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Case Study Summary
Industry Consumer Packaged Goods
Endpoints CSV/FTP, Matrix One, MQ Series, Oracle DB, SAP, SAP XI
Business Problem Solved B2B & Partner Integration, Purchase Order Integration

Business Problem

  • Synchronization of purchasing and foreign exchange data from ERP systems in 170 global subsidaries
  • MQSI stalled because of cost, complexity
    • Requires expensive IT at endpoints

Competing Technologies

  • Middleware (MQ Series): Skill level requirement, cost, barrier to rollout

Solution

  • Cast Iron extends MQ Series to subsidiaries:
    • Extracts purchasing, marketing, foreign exchange information from ERP
    • Publishes to MQ Series backbone
  • Full remote management from Malaysia
  • SAP, Siebel, Oracle, B2B integrations

Results

  • Time to value: 30 days
  • TCO reduced by: 75% ($1.5M USD per year)
  • ROI Payback: 6 months
  • Cast Iron adopted as integration standard worldwide – 50+ countries rollout plan