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Polaris is a leading transport and logistics service provider in North America. It serves the Less-than-Truck Load (LTL) needs of a wide range of industries including high-tech, tourism, medical, printing and defence. From real-time shipment updates to EDI interface, Polaris makes shipment data readily available to customers.
Polaris is a leading transport and logistics service provider in North America. It serves the Less-than-Truck Load (LTL) needs of a wide range of industries including high-tech, tourism, medical, printing and defence.
Complex Hybrid integration. Resource cost
Dynamic response. Increased productivity
Logistics
Fiorano Platform, Fiorano API Management
In the last 5 years the business of LTL freight, across the US and Canada Border had doubled; Polaris needed a way to handle the surge in business and ensure competitive cross border shipping times as well as customer service.
The IT infrastructure of Polaris Transport consisted of disparate applications running on multiple servers. The TruckMate application served as the transportation management software which integrated with Kofax Agility servers supporting the different transportation and freight services provided by Polaris. This system was accessed by 80+ concurrent users via a Citrix Environment. For smooth business operation in the logistics industry, especially in the LTL freight and transport industry, uninterrupted and real-time communication with partners and customers is of paramount importance.
Polaris used EDI servers for electronic communication between partner applications and databases, which exchanged information as a batch process. The major challenge for the IT team at Polaris was getting the applications to communicate with each other in real-time, which required a lot of custom development for point-to- point integration. Such time and resource consuming development was a hindrance to automation as well.
1000+
Transactions/day
Fiorano provides a stable infrastructure
and underlying messaging broker
with an active production load.
In the last 5 years the business of LTL freight, across the US and Canada Border had doubled; Polaris needed a way to handle the surge in business and ensure competitive cross border shipping times as well as customer service.
The IT infrastructure of Polaris Transport consisted of disparate applications running on multiple servers. The TruckMate application served as the transportation management software which integrated with Kofax Agility servers supporting the different transportation and freight services provided by Polaris. This system was accessed by 80+ concurrent users via a Citrix Environment. For smooth business operation in the logistics industry, especially in the LTL freight and transport industry, uninterrupted and real-time communication with partners and customers is of paramount importance.
Polaris used EDI servers for electronic communication between partner applications and databases, which exchanged information as a batch process. The major challenge for the IT team at Polaris was getting the applications to communicate with each other in real-time, which required a lot of custom development for point-to- point integration. Such time and resource consuming development was a hindrance to automation as well.
1000+
Transactions/day
Fiorano provides a stable infrastructure
and underlying messaging broker
with an active production load.
Dave Brajkovich,
CTO
Dave Brajkovich, CTO, talks about achieving Digital Transformation at Polaris Transportation with Fiorano
Polaris was looking for a solution which will enable real-time access to information and provide a unified and distributed backbone technology for their IT infrastructure. Polaris evaluated multiple technologies, both open source and commercial including Mulesoft, Talend, Tibco, IBM, Camel etc. and finally selected Fiorano for streamlining their business.
By employing Fiorano's peer to peer architecture Polaris Transport was able to achieve real-time access to information among the disparate applications in use. The pre-built adapters with Fiorano served as connectors to integrate various applications and file systems. Fiorano's visual model enabled the IT team at Polaris to create and orchestrate event processes without any coding. Fiorano's Microservices based architecture enabled, Polaris Transport to easily make changes to any of the services, or to change the workflow, without negatively impacting other parts of the system.
Polaris was looking for a solution which will enable real-time access to information and provide a unified and distributed backbone technology for their IT infrastructure. Polaris evaluated multiple technologies, both open source and commercial including Mulesoft, Talend, Tibco, IBM, Camel etc and finally selected Fiorano for streamlining their business.
By employing Fiorano's peer to peer architecture Polaris Transport was able to achieve real-time access to information among the disparate applications in use. The pre-built adapters with Fiorano served as connectors to integrate various applications and file systems. Fiorano's visual model enabled the IT team at Polaris to create and orchestrate event processes without any coding. Fiorano's Microservices based architecture enabled, Polaris Transport to easily make changes to any of the services, or to change the workflow, without negatively impacting other parts of the system.
Fiorano's visual model enabled the IT team at Polaris to create and orchestrate event processes without any coding. Fiorano's Microservices based architecture enabled, Polaris Transport to easily make changes to any of the services, or to change the workflow, without negatively impacting other parts of the system.
