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Mercedes-Benz Türk accelerates performance with NetApp solutionsand secures the future of its IT infrastructure

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Operating in Turkey since 1967, Mercedes-Benz Türk is one of the biggest foreign capital investors in Turkey, with an investment volume of more than €1,14 billion and more than 6,400 employees. Mercedes-Benz Türk was convinced that HANA would be the perfect fit to its current SAP solution, so the company started migrating to the HANA database. Within this transformation, the company regarded NetApp’s superior EF560 All-Flash solution as the best technology to store the database.

Mercedes-Benz Türk exceeds its IT strategies and achieves digital transformation with NetApp's high-performance EF560 All-Flash solution, which makes the best use of the HANA architecture running on SAP in-memory database technology.

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BRINGING OUT FULL POWER The former architecture consisting of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) structure on a standard relational database was running too slowly and causing delays for mission-critical services such as reporting. Additionally, the legacy virtual environment running on a storage system using SAS disks, caused operational latency, which led to decreasing e�ciency and performance.

Mercedes-Benz Türk decided to migrate to a HANA database, which could overcome these obstacles and run a faster, more powerful infrastructure. The company used NetApp’s high performance EF560 Flash-Array storage solution to bring out the full power of the HANA architecture running SAP in-memory database technology.

Migrating from SAS disks to SSD disks in the storage with EF560 Flash-Array, Mercedes-Benz Türk is now able to prevent potential database incompatibilities in the future and acquires a faster and smaller database environment.

“Our expectations of NetApp were equal to the trust we have in such a great brand. The partnership we experienced exceeded those expectations”, said Burak Demircan, Mercedes-Benz Türk infrastructure and operations manager. “Our new system needed to be created with hardware that would be compatible with updated and future improve-ments. Thanks to NetApp, we minimized the problems that might have occured during the transfor-mation of our existing system to the HANA database and all the processes went exactly as they were planned.”

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN PERFORMANCE With its 825,000 IOPS and latency below microsecond, NetApp EF560 was the best choice in terms of price/performance ratio, and it enables Mercedes-Benz Türk to accomplish its business processes much faster. Reports are now produced in a much shorter time and departments and units are able to reach the information they need very quickly. “As a result of the

digital transformation, all SAS disks have been removed from the system and were replaced by SSD disks. With this replacement, we have witnessed substantial increase in performance. Thanks to the consistency of price and performance o�ered by NetApp, the project was completed within the allocated budget. Due to the easy deploy-ment of the NetApp EF-Storage products and the best methods used by NetApp for the SAP HANA configuration, the storage prepara-tions have been set and completed quickly.” said Demircan.

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“Thanks to NetApp, we minimized the problems that might have occured during the transformation of our existing system to the HANA database and all the processes went exactly as they were planned.” Burak Demircan IT Infrastructure and Operations Manager, Mercedes-Benz Türk