Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, one of the world's leading mobile phone providers, was running its SAP enterprise resource planning software on a UNIX and Oracle platform—and wanted to improve reliability, get batch jobs completed during available time slots, and avoid hitting memory and performance limits. After considering a UNIX and Oracle upgrade, the company decided to migrate its SAP system to Microsoft® Windows®-based servers running on Intel® Itanium®2-based computers. As a result, reliability is up, with the company saving a day per year in unplanned downtime. Batch jobs are processed faster, database costs are reduced, and the company expects to gain tremendous flexibility to integrate the infrastructure with—and, thus, leverage its investment in—its existing Windows-based environment.