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Case Study: China Steel Corp. boosts efficiency and real-time analytics with IBM
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China Steel Corporation - Customer Case Study
The customer, China Steel Corporation (CSC), the largest steel company in Taiwan, faced a significant challenge. During a generation replacement of personnel, they embarked on an IT reengineering project to upgrade their environment and leverage historical data. This daunting task, handled with vendor IBM, involved rewriting nearly 200 COBOL applications to Java without interrupting day-to-day operations.
IBM implemented a solution using an open systems platform on Linux, including components like IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator and IBM zEnterprise BC12. This allowed CSC to perform real-time analytics on decades of data to optimize pricing and supply chain management. The results were substantial: a 15% reduction in expenses, a 60x increase in system speed, and a 40% increase in hardware efficiency, enabling the processing of five million records daily.
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