Industrial Minerals Case Study

Managed Services for Hosting & Supporting Coda, Infor BPCS, SAP & Associated Hardware

Multi-vendor approach implemented & managed by Proximity for archiving legacy ERP data accessible by any of their global sites

About the Company

Supporting Infor BPCS & other legacy IBM i (AS400) based ERP systems

A leading global producer of industrial minerals and a worldwide distributor of chemical products, our client’s presence extends to over 50 countries and its products are marketed to the paper, plastics, paints, adhesive, construction, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries.

Enterprise class solution at reduced cost

Lowering Total Cost of Ownership for retaining multiple archive instances of the legacy ERP systems

Global coverage

Secure, available & reliable service accessible from geographically dispersed sites across the globe

Releasing IT staff to focus on other projects

Our skilled & experienced team support legacy SAP, Infor BPCS and IT infrastructure

Preserving legacy ERP archives

Global SAP implementation dictates the need to retain ERP archive data

Following the successful completion of a global SAP implementation, the client was left with a number of inactive legacy ERP systems based in several global locations. They needed to preserve the legacy ERP archive of chemical products, supply chain and financial data but wished to avoid the challenges of retaining legacy skills and managing changing local (geographical) legislative requirements.

Multi-vendor approach

Global business, legislative compliance & skilled resource challenges

The organisation required a multi-vendor ERP data archiving solution capable of being accessed by any of their global sites. As well as legislative compliance and skill retention, the client wanted to reduce the cost of retaining archive instances of multiple legacy ERP instances (and different ERP systems) based at different geographic locations around the globe.

Worker in a chemical lab working on an ERP system

Managed Infor services

Supporting IBM i applications across various archive systems

Proximity was selected to provide a managed service for hosting and supporting Coda, Infor BPCS, and SAP archive systems on IBM i and Linux platforms. Our expertise in application management and IBM i infrastructure was key to this selection. We delivered a highly available, 24/7 accessible ERP archive solution, hosted in a secure UK data centre. This solution caters to Industrial Mineral’s global user base, covering varying time zones and workload demands around the clock.