ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and
Whirlpool Corporation today announced that Whirlpool will use IBM
Cloud to manage and provide 24/7 access to the company's critical
enterprise applications including enterprise resource planning,
customer relationship management, and business warehouse to help
provide worldwide operations efficiency.
As Whirlpool Corporation purposefully innovates its smart
appliances to fulfill real human needs, it must increasingly rely
on growing amounts of data to achieve what consumers expect from
the world's leading manufacturer of major home appliances.
In working with IBM on a cloud-based approach, the Benton Harbor, Mich., based Whirlpool
Corporation will leverage the flexibility and scalability of the
IBM Cloud to run Whirlpool's SAP HANA environments, including
around the clock insights into its 70 manufacturing global sites,
its distribution and call centers, and other systems to provide
worldwide access and increased efficiencies.
"Whirlpool Corporation is a manufacturing leader, and we have
moved our work to the cloud aggressively," said Mike Berendsen, vice president of IT for
Whirlpool Corporation. "This collaboration with IBM will continue
to allow us to leverage the capabilities of SAP on HANA as we
continue to be a tech-forward company in the products we design and
our global work environments."
To help clients address this, IBM introduced a new SAP-certified
IBM Services for Managed Applications for SAP HANA workloads.
Through this integrated approach of hardware, software, and
services, IBM is the first to offer this level of cloud support for
massive workloads of up to 24 TB by using IBM Power Systems and IBM
Storage. This means that even the largest customers have the
capacity they need to reap the benefits of HANA's in-memory analytics on the cloud.
The SAP HANA on Power solution
hosted in the IBM Cloud is designed to be flexible and scalable to
manage and operate Whirlpool Corporation's significant operational
requirements. This is key for an organization like Whirlpool
Corporation because their business requirements drive very large
HANA platforms exceeding generally
available cloud HANA
capacities.
"The advent of emerging technologies has provided companies like
Whirlpool Corporation with a whole new platform to innovate on,"
said Mark Slaga, global technology
services general manager for IBM Services for Managed Applications.
"Prior solutions often lacked the ability to scale to meet the
needs of clients like Whirlpool and required substantial
customization, which could drive up costs. With this solution,
we're providing Whirlpool Corporation the means to scale its
HANA environment to keep up on
strategy."
By providing Whirlpool with access to massive SAP workloads on
IBM Cloud, the company now has options to expand its SAP
HANA portfolio and can focus on
what's most important to its business.
IBM Services
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Services, please visit https://www.ibm.com/services
ABOUT WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
Whirlpool
Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is the world's leading major home appliance
company, with approximately $21
billion in annual sales, 92,000 employees and 70
manufacturing and technology research centers in 2017. The company
markets Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag,
Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht,
JennAir, Indesit and other major brand names in
nearly every country throughout the world. Additional information
about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com, or find us on
Twitter at @WhirlpoolCorp
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IBM Media Relations
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