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A Reliable Integration Platform for Company-Wide Processes

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • America
  • Europe
  • Asia
Country
  • Germany
  • United States
Product
  • webMethods Integration Server
  • webMethods Trading Networks
  • webMethods Broker
  • webMethods Adapters
  • webMethods BPMS
Tech Stack
  • Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Business Process Management Suite (BPMS)
  • B2B gateway
  • EDI-based document exchange
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
  • Analytics & Modeling - Process Analytics
Applicable Industries
  • Electronics
  • Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
  • Process Control & Optimization
  • Inventory Management
  • Supply Chain Visibility
Services
  • System Integration
  • Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
SICK AG is a top global provider of sensors and sensor solutions for industrial applications. The company is a technology and market leader in automation for factories, logistics, and processes. SICK currently employs more than 5,000 employees worldwide. The company’s success stems from its strong focus on international growth markets as well as SICK’s outstanding application expertise—customer demands are viewed as a challenge and solutions are developed jointly with the customers. SICK AG is a global provider of modern sensor technology with more than 40 subsidiaries, numerous sales agencies, and partnerships.
The Challenge
SICK AG, a global provider of modern sensor technology, has experienced significant growth, leading to an increase in the heterogeneity of the company’s IT environment. With over 40 subsidiaries, numerous sales agencies, and partnerships, ensuring seamless communication between the different IT systems was crucial to guarantee smooth operations and customer satisfaction. The company needed a solution that could integrate the various IT systems from procurement to production, logistics to sales, and handle the increasing volumes of data being exchanged.
The Solution
To achieve seamless communication between the different IT systems, SICK AG implemented webMethods integration technology in 2002. Since then, the company has introduced webMethods Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), (now called webMethods Integration Server), as well as webMethods Trading Networks for B2B integration. The company has also adopted webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) to increase flexibility in business process modeling. webMethods is the central data hub that runs the entire data exchange between the different internal and external IT systems from procurement to production, logistics to sales.
Operational Impact
  • Round-the-clock operations for global usage
  • High level of scalability with growing data volumes being exchanged
  • Improved openness for integrating a wide variety of standard applications
  • Greater freedom for individual departments in shaping their B2B communication with customers, suppliers and shipping companies
Quantitative Benefit
  • webMethods handles 20,000 to 50,000 transactions every day from processing orders through the SICK portal to shipping

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