Industrial Minerals Case Study
Managed Services for Hosting & Supporting Coda, Infor BPCS, SAP & Associated Hardware
Multi-vendor approach implemented & managed by Proximity for archiving legacy ERP data accessible by any of their global sites
About the Company
Supporting Infor BPCS & other legacy IBM i (AS400) based ERP systems
A leading global producer of industrial minerals and a worldwide distributor of chemical products, our client’s presence extends to over 50 countries and its products are marketed to the paper, plastics, paints, adhesive, construction, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries.
Enterprise class solution at reduced cost
Lowering Total Cost of Ownership for retaining multiple archive instances of the legacy ERP systems
Global coverage
Secure, available & reliable service accessible from geographically dispersed sites across the globe
Releasing IT staff to focus on other projects
Our skilled & experienced team support legacy SAP, Infor BPCS and IT infrastructure
Preserving legacy ERP archives
Global SAP implementation dictates the need to retain ERP archive data
Following the successful completion of a global SAP implementation, the client was left with a number of inactive legacy ERP systems based in several global locations. They needed to preserve the legacy ERP archive of chemical products, supply chain and financial data but wished to avoid the challenges of retaining legacy skills and managing changing local (geographical) legislative requirements.
Multi-vendor approach
Global business, legislative compliance & skilled resource challenges
The organisation required a multi-vendor ERP data archiving solution capable of being accessed by any of their global sites. As well as legislative compliance and skill retention, the client wanted to reduce the cost of retaining archive instances of multiple legacy ERP instances (and different ERP systems) based at different geographic locations around the globe.
Managed Infor services
Supporting IBM i applications across various archive systems
Proximity was selected to provide a managed service for hosting and supporting Coda, Infor BPCS, and SAP archive systems on IBM i and Linux platforms. Our expertise in application management and IBM i infrastructure was key to this selection. We delivered a highly available, 24/7 accessible ERP archive solution, hosted in a secure UK data centre. This solution caters to Industrial Mineral’s global user base, covering varying time zones and workload demands around the clock.
