Deloitte Consulting to Offer Two New IBM Technology-Based Solutions: RealTime Powered by WebSphere and Collaborative Commerce
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Deloitte Consulting, soon to be Braxton, today announced that it will offer RealTime(TM) Powered by WebSphere(R) and Deloitte Consulting's Collaborative Commerce Solution to allow companies to execute finely tuned value chains, leading to higher profits and revenue growth.
By providing the ebusiness on demand benefit of seamless integration of business events and processes within an organization, RealTime(TM) Powered by WebSphere(R) can help organizations gain competitive advantage, reduce overhead and increase profits.
RealTime Powered by WebSphere, a business event integration solution that extends IBM's WebSphere software product line and leverages Deloitte Consulting's system integration and process engineering experience, provides increased operational efficiency to organizations implementing application integration and business process management (BPM). The Collaborative Commerce solution combines Deloitte Consulting's e-commerce leadership and proven implementation services with new technologies from IBM to help today's businesses better manage relationships with key trading partners.
"Companies today are facing two critical challenges," says Bob Dalton, principal with Deloitte Consulting. "First, they do not have the time or money to support long-term projects and instead need rapid ROI on their performance improvement initiatives.. At the same time, they need to extend their business beyond the four walls of their organization and work collaboratively with their ecosystem of trade partners." "RealTime(TM) Powered by WebSphere(R) and Deloitte Consulting's Collaborative Commerce Solution were developed to specifically address these needs."
"Leveraging Deloitte Consulting's proven e-business integration competencies with IBM's industry-leading WebSphere business integration software, RealTime Powered by WebSphere, and Collaborative Commerce enable us to provide highly customized solutions for our mutual clients in today's marketplace," said Paraic Sweeney, VP Marketing, WebSphere Business Integration, Software Group. "Drawing upon the synergy of this teaming effort, clients gain access to a compelling portfolio of leading-edge applications and services engineered to help clients achieve a higher return on IT assets and optimize relationships with trading partners."
Using IBM's open-standards-based WebSphere integration and Web application server software, RealTime Powered by WebSphere is an accelerator for business integration solutions, and a reliable means of rapidly establishing an enterprise integration platform. IBM technologies incorporated in RealTime Powered by WebSphere provide a critical component in enabling rapid integration of data, applications and processes over intranet, extranet and the Internet, while minimizing risk and development time.
RealTime Powered by WebSphere integrates key IBM technologies including WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere Business Integration to enable critical integration services such as user interaction, business processes, data integration, application connection within an enterprise, and communication between trading partners.
With a scalable infrastructure and services-based architecture, the solution offers a range of benefits: product-aligned methodologies for defining a strategic approach; templates to speed up the requirements and design phase; product configurations and pre-built components based on proven enterprise application integration (EAI) design patterns. By providing seamless integration of business events and processes within an organization, RealTime Powered by WebSphere can help organizations gain competitive advantage, reduce overhead and increase profits.
The Collaborative Commerce Solution combines Deloitte Consulting's recognized leadership in business-to-business collaboration with the open-standards-based technology of IBM WebSphere software and IBM eServer hardware. The solution integrates cross-enterprise business processes, application software and underlying infrastructure software, enabling partners to share decision-making, workflow and information capabilities. Using this solution, clients can achieve a seamless connection with their business partners, resulting in increased revenues, faster cycle times and improved capital efficiencies.
According to a B2B online collaborative survey by Deloitte Research, collaborative commerce solutions have become attractive to leading enterprises across key industries. Recent survey results show that 60 percent of companies view collaborative commerce capabilities as critical to their business in the next 12 months. Deloitte Consulting's Collaborative Commerce solution designed with IBM's Web portal and application integration technologies delivers strategic benefits such as reduced time-to-market and enhanced competitive advantage.
The Collaborative Commerce solution consists of a highly modular and rapidly deployable architecture engineered with key IBM technologies, including WebSphere Business Integration, WebSphere MQ, IBM eServer xSeries and eServer pSeries. Integrating IBM hardware and software components enabled Deloitte Consulting to create an infrastructure to accelerate c-commerce implementation, with clients receiving initial benefits in less than 100-day increments. Key advantages of the collaborative commerce solution architecture include the ability to leverage reusable components to reduce development costs and timeframes, as well as the capacity to use a production-proven, integrated platform to accelerate integration efforts.
About Deloitte Consulting
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