Owen-Illinois streamlines management of SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure

Limitations of disparate systems

As the world’s leading glass container manufacturer, Owen-Illinois (O-I) has more than a century of experience crafting pure, sustainable, brand-building glass packaging for many of the world’s best-known food and beverage brands. O-I provides high-quality glass packaging for beer, wine, spirits, food, non-alcoholic beverages.

Faced with disparate systems that did not allow the organization to make data-driven strategic decisions at an enterprise level, O-I need to modernize its IT infrastructure.

Transformation program

O-I's inability to empower business users to fulfill ad-hoc and timely requests for business insights increased inefficiency in providing rapid insight into KPI data across the enterprise in a consolidated view.

O-I’s CEO has initiated a transformation program to reduce inventory, increase asset turns and better manage working capital.

End-to-end SAP HANA support

O-I chose the DXC Technology to manage its Microsoft Azure-based SAP HANA systems. This enabled the company to reach its targets while leaving the complexities of the HANA technology to a trusted team.

DXC has a long-standing relationship with Owen-Illinois and has managed its in-house SAP systems for many years. O-I turned its Azure systems over to the DXC for end-to-end SAP HANA systems administration and 24x7 monitoring.

DXC's SAP solution was a good fit for O-I because within only 4 weeks, DXC was able to build the first SAP HANA instances on Microsoft Azure, install DXC monitoring tools and simultaneously launch the SAP management service for O-I.

DXC provided quick time to value and helped O-I focus on its core business instead of the complexities of the SAP HANA technology on the cloud.