| Business: Major supplier of food and beverage processing systems and equipment, including harvesters, sterilizers, extractors, fillers, closers, evaporators and aseptic systems. Objective: To create a global infrastructure that allows FMC to create valuable business information, both within and across divisions. Technology Need: Ability to access and integrate information from a variety of systems, including: - Proprietary, DBMS (MANMAN), and RMS applications running on DEC OpenVMS
- DB2 data on the AS/400 platform
- ISAM files on HP/UX systems
- TurboIMAGE running on the MPE operating system in an HP3000 environment (accessed using MBF-UDALink)
- Microsoft ACCESS on Windows
Solution: Used Attunity Connect (a.k.a. MBF-Enterprise) to create an enterprise-wide information infrastructure that supports cross-division business intelligence. For example, the IT team consolidated vendor information across all the divisions of the corporation to achieve competitive, equitable pricing and services. Added Benefits: - Interoperates with all FMC data sources, applications, and platforms
- Supports a virtual shared data source of customer information across all the divisions of the corporation
- Reduces inventory levels, increases on-time deliveries and enhances customer care
- Enables divisions to integrate information from diverse applications internally
- Delivers an instant ROI by enabling FMC to establish common knowledge about customers and vendors across the entire conglomerate
"One of our major challenges is making information easily accessible from a myriad of systems located around the world. ISG Navigator enables us to meet that challenge and create a strategic information access infrastructure ready for future Internet and intranet information access projects." Thomas Cahill Director of Information Technology |
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