Dematic, a $1.5-billion global logistics company, recently replaced its core IT architecture in 72 days with a platform built on SOA and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), according to a report in CIO.
Sound implausible? The company's IT department was given a 90-day mandate to integrate its systems when Siemens sold the company to Germany-based Triton in late 2006. CIO Allan Davies said the company saved money by abolishing legacy systems which Davis said chewed up a considerable amount of cash.
"Our expense management system, hosted with Siemens, required four days a month of manual data entry into our enterprise management system," he said. "SOA lets us basically plug and play. I know how painful legacy systems are and this means we don't need to mess around because we need to be very responsive. We have a lot of feeds from our systems that have to be managed and we tended to write a lot of interfaces -- we have eliminated the legacy systems."
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