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.
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