Customer Success Stories
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Case Studies Manufacturing
Riopele
Textiles manufacturer protects critical data and delivers key insights to decision-makers faster.
Riopele is a leader in Portugal’s textiles industry, and relies on its SAP business systems to produce and deliver high-quality products to customers around the world. To accommodate an increasing volume and velocity of business data and unlock valuable commercial insights, Riopele moved to SAP HANA on Lenovo infrastructure—cutting vital data backup processes in half and accelerating key reports by 75%.
Based in Guimarães, Portugal and founded in 1927, Riopele is one of the country’s oldest textile companies. A strategic partner to many of the world’s leading fashion brands, Riopele employs 1,000 people and delivers high-quality products based on natural, synthetic, artificial and recycled fibers.
POV/Focus: Migrate with Enterprise Resource Management, High Availability
Offerings: Storage, ThinkSystem
Rosti
Business enablement powered by Azure Stack hyperconverged infrastructure.
How Rosti Group implemented the latest Lenovo ThinkAgile MX technology in partnership with CLOUDEON to streamline their IT infrastructure.
POV/Focus: Migrate with Enterprise Resource Management, Cloud, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, DevOps, High Availability, Infrastucture as a Service, Managed Service Provider, Performance Management, Platform as a Service, Service Management, Software as a Service, Software defined storage, Systems Management
Offerings: ThinkAgile
The Aihua Group
Growing into an international business with a powerful hybrid cloud platform for SAP S/4HANA:
As it grew from a small company into China’s number-one manufacturer of aluminum electrolytic capacitors, The Aihua Group knew that its business process management systems needed to evolve to align with international standards. A hybrid cloud solution from Lenovo enabled the company to adopt SAP S/4HANA rapidly, transforming business efficiency and cutting IT investment by up to 40%.
POV/Focus: Platform as a Service
Offerings: ThinkSystem, Networking
XTEP International Holdings Limited
Chinese sportswear company XTEP relies on big data analytics to understand consumer preferences and predict future trends. To accelerate reporting and shorten time-to-insight, XTEP enhanced its business analytics capabilities with SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA running on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers—helping the company to capitalize on emerging trends and race ahead of competitors.
XTEP International Holdings Limited is a leading sportswear company in China. XTEP designs, manufactures, and markets sportswear, accessories, footwear, and other sports equipment. XTEP is one of the most popular sportswear brands in China with more than 6,100 stores in 31 provinces. The company’s portfolio also includes several international brands, including K-Swiss, Palladium, and Merrell.
POV/Focus: Migrate with Enterprise Resource Management, Parallel File System (Spectrum Scale/GPFS)
Offerings: ThinkSystem, Networking
China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corporation
To support a massive program of domestic infrastructure projects, China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corporation Ltd. (CRCHI) is building the next generation of railway tunneling equipment. To reduce the risk of valuable research data being lost or stolen, CRCHI is replacing standalone desktops and laptops with an ultra-secure virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) powered by Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 servers.
Industrial development in China continues to accelerate, with major infrastructure programs across the country to build and expand urban centers. New road and rail networks are essential to link these hubs together, and demand for heavy construction machinery is rising.
Founded in 2007, CRCHI is an equipment manufacturer specializing in the development and manufacture of smart tunneling equipment and high-end rail transit systems. Headquartered in Changsha, China, the company operates 16 subsidiaries and manufacturing bases across the country, as well as international locations in Australia, India, Russia, Singapore and Turkey.
Offerings: ThinkSystem, Storage