The Challenge
LEGO is capitalizing on resurgent
popularity of its building-block toys
range and branded characters, by
expanding internationally. Success,
in the form of double-digit growth is
creating scalability challenges, from
employee management to product
design and development. To fulfill
its business ambitions, LEGO
wanted to be able to roll out new
operations rapidly and reliably. To
do so required drastic simplification
and standardization of the IT
landscape.
The Solution
Implemented the integrated SAP
Business Suite, including SAP
ERP Human Capital Management
and specific SAP applications, on
an integrated IBM infrastructure
built from IBM Power servers, IBM
System Storage and IBM System x
technologies and a suite of IBM
Tivoli software, making extensive
use of virtualization and simplifying
and centralizing both service and
storage management, alongside
advanced IBM PowerHA high
availability software.
LEGO creates model business success with
SAP and IBM
we know
they know
Overview
The Benefits
Technology investments of around
DKK300 million (€45 million) that
will simplify and streamline the
applications and infrastructure are
estimated to produce business
benefits worth some DKK1 billion
(€150 million), a three-fold payback.
Template-based approach allows
new operations to start small and
grow fast. SAP applications offer
the information needed to provide
advanced management control,
and allows executives to respond
quickly to market opportunities. IBM
virtualization technologies deliver
very high utilization factors, in some
cases near-100-percent, and the
ability to grow or even move
workload easily, offering very high
business flexibility and maximizing
return on investments. IBM Global
Financing reduces the strain on
capital budgets at a time of very
high growth.
Key Solution Components
Industry: Retail
Applications: SAP
®
Business
Suite, including SAP NetWeaver
®
Business Warehouse, SAP ERP
Human Capital Management
Hardware: IBM
®
Power
®
570, IBM
BladeCenter
®
HS22 blade servers,
IBM System x3650 servers, IBM
System Storage™ DS8700,
DS4800, IBM Tape Library, IBM
System Storage SAN Volume
Controller
Software: IBM AIX
®
, IBM
PowerHA™, IBM Tivoli
®
Storage
Manager, IBM Tivoli Netcool/
Webtop, IBM Tivoli Netcool/
OMNIbus Probe, IBM Tivoli
Composite Application Manager,
IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli
Enterprise Console, IBM Tivoli
Network Manager, IBM Tivoli
Performance Analyzer, IBM
TotalStorage Productivity Center
Services: IBM Global Financing,
IBM Global Technology Services
– Maintenance and Technical
Support