Customer: Siemens AG (Industry, Mobility, Infrastructure Logistics, Postal Solutions)
Industry: Logistics
Geography: HQ: Germany
Business Challenge: Create a new, highly scalable, and reliable software platform for automated address recognition, coding, and image management capable of handling hundreds of thousands of mail pieces per hour
Solution: Infrastructure Logistics' Open Reading Coding Architecture (ORCA) relies on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as its middleware foundation, orchestrating the recognition and coding of addresses and workflow of up to 700,000 mail pieces per hour by a single image management system with an availability rate of up to 99.8 percent.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Hardware: Standard x86 hardware
Benefits: Improved scalability, availability, and performance, combined with cost savings
“Wherever you live, it is likely that several letters that you have received have been read, coded, and processed for delivery by one of our systems using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as the middleware foundation.”
-- Peter Schindler, Product Manager, Infrastructure Logistics, Postal Solutions
Business Challenge: To design a reliable, stable, high-performance, robust, and cost-effective mailing and backup solution
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows running Microsoft Active Directory to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution: KSFL chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with other open source systems to implement its mailing, firewall, proxy, and backup solution
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Postfix mailing solution, Squid Proxy server, clamd anti-virus solution, Samba server
Hardware: Intel processor-based IBM System x servers
Benefits: Decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, enhanced procurement process, improved business agility
“Red Hat’s solutions have improved the agility of our business significantly and multiplied our business activity multifold, taking our business to the next level.”-- P. S. Dey, head, Information Technology, KSFL
Business Challenge: Converting a closely interwoven and complex distribution model into a unified solution to automate the company's sales and distribution backbone
Solution: Eveready chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including built-in clustering technologies, as the base platform to implement its mission-critical Oracle E-Business Suite ERP solution
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, Oracle DB with 800 GB
Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based servers including HP ProLiant and Dell
Benefits: Simplified management and gained complete freedom to scale up using low-cost commodity hardware; significant TCO reduction by saving on unnecessary licensing fees, installing security patches, and reducing routine server hardening checks to a bare minimum
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux has greatly simplified management and given us complete freedom to scale up using low-cost commodity hardware with absolutely no compromise in performance or reliability. We have managed to achieve a significant TCO reduction by saving on unnecessary licensing fees that are associated with proprietary operating systems. The system is working so flawlessly that I feel that it's impossible to go wrong with Red Hat.”
Arup Choudhury, general manager, IT, Eveready Industries Ltd.
Business Challenge: Needed to use technology to reduce operational cost, and deliver a sturdy operating system for Hikal's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and BIS applications
Solution: Hikal chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including its built-in clustering technology, as the base platform to implement its mission-critical Oracle E-Business Suite
Migration Path: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.2 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and clustering, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle DB (Approx. total database size is 1 TB)
Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based IBM System x servers
Benefits: ERP project completed in a record time of close to six months, complete freedom to add multiple applications to infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and clustering technology delivers continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues, has helped in implementing the latest available features of Oracle E-Business Suite
“Our Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems have delivered continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues. Red Hat was the perfect balance as it combined the reliability of UNIX with a clear performance and security edge over proprietary systems.”
Falgun Shukla, senior general manager, IT, Hikal Ltd.
Brazilian Paint Manufacturer, Tintas Iquine, Migrates from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Increase Performance and Improve Security
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Customer: Tintas Iquine
Industry: Manufacturing: Paint and Tints
Geography: Brazil
Business Challenge: Increase the stability and performance of business critical ERP applications
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Datasul, Progress Database, Trend Micro Security Solution
Hardware: Intel Xeon processor based Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers
Migration Path: UNIX/RISC based servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Xeon processor based Dell PowerEdge servers
Benefits: Red Hat virtualization enabled increased stability, performances, and increased security on redundancy and backup, and Red Hat Satellite simplified systems management
Partner: Keen & Able - FOSTERing Linux (Training Division)
Industry: Manufacturing
Geography: India
Challenge: To reduce dependence on UNIX systems, improve cost-efficiency ratio, simplify systems management, and improve scalability for business growth
Migration Path:Proprietary UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on Intel Xeon-based Dell PowerEdge server
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Oracle DB
Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in, doubled system performance, slashed costs by one-tenth translating into cost savings of over Rs. 40 lakh (USD $83,333), and gained the ability to independently manage systems
“Today, I have complete peace of mind because Red Hat Enterprise Linux on our Intel Xeon-based Dell PowerEdge server has delivered stability, performance gains, and cost savings while providing the ability to scale to the rapidly growing demands of our organization.”
--Pertish Mankotia, head of IT, Sheela Foam
Reduced Costs By Migrating Its Web Application Platform and Building a Customer Information Portal on JBoss Enterprise Middleware
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Customer: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg)
Industry: Printing & Publishing, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
Geography: US, EMEA
Business Challenge: Establish a new customer specific portal to enhance its customer relationship and provide internal business units with valuable customer insight; Evaluate and deploy an application server platform for its Java-based environment
Solution: With the help of Red Hat Consulting, Heidelberg built an interactive customer portal using JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and migrated its proprietary application platform to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle 10g database, SAP R/3, Autonomy search engine, Interwoven TeamSite 6.5 (CMS), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-Bit
Hardware: Virtualized servers and F5 Load balancer
Partner: Maris IT Consulting
Migration path: Proprietary portal platform and application server to JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Improved customer web presence with a central portal that increased services and information available, provided ability to use applications based on open standards in order to interact better with customers, suppliers and partners, reduced costs, gained excellent support and continuous advancements of its portal software, and reduced vendor lock-in.
