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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Challenge
Ferrero is known the world over for its luxury chocolates, which include renowned
brands such as Ferrero Rocher, Raffaello, and Mon Chéri. The Italian company, which
has operations across 46 countries, including 21 production sites, also commercializes
a number of other top-selling confectionary and chocolate products through brands
such as Kinder, Nutella, and Tic Tac. It’s success is closely linked to its focus on
quality. For example, it suspended praline product shipments in the height of
summer to safeguard their freshness. A core challenge is to achieve sustainable
growth without compromising its focus on quality.
From an IT perspective, this means delivering a flexible, scalable infrastructure to
give the greatest possible support to the worldwide Ferrero workforce, which is
expanding to include manufacturing centers in locations such as Brazil and India.
Perhaps nowhere is this infrastructure support more important than in Germany,
which, in addition to being a major market for the company, is the site of its largest
manufacturing facility and home to around 3600 employees spread across two main
locations and 20 remote offices.
As the German business has grown, Ferrero management has increasingly seen IT
collaboration tools as a way to improve worker efficiency, offset travel costs, and
support moves toward a more mobile workforce.
Solution
Ferrero has been rolling out a number of infrastructure developments to support
collaboration in Germany and worldwide since 2008, when it implemented a Cisco®
network serving around 2000 users in Germany and 60,000 globally. The architecture
incorporates Cisco Catalyst® 6509, 3750-X, and 2960 Series Switches plus Cisco
8500 and 5500 Series Wireless Controllers, along with Cisco Aironet® 2600,
1200, and 1140 Series Access Points.
Customer Case Study
Chocolate Maker Sees Sweet
Spot in Improved Collaboration
Cisco technologies help Ferrero improve teamwork and productivity while cutting costs
Customer Name: Ferrero
Industry: Food
Location: Germany
Number of Employees: 22,850
Challenge
•	Improve internal and external collaboration
•	Reduce travel costs
•	Support mobility
Solution
•	Cisco Collaboration applications,
including Cisco Jabber and Cisco WebEx
•	Cisco network foundation
•	Cisco FlexPod data center infrastructure
•	Cisco Design Services
•	Cisco Capital financing
Results
•	Decreased IT system deployment
times significantly
•	Increased staff productivity while cutting
operational expenditures
•	Reduced capital expenditure
© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.		 Page 1 of 4
“The possibility for users,
ad hoc, to initiate a video
communication either
from Jabber to Jabber
or from Jabber to Cisco
TelePresence systems is
really a big advantage,
because people avoid the
need to book a room or
schedule a videoconference
in advance.”
Dr. Hans Altmann
Manager IT Infrastructure
Ferrero
Customer Case Study
Regarding the choice of vendor, Martin Flegenheimer, IT director for Middle and
Eastern Europe at Ferrero, says: “Cisco is a market leader, and we always adopt
industry-standard technologies. It was product reliability that led us to choose Cisco.
The network is the basis for all our IT business.” After improving its infrastructure, the
company began introducing Cisco WebEx® to enable web conferencing and desktop
sharing among its employees globally.
The German IT team also introduced FlexPod, a predesigned and prevalidated
base data center configuration built on Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco
UCS®), Cisco Nexus® data center switches, and NetApp FAS storage components.
Specifically, FlexPod uses Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and Nexus 2000
Series Fabric Extenders, along with Cisco UCS B440 M2 High-Performance Blade
Servers, which Ferrero uses in addition to a limited number of Cisco UCS C220 M3
Rack Servers. The company also has a Citrix XenServer management suite and uses
VMware for virtualization.
The data center is the foundation for the Ferrero SAP-based enterprise resource
planning software suite, which, along with Cisco Collaboration technologies and a
range of Microsoft applications, is delivered network-wide via Citrix.
In Germany, Ferrero also deployed Cisco Unified Communications Manager
version 9.1, an on-premises IP telephony call processing platform, to fall into
line with other company locations that had begun to use the technology. That
was augmented with the addition of 35 Cisco TelePresence® EX90, C60, and
C40 endpoints and Cisco Jabber™, which lets workers access presence, instant
messaging, voice, video, voice messaging, desktop sharing, and conferencing.
