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COSCON TRANSFORMS SHIPPING BUSINESS WITH IBM'S SOA.
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BEIJING and ARMONK, N.Y, Mar 1/MediaNet International-AsiaNet/ - IBM today announced that COSCON, China's largest container shipping company is relying on IBM software and services to help streamline its business processes, increase efficiency and enhance collaboration with its customers, partners and suppliers.
As a leader in the shipping and logistics services market, COSCON has 127 container vessels and has shipped more than 320,000 containers to date. Its ships are regularly deployed to ports across the globe each with their own regulations. To support these diverse requirements, COSCON had an electronic data interchange (EDI) system that consisted of 21 different applications with a variety of architectures and development languages supported on multiple servers. As COSCON's business continued to grow, its complex IT system hampered the companys ability to respond quickly to its ports of call and its external and internal customers.
To become more competitive, COSCON tapped the software and services expertise in IBM's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Design Center in Beijing. The IBM center designed a solution based on IBMs WebSphere software that integrated COSCON's existing EDI applications by deploying an SOA. The open standards based technology approach from IBM enabled COSCON to connect its silos of data and software applications to allow its internal business to better interoperate with its customers, partners and suppliers. In addition, IBM consolidated COSCONs infrastructure by reducing the number of servers from 17 to three.
This overall solution leveraged the existing resources within COSCON and augmented it with a solution that improved productivity, allowing for more efficient communication and enabling COSCON to quickly react to changing market conditions.
"Over the past few years, we have witnessed an increase in demand for our shipping services. This increased interest has placed additional pressure on our business helping us realize that we needed to revamp and invest in our internal technology infrastructure to position our business for future growth, said Mr. Ma Tao, Deputy General Manager of COSCON IT. To do this, we reviewed and tested a number of technology solutions from a variety of vendors and we found IBMs SOA approach to the solution offered the most comprehensive ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, COSCON TRANSFORMS SHIPPING BUSINESS WITH IBM'S SOA.