Case Study: EMC achieves faster forecasting and lower IT costs with SAP HANA

EMC: Redefining ERP and ROI with a Virtualized SAP HANA® Deployment

EMC Corporation, a global high-tech company providing data storage and IT solutions, faced the challenge of managing exponential data growth with an overly complex and slow legacy ERP system. Their lengthy forecasting processes severely hampered business agility. To address this, they turned to vendor SAP, deploying the SAP HANA platform to modernize their infrastructure and enable real-time insights.

The solution involved running the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application on a virtualized SAP HANA environment using existing hardware. This implementation by SAP delivered dramatic results, including a 75% faster data loading, a 4x performance improvement in monthly forecasting, and a 70% reduction in capital expenditures. This approach provided EMC with significant cost savings and the powerful analytics needed to support its continued growth.

EMC Corporation

Michael Harding

Lead SAP Technical Architect