IBM Partners With German Construction Company

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Thursday, December 8, 2005; 04:00 PM

IBM today announced that Schwenk Zement KG, a leading German manufacturer of cement and construction goods, has achieved a dramatic reduction in the time to support business-critical processes, including ordering and delivery, financial accounting, controlling, warehousing and staff management following the implementation of its new IBM TotalStorage DS8100, increasing production transactions by six times.

Schwenk Zement KG provides cement for houses, public buildings, blast furnaces, chimneys and nuclear power station cooling tower and currently processes more than 15 million transactions per day.

Aiming to create a more powerful and single source of information for its internal processes and touchpoints, one of the leading cement company worked with IBM Business Partner Fritz & Macziol (FUM) to integrate a new information on demand solution.

"We valued the ability for one company to provide a solution that could help us deliver our information more efficiently," said Gerhard Kaminski at Schwenk Zement KG.

IBM Business Partner FRITZ & MACZIOL developed a conception for the configuration of the new IT infrastructure. "As the customer's demands on their systems increased, we needed to find a solution that would perform with speed and scalability," said FRITZ & MACZIOL Account Manager, Michael Dürr.

The desire by businesses to access, manage and deliver information more efficiently is driving rapid change in the IT marketplace. Traditional low-tech, hardware-only approaches by proprietary vendors are meeting with resistance as companies grappling with new government mandates and business demands strive to capture and integrate information in a more seamless, real-time fashion across the enterprise.

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that help enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business on demand.

FRITZ & MACZIOL is one of the leading providers of software, systems and related services in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Together with its sister company, INFOMA®, FRITZ & MACZIOL develops and sells software and system solutions for local authorities (newsystem® communal) and medium and large sized companies (VAS® dispatch automation and LAP for the bulk goods industry, Microsoft Navision ERP/PPS solution, F&M Groupware & Application Suite based on Lotus Notes and IBM WebSphere).