Business Challenge:Provide support for complex analytical simulations: address customer requirements for more advanced CAE technologies, investigate emerging processor technologies, increase productivity
Solution: Deployed the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and selected AMD Opteron™ processors, which are scalable up to 8-processors/32-cores and widely employed in the CAE
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, ANSYS, Fluent and other CAE software solutions from ANSYS, Inc.
Benefits: The server runs continuously and stably under high loads. Found a highly manageable way of leveraging the power of the new server, like a cluster in a single box. Achieved a significant reduction in power consumption, making it possible to add additional servers. Provides customers with simulation results more rapidly, addresses customer challenges more flexibly, contributes to higher IT ROI
Overview: US-based ANSYS Inc. has taken a global leadership role in the field of CAE software, an integral and indispensable part of many manufacturing processes. ANSYS Japan K.K., the Japanese arm of ANSYS Inc., has deployed the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux to keep pace with customer demand for complex engineering simulations. The company appreciates the benefits of the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including its stability under high loads and significantly reduced power consumption.
Geography: Headquarters and global operations is based in the Principality of Liechtenstein
Business Challenge: To migrate all SAP® business-critical applications from a
discontinued legacy UNIX environment to a scalable and reliable platform and to eliminate vendor
lock-in
Migration Path: HP Tru64 UNIX on Alpha Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on x86_64
commodity based hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System
(GFS), ATIX Open-Sharedroot Extension, SAP applications including SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP and SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), and the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform
Hardware: 185 HP ProLiant servers, the largest machines have 32 CPUs with 128GB RAM
Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in; achieved an estimated 50 percent overall cost reduction; increased performance by more than 100 percent; provided ease of management and reliable uptime; reduced electricity costs and carbon footprint; and provided the company with a long-term platform strategy that will help retain expert knowledge and enable the team to be highly responsive to the increasing requirements of a global manufacturing, sales and service organization
"We migrated to SAP applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant servers after evaluation and testing. Since migrating, we have have experienced increased performance of more than 100 percent. We also reduced IT costs with a commoditized architecture. Having a tight level of integration between Red Hat and SAP support organizations gives us the confidence to continue along this path and further reduce our costs by migrating all of our SAP environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
-- Martin Petry, CIO at Hilti
Experiences heightened flexibility, stability, cost savings and ease of management with Red Hat solutions
RALEIGH, NC – 3 December 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Scania, the leading Swedish manufacturer of heavy trucks and buses, has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated server and storage virtualisation capabilities. The company utilises the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform for its critical systems, including specific infrastructure services, databases, applications and high-performance computing (HPC) servers to leverage the solution’s compelling benefits, including cost savings, stability, flexibility and ease of management.
Challenge: Needed a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective solution to monitor project budgets and ensure timely data reports for use by the KSH Holdings management team
Migration Path: Paper-based reporting system to a Progress Claims System (PCS) running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, PHP, and Apache
Hardware: Dell 2850 with 2 GB RAM and 1 x Processor
Benefits: Developed a scalable Progress Claims System (PCS) that offered access to real-time financial data, reduced manual input errors, and enabled expedited reimbursement processes for subcontractors
“We handle a lot of data input on a daily basis and require something stable and capable of handling the load. That’s why we chose Red Hat.”
-Tony Tang, Chief Financial Officer of KSH Holdings.
Opportunity: Replace aging, deficient UNIX-based system with a Linux solution that could deliver reduced costs, expanded flexibility, and heightened stability
Migration Path: RISC-based UNIX servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell x86 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell x86 servers
Benefits: Reduced costs by 60 percent, enabled the sharing of data through flexible support of Network File System (NFS) protocols, gained flexibility in vendor selection, and increased work efficiency by more than four times
“We were also very satisfied with the choices that we were presented with once we deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Before, if we wanted to use an alternative operating system, we were locked in with a specific vendor. Now, we’re able to select vendors based on quality and stability and not brand.” – Seok-Ho Choi, Researcher at Fairchild Semiconductor.
Industry: Food Manufacturing Geography: Italy Opportunity: Ensure the fast processing of customer orders by reducing system response times and maintaining consistent performance levels, even during peak periods Solution:
Software: 6 virtualized instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running on IBM z/VSE and z/VM, DB2/Udb database, Ware Place and Tomcat
Hardware: IBM zSeries 9 Business Class mainframe
Benefits: Maintain response times calculating to under one second, efficiently manage various databases with over 24 gigabytes of data and simplify communication among operating systems through use of XML within the mainframe
Challenges: Use technology to reduce manufacturing costs. Integrate ERP with legacy infrastructure. Eliminate server compromises. Seamlessly migrate key legacy components to the latest platform
Benefits: ERP project completed in a record time of under six months. Complete freedom to add multiple applications to infrastructure. Enterprise Linux & Red Hat Cluster Suite deliver continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues.
