Apollo Tyres Ltd : TDMS Implementation

Apollo Tyres has implemented a TDMS solution to reduce storage costs and run test systems in an isolated environment

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

As a growing organisation, data growth is exponential in Apollo Tyres. They are also expanding their business globally and that necessitates an ERP solution at new locations. And all these expansions are simultaneously taking place. Every rollout requires a separate testing system. And since the data volume in the size of 2TB, it is practically too expensive to create multiple systems with 2TB each. Hence in discussions with SAP, the TDMS tool Implementation was finalised. With the TDMS implementation, the test systems can be created with limited period data without forgoing any fucntionality and data consistency. The company is using SAP for its Business transactions since 2004 and more than 40 GB of data is generated every month with a total database of 2TB. TDMS is a new package from SAP that envisages a capability of transferring data for a pre-defined period from a Live production system. For a test environment, it is required to have data of a year with all the relevant links and masters. TDMS does the same without any inconsistency of data. With this implementation, Apollo Tyres can ensure availability of data for the testing environment. The Project has resulted in huge savings in storage for Apollo Tyres. Now each test requires 300 GB space as compared to 2TB earlier.

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