The Jabber deployment includes 2000 laptops and desktop PCs. In the current
phase mobility features are mainly used in two cases: for home office use and for
international travel, mainly in other Ferrero locations. Jabber on Apple iPads and
iPhones is currently under evaluation.
“As we already had Cisco Unified Communications Manager and WebEx in place, we
chose Cisco TelePresence and Jabber because of their perfect integration with our
existing landscape,” says Hans Altmann, manager IT Infrastructure at Ferrero. Finally,
for customer call handling, Ferrero uses a Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise
version 8.5 system.
In the design and pre-sales phase Cisco provided services for designing and sizing
the different solutions. This was followed by proof of concept, which gave Ferrero the
opportunity to efficiently define an optimized architecture.
Most of the acquisitions have been funded with Cisco Capital® financing, which helped
create an attractive on-demand, flat-rate package, including a server capacity buffer.
“The on-demand model was very compelling,” Flegenheimer says. “We pay a fixed
price for the Cisco UCS servers we use and can take advantage of the buffer to very
quickly add new blades and capacity whenever required.”
Cisco Capital also helped simplify contract administration by incorporating NetApp
storage components within one single master lease agreement. “We got attractive
lease rates, which suited us because we want to spend our money on our core
business and international growth,” adds Flegenheimer.
Results
Ferrero is very happy with its Cisco Collaboration platform. Cisco Unified
Communications Manager serves as a robust foundation for IP telephony. WebEx,
meanwhile, is used widely around the business and is even favored by the HR
department to carry out remote interviews for interns and potential staff members.
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As well as its instant messaging and presence features, Cisco Jabber provides
a unified workspace that is fully integrated with technologies such as Microsoft
Outlook and Cisco TelePresence video conferencing.
“When it comes to video on Jabber,” says Altmann, “the main advantage is flexibility
and speed. The possibility for users, ad hoc, to initiate a video communication either
from Jabber to Jabber or from Jabber to Cisco TelePresence systems is really
a big advantage, because people avoid the need to book a room or schedule a
videoconference in advance.”
This flexibility is of particular importance to the international teams powering the
company’s growth, for whom regular cross-border communication and information
sharing is essential. Decision makers requiring a higher-quality meeting experience,
meanwhile, have the option of using Cisco TelePresence. All of this is underpinned
by a virtualized data center, courtesy of FlexPod, offering ease of management and
the ability to scale server capacity up and down quickly.
The German IT department has been able to grow its server estate four-fold in the
last five years without having to take on new full-time employees.
Next Steps
A consequence of the overall value of Cisco technologies for Ferrero is that
implementation is now built into the company’s expansion plans. “The first thing we
do in a new site is implement network connectivity and videoconferencing systems,”
says Flegenheimer, “and we’re hoping to extend the use of Cisco collaboration tools
worldwide while building a FlexPod-based private cloud.”
Customer Case Study
© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.		 Page 3 of 4
“Cisco is a market leader,
and we always adopt
industry-standard
technologies. It was
product reliability that led
us to choose Cisco. The
network is the basis for all
our IT business.”
Martin Flegenheimer
IT Director, Middle and Eastern Europe
Ferrero
For More Information
To learn more about the Cisco architectures and solutions featured in this case
study, go to:
www.cisco.com/go/collaboration
www.cisco.com/go/flexpod
www.cisco.com/go/borderless
www.cisco.com/go/services
www.ciscocapital.com/emea
Customer Case Study
Product List
Collaboration
•• Cisco Unified Communications Manager version 9.1
•• Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise version 8.5
•• Cisco WebEx
•• Cisco Jabber for Windows, iPad, and iPhone
•• Cisco TelePresence System EX90
•• Cisco TelePresence Codec C60
•• Cisco TelePresence Codec C40
Borderless Networks
•• Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3750-X, and 2960 Series Switches
•• Cisco 5500 and 8500 Series Wireless Controllers
•• Cisco Aironet 1140, 1200, and 2600 Series Access Points
Data Center Solutions
•• FlexPod
--Cisco UCS B440 M2 Blade Servers
--VMware, Citrix XenServer
--NetApp FAS Series storage
•• Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Servers
Routing and Switching
•• Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
•• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
Applications
•• SAP
•• Microsoft Outlook
•• Microsoft Exchange
Cisco Services
•• Pre-sales
•• Architectural design
•• Proof of Concept
Cisco Capital Finance Solution
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Cisco Systems International BV Amsterdam,
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Ferrero

