Case Study: Greaves Cotton Ltd. achieves lower Total Cost of Ownership and improved SAP reliability with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Greaves Cuts Total Cost of Ownership Considerably with SAP Infrastructure Upgrade

Greaves Cotton Ltd., a Mumbai‑based engineering company running mission‑critical SAP ECC on Oracle for 900 users across six manufacturing units, faced an end‑of‑life IT refresh after six years and rising CPU, memory and storage pressure. After evaluating three vendors, Greaves selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise for a solution built on HPE Integrity BL860c/BL870c i4 server blades with Intel Itanium processors, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200 storage and HP‑UX 11i v3 to ensure long‑term reliability and manageability.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise designed and implemented the new infrastructure (with local partner Unique Solutions), delivering measurable gains: 27% lower power consumption, 30% less heat dissipation, 28.5% reduced space usage, a 52% database compression, and backup windows cut from six hours to about three hours. The HPE deployment reduced Total Cost of Ownership considerably, improved performance and manageability for Greaves Cotton Ltd., and provides 24/7 HPE support and predictive maintenance to sustain mission‑critical SAP operations.

Greaves Cotton Ltd.

Anil D’souza

General Manager - IT