Hilti Standardizes Systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SAP Solutions

Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, announced that Hilti has migrated its systems running SAP applications.

The migration includes the SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP, SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) and the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, from Tru64 UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Global File System (GFS).

"We were experiencing a classic case of vendor lock-in and the expertise our team had built over many years was suddenly depreciating," said Michael Hagmann, head of Enterprise Server Technology at Hilti. "Trying to extend the lifecycle of the Tru64/Alpha platform was not an option, as we would quickly run into maintenance and hardware issues. We started evaluating alternative platforms with our previous experience in mind."

"We migrated to SAP applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant servers after evaluation and testing," said Martin Petry, CIO at Hilti. "Since the migration, we have experienced increased performance by more than 100 percent. We also reduced IT costs with a commoditized architecture. Having a tight level of integration between the Red Hat and SAP support organizations gives us the confidence to continue along this path and further reduce our costs by migrating all of our SAP environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux."

"Our customers are looking increasingly to open, standards-based platforms to create scalable business applications," said Helge Deller, head of the SAP Linux Lab, SAP. "In today's economic environment, supporting open source alternatives, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is important to SAP customers."

Hilti, headquartered in Liechtenstein, is a manufacturer of technology for the global construction industry.

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