Case Study
Blanc und Fischer IT Services: Reducing SAP operating costs with IBM POWER8 and DB2 with BLU Acceleration
Blanc und Fischer IT Services: Reducing SAP operating costs with IBM POWER8 and DB2 with BLU Acceleration
Share this Manfred Leistner CTO Blanc und Fischer IT Services, a subgroup of BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding The three subsidiaries, E.G.O-Group, BLANCO Group and BLANCO Professional Group, here summarized as BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding, are manufacturers of electronics and industrial components, kitchen sinks and medical facilities, employing 8,000 people, and achieving revenues of EUR 1.1 billion. Business challenge Subgroups of BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding wanted to increase the efficiency of their central services, cut costs, remain competitive and help their independent business units to flourish. Transformation Subgroups of BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding consolidated their mission-critical SAP ERP and SAP Business Warehouse applications onto IBM® Power® System E87