Fast, Effective Business Warehousing With the IBM Systems Solution for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator

Endress+Hauser wanted to maintain and reduce query response times in the face of rapid BW growth. The company wanted to make query response times more predictable, eliminating the need for custom tuning and reduce the workload of maintaining BW system aggregates. The solution recommended was the IBM BladeCenter technology, which provides a scalable architecture to improve SAP application performance, SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator software to accelerate performance of BW queries, IBM System Storage DS4700 that provides high-performance storage infrastructure to boost I/O speeds, IBM General Parallel File System to deliver high performance and availability and SUSE Linux to provide excellent reliability and resilience at low operational costs.