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MEGA PROJECTS: Transportation

Transportation #1: Innovating the Customer Experience

Mega Lead

Business Need:

  • Company had different infrastructures from acquisitions, along with redundant business rules across numerous legacy gateway integration solutions

  • Transform point-to-point infrastructure so various operating companies can function and compete as a joint company

  • Continue to innovate online customer service to reduce support calls while presenting a consistent experience across acquisitions

Use Case:

  • Mega SOA project to support company’s initiative to transform the IT organization

  • Implementing first SOA project to enable high-volume customers to verify addresses, print labels, schedule pickups and other services

  • Multiple services implemented on new SOA infrastructure, using AquaLogic Service Bus as the single point of integration

  • Center of Excellence to support management of BEA technologies, with SOA Assessment, SOA Workshop, and SOA Foundation Service

  • Organization and Governance to support versioning strategy and consistent, correct use of services

Results: SOA Value Delivered

  • Flexibility and speed in providing new services to customers and grow higher margin businesses in areas such as Freight and Ground & grow their business overseas

  • Reduced support costs for supporting fragmented infrastructure for internal/external customers

  • Easier integration of acquisitions though a common core set of services

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