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Cleveland-based KeyCorp is one of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies. With assets of approximately $88.6 billion, Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, retirement, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. The company’s businesses deliver their products and services through KeyCenters and offices; a network of approximately 2,200 ATMs; telephone banking centers and a Key.com.
WHY INTEGRATION?
The enterprise architecture division at KeyBank delivers technology recommendations to facilitate the development of a strategic IT architecture. The group recognized the value of integration technology to streamline a number of business processes and achieve operational efficiencies. The goal was to leverage a services oriented architecture (SOA) platform to build applications cheaper and quicker, and respond to business changes more effectively.
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Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US $31.3 billion in 2004. Motorola is widely recognized for innovative use of technology to manage its complex international supply chain, sales and manufacturing operations.
INTEGRATED VIEW OF THE ENTERPRISE - POWERED BY WEBMETHODS
Three years ago, Motorola decided to standardize on webMethods as its global integration backbone to connect all of its major business applications and trading partners. To date, Motorola has integrated dozens of core enterprise applications legacy systems, purchasing and credit card authorization systems, data marts, and various Web-based electronic commerce applications and has also created direct connections to many of its customers and suppliers.
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Quixtar Inc., a subsidiary of Alticor Inc., offers entrepreneurs the ability to have a Web-based business of their own. Since 1999, independent business owners powered by Quixtar have generated more than $5.2 billion in sales at www.quixtar.com, plus more than $396 million for Partner Stores. Quixtar is the industry’s 20th largest online retailer and the overall leader within the health and beauty category, according to Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide. Some of Quixtar’s wellrecognized product brands include NUTRILITE® nutritional supplements and ARTISTRY® skin care and cosmetics.
CHALLENGE
With a business model focused on interfacing closely with numerous suppliers, seamless interaction is mandatory to support customer sales. While Quixtar’s catalog product system and legacy purchasing system were critical to its operations, managing the product and order process was slow and costly to maintain, with product and order updates taking two to three days to process. Further, catalog planners received product updates only during an overnight batch process and did not have access to real-time receipts or inventory updates. Quixtar was therefore keen to replace its costly legacy purchasing system and integrate its catalog product applications with its ERP Supply Chain software (JD Edwards®) to easily maintain information on suppliers, items, pricing, inventory, and purchase orders.
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Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), located in Fairfax County, Virginia, is the 13th largest school district in the United States, with over 164,000 students attending class in 238 schools and a $2.1 billion annual operating budget. It is a diverse and dynamic school system, and parents have come to expect and demand a lot from FCPS. More than half of the county’s adult residents have four-year college degrees or better, and the median household income of Fairfax County is one of the highest in the nation.
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Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) broke onto the scene three or four years ago, stimulated by the growing interest in Business Process Management (BPM), which made it possible to understand more clearly the relationship between real-time IT operations and business activities. Global 2000 companies, among others, have achieved significant return on investment (ROI) by using BAM as a real-time, intervention-focused tool for measuring and managing business processes. Using BAM, companies have been able to monitor their business processes, identify failures or exceptions, and address them in real-time. In addition, since BAM tracks process executions and knows when they succeed or fail, it builds up valuable records of behavior that can lead to overall process improvement, while also providing a useful tool to manage compliance, assure business transactions, and reduce risk. Read More...
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According to CIO Magazine, urgency of business need and a cost benefit analysis are the top two factors required to initiative a new project. If you have the urgency, our Business Case Accelerator takes care of the rest.
• Discover the truth about what the core business issues are
• Prioritize which issue to fix first to provide highest impact
• Define business requirements and recommendations
• Align key stakeholders ( IT, CEO, CIO, business managers)
• Establish key process indicators to measure improvements
• Conduct cost and benefit analysis to secure budget
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Today, businesses use BPM, SOA, and integration software such as webMethods Fabric to optimize their business and IT operations. Companies build complex, mission-critical business processes that span these systems to improve operating profitability, enhance productivity, and reduce costs. And while system uptime is paramount, gaining visibility into the components that support these critical applications has traditionally been very difficult. Traditional system management products limit visibility in several key areas:
• What systems have been deployed and are operational?
• What metrics are important to track for each system component?
• What is the appropriate behavior for each metric?
• What conditions should we receive alerts on and how? Read More...
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webMethods Optimize is a Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solution facilitating real-time insight into key business process activities, and providing managers actionable information to make informed decisions and quickly address problems. webMethods Optimize leverages and extends your integration efforts by using integration points to monitor key business process data within and across enterprise applications. It monitors process-specific key performance indicators (KPIs) such as margin, revenue, customer satisfaction, inventory levels, and other critical measures. It then compares actual performance to historical baseline data to identify abnormal activity and alert appropriate individuals. By combining real-time information and business event analysis, webMethods Optimize quickly and effectively identifies conditions that require immediate action, enhancing business operations through continuous process improvement. Read More...
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The most innovative companies don’t just compete based on what they sell – they compete by how efficiently their products and services are delivered. webMethods’ unified Business Process Management (BPM) suite directs the execution of business processes and accelerates the delivery of new business projects without costly and time intensive development. You have the insight to not only identify but also fix day-to-day operational problems and make longer term improvements for a sustained competitive advantage. Read More...
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The webMethods Infravio X-Broker product provides run-time support for securing, routing, monitoring, and managing Web Services between provider and consumer applications. X-Broker enforces the delivery terms specified in the Web Services Delivery Contract™ including the processing requirements and instructions for four major categories: security, integration, operations, and business.
When combined with the webMethods Infravio X-Registry, the X-Broker provides end-to-end governance of services from design-time through run-time and change-time. Read More...
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X-Registry provides the registry, repository, and governance that are essential for the successful adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) company-wide. It standardizes processes that control how delivery, support, and strategy teams leverage SOA throughout the entire IT lifecycle. Without full lifecycle governance, it is difficult to locate, understand, and trust available services, which minimizes service re-use and adoption. Also SOA stakeholders can’t see, track, enforce, control, or automate policies and processes. Read More...
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