Fujitsu implemented SAP HANA for EDP (Energias de Portugal, S.A.)

On November 18, 2014 the Fujitsu company announced successful contract performance on upgrade of infrastructure and providing complex services for the SAP HANA platform of corporations of Portugal – EDP (Energias de Portugal, S.A.). All works are performed long before completion of the liberalization of the Portuguese electricity market planned for 2015. By this time all consumers in the territory of Portugal should sign contracts with the certified electricity providers. According to the management EDP, concern gets serious competitive advantages, analyzing customer needs in real time using the CRM system optimized by Fujitsu.

Choosing a Solution

Fujitsu is more than 40 years one of global partners of SAP therefore its choice as the contractor was obvious to EDP. Specialists of Fujitsu provided information and communication solutions for creation of reliable infrastructures and successful business development to thousands of customers around the world. The extensive experience of work of Fujitsu with SAP solutions became for EDP the defining factor when choosing the partner. The qualification and goodwill of specialists of Fujitsu mentioned during trial operation of IT infrastructure of EDP and also the interesting contract for complex service maintenance had exclusively positive impact on the choice of foundation architecture of DPC and the contractor for its technical support.

Fujitsu expands possibilities of such large enterprises as EDP, helping them to achieve the new goals and to be ahead of competitors. The infrastructure solutions of Fujitsu for SAP HANA implemented based on the productive PRIMERGY and PRIMEQUEST servers of standard architecture differ in high cost efficiency and scalability, level of readiness and small cost of ownership.

Fujitsu advances innovations in all areas: from cloud services for the managed transactions of SAP to solutions and services based on the customer's infrastructures. Offers of Fujitsu for SAP include advanced technologies and services for providing the specialized solutions meeting the perspective requirements. Jointly with the customers and partners of Fujitsu simplifies solutions for a SAP-applications and the SAP HANA platform, optimizing client investments. More effective business, exclusively fast return of invested funds and improvement of indicators of work is result.

Quotes

Raphael Ensinger, the director of strategic development and management, Global Solutions SAP, BAS, division on global provision of services, Fujitsu "Fujitsu confirms with the statement that it enters into a limited circle of the companies which are ready to provide infrastructure solutions and the accompanying services for SAP HANA in the regional markets similar to Portugal already today. Along with this Fujitsu provides broad scaling to conform to global requirements of the international power concerns comparable with EDP which consumers are in 13 countries and the state reaches 12,000 employees".

José Pinto da Fonseca, chief designer, Energias de Portugal, S.A. "Difficult conditions of the competition in international market of the electric power force EDP to look for new opportunities for development. Fujitsu provided to EDP the reliable infrastructure optimized for data processing in RAM and also experienced specialists and high-quality services, allowing to involve all potential of the SAP HANA platform in a way, most convenient for our work".

Representatives of the company integrator reported TAdviser.