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custom Java servlet application for quoting and enCommerce for
Web customer authentication.
In addition, Juniper works with numerous contract manufacturers
to produce products and components, so it required a way to link its
internal business processes with critical trading partners. In particular,
Juniper needed to improve its Available-to-Promise (ATP) application
to streamline the Purchase Order/Change Order process and ensure
immediate answers for customers about product availability and order
fulfillment. In the past, this manual ATP process — which required a
significant amount of back-and-forth communication as well as
duplicate data entry — could take anywhere from three days to a
week to complete.
Integrating Internal Applications for e-Business
After evaluating a range of potential solutions to integrate its internal
business processes, Juniper selected a combination of webMethods
Enterprise as its EAI solution and webMethods B2B to handle
transactions with trading partners beyond the firewall.
webMethods Enterprise was selected by Juniper for a variety of
reasons:
• To provide a flexible, scalable platform for its network commerce
initiative;
• To provide a fast return on investment and very rapid
implementation;
• To solve the problems of synchronizing data between applications
and building and automating multi-step, cross-application business
processes; and
• To keep pace with the rapid change in the e-business marketplace.
With webMethods Enterprise, they could easily integrate new bestof-class
applications as they emerge. The architecture enabled
them to swap applications they were currently using for better
ones or add new applications — all without the time-consuming
work of rewriting point-to-point interfaces.
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