Postal organization delivers superior customer service and reduces costs with IBM WebSphere Intelligent Management Solutions

1. Analytic and Identification Issue
   Major consulting firm needed to implement a new application hosting environment for a large mail services organization that would integrate applications with legacy systems and accommodate daily spikes
   in usage while minimizing hardware and software requirements.
    
2. MIS Type that in use to solve the issue
   The company implemented a powerful virtualization solution that intelligently manages the health and workload of applica- tion server environments so that applications can adapt to changing market conditions while lowering costs. Consultant implemented an enterprise serv- ice bus solution to integrate applications with back-end databases without using costly and complex point-to-point programming.
    
3. Profits earned by the Company
   —  10 servers consolidated onto four-server infrastructure
   —  Cost saving with consolidation of servers onto application infrastructure virtualization environment
   —  Higher availability of business-critical applications