Case Study: Major Energy Infrastructure Developer and Supplier achieves rapid growth and real-time SAP analytics with NetApp

Energy Company Positions for Rapid Growth with SAP Solutions Supported by NetApp and Cisco Technology

This North American energy infrastructure developer—owning thousands of miles of pipelines and a broad mix of gas storage and power-generation assets—faced an aging, fragmented IT environment that couldn’t deliver a single source of truth for analysis. The company needed a sustainable, easily managed infrastructure to unify systems, speed analytics and reporting, and support rapid growth while minimizing operational risk.

The company deployed SAP ECC on a FlexPod Datacenter (NetApp FAS6280, Cisco UCS, Nexus switches, VMware) and SAP HANA on Cisco UCS with NetApp FAS3240, with Accenture managing a nondisruptive rollout. The integrated solution delivered high-speed analytics, faster executive decision-making, and simplified management for IT staff, enabled deployments in weeks with no unplanned outages and 100% uptime SLAs, and reduced project provisioning from months to weeks to support rapid expansion and faster onboarding.