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Juken New Zealand axes unscheduled downtime

Supporting Business-critical JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications with Highly Reliable IBM Power Technology

Juken New Zealand Ltd (Juken) is a New Zealand-based and -registered company which manufactures advanced and innovative wood products from selectively planted, managed and harvested Radiata Pine for local and export markets. Involved heavily with the New Zealand forestry and wood-processing industries for the past 20 years, Juken is responsible for sustainably managed and certified plantation forests in the Northland, East Coast and Wairarapa regions of New Zealand’s North Island. Juken also benefits from the technology and resources of its Japan-based parent company WoodOne Ltd – a major international housing materials and componentry company. With its head office located in Auckland, Juken directly employs approximately 1,000 people as well as a range of contractors.

Juken was experiencing unplanned outages in the Intel and Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure supporting its JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications. When the company began using the manufacturing component of this application suite, this level of downtime was simply no longer acceptable for the 24/7 operations necessary to run Juken's mills.

Working with IBM Business Partners Jireh Consulting and Dimension Data, Juken replaced its Intel infrastructure with IBM Power Servers and IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express servers running the IBM i Operating System. The company also chose to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server database to an IBM DB2 database.

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