Pfizer Migrates to SAP S/4HANA on IBM Power10
Pfizer achieved a 93% database reduction and 20% cost avoidance by migrating their global SAP environment to S/4HANA on IBM Power10 infrastructure.
Impact
93%
Database reduction
73%
Ledger reduction
20%
Cost avoidance
21%
Faster go-live
5%
Order-to-cash improvement
10+ hours
Migration completed ahead of schedule
Challenge
Pfizer needed to migrate decades of complex SAP applications to SAP S/4HANA while managing a massive 75TB ECC 6.0 database with minimal downtime across 50,000 users globally.
Solution
Implemented hybrid cloud architecture using IBM Power10 infrastructure with SAP S/4HANA, reducing physical footprint to six systems running 500+ virtual machines via PowerVM.
Tools & Technologies
What Leaders Say
“Our go live was truly amazing. The star was actually IBM Power10.”
“IBM Consulting was instrumental in helping us plan for success.”
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Full Story
Pfizer, one of the world's largest biopharmaceutical companies with 85,000+ employees across 130 countries, faced the challenge of migrating decades of complex SAP applications to SAP S/4HANA while managing a massive 75TB database with minimal downtime for 50,000 global users.
Using IBM Power10 servers and IBM Consulting, Pfizer implemented a hybrid cloud architecture that reduced their physical footprint to just six systems running 500+ virtual machines via PowerVM. The migration of 46TB of raw data was completed 10 hours ahead of the 54-hour window.
The results were transformative: a 93% database reduction, 73% ledger reduction, 20% cost avoidance for new projects, 21% faster go-live time, and a 5% improvement in the order-to-cash cycle. IBM Power Virtual Server now enables Pfizer to run the same architecture in the cloud.