  • 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Challenge Ferrero is known the world over for its luxury chocolates, which include renowned brands such as Ferrero Rocher, Raffaello, and Mon Chéri. The Italian company, which has operations across 46 countries, including 21 production sites, also commercializes a number of other top-selling confectionary and chocolate products through brands such as Kinder, Nutella, and Tic Tac. It’s success is closely linked to its focus on quality. For example, it suspended praline product shipments in the height of summer to safeguard their freshness. A core challenge is to achieve sustainable growth without compromising its focus on quality. From an IT perspective, this means delivering a flexible, scalable infrastructure to give the greatest possible support to the worldwide Ferrero workforce, which is expanding to include manufacturing centers in locations such as Brazil and India. Perhaps nowhere is this infrastructure support more important than in Germany, which, in addition to being a major market for the company, is the site of its largest manufacturing facility and home to around 3600 employees spread across two main locations and 20 remote offices. As the German business has grown, Ferrero management has increasingly seen IT collaboration tools as a way to improve worker efficiency, offset travel costs, and support moves toward a more mobile workforce. Solution Ferrero has been rolling out a number of infrastructure developments to support collaboration in Germany and worldwide since 2008, when it implemented a Cisco® network serving around 2000 users in Germany and 60,000 globally. The architecture incorporates Cisco Catalyst® 6509, 3750-X, and 2960 Series Switches plus Cisco 8500 and 5500 Series Wireless Controllers, along with Cisco Aironet® 2600, 1200, and 1140 Series Access Points. Customer Case Study Chocolate Maker Sees Sweet Spot in Improved Collaboration Cisco technologies help Ferrero improve teamwork and productivity while cutting costs Customer Name: Ferrero Industry: Food Location: Germany Number of Employees: 22,850 Challenge • Improve internal and external collaboration • Reduce travel costs • Support mobility Solution • Cisco Collaboration applications, including Cisco Jabber and Cisco WebEx • Cisco network foundation • Cisco FlexPod data center infrastructure • Cisco Design Services • Cisco Capital financing Results • Decreased IT system deployment times significantly • Increased staff productivity while cutting operational expenditures • Reduced capital expenditure © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 1 of 4
  • 2. “The possibility for users, ad hoc, to initiate a video communication either from Jabber to Jabber or from Jabber to Cisco TelePresence systems is really a big advantage, because people avoid the need to book a room or schedule a videoconference in advance.” Dr. Hans Altmann Manager IT Infrastructure Ferrero Customer Case Study Regarding the choice of vendor, Martin Flegenheimer, IT director for Middle and Eastern Europe at Ferrero, says: “Cisco is a market leader, and we always adopt industry-standard technologies. It was product reliability that led us to choose Cisco. The network is the basis for all our IT business.” After improving its infrastructure, the company began introducing Cisco WebEx® to enable web conferencing and desktop sharing among its employees globally. The German IT team also introduced FlexPod, a predesigned and prevalidated base data center configuration built on Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®), Cisco Nexus® data center switches, and NetApp FAS storage components. Specifically, FlexPod uses Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders, along with Cisco UCS B440 M2 High-Performance Blade Servers, which Ferrero uses in addition to a limited number of Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Servers. The company also has a Citrix XenServer management suite and uses VMware for virtualization. The data center is the foundation for the Ferrero SAP-based enterprise resource planning software suite, which, along with Cisco Collaboration technologies and a range of Microsoft applications, is delivered network-wide via Citrix. In Germany, Ferrero also deployed Cisco Unified Communications Manager version 9.1, an on-premises IP telephony call processing platform, to fall into line with other company locations that had begun to use the technology. That was augmented with the addition of 35 Cisco TelePresence® EX90, C60, and C40 endpoints and Cisco Jabber™, which lets workers access presence, instant messaging, voice, video, voice messaging, desktop sharing, and conferencing. The Jabber deployment includes 2000 laptops and desktop PCs. In the current phase mobility features are mainly used in two cases: for home office use and for international travel, mainly in other Ferrero locations. Jabber on Apple iPads and iPhones is currently under evaluation. “As we already had Cisco Unified Communications Manager and WebEx in place, we chose Cisco TelePresence and Jabber because of their perfect integration with our existing landscape,” says Hans Altmann, manager IT Infrastructure at Ferrero. Finally, for customer call