rku.it
rku.it, a prominent reseller, system integrator, and consulting company, that plays a vital role in numerous system integration and digital transformation initiatives. rku.it collaboration with software players such as SAP, IBM and empowers organizations to embrace disruptive technologies and accelerate their journey to the cloud, thus reshaping their business models.
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City of Herne | Government | 2100 | $650M | Germany | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA | ERP Financial | 2019 |
In 2019 City of Herne acquired licenses for SAP S/4 HANA, initiating a multi-year program to introduce SAP S/4 HANA into municipal operations. The project is categorized under ERP Financial and the licensing step in 2019 set the procurement baseline for follow-on concept and rollout activities planned in 2021 and subsequent years.
Implementation planning centers on core financial functionality consistent with ERP Financial deployments, with emphasis on general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting and budget control modules. Configuration work in the concept phase is described as preparing the new SAP S/4 HANA solution to support municipal accounting, financial reporting and procurement-related finance processes, while preserving design flexibility for future functional extensions.
Crucial technical components of the new system are expected to be delivered by SAP over the next few years, and the local systems integrator rku.it is listed as the implementation partner. Design activities in 2021 explicitly account for the initial situation of ewmr customers, aligning solution requirements to existing customer contexts and ensuring vendor delivered components can be integrated into the target ERP Financial landscape.
Operational scope includes municipal finance and associated departments, with internal documentation noting a specific unit headcount of 180 employees as of 12/31/2020, and the broader employer size for City of Herne at approximately 2100 employees. Governance and rollout are being staged, with continued concept work in 2021 to define phased deployment, configuration governance and acceptance criteria ahead of component deliveries from SAP.
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City of Herne | Government | 2100 | $650M | Germany | SAP | SAP HANA | Database Management | 2019 |
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City of Herne | Government | 2100 | $650M | Germany | IBM | IBM Power Systems | Application Hosting and Computing Services | 2024 |
In 2024, City of Herne expanded its SAP HANA environment by deploying IBM Power Systems under an Application Hosting and Computing Services engagement. The procurement was issued as a tender, published 27.12.23 with an offer deadline 27.01.24, and recorded under CPV code 48820000-2, server ID 91210304. rku.it GmbH is listed as the implementation partner responsible for delivery in the Dortmund region and client location Herne. The order type is service and the scope explicitly included maintenance and commissioning of the new hardware.
The implementation provisioned two IBM P9 E950 servers model 9040-MR9, each configured with 40 cores and 8,192 GB RAM, Active Memory Mirroring and Power Active Memory Expansion, and four 800 GB NVMe SSDs. The systems include 20-core AIX V7 Standard Edition licensing, 20-core PowerVM Enterprise Edition, 20-core IBM PowerVM Linux Edition V3, and a 1-2 Socket SUSE SLES for SAP Applications for Power entitlement, reflecting a mixed AIX and Linux virtualization and OS footprint. Processor activation details were specified as 20x 1-core Linux Processor Activation for #EPWS and an additional 20x 1-core Processor Activation for #EPWS, with typical core frequencies in the 3.4 to 3.8 GHz range.
Both IBM Power Systems were integrated into existing racks and delivered with full population of PCIe expansion capacity, 11 of 11 PCIe slots occupied, including five EN15 PCIe3 4-port 10GbE SR network adapters and six EN1A PCIe3 32 Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapters for storage connectivity. The technical design centers on scaling the SAP HANA compute layer and supporting virtualization with PowerVM, while providing SAN connectivity via Fibre Channel and high throughput networking via 10 GbE. Commissioning and maintenance were contracted as part of the service order to bring the expanded compute nodes into production within the municipal SAP HANA estate.
Governance for the rollout follows the tender terms with national announcement and a service contract model, with rku.it GmbH accountable for on-site integration and handover in Herne. Operational ownership is aligned to the City of Herne IT environment and the deployment focuses on compute consolidation, virtualization orchestration, and SAP application hosting capabilities. IBM Power Systems is restated as the application infrastructure platform used to host SAP HANA workloads under this Application Hosting and Computing Services implementation.
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Government | 2100 | $650M | Germany | IBM | IBM PowerVM | Network Virtualisation | 2008 |
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Utilities | 240 | $27M | Germany | SAP | SAP Netweaver | Apps Development | 2011 |
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Utilities | 240 | $27M | Germany | SAP | SAP BW (Business Warehouse) | Data Warehouse | 2011 |
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Utilities | 240 | $27M | Germany | SAP | SAP ERP ECC 6.0 | ERP Financial | 2011 |
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Utilities | 240 | $27M | Germany | IBM | IBM Db2 | Database Management | 2002 |
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Utilities | 240 | $27M | Germany | SAP | SAP S/4HANA Utilities | Utilities ERP | 2011 |
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Utilities | 240 | $27M | Germany | IBM | IBM AIX | Operating System (OS) | 2002 |
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