Re: Sap Bites the Dust at Sobeys ($81 million) !!!

["Neil Palmer" <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes - I see going to http://www.ibm.com  and searching on Sobeys produces 
a few hits.  I notice the link to Sobeys on the case study page at 
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/partners/ae1partners/sap/casestudy.html 
 is broken - but so are many of the others.

However the link to this page:
http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/spworld2000/americas/session5.html
referring to a conference held last June  , includes this:






Track 2 - Classic High Performance Computing and Linux Clusters -- 
Executive Center 2A-2B 
ERP: SAP Implementation on the SP 
Derrick Hazel, SP Administrator 
Sobeys Canada 
This presentation will provide an overview of the implementation of SAP 
R/3 that Sobeys Canada has recently completed in 1999. Sobeys SAP 
installation is the largest retail installation of SAP R/3 in North 
America. Discussions on how this was accomplished using the IBM SP2 
architecture will include: use of the SP2 switch as a high-speed 
networking alternative, use of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager on the SP for 
enterprise systems backup and restore, designing and implementing large 
database disk architecture ( > 1 terrabyte) on IBM SSA disk, and how all 
these topics fit into a scalable, highly-available server strategy using 
HACMP high-availability software. 
Derrick Hazel is the SP Administrator for Sobeys Canada Limited in Nova 
Scotia, Canada and is an SAP Basis team member there. Derrick has been 
working with IBM hardware and software for 10 years. Specifically in the 
last several years, Derrick has worked almost exclusively with the AIX 
Operating System and the IBM SP2 server architecture. His experiences 
include deploying a multi-terrabyte database on the SP2 platform using DB2 
UDB, tuning the SP2 switch for application network performance, and 
installing and administering the disaster recovery site for one of 
Canada's largest retailers. Derrick has designed and deployed RS/6000 
systems for companies in many different industry sectors including retail, 
health care, transportation and oil and gas. 

...Neil





"Bernd Schaefers" <bschaefers@gmx.net>
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> Hmmm..what platform was the SAP being implemented on?
[...]

According to an IBM case study SAP running on an RS/6000 SP, and DB2,
running on an RS/6000 S80.

Bernd








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