Hitting the Ground Running

When chip manufacturer Qimonda split away from parent company Infineon, T-Systems was there to assist at the birth of the new business – helping by separating the IT systems.

 

When these two globally active high-tech companies were split under immense time pressure, the operation and data supply of several thousand computers all over the world could not be interrupted for a single second.

However, the key issue was not only to migrate nine systems across three continents to new central platforms within just nine months. On the SAP side alone, more than a billion data records were transferred by T-Systems, 270 interfaces and 600 GB of data were productively integrated and, in the process, 3,000 programs were protected against crashing.

At the same time, the Qimonda CIO, Karl Pomschar, wanted to introduce more efficient and more cost-effective models which would satisfy the needs of the company and its 13,500 employees.

The right step

Mr. Pomschar stipulated a saving of 25 percent of the previous IT costs and simultaneously demanded that a trailblazing ICT system landscape should be set up that would be independent for the company. The facts that the heart of this landscape could be transferred to an application communication platform and that dynamic IT solutions can provide him with SAP services based on demand proved to Karl Pomschar that this was “the right step toward the future for our company”. Coupled with the support of a service team on constant standby, 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

“Not many suppliers came into question for this carve-out, where all the IT organization and the IT systems had to be disconnected while guaranteeing uninterrupted operations”, but after successfully cutting the cord from Infineon, Karl Pomschar is “absolutely convinced that we chose the right partner in T-Systems”.

You can read the full story about the successful separation of Qimonda from its parent company in the print edition of Best Practice.