Case Study: Hansgrohe SE boosts SAP performance and cuts downtime with IBM DB2

Enabling sparkling customer service by improving back-office performance

Hansgrohe SE, a market-leading German sanitary fittings manufacturer, faced performance and cost challenges after global expansion. Its Oracle-based systems struggled with increased workload, impacting operations and causing licensing costs to rise. To maintain excellent customer service without increasing operating costs, Hansgrohe turned to vendor IBM for a new database solution.

IBM migrated Hansgrohe's SAP applications from Oracle to IBM DB2 running on IBM Power servers and IBM Storwize storage. The solution boosted system performance by up to 10 percent, reduced backup downtime by 40 percent, and nearly halved the database size with 87 percent total data compression. This allowed Hansgrohe to avoid additional storage investments and refocus its IT team on improving the customer experience.

Hansgrohe SE

Klaus Buchholz

Director of Information Services