MollerGruppen

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MøllerGruppen is Norway’s largest car importer, with

exclusive rights to the Volkswagen, Audi and Skoda

brands. It is also Scandinavia’s largest automotive

dealer and since the acquisition of six dealerships

in 2011, the largest in the Baltics. It imported 43,500

cars into Norway in 2011.

The Group has developed its own IT systems and

applications over the past 30 years, creating core

processes across the import and dealership businesses.

It is also an IT reseller in its own right, selling on

equipment to its automotive dealers.

Aware it needed to create data headroom for the

business to grow, and with an outsourced mainframe

contract with IBM due to expire, MøllerGruppen began

investigating its options. “Our philosophy is to do small

things all the time, rather than big things in between,”

says Pål Knutsen, the Group’s IT director. “We wanted

an evolutionary concept rather than revolutionary.”

Objective

Lower IT operation costs, while minimising

disruption to the business

Approach

Discussed IBM mainframe migration options with HP,

the incumbent storage supplier; visited the HP Center

of Excellence for Mainframe Migration, followed by

three reference visits and detailed feasibility study

IT improvements

• Improved stability compared to previous mainframe

platform,meanslessdowntime,whichallowsITsta

to concentrate on value-added tasks

• Centralised platform supports future business

growth, enabling business to add new applications

as required

Business benets

• Generated a return on investment of less than

three years

• Minimised disruption during migration, with no

user training required, allows business to continue

as usual

HP customer

case study

HP mainframe

migration project

slashes IT

operation costs at

MøllerGruppen

Industry

Automotive

MøllerGruppen dramatically reduces

costs and provides platform for business

growth with mainframe migration

“By April we had 99 per cent stability; by autumn we had our best reporting

status ever: just one stop. We regard it as more stable than the mainframe

environment, which we never thought would happen. The mainframe is

thought of as the ultimate in stability. The HP solution has so far proven

to be even better for us.”

—Pål Knutsen, IT director, MøllerGruppen

Summary of content (3 pages)

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MøllerGruppen dramatically reduces costs and provides platform for business growth with mainframe migration “By April we had 99 per cent stability; by autumn we had our best reporting status ever: just one stop. We regard it as more stable than the mainframe environment, which we never thought would happen. The mainframe is thought of as the ultimate in stability. The HP solution has so far proven to be even better for us.
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Customer solution at a glance Hardware • HP Integrity rx8640 servers • HP XP24000 storage • SAN Brocade switch 8/24 Software • HP-UX 11i v3 • HP BTO software for monitoring HP Services • HP Global Methods • HP Mission Critical support Making the change, reducing the risk Knutsen says the business had assumed, with hardware tending to lower in price, there would be little need to change the existing set up. “But under the IBM mechanism we would now be paying for the MIPS we were using, not the hardware.
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Greater stability than mainframe The migration started on Monday, January 17, 2011. Knutsen says there were 1.5 days of slightly slower functionality “but nothing a user would notice and by the Wednesday everything was fine. “By April we had 99 per cent stability; over the summer we had one or two stops; by autumn, we had our best reporting status ever: just one stop. We regard it as more stable than the mainframe environment, which we never thought would happen.