Austrian Retail Giant SPAR Chooses SAP HANA Infrastructure From Hitachi Data Systems and Imtech to Better Service Customers and Stay Ahead of the Competition - Seite 2

In-Memory Computing Defies Big Data
UCP for SAP HANA helps companies speed up, simplify and economize decision-making processes through real-time, in-memory analytics. These capabilities deliver enormous advantages in big data analysis, and greatly accelerate the speed of business decisions. Today, the solution supports SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) for SAP HANA and provides the necessary scalability for the whole company.

"Our Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA solution is the ideal choice for SPAR as a retail company. SPAR is not only introducing SAP's innovation roadmap into its group but also is an early adopter of tomorrow's technology platform for the retail business. This will allow SPAR to respond quickly to market changes in the best way possible," said Matthias Czwikla, vice president Global SAP Field Alliance at Hitachi Data Systems. "This is an exciting time for both SPAR and Hitachi Data Systems who are currently undergoing business transformation and we look forward to continuing to grow our relationship."

The Hitachi scale-out architecture lets SAP HANA run in business-critical environments without interruption. Hitachi Compute Blade server technologies, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, and the Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) family of enterprise storage systems ensure a high level of availability and uninterrupted operation. The use of the Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS) solution as part of the overall architecture allows a consolidated, high-performance, end-to-end backup solution with no interruption of service.

Planned Expansion
With a view toward future trends such as predictive retail, SPAR's new SAP HANA solution is an investment in future-proof, high-performance technology and is now supported by an extremely agile IT architecture, benefitting the entire company. In addition to SAP BW, SPAR is also installing SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for HANA, and evaluating future projects for the transition to HANA for the existing SAP Finance, Controlling, Human Resources systems. The SAP retail solution is also on SPAR's HANA roadmap.

HDS and Imtech: A Partnership With Added Value
SPAR has placed its trust in the strategic partnership of Hitachi Data Systems and Imtech for the joint completion of long-term, complex IT projects. Imtech previously managed the SAP landscape at SPAR and now, together with HDS, is able to offer the company business-relevant data analysis combined with a professional team with optimal support.