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IBM
IBM, a prominent reseller, system integrator, and consulting company, that plays a vital role in numerous system integration and digital transformation initiatives. IBM collaboration with software players such as SAP, Salesforce and Oracle empowers organizations to embrace disruptive technologies and accelerate their journey to the cloud, thus reshaping their business models.
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Manufacturing | 400 | $94M | Italy | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA | ERP Financial | 2017 |
In 2017, SIFI implemented SAP S/4 HANA as its ERP Financial platform. The synergy among SIFI, IBM, and H.T. High Technology teams was crucial to complete the project in eight months, making SIFI one of the first companies in Italy to deploy SAP S/4 HANA.
The SAP S/4 HANA deployment focused on core financial functions consistent with ERP Financial implementations, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, treasury, controlling, and centralized financial reporting. Configuration work emphasized real-time financial postings, centralized master data for chart of accounts and cost centers, and streamlined period-end close workflows.
The architecture leveraged SAP S/4 HANA native in-memory processing to support accelerated transaction processing and reporting. Integration design provided standardized interfaces and data feeds to align financial records with operational transaction flows, supporting finance ledgers and controlling data consolidation across production and business units.
Governance and rollout were organized around joint steering and delivery teams from SIFI, IBM, and H.T. High Technology, using a condensed eight month schedule with coordinated testing, cutover orchestration, and user enablement across finance and accounting functions. The program prioritized process standardization and structured change management to embed SAP S/4 HANA into SIFI finance operations under the ERP Financial scope.
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Automotive | 4674 | $372M | India | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA | ERP Financial | 2017 |
In 2017, Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd. migrated its ERP from Oracle E-Business Suite to SAP S/4 HANA to establish an independent IT footprint following the demerger from the joint venture. The decision targeted better integration of supply chain with finance and operations, higher performance and uptime for manufacturing workloads, and alignment with the German affiliate which was already using SAP.
IBM led the technical implementation and provided the core infrastructure on IBM Power Systems, consolidating the SAP S/4 HANA landscape onto two POWER8 S824 servers and a single V5010 storage array. The architecture emphasized virtualization and logical partitioning, enabling multiple LPARs on fewer physical machines and allowing rapid resource repositioning during iterative migration revisions without adding hardware.
The deployment focused on ERP Financial capabilities, with SAP S/4 HANA configured to consolidate finance, integrate supply chain processes, support vendor management workflows and centralize operational reporting. Functional configuration aligned finance and supply chain master data and transactional flows to enable cross-functional reconciliation and standardized reporting across units.
Operational coverage included Sona BLW’s eight manufacturing plants across India, Germany and Hungary, and the rollout considered cross-site interoperability with the German unit Sona BLW Präzisionsschmiede. Governance included end-to-end technical support from the hardware vendor, iterative migration reviews and infrastructure flexibility delivered by IBM, which reduced data center footprint compared with alternative proposals.
Explicit outcomes reported by the company include streamlined processes, consolidated finance operations, integrated supply chain and improved vendor management with easier reporting, achieved without additional hardware spend. The SAP S/4 HANA deployment on IBM Power Systems also drew positive attention from the German counterpart, which began studying the solution closely.
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Manufacturing | 8500 | $9.0B | United States | SAP | SAP Commerce Cloud (ex Hybris) | eCommerce | 2018 |
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Banking and Financial Services | 2298 | $2.5B | United Kingdom | Salesforce | Salesforce Net Zero Cloud | Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) | 2023 |
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Banking and Financial Services | 4500 | $1.6B | United Kingdom | Oracle | Oracle E-Business Suite | ERP Financial | 2007 |
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Government | 4404 | $1.3B | United States | Workday | Workday Time and Attendance | Time and Attendance | 2021 |
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Government | 36233 | $41.6B | United States | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA | ERP Financial | 2024 |
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Oil, Gas and Chemicals | 382 | $675M | India | SAP | SAP HANA | Database Management | 2017 |
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Oil, Gas and Chemicals | 382 | $675M | India | SUSE Group | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications | Operating System (OS) | 2017 |
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Oil, Gas and Chemicals | 382 | $675M | India | IBM | IBM FlashSystem | Cloud Storage | 2017 |
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| Logo | Company | Industry | Employees | Revenue | Country | Evaluated |
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| Hitachi Vantara | Professional Services | 6300 | $2.4B | United States | 2024-09-16 |