Global Order Integration
Maximizing reuse and self-service while accelerating market and channel onboarding
Industry
Manufacturing
Company Size
Multinational
Products
Health, home, and hygiene
Key Factors of Success
- AS400Gateway for MuleSoft
- The unique combination of legacy and modern platforms
- MuleSoft’s AnyPoint Platform
Outcomes
- Accelerated market and channel onboarding.
- Faster project delivery
- Lower project costs
- Increased levels of reusability
The Customer
The Challenge
Additionally, the customer operated many markets on JDE World – IBM i (AS/400) ERP. With no out of the box order entry and status capture plug-in available, each system is heavily customized for each country.
The Solution
Infoview Systems professional services team developed a unified global order integration solution based on the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform. The new solution decouples channel applications from order fulfillment systems. It maximizes reuse and self-service while accelerating the time of both market and channel
onboarding.
The Design
In the summer of 2013, our legacy modernization team began AS/400 development projects. Over the next two years, we built trust, learned core business processes, and helped business and IT in identifying and addressing gaps and pain points.
In the fall of 2013, our integration team was tasked with documenting existing integration solutions and developing the interfaces between e-commerce and back-end AS/400 applications. We designed, sized, procured, and configured the infrastructure/application stack. Our team still “owns” the eCommerce interfaces, providing ongoing support, enhancements, and troubleshooting.
In the winter of 2015, our team built a business case for the Integration platform using the MuleSoft stack. We worked with IT leadership on ROI, provided high-level reference architecture, sized the solution, and created a proof of a concept Mule application. The concept application communicates with AS400 via custom Java components, as well as template AS/400 code that “talks” to Mule.
Results
real time event-based integrations at a fraction of the cost of established CDC tools.
Conclusions
The professional services team of Infoview’s integration team continued with over 25 MuleSoft integration projects in the customers’ pipeline. This was done in addition to working with IT management on the 2016 Road Map to include implementing the API management platform and considering using CloudHub for integrating with SaaS providers.
