Case Study
Business software leader SAP powers R&D innovation with near-instant, cloud-based delivery of IT infrastructure
Business software leader SAP powers R&D innovation with near-instant, cloud-based delivery of IT infrastructure
— BMC is a global leader in innovative software solutions that enable businesses to transform into digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive advantage. — Case Study BUSINESS CHALLENGE SAP is driven by innovation. Nearly 19,000 of the company’s 74,000+ employees are involved in R&D. SAP Global IT empowers these innovators in 21 research and development (R&D) labs through six primary data centers housing more than 40,000 servers. A key enabler of innovation is the frequent delivery of fresh, complex instances of SAP software to support development, testing, and training. It’s a daunting provisioning task that must comply with stringent financial mandates. To meet R&D’s needs, Global IT created the Corporate Compute Cloud (C 3 ), a high-performance environment that transfor