The Escorts Group, one of India’s engineering
conglomerates, is adopting IBM’s smarter computing approach to information
technology.
Through an agreement with IBM, Escorts Group
will receive a workload-optimized hardware solution to replace the company’s
existing ERP system infrastructure. The advanced systems will provide enhanced
performance and compliment the company’s business growth goals of lowering
overall IT operating costs.
Escorts Group
has embarked on a journey of IT transformation to achieve operational and
manufacturing excellence,” said Vipin Kumar, Group
CIO, Escorts.
To achieve this we are not only going
beyond adhering to prevailing norms, we are in fact setting our own standards
and relentlessly pursuing them to achieve our desired benchmarks of excellence.
To aid us in this journey we needed a scalable and
high-performing IT infrastructure, backed by a robust technology roadmap. IBM
clearly had the best solution, while ensuring a reduction in our energy
footprint and increasing return on investment,” Kumar added.
Escorts Group is expanding its current
deployment of Oracle Corp.’s Oracle Applications ERP software to cover two new
divisions a utilization increase of about 40 percent. During the hardware
evaluation process to support the expansion, Escorts considered various options
including Itanium-based servers from Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp.’s
Exadata Database Machine.
The company, however, chose to replace its
existing HP PA-RISC servers with IBM Power 750 Express and IBM Power 740
Express systems. Each of the systems is complemented by IBM System Storage
DS5000s, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager software.
The new infrastructure resides in Escorts
Group’s newly-built corporate data center and will manage the company’s
disaster recovery system in addition to the ERP system. In addition to gains in
performance and reliability, the IBM solution is expected to provide
Escorts Group with savings in power and cooling costs of between 30 to 35
percent, over a three year period.
“IBM has extensive global experience in
helping clients implement solutions that save money, create operational
efficiencies and improve competitiveness. The solution we designed for Escorts
Group provides a strong platform for further development and growth,” said
Viswanath Ramaswamy, Country Manager, Power Systems, Systems and Technology
Group, IBM India/SA.
IBM recently announced the continued adoption
of its smarter computing systems, software, and services across China’s private
and public sectors.
IBM is working with the China National Bureau of
Statistics, Guizhou Provincial Health Department and Guizhou Mobile to help
each build more advanced IT environments based on IBM’s optimized system
architecture, data and analytics integration, and cloud computing capabilities.
Through these smarter computing initiatives, each organization will improve
their operational efficiencies and end-user services.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
