Wily Technology
Helps UK-Wide Port Community Systems Speed Up Cargo Processing
and Logistics
Wily Technology's Introscope® software chosen by MCP to
monitor and guarantee the performance of its mission critical
port community system application.
London – June 28, 2005 – Wily Technology, the
leader in enterprise application management, today announced
that Maritime Cargo Processing Plc. (www.mcpplc.com),
the UK's leading specialist in Port Community Systems, has
chosen its Introscope® product to help Port Community Systems
across the UK, to improve processing and logistics capabilities.
The Decision to use Wily, taken by Colin Potter, Project
Manager at MCP, follows the replacement of MCP's previous
system, Felixstowe Cargo Processing System (FCPS) to Destin8.
Wily will provide reliability, performance and visibility
of Destine8, a specialist system which helps increase the
flow of information along the logistics chain - speeding
up the movement of cargo in the process. By utilising Introscope
to monitor and improve the performance of its application,
MCP will have a single 360º view of its applications providing
flexible management capabilities to ensure superior performance.
MCP was set up by the Felixstowe maritime port community,
made up of port health, customs and the port authority, to
develop, run and manage FCPS, responsible for improving operational
efficiency and to reduce the costs involved in the trading
and transportation of cargo through ports in the UK. Since
1984, FCPS has been running on various generations of the
Honeywell/Bull platform as a COBOL application in a mainframe
environment.
Historically, the application was reliable and responsive,
forming a major revenue stream, while supporting 630 corporate
organisations, with more than 2,500 users in over 18 geographical
locations within the UK, but it was clear the system couldn't
be relied upon to provide MCP with the additional capabilities
needed for future requirements and growth.
"The real driver for change was really the need to
lower the cost of ownership of the platform and products," commented
Colin Potter. "By this time Honeywell/Bull had stopped
any active product development and so we couldn't rely on
our current environment to support any new technical capabilities.
We were looking to update the system using an open environment
using Java and DB2 on an IBM Websphere platform."
In January 2003, MCP embarked on the proof of concept testing
phase and had started to research Application Performance
Management (APM) solutions that were available, including
Wily's Introscope product in order to monitor and pre-empt
any technical issues. After rigorous evaluation of competing
products, MCP selected Introscope.
"The Wily product was selected due to its ease of installation,
which for a development team of ten people, is paramount," commented
Peter Inman, Technical Team Leader, MCP Plc. "After
three proofs of concept, Introscope showed clear and superior
functionality. J2EE monitoring capabilities and the accurate
dashboard views were invaluable while performing constant
load balancing on the test environment."
The challenges that faced MCP such as the issue of being
able to clearly aggregate statistics with WebLogic tools
on WebLogic servers, was addressed with Introscope. The application
could be tested before going live and after several repeatable
loads successfully running in the test environment, Colin,
Peter, and the team are confident that Wily was the right
choice.
"Introscope has ensured that we have a system that
can sustain and quickly react to the demands being placed
on it and yet, can still grow with us to ensure we don't
need to replace infrastructure in the future," noted
Potter. "We can now see exactly what is happening and
can prevent issues occurring, improving all aspects of the
system."
MCP is yet to go live with its new Destin8 application but
following the rigorous testing process, MCP expect to see
a significant improvement in the performance of its application,
to reduce the time it takes to rectify and identify any issues
with performance, and to better serve the 2,500 users of
the system all around the country.
Mike Fisher, UK Sales Director at Wily Technology, said, "MCP's
decision to use Introscope demonstrates the superior functionality
of the product and its ability to deliver increased performance
and viability. MCP is such an interesting deployment and
we look forward to continuing to work them as they bring
the application into full production."
About Wily Technology, Inc.
CA Wily Technology, a division of CA, is the market-leading provider of Enterprise Application Management solutions. By providing end-to-end visibility into customer transactions in real-time, CA Wily's products enable companies to successfully manage the health and availability of their critical Web applications and infrastructure. CA Wily's collaborative management approach allows enterprises to rapidly detect and diagnose application slowdowns and failures, and better assess the impact of application performance on business success. This means better customer service, more stable revenue streams, and higher IT productivity. To learn more about CA's Wily Technology division, visit http://www.wilytech.com or call 1 888 GET WILY.
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