The manufacture and assembly of massive fuselage assemblies and other large structures generates a river of data. In fact, the bill of materials for a single fuselage alone can be millions of rows of data. In-house production processes and testing, as well as other manufacturers and customers created data flows that overwhelmed previous processes and information systems. Spirit’s customer base had grown substantially since their 2005 divestiture from Boeing, resulting in a $41 billion backlog of orders to fill. To address this backlog, meet increased customer demands and minimize additional capital investment, the company needed a way to improve throughput in the existing operational footprint. Spirit had a requirement from customers to increase fuselage production by 30%. To accomplish this goal, Spirit needed real-time information on its value chain and workflow. However, the two terabytes of data being pulled from their SAP ECC was unmanageable and overloaded their business warehouse. It had become time-consuming and difficult to pull aggregate data, disaggregate it for the needed information and then reassemble to create a report. During the 6-8 hours it took to build a report, another work shift (they run three per day) would have already taken place, thus the report content was out-of-date before it was ever delivered. As a result, supervisors often had to rely on manual efforts to provide charts, reports and analysis.

Objectives • Create an innovative IT environment that supports the move toward a solution-provider business model • Enhance existing business processes and leverage the power of Big Data and predictive maintenance to become more proactive, customer oriented, and competitive • Leverage the SAP HANA® platform to transform and simplify the entire SAP® solution landscape

Dole processes 48,000 purchase orders each year from farmers across several countries and regions. In order to shorten the PO process, Dole needed to centralize all data and standardize and automate the tools, information, and practices used to manage procurement processes across the region, to save precious time and money. The company looked to SAP to streamline the entire procure-to-pay process.

· Increase control over growing Big Data to improve business decisions · Manage data for 28,000 biotechnology stockkeeping units in the fields of microbiology, molecular biology, animal cell cultures, plant tissue cultures, and lab ware for laboratory chemicals · Accelerate report generation and analysis with real-time data

For more than 25 years, itelligence has helped more than 5000 customers get the most from their SAP applications. Now a global business IT services provider in the NTT Data Group, itelligence is the only SAP partner with six certifications, including SAP Platinum Partner. It has locations in 23 countries and has been named SAP North American Partner of the Year for 9 straight years. In 2016, SAP honored itelligence with two of its prestigious Pinnacle Awards: SAP S/4HANA Adoption Partner of the Year and Global Value-Added Reseller. As more of its customers migrate to SAP HANA for advanced data processing and analytics, itelligence is helping them make the transition as seamless as possible.

Virtustream has deep SAP expertise, helping enterprises take advantage of cloud economics with its xStream-powered infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Virtustream specializes in cloud and hosting services for SAP, with nearly 500 SAP HANA instance migrations to date. It was the first service provider to offer SAP and SAP HANA in a multitenant cloud. To meet the security, compliance, performance, and efficiency requirements of complex production applications in the cloud, Virtustream selected the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) and Cisco® networking technology for its data centers.