Customer Background
Our customer is a leading national retailer and the largest independent bottling company in the United States. It produces markets and distributes non-alcoholic beverages. With a focus on developing servant leaders, building personal and trusting relationships and giving long-term value for customer, this organization is truly a customer driven one.
Technologies Involved
The products and technologies used in this effort by our team and the customer were,
- IBM WebSphere CastIron
- Microsoft C# .Net
- Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Mainframes
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Oracle
- SAP
- IBM B2B Sterling Integrator
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Tivoli Workload Scheduler
- JDA Cloud
- Solar Winds
The Business Challenges
With a complex integration system and the need for agility, the following were the challenges that the customer faced,
- Multiple Point-to-Point Integrations for new territories to existing territories
- No proper data format for processing
- Heavy File Transfer use cases with need for high end-to-end monitoring capabilities
- Challenges in monitoring the JDA Cloud Applications and Data Servers
- Exposing businesses services to internal and external partners
- Difficult to consistently apply non-functional requirements
- Lack of service naming standards, standard operating procedures and best practices on service implementations
Our Solution and Support
The customer partnered with us to achieve and create,
- An architectural overview for purchase orders, sales orders and inventories for new territories
- Designed and deployed CastIron orchestrations for end-to-end integrations
- Picking up data load from ADR from enterprise network and posting it to Planograms API (ASP .NET MVC) in Azure Network
- Extracting data from legacy applications to Customer's Integration layer to build REST services
- C# posting data to SAP from Customer's Integration Layer
- Designed services in CastIron and SQL to process high volume of data on weekly and monthly basis
- Handling complex mainframe file formats in CastIron and loaded into the Customer's Integration Layer
- Helped in integrating developed APIs in their Integration Framework
- Implemented services to connect Legacy SAP to customer's new Integration Layer territories
- Maintaining payroll data securely and providing APIs to their financial partners
- Integrating Microsoft SharePoint and Azure with JDA Cloud
- Sending data to merchandiser activity planner through secure web service
Customer Benefits
Through our innovative solution and strong delivery team, we were able to assist customer in creating,
- Reusable assets that improved the quality and reduce time to market for integrations which gave the business the agility required
- Following all the existing pattern/process which is used in code to develop/test/deploy code in various environments using DevOps principles
- Re-using the code wherever and whenever possible that gives an opportunity to satisfy the business need in little time
- Building templates to ensure uniformity of code there by simplifying the development, reducing support costs and improving quality
- Implemented secure connector framework to securely integrate on premise and off premise applications
- Documenting recurring issues and deploying a permanent fix which can improve business performance
- Predicting future risks in earlier stage to reduce re-work