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Travel and Transportation

For transportation companies, the product is service. Getting cargo or passengers from origin to destination safely, reliably and rapidly is the foundation. But in today’s nonstop marketplace, that basic level of service is no longer enough to guarantee success, or even survival.

Whether it’s by road, rail, air or water, customer expectations across the transportation industry are at an all time high. They demand real-time information about their shipments at any time of the day or night. They insist upon service level agreements to provide certainty about the status of their merchandise. And they have multiple options for switching their business if their current provider disappoints them.

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In this hyper-competitive atmosphere, IT systems have become as valuable to the transportation industry as eighteen-wheelers and freighters. When IT systems fail or delivery data is inaccessible, customer satisfaction and service level agreements are quickly breached. Use the resources below to learn how the power of a Vision Solutions information availability product can help your organization become more productive and profitable.

“Our HA solution has helped us bring in more business and retain our biggest customers with minimal increases in IT staff. In fact, it paid for itself in only 30 days.“

Robert Bernal
Director of Technology
Southwestern Motor Transport  

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SUCCESS STORIES

C.R. England
As one of North America’s largest trucking companies, C.R. England simply cannot
afford to have its business-critical trucking operation applications offline. Downtime could translate to frustrated customers and thousands or even millions of dollars in lost revenues. C.R. England looked for a high availability (HA) solution that would provide reliable synchronization between the production and backup machines to avoid delays and problems during role swaps.
  Product(s): iTERA HA
   
TCY
TCY serves four leading shipping companies, including the world’s largest. For each shipping line, TCY must keep precise track of each and every container; its exact location in the port; its shipping movement records; and the days it is held at the terminal. All that information is managed by TCY, who must provide its customers with 24/7 continuous online information availability, 365 days a year, in spite of being in a hurricane zone.
  Product(s): iTERA HA
   
McLane Polska
An internal audit of uptime requirements revealed that it could take up to 24 hours to get McLane Polska’s distribution and financial systems online if a major event compromised its servers. Also, McLane Polksa’s technicians had only a small window to perform backups, system maintenance, and testing. Given the company’s operational scale, its high degree of complexity, and the huge number of documents possessed by this system, its technicians worked intensively over the weekend to complete these tasks.
  Product(s): MIMIX HA
   
Southwestern Motor Transport Inc.
For Southwestern Motor Transport (SMT), the product is service. Fortune 50 customers demand real-time information about their shipments, and SMT delivers it via email and web portals. To satisfy its premier customers and compete successfully for new business, SMT needed a solution to protect against planned and unplanned downtime.
  Product(s): MIMIX HA
   
T-Join
As Taiwan’s largest freight-forwarder and logistics company,
T-Join must ensure that its customers can access real-time information about their deliveries at any time of the night or day. But with 60 decentralized computers that could not share data and required planned downtime for routine maintenance and backups, customers often could not get accurate information on delivery status.
  Product(s): MIMIX HA
   
Tradeteam
Tradeteam became aware that even minimal downtime could be substantial to its customers and, in turn, to their customers. Not willing to jeopardize the quality of service its customers had come to expect, Tradeteam looked for a High Availability solution.
  Product(s): MIMIX HA
   
F. Reyher
F. Reyher company sought to build a low-risk IT infrastructure capable of supporting corporate growth. Creating a crash-resistant SAP system was of vital importance for the survival of the company.
  Product(s): ORION HA
   
DKSH
When it created a leading edge consolidated data center to centralize its worldwide SAP-based ERP solution, DKSH also knew that it needed to ensure the data center was continuously avialable. So DKSH began its search for an effective AIX data protection and recovery solution.
  Product(s): EchoStream for AIX