Author: Holm Landrock, IT journalist

As a managed service provider, Würth IT also has to offer its customers high availability and disaster protection. This could be done via the cloud. However, Würth IT opted for an on-premises solution.

Implementing Industry 4.0 does not always require the big scenario. Often, clever use of IT in the machines is enough. At HF Mixing Group, IT is in every machine. These produce rubber and plastic compounds.

Personal data rightly deserves a high level of protection. The situation becomes difficult in multi-level application environments (such as SAP). There, this data may only be stored on the production system. But how can realistic tests be carried out in test environments without real data?

At the latest since the global ransomware attacks in spring 2017, SAP users have also been bombarded by IT vendors of almost all categories with offers of possible protective measures and rules of conduct - but only a few like Libelle BusinessShadow have been able to prove their effectiveness.

The Junghans Group, which includes the mail order companies Pro-Idee and Junghans Wollversand, chose the services of BasisTeam from Bochum for the SAP migration to DB2 and achieved a database migration with minimal downtime.