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TUI Travel Accommodation & Destinations

“With SAP HANA optimized on Cisco UCS, we went from analyzing millions of records in hours to the flexibility of analyzing hundreds of millions of recordsin seconds.”– Santiago José Reig Lamberti, Head of Business Intelligence B2B, TUI Travel Accommodation & Destinations (TUI Travel A&D)

• Industry: Travel and Leisure

• Employees: Over 8,000 employees across 50 countries, 55,000 hotels globally, and a network that includes Hotelbeds, LateRooms.com, and AsiaRooms.com

• Location: Global, based in Palma de Mallorca (Spain)

• Ranked as one of the world’s leading travel companies and continues to position itself as an innovator in online travel services

• TUI is recognized in the leisure industry for providing exemplary customer service

• Theater: Global

• Partner: SAP

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Enhancing business decision making by improving performance

of key SAP business intelligence applications

• Streamlining data center management and increasing scalability to enable IT and other staff to address the dynamic needs of customers

• Existing technology servers were complex and expensive to manage

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Consolidated servers onto Cisco UCS servers that reliably

run SAP HANA and other SAP applications for improved performance

• Improved performance and reporting, which enables TUI to quickly understand and adjust to constantly changing customer demands and market opportunities

BENEFITS• Significantly improved business analytics and dramatically

improved database performance with daily loads running up to 24 times faster

• Reduced server deployment time from months to minutes

• Lowered IT administration costs by more than 150,000 euros annually through virtualization and physical consolidation

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco UCS C460 High-Performance Rack Servers

• Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Servers

• Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Servers

• Cisco UCS B440 M2 High Performance Blade Servers

• Cisco UCS 5108 Series Blade Server Chassis

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

• Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects

• Cisco UCS Manager

• Storage: EMC

• Virtualization: VMware vSphere Enterprise

• Applications: SAP HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, and SAP Business Objects Suite 4.0