Monday, 07 May 2012 16:40

Furshet, the largest retail company in Ukraine, has used the experience of Soft-Rating Consult for the simultaneous successful upgrade of its core information systems

In December 2011, after careful preparation, testing, and strengthening of server platform the simultaneous upgrade of Corporate Information System based on SAP ERP (1), Enterprise Data Warehouse (2), Project Management and Project Documentation System (3) was carried out.

Non-standard situation for the standard procedure was because of extremely high requirements for the productivity of the system in a huge and constantly growing amount of data that is not uncommon for retailers of nationwide level. Despite the non-triviality of the problem, the upgrade was made according to the plan. The project's success was largely due to the interest of the company's management, the precise following to the upgrade procedure by participants in Furshet project team, professionalism of Soft-Rating Consult consultants and Furshet specialists.

 

One of the distinguishing features of the project was an upgrade of SAP BW 3.5 to BI 7.3. Solution BI 7.3 appeared on the Ukrainian market in May 2011 and Furshet was the first who used in Ukraine the new SAP solution for the operation of data warehouse and business intelligence based on it. 

  • The project results in Furshet are the following:
  • the upgrade of SAP ERP 5.0 to ERP 6.0, enhancement pack 5 and patches;
  • the upgrade of SAP BW 3.5 to BI 7.3, was installed the appropriate enhancement packs:
    • the appropriate content;
    • the additional components for the functionality of BI-IP;
  • the transition into the three-system landscape for SAP ERP 6.0 and two-system landscape for BI 7.3;
  • the upgrade of SAP Solution Manager 3.2 to version 7.1.

The improvements and update of information systems enable Furshet to use in time the data necessary for making operational and strategic decisions to achieve business goals.

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