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In the fast lane for business transformation – with webMethods

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • Europe
Country
  • Austria
Product
  • webMethods Integration Platform
  • Professional Services
Tech Stack
  • SAP
  • APIs
  • Machine Learning
  • IoT
  • Streaming Analytics
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Digital Expertise
Technology Category
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries
  • Packaging
  • Paper & Pulp
  • Recycling & Waste Management
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Procurement
Use Cases
  • Process Control & Optimization
  • Predictive Quality Analytics
  • Supply Chain Visibility
Services
  • System Integration
  • Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
The Prinzhorn Group is a European market leader in the packaging, paper and recycling industry. With 7,000 employees in 15 countries, the company was founded in 1853 and posts an annual turnover of 1.60 billion euros. The family-owned and managed company has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria and is structured in three divisions: Dunapack Packaging (corrugated packaging solutions), Hamburger Containerboard (production of containerboard) and Hamburger Recycling Group (collection and trading of secondary raw materials). In 2015, the company adopted the Grow2030 vision along with the goal of doubling in size, and has actively pursued this objective ever since. Today Prinzhorn is Europe’s third-largest company in the packaging, paper and recycling industry and is maintaining its course toward business transformation.
The Challenge
Prinzhorn Group, a European market leader in the packaging, paper and recycling industry, faced several challenges as it pursued its Grow2030 vision to double in size. The rapid growth strategy brought together many different systems that needed to be integrated, posing a major challenge for the company’s IT. The company needed a suitable and flexible IT platform to integrate new facilities and systems quickly. To boost the transforming company’s operational performance, all the apps, devices and systems needed to be linked to create a common data pool for the entire group—a central point of dataflow. Furthermore, this data pool had to allow fast adaptation at any time because new systems were being added regularly, up to ten a year.
The Solution
Software AG’s B2B integration platform, webMethods, was chosen by Prinzhorn Group to integrate the different systems from Prinzhorn’s three divisions, some of which are difficult to integrate. Specifically, it was about the IT connection to operational processes as well as the SAP® finance system. The first integration was done in 2014, and many more have followed since then. The success of the integration projects rests on webMethods’ capabilities, but also flourishes because of the collaboration between Prinzhorn’s teams and Software AG’s Professional Services consultants. Software AG Austria’s experts deliver onsite support for Prinzhorn’s employees in Austria with the help of their consultant colleagues from Germany and Bulgaria. With the open and independent webMethods integration platform, Prinzhorn Holding feels “ready for the future.” webMethods enables the company to integrate existing systems into a rapidly changing IT landscape, while also connecting additional external systems.
Operational Impact
  • Leading-edge B2B integration platform
  • Maximum integration flexibility and speed
  • Cutting-edge platform, open for all connections
  • Personal support on-site for the implementation
  • Ability to integrate existing systems into a rapidly changing IT landscape, while also connecting additional external systems
Quantitative Benefit
  • Integration of around 10 new systems per year
  • 13 rollouts estimated for the year 2019, with varying numbers of interfaces ranging up to 40 with an SAP rollout

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