FSN: Swarovski acquires Fujitsu Siemens servers to accelerate BI

Swarovski acquires Fujitsu Siemens servers to accelerate BI

19th November 2007
Swarovski is leveraging solutions from Fujitsu Siemens Computers and SAP AG to accelerate data analysis. Both companies are running the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Accelerator (SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator) software on servers from Fujitsu Siemens Computers to improve performance the speed and load time of business intelligence analytics.

Swarovski, the Austrian-based crystal manufacturer, operates its entire SAP application-based environment on a PRIMERGY server platform from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Swarovski has been using the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator since March 2007. Fujitsu Siemens Computers was the general contractor and supplied the entire service portfolio – from professional services to the preconfigured infrastructure solution.

“We require very complex data evaluation in order to optimise the internal reporting for our management,” explained Helmut Krimbacher, CIO at Swarovski. “However, these reports demand a very good IT infrastructure and excellent processor performance. The continuous increase in data quantities and the constant optimisation of our business processes require a much faster data throughput for this process. This extension of our existing implementation of SAP NetWeaver BI, via the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator, means that we can successfully achieve the required performance. Using a complete infrastructure solution from Fujitsu Siemens Computers, we also have an IT platform that fully meets our requirements regarding computing performance, flexibility and reliability and our IT administrators do not have to continually deal with time-consuming routine jobs, but can now work on their other tasks. ”

Fujitsu Siemens Computers delivers the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator software preinstalled on PRIMERGY BX 620 S4 Blade Servers and FibreCAT/EMC CX Series.

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