Client Success Stories

Global Pharmaceutical Leader
Leading global pharmaceutical manufacturer relies on Stratus for electronic batch record (EBR) quality assurance

Isuzu Motors
Isuzu Motors improved efficiency and shortened their development schedule with a Stratus-based MES implementation.

Purdue Pharma L.P.
Mission-critical reliability in the data center and quality control lab with Stratus

Rexam BCNA
Global packaging company Rexam relies on Stratus ftServers as platform for strategic SAP^®xMII rollout

Rijk Zwaan
Seed supplier keeps ERP flourishing with Stratus

Sika Sarnafil, Inc.
Sika Sarnafil Inc., a manufacturer of roofing and waterproofing systems, selected the Stratus^® ftServer^® to run SAP xMII in its U.S.-based plant

Viking Range Corporation
Stratus enables enterprise messaging that takes the heat

Collateral

Manufacturers Count on Stratus (PDF, 195K)

SAP xAPP Manufacturing Integration & Intelligence (xMII) Composite Application (PDF, 240K)

Perfect Plant Center of Excellence (PDF, 349K)

White Papers

Server Virtualization: Do's and Don'ts for Mission-Critical Manufacturing Systems (PDF, 346 K)
Discover best practices you can use to benefit from server virtualization today. Avoid mistakes that could affect the availability and performance of your mission-critical manufacturing IT solutions.

Manufacturing IT Infrastructure — Ready or Not for MES? (PDF, 87K)
Learn why continuous-availability systems are key elements to long-term success with manufacturing execution systems (MES).

Position Papers

VMware Infrastructure 3 and Stratus Servers: a Manufacturing Industry Guide (PDF, 209K)
With VMware VI3, the most widely deployed virtualization software suite, and Stratus ftServer systems, the premier Continuous Availability servers, manufacturers are gaining new options for managing uptime and complexity of MES and other mission-critical applications across their lifecycles.

Maximize Availability and Performance, and Tame Complexity of Manufacturing and Utilities IT Infrastructures (PDF 300K)
The complexity of information technology at manufacturing and utilities plants is increasing in response to global challenges. The Stratus ftServer family and our Continuous Availability Lifecycle Management (CALM™) Services ease the technology skills crunch at the plant with designs that inherently promote the uptime, performance and integrity of IT-driven business processes.

Continuous Availability for SAP Perfect Plant Environments (PDF,457K)
SAP's Perfect Plant initiative brings together best-of-breed solution partners — creating a technology ecosystem that delivers the functionality, integration, data synchronization, and certified platforms that enable companies to optimize their performance. This paper describes Stratus infrastructure solutions and best practices for deploying an SAP Perfect Plant.

Continuous Availability for Power Plant Automation: Dr. Rainer M. Speh, Siemens AG (PDF, 930K)
Siemens Power Generation's SPPA-T3000 web-based Power Plant I&C solution is setting a new benchmark in controls. Gain insight into its advanced technologies and architectural design which incorporates Stratus fault-tolerant ftServer systems.

Podcasts

Stratus in the SAP Ecosystem 5:21 minutes (6.12 MB)
Find out why Stratus ftServer systems play a key role in the SAP ecosystem as the computing platform of choice to support SAP and third-party applications.

Stratus Continuous Availability Computing and Rexam BCNA 5:25 minutes (6.19 MB)
Hear how global packaging company Rexam Beverage Can North America eliminated both planned and unplanned downtime of SAP ERP at their remote manufacturing plants using SAP® xMII and Stratus fault-tolerant servers.