Case Study: Balluff achieves near‑real‑time business insight and up to 98% faster reporting with IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration

Balluff gains fast insight into critical data for better business decisions

Balluff, a family-owned global sensor manufacturer, faced slowing access to SAP Business Warehouse and finance reports during rapid growth, risking poor decisions and degraded customer service. To transform information delivery, Balluff turned to IBM and selected IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration (deployed on IBM Power Systems with AIX and supporting IBM storage technologies) to speed real‑time access to market and customer data.

IBM implemented the move of SAP BW to IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration alongside IBM FlashSystem and storage/backup improvements, delivered online with minimal disruption. The IBM solution cut complex report runtimes by up to 98%, delivered 98% faster access to business data, halved SAP ERP response times, made document access up to 7x faster, reduced backups and volumes by ~30%, and enabled snapshot recovery from disk in about one minute.

Balluff

Bernd Dümmel

Team Manager SAP BW and Application Development