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Smals Gets Big Savings from Webmethods Entirex

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公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
  • Europe
国家
  • Belgium
产品
  • webMethods EntireX
  • Adabas
  • Natural
技术栈
  • COBOL
  • Java
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
实施规模
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
技术
  • 应用基础设施与中间件 - API 集成与管理
适用行业
  • 医疗保健和医院
适用功能
  • 离散制造
  • 商业运营
用例
  • 过程控制与优化
  • 预测性维护
服务
  • 系统集成
  • 软件设计与工程服务
关于客户
With more than 1,700 employees and annual revenue of €193 million, Smals is one the largest ICT shared services organizations in Belgium. Smals was started in 1939. Today, it operates three state-of-the-art data centers and a variety of mission critical platforms, including over 1,700 servers and over 300 business applications. As a not- for-profit organization, Smals works for more than 60 Belgian government organizations in social security and healthcare. In addition to hosting, housing and outsourcing, Smals has a strong focus on development, mainly on the Java platform. They also provide more and more support and assistance to their members to let them run business applications cost effectively.
挑战
Smals, a leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services organization in Belgium, had invested years of development in 42 specialized COBOL applications. Once Smals had created a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the organization needed an efficient way to establish communications between the SOA and these core mainframe applications. Effective communication between the systems of the CBSS and Smals is crucial for a swift processing of millions of transactions. “When one of our members wants to process a declaration—for example for registering a new employee in their system—they send an electronic message to the CBSS that uses an IBM mainframe,” Vanneste said. “Formerly, this message was passed through to Smals’ BS2000 mainframe, where the request was processed by one of the 42 specialized COBOL applications and answered.
解决方案
webMethods EntireX proved to be the perfect solution. Smals had already used Adabas and Natural for many years—and was impressed Software AG was able to create a proof of concept for webMethods EntireX in just two weeks. Vanneste turned to Software AG that proposed using webMethods EntireX. Smals was already familiar with the Software AG portfolio as the company had used Adabas and Natural for a long time. “At first, we were sceptical about EntireX,” Vanneste said. “We doubted it could do the job. But we were seriously amazed when Software AG created a proof of concept within two weeks which proved that EntireX was the perfect solution. We instantly decided to follow this route and started implementing the solution. A test environment was developed and we performed many tests.
运营影响
  • Investment in core applications preserved—no rewriting required
  • Fast deployment—the solution was in production in six months
  • Faster response times—critical when processing two million requests a month
  • Easy maintenance and management
数量效益
  • Significant savings in time, resources and budget

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