Easy to use Fiorano Tools drastically reduce the consulting and implementation costs. Fiorano improved the ability to interact with web APIs and other web languages (REST) resulting in automation of dozens of internal tasks which in turn sped up the process and eliminated data quality issues.
Fiorano collaborated with the IT team at Polaris for a PoC (Proof-of-concept) which included building new services for exchanging data between the Kofax and Truckmate (Transportation Management Software) applications. The new services included data and file extraction processes and deploying new web-services components for creating and merging PDF files.
Fiorano provides a stable infrastructure with an underlying messaging broker, FioranoMQ. The Fiorano Platform performed flawlessly with an active production load of more than 1000 transactions a day.
Fiorano's visual model enabled the IT team at Polaris to create and orchestrate event processes without any coding. Fiorano's Microservices based architecture enabled, Polaris Transport to easily make changes to any of the services, or to change the workflow, without negatively impacting other parts of the system.
Easy to use Fiorano Tools drastically reduce the consulting and implementation costs. Fiorano improved the ability to interact with web APIs and other web languages (REST) resulting in automation of dozens of internal tasks which in turn sped up the process and eliminated data quality issues.
Fiorano collaborated with the IT team at Polaris for a PoC (Proof-of-concept) which included building new services for exchanging data between the Kofax and Truckmate (Transportation Management Software) applications. The new services included data and file extraction processes and deploying new web-services components for creating and merging PDF files.
Fiorano provides a stable infrastructure with an underlying messaging broker, FioranoMQ. The Fiorano Platform performed flawlessly with an active production load of more than 1000 transactions a day.
Equipped with Fiorano's technology, Polaris Transport is now able to handle the surge in business with half the staff and serve its customers better. Fiorano’s Hybrid Integration Platform provided a tool kit that enables Polaris to rapidly respond to business situations and the API technology enables it to not only connect its internal capabilities but also to confidently go out in the market and package solutions for other vertical market leaders in addition to transportation such as healthcare, finance etc.
The Digital Transformation of Polaris is well underway and they have recently also launched a new Digital Laboratory, Northstar Digital Solutions. Its vision is quite simple – harness the power of advanced technologies to deliver easy-to-use, fast, secure and cost-efficient services. Specific benefits of Fiorano include:
Increased Productivity - With Fiorano middleware in place heterogeneous software applications exchange information at an increased rate, thereby reducing latency and increasing productivity.
Speed of Development and Deployment - Fiorano studio provides Polaris a visual tool for orchestrating and creating the event processes, obviating requirement for coding/development.
Ease of Management and Maintenance - Fiorano's unique peer-to-peer architecture provides one single monitoring service to check the status of interfaces. Prior to Fiorano, Polaris had to monitor multiple servers to ensure that services were running.
Reduction in consulting/development costs - Since the process flow design involves simple configurations involving drop-down menus and some text fields, expansion needs are easily met by existing resources without needing additional resources with specialized skill sets.
Equipped with Fiorano's technology, Polaris Transport is now able to handle the surge in business with half the staff and serve its customers better. Fiorano’s Hybrid Integration Platform provided a tool kit that enables Polaris to rapidly respond to business situations and the API technology enables it to not only connect its internal capabilities but also to confidently go out in the market and package solutions for other vertical market leaders in addition to transportation such as healthcare, finance etc.
The Digital Transformation of Polaris is well underway and they have recently also launched a new Digital Laboratory, Northstar Digital Solutions. Its vision is quite simple – harness the power of advanced technologies to deliver easy-to-use, fast, secure and cost-efficient services. Specific benefits of Fiorano include:
Increased Productivity - With Fiorano middleware in place heterogeneous software applications exchange information at an increased rate, thereby reducing latency and increasing productivity.
Speed of Development and Deployment - Fiorano studio provides Polaris a visual tool for orchestrating and creating the event processes, obviating requirement for coding/development.
Ease of Management and Maintenance - Fiorano's unique peer-to-peer architecture provides one single monitoring service to check the status of interfaces. Prior to Fiorano, Polaris had to monitor multiple servers to ensure that services were running.
Reduction in consulting/development costs - Since the process flow design involves simple configurations involving drop-down menus and some text fields, expansion needs are easily met by existing resources without needing additional resources with specialized skill sets.
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