Published on 11-Jan-2010
Customer:
Digital China
Industry:
Computer Services
Deployment country:
China
Overview
Digital China Holdings Limited (“Digital China”) is a leading integrated IT services provider in China. It focuses on providing customers with sophisticated and applicable IT solutions, driving technological innovations for work and life and enhancing the digitalization process in China. Digital China covers a complete line of IT services for clients ranging from consumers to large industry firms.
Business need:
With a desire to help the enterprise further improve its agility and collaboration capabilities, Digital China needed to focus on the building of a unified e-collaboration platform using integration-based collaboration concept sand solutions, open standards and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and emerging technologies such as Web 2.0.
Solution:
Digital China implemented a collaboration application framework based on IBM Lotus software, including IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino, Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr and Lotus Sametime. Digital China distills SOA service component mode on the service layer to enhance the collaboration of different applications through the association of structured and unstructured data, people, organizations and teams. The top layer is comprised of customer-oriented application services.
Benefits:
More than 130 online applications are running on Digital China’s collaboration system; Digital China’s portal platform has become the group information center; By implementing social software and enhancing collaboration with integrated SOA, Digital China’s platform can offer multiple self-help collaboration services; IBM Sametime-based internet conference center provides Digital China with online instant messaging and internet conferencing, hosting more than 2,000 users per day.
Case Study
Digital China Holdings Limited (“Digital China”) is a leading integrated IT services provider in China. It focuses on providing customers with sophisticated and applicable IT solutions, driving technological innovations for work and life and enhancing the digitalization process in China. Digital China covers a complete line of IT services for clients ranging from consumers to large industry firms.
Challenge
With a desire to help the enterprise further improve its agility and collaboration capabilities, Digital China needed to focus on the building of a unified e-collaboration platform using integration-based collaboration concept sand solutions, open standards and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and emerging technologies such as Web 2.0.
Solution
Digital China implemented a collaboration application framework based on IBM Lotus software, including IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino, Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr and Lotus Sametime. The Lotus software acts as a system layer to offer standardized application services. Digital China distills SOA service component mode on the service layer to enhance the collaboration of different applications through the association of structured and unstructured data, people, organizations and teams. The top layer is comprised of customer-oriented application services, including enterprise information, a collaborative portal and a collaborative office platform. To integrate the application portal of the collaborative platform, Digital China upgraded its former Lotus Notes and Domino applications to the most recent architecture and installed related applications such as Lotus Sametime.
Benefits
More than 130 online applications are running on Digital China’s collaboration system.
Digital China’s portal platform has become the group information center. All group-wide information from three areas and four business groups can be published through this platform.
By implementing social software and enhancing collaboration with integrated SOA, Digital China’s platform can offer multiple self-help collaboration services to improve system agility and collaboration adaptability.
IBM Sametime-based internet conference center provides Digital China with online instant messaging and internet conferencing, hosting more than 2,000 users per day.
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Software:
Lotus Domino, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, IBM Connections
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