Case Studies
These are a few of the 200+ companies that have used the Nexaweb Application Modernization platform to transform growth-limiting, expensive to maintain client/server and other legacy systems into modern web-based applications that enable new business models.
Aflac Japan
Aflac Japan is the leading life insurance company in the Japanese market, insuring one in four Japanese households, and is represented by 8,000 agents, making it the country’s largest foreign insurer in terms of premium income. Using Nexaweb’s Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) Platform, Aflac Japan has deployed a comprehensive Web-based Insurance Premium Calculation System (IPCS) that combines legacy inquiry, Internet-mediated and stand-alone applications. The IPCS runs in any client environment, including desktops in the office, mobile and occasionally disconnected devices with Internet connectivity. The new Nexaweb-based application delivers a rich user interface that functions like a client/server application with asynchronous data delivery and fast keyboard navigation. The result is an efficient, easy-to-use application that increases agent productivity and reduces the risks associated with insurance premium calculations. Maintenance for the newly integrated application is also more efficient, which means significant cost and time reductions as compared to maintaining the previously disparate applications.
Best Western International, Inc.
Best Western International, Inc. is THE WORLD’S LARGEST HOTEL CHAIN®, with over 4,100 independently owned and operated hotels across approximately 80 countries and territories. Among Best Western’s key service offerings to its member hotels is the MemberWeb management system, which updates room rates, plans, commissions, and reservations. MemberWeb was originally launched worldwide as a traditional HTML-based intranet application running on a dedicated VSAT satellite network. As MemberWeb’s capabilities and usage expanded, performance became an increasingly significant concern. Best Western employed the Nexaweb platform to streamline the MemberWeb application. The alternative was to upgrade the VSAT network, at a cost of millions of dollars.
Using Nexaweb, Best Western was able to:
- Significantly reduce bandwidth consumption over the VSAT network, eliminating the need to replace the existing network investment
- Improve MemberWeb’s performance and response time by 70%
- Reduce network traffic by over 90%
- Dramatically improve user satisfaction and productivity
DHL
DHL Custom Clearance in Switzerland manages one of Europe's busiest customs operations, with 45 clerks and round-the-clock activity six days a week. DHL was seeking a more agile and responsive architecture than its legacy client/server setup could offer. After a thorough evaluation process with ipt, inc., its solutions provider, DHL chose the Nexaweb Enterprise Web Suite because of its ability to deliver high performance and speed, all in a standards-based environment. ipt is now able to rapidly prototype new applications and quickly respond to change requests from DHL's management.
EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation, the world's leading networked storage vendor, enables its clients to better and more cost effectively manage, protect and share their information. EMC's ControlCenter application is used by clients to manage multi-vendor networked storage environments and was originally architected as a Java client/server application. Using Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite, EMC web-enabled ControlCenter, results in significant cost and time savings while delivering a valuable solution for its clients.
Japan Information Processing Service
Japan Information Processing Service, which provides software and services to the financial services, government and education markets, required a highly flexible and versatile development environment based on the Struts framework to create its next-generation Financial Securities System. The company chose the Nexaweb Enterprise Web Suite because it offered a shorter development cycle than other frameworks. Further, JIP has been able to run the same application in multiple environments, which supports rapid application development throughout the company.
Jefferies & Company, Inc
Jefferies & Company, Inc., a global investment bank and institutional securities firm with more than 25 offices around the world, has developed and deployed three new business productivity and research applications using the Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform. Jefferies & Company, Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Using Nexaweb’s Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform, Jefferies has built and deployed web-based versions of three home-grown fund relations, lead intelligence, and accounting management applications.
SBE France
SBE Group, a global electronics service and logistics management provider headquartered in France, was created in April 1987 from a former subsidiary of a telecommunications group. From inception, the company has capitalized on its expertise in electronics to provide major telecommunications manufacturers and network operators with maintenance services. Today, SBE has subsidiaries throughout Europe and continues to grow at a fast pace, servicing more than 20,000 products per month. The Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform has enabled SBE to migrate many of its traditional client/server logistics, maintenance, and retail store applications to browser-based, Enterprise Web 2.0 applications that provide real-time data access to end-users, employees and partners around the world while reducing management, maintenance, and operational costs.
Nokia Siemens Networks
SoftCon, a leading systems integrator in Munich, Germany, was engaged by Siemens to plan and implement a very large and complex Web-based application for its worldwide sales and engineering staff. Siemens’ new application needs to be integrated with several of its existing tools and client/server applications, and also requires seamless accessibility from hundreds of distributed sites worldwide. Rather than architecting the entire solution from scratch itself, SoftCon chose to evaluate third-party Web application development solutions. SoftCon created a benchmark test comprised of 17 pre-determined evaluation areas, including client requirements, performance, GUI builder, service support and maintainability, based on Siemens’ large-scale deployment requirements. After extensive, industry-wide research, SoftCon narrowed down the playing field to Casabac, Macromedia, Nexaweb and Thinlets for testing.
SoftCon’s benchmark test was designed to simulate common tasks performed each day by Siemens’ sales and engineering staff. Considering the scale of the project, Siemens’ required the winning solution to meet the following criteria:
- Ability to leverage current IT investments, such as servers, laptops and databases
- Ease of client application deployment, including a “zero install” model
- Web/Intranet compatibility for future application migration
