Case Studies

Facing rapid growth, increasing application maintenance costs and evolving regulations, Brenntag modernized their application to a SOA based architecture and protected their existing code.

Outsourced pension administrator Capita Hartshead improved their custom suite of Progress OpenEdge® based applications to provide superior customer service and improve productivity.

Holiday Autos combined Progress OpenEdge® development tools, Progress® WebSpeed® and Progress® SonicMQ® to increase its online reservations, reduce costs, improve online trading opportunities with travel partners and deliver superior customer service.

Needing to support support stringent government regulations in its distributed industrial lubricant business, Houghton PLC used solutions from Progress Application Partners to centralize development and production operations across Europe.

Home furnishing and decorating retailer Kwantum used a customized a Progress OpenEdge®-based merchandise management solution to integrate online and offline inventory data to provide near real-time access to business information.

The Australasian division of the world's second largest wine and spirits company implemented a SOA backbone to improve the harvesting, transportation, and production logistics among their vineyards, improving the grape quality and related product value in the market.

Specsavers uses applications from Progress® partners for missioncritical in-store, back office and customer facing applications to support local franchise owners with centralized services.

Needing to improve its supply chain visibility and reduce costs to combat increased competition, Transitions Optical modernized their Progress OpenEdge®-based ERP application to achieve a fully integrated, multi-level supply chain.

YOUR MOVE modernized their core business systems to deliver agile software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for its branches and franchises.

The company's renowned SmartStore deployments implements item-level RFID tracking with real-time data correlations to electronic shipping information, allowing Apama BGN to knows immediately whether shipments match what was promised by the central warehouse.

After the merger of various Scandinavian food retailers, Axfood chose Progress® SonicMQ® and Progress® Sonic ESB® to poll stores for real-time point of sale data.

To easily integrate customers and suppliers while reducing process costs with online services, retailer Brütsch-Rüegger AG used the Progress® Sonic® Business Integration Suite to integrate its ERP system into an internal e-marketplace.

Holiday Autos combined Progress OpenEdge® development tools, Progress® WebSpeed® and Progress® SonicMQ® to increase its online reservations, reduce costs, improve online trading opportunities with travel partners and deliver superior customer service.

Needing to improve its supply chain visibility and reduce costs to combat increased competition, Transitions Optical modernized their Progress OpenEdge®-based ERP application to achieve a fully integrated, multi-level supply chain.

Needing to present core business applications as a collection of reusable business services, Credit Suisse can now design new applications accessing business functionality through a documented, secure and reliable interface.

Needing to present core business applications as a collection of reusable business services, Credit Suisse can now design new applications accessing business functionality through a documented, secure and reliable interface.