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IAAS-BASED IT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SAP BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

BUSINESS OBJECTIVE

To Improve operations efficiency by introducing business management tools.
IT OBJECTIVE

To migrate from a system of heterogeneous information systems to a single SAP platform.

SOLUTION

The IT platform at the Jet Infosystems Virtual Data Center, consisting of: a complex system of 67 servers, a data storage system, a backup system (Symantec Veritas NetBackup), a SAP HANA system and a system for monitoring the state of IT infrastructure.
SAP ERP and SAP BI production applications.
Comprehensive technical support and admin services for SAP Basis,, and round-the-clock monitoring of the infrastructure and all application software.

IMPLEMENTATION

The virtual data center fully complies with the vendor's requirements and standards for deployment, operation and administration of SAP systems, including SAP HANA.

An IT platform for SAP applications was deployed at the Jet Infosystems virtual data center in less than two weeks. On this platform, we implemented SAP ERP and SAP BI production applications, and environments for development and testing. The resources of this new IT platform are flexibly scalable, dependent upon current business needs.

Provision for cluster fault tolerance is made both at the physical level and at the level of virtual machines. To improve the ERP system’s performance, we moved the database to separate servers, and distributed the SAP application layer across several servers.

PROJECT RESULTS

The new, IAAS-based IT platform provides the operational foundation for the main Children’s World (Detskiy Mir) accounting system, which is the organization’s ‘brain’ and responsible for almost all business processes. The SAP HANA complex provides real-time analytics for the company.

24 * 7
Technical support for the IT platform
3,000 people
Working in the new system
No more than 10 minutes
Failure detection time
No more than 120 minutes
Time it takes to switch all services to a new node

CUSTOMER REVIEW

This ready-made, fault-tolerant IT platform permits us to rapidly deploy application systems, and ensures the qualified servicing of our systems in compliance with the SLA without our needing to hire new IT staff. Creating our own IT infrastructure would have required far too large an investment, and project timelines would be prohibitively long.

Sergey Kondarev

Director of the Information Technology Department, the Children’s World (Detskiy Mir) Group