Published on 09-Nov-2011
"We now have a system that works around the world and drives our business forward. That success is directly tied to Cast Iron, which provides a single point of access to all the data our various internal groups need, in a usable format." - Vice president of global customer support and fulfillment, international provider of healthcare-related products and services
Customer:
Healthcare Company
Industry:
Healthcare
Deployment country:
United States
Solution:
Cloud Computing, Information Integration
Overview
This company is an international provider of healthcare-related products and services for healthcare professionals, institutions and consumers. It operates in 25 countries.
Business need:
The company needed to assimilate, access and deliver globally distributed data to a full range of internal and external information consumers in real time.
Solution:
It implemented IBM WebSphere® Cast Iron® Cloud integration to automate the integration of batch data generated by the company’s range of businesses
and applications.
Benefits:
The new solution increases productivity through automation and improves visibility, resulting in better reporting, more agile decision making and more responsive customer service.
Case Study
An international provider of healthcare-related products and services for healthcare professionals, institutions and consumers uses cloud technology to manage data
This company is an international provider of healthcare-related products and services for healthcare professionals, institutions and consumers. It operates in 25 countries.
Challenge
A publicly held, multinational organization on a rapid growth trajectory by virtue of acquisitions and significant investments in new product development, this company grapples with a massive and ever-expanding volume of complex data. That data is generated by scores of disparate applications and distinct operating units worldwide, yet the company needs to assimilate, access and deliver it on time to a full range of internal and external information consumers. The data must satisfy the analytic and decision-making needs of managers throughout the organization. It must also be in a format that is usable by the company’s direct salesforce, its network of distributors and its customer service personnel. Finally, the data must enable the company to meet the reporting requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as well as the stringent demands of the healthcare sector for data integrity and security.
Solution
The company implemented IBM WebSphere® Cast Iron® Cloud integration to automate a customized, highly manual process for integrating batch data generated by the company’s range of businesses and applications. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration helps eliminate information silos and batch processing, providing executives, departments and business units worldwide with protected access to pertinent, real-time information in a single repository and increasing the speed at which users can access and use actionable data.
Built on the IBM WebSphere platform, this cloud integration software provides preconfigured integration solutions, helping the fast-growing company make the most of its IT investment by linking its multiple locally based, traditional applications with cloud-based applications. Users can now create queries on an ad hoc basis by assimilating information from multiple endpoints into a single data warehouse.
Benefits
• Increases productivity by automating the process of collecting and integrating massive amounts of complex, real-time data from disparate systems
• Improves enterprisewide visibility into actionable information from multiple sources, resulting in better reporting, more agile decision making and more responsive customer service
• Provides full data integration scalability for a fast-growing global enterprise
For more information
To learn more about IBM WebSphere software, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit: ibm.com/castiron
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
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