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.com success Deutsche Post AG bets on Directory/Metadirectory from Critical Path and the high performance PRIMEPOWER servers Deutsche Post World Net – “We Move The World”

Deutsche Post World Net has set itself The goal of the URML Project was the Company-wide, fast access to the goal of becoming the number one provision of a solution that is tailored speci- business-critical data worldwide logistics enterprise while fically to the various demands of these pro- Up to now, there were one or more special providing integrated letter, express, cesses in a large company. Deutsche Post directories for each member of the group. logistics and financial services. In order AG decided to utilize the software "CP This multitude of systems increasingly to achieve this goal, the Group will close Directory Server" and "CP Meta Directory" complicated communication. Because of ranks more tightly in the next few years. from Critical Path Inc. after extensive prod- this, data was being stored and up-dated uct tests on the high performance PRIME- multiple times. Often, only limited amounts The first technological step in this direction POWER servers from Fujitsu Siemens of data were available to individual users, is the creation of Deutsche Post AG's Computers. and the management and administration of metadirectory. At the same time, this sys- the different databases were requiring high tem forms the basis for a company-wide Deutsche Post World Net expenditures. corporate directory. Both directory services The Deutsche Post World Net Group with are being introduced through the URML its trademarks Deutsche Post, DHL, URML project – synchronization of (User and Resource Management Solution) Danzas and Postbank is one of the largest Deutsche Post AGs company data project. They represent a consistent data- and most productive logistics enterprises in through "CP Directory Server" and "CP base for the future for processes in the the world. Over 300,000 employees gene- Meta Directory" from Critical Path Inc. area of human resources on each level of rated a turnover of 32.7 billion Euros in the In the course of implementing their meta- the organization. year 2000. The group offers complete solu- directory concept, Deutsche Post AG tions for national and international custom- decided on the products "CP Directory Ser- ers, from worldwide letter, package, ex- ver" and "CP Meta Directory" from Critical press and logistics services to innovative Path Inc. on the PRIMEPOWER servers solutions for e-business and a broad range from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. of financial services. Deutsche Post AG's implementation of this Deutsche Post World Net successfully solution is the first step in solving the prob- went public in the fall of 2000, and on lems addressed. In this way, for example, November 20th, the "Aktie Gelb" was first diverse sources of data are synchronized, traded. On March 19, 2001, the Deutsche email addresses and telephone numbers Post World Net Group was included in the are exchanged, and organizational data are "Deutsche Aktien Index" (German Stocks displayed in a clear and continually up-to- Index), DAX 30 for short. The "Aktie Gelb" date manner. In this manner, organizational has become one of the top 30 German and technical processes within the com- stocks traded. pany are greatly simplified. For Deutsche Post AG, an X.500 based PUMA and PRIMEPOWER 400N – The procedure involves a uniform and Post- solution was chosen, since the X.500 stan- complete solutions from Fujitsu specific master installation of the operating dard fulfils the requirements with respect Siemens Computers system and diverse middleware products, to replication, security, and data manage- The topology of the Deutsche Post AG's so that an untrained employee at the loca- ment more than any other (proprietary) metadirectory provides for a division bet- tion can even start up the machine. Finally, approach. (X.500 is an internationally pro- ween five locations: Darmstadt, Berlin, only then was the application software ven, manufacturer-independent, standard- Bonn, Hanover and Augsburg. All the meta- installed through the software manage- ized specification for directories.) directory components are installed on the ment program utilized by Deutsche Post master system in Darmstadt, while only AG. Deutsche Post AG's metadirectory was those components that are necessary for successfully introduced in the year 2001. replication with the master system are All together a smooth integration into the IT installed on the shadow systems. Solaris 7 environment of Deutsche Post AG. Critical Path servers with SPARC Processors from Critical Path Inc., (Nasdaq CPTH) is the Fujitsu Siemens Computers were chosen Internet leading provider of complete communica- as the platform for all systems. PRIME- www.dpwn.com tion solutions in the field of directory infra- POWER 400N rack servers were used for www.cp.net structure, messaging applications for the the shadow systems. www. fujitsu-siemens.com Internet Service Provider customer seg- ments, mobile and conventional telephone In the course of the migration, two dedi- service providers (Telco Carrier), as well as cated systems were made available to the for companies. CP Directory Server and the CP Meta Directory, primarily for reasons of load The head office of Critical Path is in San sharing performance. Together, these two Francisco, USA. Currently, there are several PRIMEPOWER 400N servers form the continental branch offices with more than master system at the Darmstadt location. 500 employees worldwide. The implementation was also designed to Germany, Switzerland and Austria are be especially customer-friendly. The hard- served by Critical Path Central Europe with ware components of the PRIMEPOWER offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, Bern-Belp and 400N server were set up in the factory be- Zürich. forehand. Before the start-up of the system at the respective location, the servers were preinstalled with the "Post Unix Master Tape" (PUMA for short) either on site or beforehand in the factory. Deutsche Post World Net .com

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