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Advance
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Illinois-based Advance, a leader in the lighting industry, first implemented SAP R/3 ERP solutions in 1999 to gain greater control over supply chain management, shop floor scheduling, and coordination of its 17 locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. The firm employs more than 6,000 worldwide. When Advance decided to upgrade its suite of SAP R/3 Enterprise ERP solutions, the company took the opportunity to reengineer its storage management infrastructure to provide greater business agility and IT efficiency.
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- Manage ever-increasing data growth with consistent ILM strategy
- Continue storage consolidation on SAN architecture
- Achieve IT efficiency through standardized single-vendor infrastructure
- Meet business goals with minimal increase in IT costs
- Attain utility model reliability and availability in IT operations
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- Replaced EMC SAN with HP SAN to achieve self sufficiency and agility
- Replaced aging tape libraries with high-performance HP StorageWorks enterprise tape library
- Consolidated and virtualized IT with HP BladeSystem, HP-UX, and StorageWorks solutions
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- Increased IT agility in meeting business needs
- Accelerated move from direct-attached storage to SAN architecture
- Reduced IT costs by nearly 50 percent in five years, including 15 percent staff reduction
- Amplified efficiency through IT consolidation and virtualization
- Enhanced data security and business continuity preparedness
- Improved ability to easily accommodate new applications and processes
- Cut time required for backups by 50 percent for Windows applications and 25 percent for UNIX systems
- Maintaining streamlined SAP database performance through ILM strategy
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