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Case Study Summary
Industry Tech Wireless
Endpoints Email, HTTP, Oracle ERP, XML
Business Problem Solved B2B & Partner Integration, Billing & Invoices & AR

Business Problem

  • Service records not available for QC, invoice matching
  • Data from third-party service centers unreliable
  • Multiple batch custom scripts: Perl, XLST, FTP are costly, error-prone. Could not scale

Competing Technologies

  • Custom Code (existing solution):
    • Error-prone
    • No visibility into transactions

Solution

  • CI simplifies returns process
    • Real-time repair (XML) and ERP (SQL) data
    • Alerts notify business user of success/failure
    • Invalid returns held for later repair

Results

  • Project completed in 17 days
  • Users get real-time notification errors and transactions
  • Next steps: Integration with 2500 service centers worldwide
  • Initial success leading to additional strategic projects: RosettaNet integration with partners