Broad-Reaching EAI Infrastructure Supports Rapid Growth at Winston Brands
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- iWay Software
- WebFOCUS
- Professional Services
技术栈
- IBM midrange systems
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
技术
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - API 集成与管理
适用行业
- 零售
适用功能
- 销售与市场营销
- 商业运营
用例
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
- 库存管理
服务
- 系统集成
- 软件设计与工程服务
关于客户
Winston Brands, Inc. is a fast-growing direct-to-consumer multi-channel merchandising firm, offering a wide array of products through its popular catalog. Headquartered in a suburb of Chicago, IL and founded in 1997, Winston Brands differentiates itself in the highly competitive mail-order market through its ability to offer unique and appealing merchandise at exceptional value. The company’s brands include Collections Etc., which ranks in the top 100 catalogs on Multichannel Merchant’s list. For the past decade, Winston Brands has been on a course of accelerated growth.
挑战
Winston Brands, a fast-growing direct-to-consumer multi-channel merchandising firm, was facing challenges in integrating a wide array of systems, both internal and external, to support the increasing number of transactions resulting from the company's continued growth. The company's technology solutions struggled to keep pace with such rapid expansion, and they were replaced with several new, more robust information systems. However, connecting those systems, many of which were deployed simultaneously, proved to be a challenge. The organization evaluated all the other primary integration vendors on the market, including, TIBCO, and IBM.
解决方案
After evaluating several integration vendors, Winston Brands chose iWay Software integration solutions from Information Builders, for their ability to seamlessly access IBM midrange systems. Winston Brands also saw Information Builders as a company that would serve not only as a vendor, but also as a strategic business partner. With the assistance of Information Builders’ Professional Services department, Winston Brands created its first interface between its order management system by CommercialWare Inc. and its warehouse management system from Manhattan Associates, both of which run on IBM iSeries midrange servers running i5/OS. The expertise of the Professional Services team, combined with iWay’s pre-packaged integration components, eliminated the need to write custom code, helping Winston Brands to complete the project in just three months.
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