Case Study: VMware achieves 15-minute data provisioning and 60% database reduction with SAP HANA

What‘s Next After Practically Inventing the Cloud

VMware, a high‑tech leader that helped invent the cloud, faced the challenge of scaling beyond startup roots while preserving innovation, simplifying a complex IT landscape, and consolidating seven legacy data warehouses to improve agility and end‑user experience. The company needed stable, scalable solutions to cut data lag, reduce administrative overhead, and support rapid delivery for customers and internal teams.

By adopting the SAP HANA platform with SAP Master Data Governance and HANA smart data integration/access, VMware centralized 15 TB of warehouse data into a single 6 TB database, cut data provisioning from 24 hours to 15 minutes, and reduced total database size by 60%. The change eliminated manual vendor‑master tasks, delivered immediate TCO savings, improved end‑user responsiveness for 14,000 users, and enabled faster, on‑the‑fly environment provisioning and real‑time infrastructure monitoring.

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Lalit Sudan

Director of the Enterprise Architecture Group