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SAP IT Selects IBM DB2 as Strategic Database Platform for Internal Business Systems

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Overview SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany, is one of the world's leading business software providers. SAP IT (the IT department of SAP AG) wanted to be able to take advantage of new SAP software functionalities while reducing the complexity and operational costs of its IT landscape. The company also wanted to move to a new database platform to deliver optimal performance. In three separate projects, SAP IT upgraded its Human Capital Management (HCM), ERP and Business Intelligence applications, simultaneously performing Unicode conversion and migrating databases from Oracle to IBM DB2.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	ERP, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Human Capital Management

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HP

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SAP

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asset management

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SAP

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call center - contact

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Publisher:
IBM

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erp

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R3Now.com

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erp

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Applications
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erp

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IT Outsourcing
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outsourcing

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