 remote locations to better understand the profitability of each customer and track materials and maintenance in real-time.
Valley Proteins tapped Cisco UCS and SAP solutions to improve overall profitability and business insight, including real-time tracking of vehicles and materials and growth with modular scalability.
“With Cisco UCS, we have a solid infrastructure for SAP, enabling greater business insight than we’ve ever had before,” said Brad Wilton, director of IT, Valley Proteins.
