In order to achieve its goal of increasing agricultural yield in Brazil, Stara had the following objectives: • Establish technically robust operations for SAP® SuccessFactors® solutions • Increase technical stability • Improve performance and business throughput • Introduce efficient maintenance of software after the going-live event

The manufacture and assembly of massive fuselage assemblies and other large structures generates a river of data. In fact, the bill of materials for a single fuselage alone can be millions of rows of data. In-house production processes and testing, as well as other manufacturers and customers created data flows that overwhelmed previous processes and information systems. Spirit’s customer base had grown substantially since their 2005 divestiture from Boeing, resulting in a $41 billion backlog of orders to fill. To address this backlog, meet increased customer demands and minimize additional capital investment, the company needed a way to improve throughput in the existing operational footprint. Spirit had a requirement from customers to increase fuselage production by 30%. To accomplish this goal, Spirit needed real-time information on its value chain and workflow. However, the two terabytes of data being pulled from their SAP ECC was unmanageable and overloaded their business warehouse. It had become time-consuming and difficult to pull aggregate data, disaggregate it for the needed information and then reassemble to create a report. During the 6-8 hours it took to build a report, another work shift (they run three per day) would have already taken place, thus the report content was out-of-date before it was ever delivered. As a result, supervisors often had to rely on manual efforts to provide charts, reports and analysis.

At times, ULA has as many as 15 different operating systems dedicated to overlapping processes, such as rocket design, testing, and launch. Multiple systems created unnecessary costs and unwanted confusion among workers at offices, factories, and launch sites in different location. In order to improve collaboration and transparency during vital activities that directly influence mission success, ULA wanted to improve data sharing and streamline manufacturing processes.

Objectives • Create an innovative IT environment that supports the move toward a solution-provider business model • Enhance existing business processes and leverage the power of Big Data and predictive maintenance to become more proactive, customer oriented, and competitive • Leverage the SAP HANA® platform to transform and simplify the entire SAP® solution landscape

AGL Energy, one of Australia’s largest power retailers, is replacing its electromechanical meters with interactive smart meters in 2.2 million homes and 300,000 businesses throughout the state of Victoria, including its capital, Melbourne. This is nearly a 4,320-fold increase in daily data processing for electricity providers. It’s also the start of a “data tsunami,” swelling up from these 2.5 million smart meters and flowing into AGL Energy’s billing and operations systems.AGL’s Business Requirements- For wholesale energy: Improved settlement reporting- For merchant energy portfolio management: Better load forecasting, accuracy and data analytics / segmentation with better reporting- For analytics: Better forecasting and reporting

Dole processes 48,000 purchase orders each year from farmers across several countries and regions. In order to shorten the PO process, Dole needed to centralize all data and standardize and automate the tools, information, and practices used to manage procurement processes across the region, to save precious time and money. The company looked to SAP to streamline the entire procure-to-pay process.

Engine testing is a costly and data-intensive process. And, while most engine failures occur within minutes, failed tests could not be identified until after completion, resulting in hours of lost time and resources.

For ARI, customer service is key. Seven global customer contact centers handle about 4 million calls annually, and this sea of daily information needs to be analyzed, which took up to two days manually, so negatively affecting service levels. With the amount of data ARI collects doubling every 14 months, their in-house ETL data warehouse limited their ability to fully help customers reduce fleet costs and gain operational efficiencies.

Schaidt Innovations was purely a production site with no ERP IT infrastructure when started. So the company needed an ERP system and there was no time for a long, drawn-out implementation. And Schaidt did not have the resources or funding to invest in ERP IT development, customization, and support.

Buenos Aires, the largest city in Argentina, is constantly striving to become more sustainable and more welcoming. The constantly growing population, however, means increasing energy consumption and CO2 emissions, resulting in increasing energy costs and light pollution levels. The city required quality street lighting that would offer impeccable service in order to give its citizens a better place to live. To address these issues, Buenos Aires is implementing innovative solutions that are environmentally sustainable and cost-effective, and that can meet future demands of city life.

· Increase control over growing Big Data to improve business decisions · Manage data for 28,000 biotechnology stockkeeping units in the fields of microbiology, molecular biology, animal cell cultures, plant tissue cultures, and lab ware for laboratory chemicals · Accelerate report generation and analysis with real-time data

For more than 25 years, itelligence has helped more than 5000 customers get the most from their SAP applications. Now a global business IT services provider in the NTT Data Group, itelligence is the only SAP partner with six certifications, including SAP Platinum Partner. It has locations in 23 countries and has been named SAP North American Partner of the Year for 9 straight years. In 2016, SAP honored itelligence with two of its prestigious Pinnacle Awards: SAP S/4HANA Adoption Partner of the Year and Global Value-Added Reseller. As more of its customers migrate to SAP HANA for advanced data processing and analytics, itelligence is helping them make the transition as seamless as possible.

Specializing in cloud-hosting and cloud recovery services, Bluelock works to mitigate risk and ensure mission-critical applications, such as SAP and SAP HANA, are always available to keep its clients’ businesses running. Bluelock tailors its solutions to meet the unique needs of every client, providing numerous certifications to securely handle Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH), and other sensitive workloads for clients in finance, healthcare, and other industries with sensitive data.

Virtustream has deep SAP expertise, helping enterprises take advantage of cloud economics with its xStream-powered infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Virtustream specializes in cloud and hosting services for SAP, with nearly 500 SAP HANA instance migrations to date. It was the first service provider to offer SAP and SAP HANA in a multitenant cloud. To meet the security, compliance, performance, and efficiency requirements of complex production applications in the cloud, Virtustream selected the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) and Cisco® networking technology for its data centers.

To develop a reliable and integrated asset management platform:The objective of the platform was to support condition-based monitoring in order to keep in check the asset’s health, predict failure or breakdowns and ensure proactive maintenance decision-making on the basis of the historic data.

To optimize its Sigma Smart AirService, Kaeser worked with SAPDigital Business Services to deploySAP Leonardo IoT capabilities as its innovation foundation together with SAP Asset Intelligence Network and SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service. Kaeser’s new solution connects its compressors smartly in the cloud, allowing it to offer a next-generation service at a lower price.Challenges:- Service team unable to access calibration data and other equipment-specific information, which was stored in on-premise systems- No solution to meet the needs of dealers and companies’ service providers- Need for track-and-trace capabilities with selected suppliers to scale-up potential