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At the same time, the company’s senior management
needs real-time, accurate data to make accurate
judgements of the ever-changing marketplace.
In 2004, Nongfu Spring began using the SAP
ERP system for customer relationship and sales
management. In 2008, with data volumes increasing,
it separated the online analytical processing
(OLAP) system from the original system, and ran
it independently. However, with the expansion of
the company’s business and the constant additions
of new branches in dierent cities, levels of data
continued to increase. One distribution list had more
than 100 million records, increasing at a rate of
40-50 million records per year, as Nongfu Spring added
mobile terminal data.
At that point, the total data volume had exceeded
3TB, and the OLAP data presentation was becoming
increasingly slow.
For example, the system took about 24 hours to
calculate transport costs. In addition, when the
nance department closed its accounts at the end of
the month, the system was so slow in generating an
inventory report that the warehouse was unable to
make deliveries.
In addition, when using the traditional database
model, some reports took 30 minutes to be presented.
Worse, Nongfu Spring had more than 400 cost centres
and each calculation took 24 hours. For this reason,
the monthly nancial closing could be delayed by up to
one day.
Using the traditional ETL (data extraction, transfer,
loading) method, Nongfu Spring’s analysis system
could update its data only once a day. As a fast-moving
consumer goods business, Nongfu Spring wanted to be
able to see the data changes in real-time – and make
decisions based on those changes.
In view of this series of problems, Nongfu Spring
resolved to build a new database system platform.
After comparing and testing the Oracle database and
SAP HANA 1.0, it opted for the latter. As one of the
three SAP HANA 1.0 certied hardware manufacturers
in the world, HP won the approval of Nongfu Spring
with the stable, powerful performance of its
HP ProLiant DL980 server, and the professional
services of the HP team.
HP AppSystems for SAP HANA
SAP HANA 1.0 is an in-memory computing based
business intelligence solution introduced by SAP in
2011. Compared to solutions based on ordinary data
warehouses, its biggest dierence is its ability to
perform all data computing in the internal memory.
As such, it brings evident improvement in overall
performance. This is what is most important to
Nongfu Spring.
As the third only company in the world (and the rst in
China) to use the SAP HANA 1.0 system, Nongfu Spring
chose the combination of SAP HANA 1.0, and an
HP ProLiant DL980 server conguration from the
HP AppSystems for SAP HANA portfolio to build a
brand new SAP HANA 1.0 database system.