CargoSmart customers are now able to resolve shipment issues sooner with
exception detection, avoid costly delays with proactive exception management,
and gain efficiencies by monitoring shipment events alongside business
processes set up as user-defined milestones. "The ocean carrier portal market
was becoming commoditized. To maintain a leadership position in the industry,
we needed to provide customers a way to more tightly integrate CargoSmart with
their business processes to provide more speed, visibility, and value.
Clearly, this required an enterprise messaging platform with high scalability,
availability and extensibility to handle both current and future global
logistics solutions," said
CargoSmart uses TIBCO Enterprise Message Service(TM), TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks(TM) and TIBCO BusinessConnect(TM) for its platform integration. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service serves as the information backbone, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks orchestrates sequences of service interactions into short or long-lived business processes and TIBCO BusinessConnect acts as an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transformation engine to facilitate message format conversion among external parties.
"By using TIBCO, our applications can easily scale out horizontally by
deploying processes into different ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks engines riding
on the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service architecture -- the foundation for an
event-driven SOA that thousands of TIBCO customers have already successfully
deployed," concluded
The driving force behind the decision was an SOA adoption initiative that CargoSmart had already begun. TIBCO's leadership in the SOA arena aligned well with CargoSmart's plan for Business Process Modeling and Execution and event-driven architecture. The entire SOA infrastructure put in place by TIBCO enabled CargoSmart to develop and deploy its products as services and integrate its system using events riding on the Enterprise Messaging Bus.
The solution platform allowed CargoSmart to develop products more quickly to meet dynamic market requirements. Services reuse and subsequently cost benefits are other positive byproducts of SOA adoption for the company. Further, using the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service implementation, services can be deployed and run on various distributed platforms and be accessed across networks to further maximize services reuse.
TIBCO spokesperson,
CargoSmart is now working with TIBCO on the next phase of advanced solutions, a document workflow management product that builds upon the exception management and milestone assignment products.
About CargoSmart
CargoSmart Limited (http://www.cargosmart.com) is a global logistics
Software as a Service (SaaS) solution provider, with advanced visibility and
exception management, enabling shippers, consignees and logistics service
providers to keep cargo moving and delivered on time. Through online tools and
integration services, CargoSmart enables customers to plan, process, and
monitor the critical path of multiple-carrier shipments and communicate
in-depth, timely information to key supply chain associates. CargoSmart
launched its services in
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