handling, Ferrero uses a Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise version 8.5 system. In the design and pre-sales phase Cisco provided services for designing and sizing the different solutions. This was followed by proof of concept, which gave Ferrero the opportunity to efficiently define an optimized architecture. Most of the acquisitions have been funded with Cisco Capital® financing, which helped create an attractive on-demand, flat-rate package, including a server capacity buffer. “The on-demand model was very compelling,” Flegenheimer says. “We pay a fixed price for the Cisco UCS servers we use and can take advantage of the buffer to very quickly add new blades and capacity whenever required.” Cisco Capital also helped simplify contract administration by incorporating NetApp storage components within one single master lease agreement. “We got attractive lease rates, which suited us because we want to spend our money on our core business and international growth,” adds Flegenheimer. Results Ferrero is very happy with its Cisco Collaboration platform. Cisco Unified Communications Manager serves as a robust foundation for IP telephony. WebEx, meanwhile, is used widely around the business and is even favored by the HR department to carry out remote interviews for interns and potential staff members. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 2 of 4
  • 3. As well as its instant messaging and presence features, Cisco Jabber provides a unified workspace that is fully integrated with technologies such as Microsoft Outlook and Cisco TelePresence video conferencing. “When it comes to video on Jabber,” says Altmann, “the main advantage is flexibility and speed. The possibility for users, ad hoc, to initiate a video communication either from Jabber to Jabber or from Jabber to Cisco TelePresence systems is really a big advantage, because people avoid the need to book a room or schedule a videoconference in advance.” This flexibility is of particular importance to the international teams powering the company’s growth, for whom regular cross-border communication and information sharing is essential. Decision makers requiring a higher-quality meeting experience, meanwhile, have the option of using Cisco TelePresence. All of this is underpinned by a virtualized data center, courtesy of FlexPod, offering ease of management and the ability to scale server capacity up and down quickly. The German IT department has been able to grow its server estate four-fold in the last five years without having to take on new full-time employees. Next Steps A consequence of the overall value of Cisco technologies for Ferrero is that implementation is now built into the company’s expansion plans. “The first thing we do in a new site is implement network connectivity and videoconferencing systems,” says Flegenheimer, “and we’re hoping to extend the use of Cisco collaboration tools worldwide while building a FlexPod-based private cloud.” Customer Case Study © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 3 of 4 “Cisco is a market leader, and we always adopt industry-standard technologies. It was product reliability that led us to choose Cisco. The network is the basis for all our IT business.” Martin Flegenheimer IT Director, Middle and Eastern Europe Ferrero For More Information To learn more about the Cisco architectures and solutions featured in this case study, go to: www.cisco.com/go/collaboration www.cisco.com/go/flexpod www.cisco.com/go/borderless www.cisco.com/go/services www.ciscocapital.com/emea
  • 4. Customer Case Study Product List Collaboration •• Cisco Unified Communications Manager version 9.1 •• Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise version 8.5 •• Cisco WebEx •• Cisco Jabber for Windows, iPad, and iPhone •• Cisco TelePresence System EX90 •• Cisco TelePresence Codec C60 •• Cisco TelePresence Codec C40 Borderless Networks •• Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3750-X, and 2960 Series Switches •• Cisco 5500 and 8500 Series Wireless Controllers •• Cisco Aironet 1140, 1200, and 2600 Series Access Points Data Center Solutions •• FlexPod --Cisco UCS B440 M2 Blade Servers --VMware, Citrix XenServer --NetApp FAS Series storage •• Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Servers Routing and Switching •• Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches •• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders Applications •• SAP •• Microsoft Outlook •• Microsoft Exchange Cisco Services •• Pre-sales •• Architectural design •• Proof of Concept Cisco Capital Finance Solution © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Printed in the UK ES/1113 Page 4 of 4 Americas Headquarters Cisco Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA Asia Pacific Headquarters Cisco Systems (USA) Pte. Ltd. Singapore Europe Headquarters Cisco Systems International BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cisco has more than 200 offices worldwide. Addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers are listed on the Cisco Website at www.cisco.com/go/offices. Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. To view a list of Cisco trademarks, go to this URL: www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. (1110R)