TEXAS INSTRUMENTS RENEWS COMMITMENT TO SUN/SAP PLATFORM

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS RENEWS COMMITMENT TO SUN/SAP PLATFORM

February 26, 2003 - Today, manufacturers need processes, systems, and solutions that support product-centric collaboration, allowing them to create better products in less time, with greater customer satisfaction, lower costs, and fewer defects. These companies require flexible, proven solutions that enable them to extend system functionality, improve profitability and increase interoperability.

In short, they're asked to do more --and do it better, faster and cheaper-- with less.

Extending their global alliance for the single purpose of helping customers reduce risk, TCO and complexity in the enterprise, Sun and SAP provide an integrated solution that helps simplify the IT information technology components for creating service-driven, value chain networks and development of collaboartive communities.

Semiconductor giant, Texas Instruments, continues to benefit from the Sun/SAP alliance as it renews its commitment to utilize SAP solutions on the Solaris Operating Environment platform. Solaris is a key component of the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE), the open, integratable product portfolio enabling the development and delivery of Java Web services.

Since 1999, Texas Instruments (TI) has been utilizing SAP Solutions on Sun Systems for accounting, logistics, material management, production planning and control, sales and distribution functions. In its most recent work in May 2002, Texas Instruments again turned to Sun and SAP to support upcoming releases of SAP Solutions. With continued efficiency in IT performance and business operations, the upgraded Sun Fire v880 AND 6800 serviers and platforms for SAP Solutions are designed to accommodate TI's projected growth over the next two years.

Dan Patrick of Texas Instruments commented on the company's decision to upgrade to the latest version of Sun hosting SAP, noting, "we've already seen better than expected results overall."

"First, Sun helped us complete the cutover from test to production in a four-and-a-half hour window with no upgrade issues. We're also very pleased with SAP performance on Sun. Since the migration in May 2002, our business has experienced less downtime, SAP batch processing time has typically been reduced by 50 to 60 percent, and we've reduced our transaction times by more than 40 percent," said Patrick.

Texas Instruments invested in Sun systems in an effort to improve enterprise readiness for long-term business plans. Implementing solutions, Texas Instruments' performance improvements have yielded increased efficiency in financial data processing, significant cost savings in software and systems expenditures. Since migrating to the new Sun Fire/SAP platform, Texas Instruments has experienced performance improvements, including:

• 50 to 60 percent reduction in SAP batch processing time;
• 57 percent reduction in backup time;
• Improved transaction response time by over 40 percent;
• Reduction in financial close cycle from 9.2 hours to 7.6 hours;
• Improvements in business operations with regards to reliability, business continuity and minimal disruption to operations.

With the open-standards-based Web services infrastructure of SAP technology and Sun's highly scalable, secure architecture, businesses such as TI are achieving outstanding interoperability and flexibility at a reduced cost, across the enterprise. In its most recent investment in Sun and SAP, Texas Instruments migrated to an environment based on Sun Fire V880 and 6800 servers running the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, SAP 4.0B, HDS storage, Oracle 8.1.7.4, and Veritas Cluster server over a gigabit Ethernet network.