Tower International is a global automotive parts supplier that competes in a highly cost-conscious business environment. The company supplies the automotive industry with body-structure stampings, frames, and other chassis structures, as well as complex welded assemblies for small and large cars, crossovers, pickups, and SUVs. 

To lower its operational costs, Tower consolidated its global PeopleSoft applications and data into a centralized environment. However, the new PeopleSoft environment needed to serve global operations, not just North American users—introducing high availability and complex migration requirements. Tower’s IT management recognized the risks associated with moving to a consolidated, highly available, clustered server environment. They also realized there was a knowledge gap between Tower’s existing staff and service vendors when it came to migrating and a lack of in-house expertise to tune and troubleshoot complex cluster configurations Pythian was engaged to help.