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Postal
organization delivers superior customer service and reduces costs with IBM WebSphere
Intelligent Management Solutions
Try
as they may to please the public,postal organizations have been losing money on
both sides of the Atlantic.One large national mail services organization is an
example.
Seeking
to renew itself, the mail services organization set its sights on becoming
the
best postal operator in the world.
history-making
2.2
billion
USD out- sourcing deal with a major consulting firm and two small companies that
are now working independently with the mail services organization.
·
Challenge
Major consulting firm needed to implement
a new application hosting environment for a large mail services organization
that would integrate applications with legacy systems and accommodate daily
spikes in usage while minimizing hardware and software requirements.
·
Solution
The company implemented a powerful
virtualization solution that intelligently manages the health and workload of
application server environments so that applications can adapt to changing market
conditions while lowering costs.
·
Benefits
* 10 servers consolidated onto four-server
infrastructure
* Cost saving with consolida-tion
of servers onto application infrastructure virtualization environment.
* Higher availability of business-critical
applications.
In addition to running
the mail services organization’s data centers, data networks,voice services and
desktop computers, the consulting firm was responsible for maintaining more than
600 business application systems.
Neither
snow nor rain nor application outages
From the start, the consultant knew that it was
going to be hosting one key business-critical application that needed a new
operating environment: a tracking application that follows the delivery of
items from data entered into handheld computers by postal carriers in the field
at each stage of the delivery process.Customers can log on to the Internet and
track the status of an item as it makes its way through the system.
“The
resilience and reliability of the system is quite important because this
application is going to be key to the mail tracking system,” says an assistant
engineer at the consulting company.“We’re going to use this infrastructure for
other types of tracking applications in the future.”
Delivering
superior customer service
The consultant wanted a platform that would minimize
hardware and software requirements without affecting the environment’s resilience.
It was interested to learn what IBM could provide to help automate and
facilitate management of the environment. The consultant evaluated several
middleware providers, including BEA and IBM, to run the applications in a
flexible environment that could be adjusted to respond to variable needs.
The consultant
evaluated several middleware providers, including BEA and IBM, to run the
applications in a flexible environment that could be adjusted to respond to
variable needs. The consultant chose IBM WebSphere® Virtual Enterprise, Version
6.1 to provide the application infrastructure virtualization capabilities
thatflexibly manage the mail services organization’s tracking applications to
improve service, application performance and better manage server health. Two
On Demand Routers run on two IBM System p5® 510 Express™ servers with AIX®
Version 5.3, and two more System p® servers run IBM WebSphere Application
Server Network Deployment, Version 6.1 along with the WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise software
the consultant chose IBM WebSphere Message Broker,
Version 6 for its ability to provide a broad platform for application infrastructure
and integration.“WebSphere Message Broker provides proven performance, throughput
and availability necessary to run the important tracking applications,” says
the first assistant engineer.“It takes data from different sourcesuch as .NET
and IBM WebSphere
Reducing rising costs through consolidation
Thanks to IBM, the mail services organization has benefited
from cost savings. The consultant will be reducing the server count as it consolidates
three or four more of the organization’s applications onto the WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise servers. The IBM structure of two servers running WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise and the tracking applications along with two servers running WebSphere
Application Server will take the place of 10 servers that formerly housed these
applications. Managing the tracking applications will cost less per year due to
fewer manual interventions, and there is less cost for servers and CPU time. Consolidating
hardware will also reduce energy costs.
IBM WebSphere provides
a powerful and comprehensive set of cloud computing and virtualization
solutions for intelligently deploying and managing SOA applications, services
and environments to achieve smarter business outcomes.These solutions deliver
robustness and agility to enable applications to adapt to changing market
conditions while lowering costs.
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