Australia's CSR Lowers Costs by Migrating SAP from Oracle to SQL Server 2005
CSR Limited (CSR) is one of the largest manufacturers in Australia. It is the sixth largest sugar producer in the world and a major manufacturer of building products including plasterboard, roofing material, insulation, and glass. CSR is also a joint venture participant in the Tomago aluminium smelter. The company originally deployed SAP on a UNIX/Oracle stack to manage its multinational enterprise, but later migrated to the Microsoft® Application Platform including Microsoft SQL Server® 2005 database software. After purchasing a large glass producer, CSR again migrated SAP from the UNIX/Oracle stack to the Microsoft Application Platform. CSR's migrations have resulted in a lower total cost of ownership, enhanced performance, and high availability.
Based in Chatswood, Australia, CSR Limited (CSR) is one of that country's leading manufacturing companies, with operations throughout Australia as well as in Asia and New Zealand.
Business Situation
CSR wanted to find a more efficient foundation for its SAP infrastructure than the UNIX/Oracle stack it had been using.
Solution
The company migrated its SAP infrastructure from UNIX/Oracle to the Microsoft® Application Platform, including Microsoft SQL Server® 2005.
Benefit
Lower total cost of ownership
Enhanced performance
Ease of migration
High availability
Enterprise integration
Software
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office Professional 2007
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition
SAP on Microsoft Technologies
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
Feature: Reporting Services
Feature: Analysis Services
Windows Communication Foundation
Quote
"It is great to see performance go up at the same time your hardware and software costs are going down."
