EXALEAD CLOUDVIEWTM FOR LOGISTICS 3DS.COM/EXALEAD THE LOGIstIcs Get accurate, real-time information into mer Web engine. But, unlike a consumer the hands of the people who need it most engine, CloudView can retain, exploit, and CHALLENge even enrich the complex categorization The Good News: and classification information contained With the advent of data capture and in relational databases, making it ideal for transmission technologies such as bar business application development. coding, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), wireless networking, and Global Posi- tioning Systems (GPS), businesses now EXALEAD’S SOLUTION have a staggering volume of ultra-precise logistical data at their disposal. Operational Improvements The Bad News: • End-to-end pipeline visibility Finding a way to deliver timely, coherent • Real-time, do-it-yourself monitoring access and reporting against such massive & reporting data stores without encountering severe • Workflow support for just-in-time performance issues or incurring exorbitant management costs has become a formidable challenge, • Flexible base for rapidly developing especially in light of ongoing IT challenges new customer services such as: • Siloed information systems, with logis- Business Advantages tics data spread across myriad internal • Increased agility and external business applications, • Enhanced customer satisfaction databases and live logistical feeds, • New revenue streams • Escalating demand for access to already • Lower costs strained systems, and • Preservation of existing IT invest- • Deteriorating performance and usability ments as the scale and complexity of under- lying systems increases. Deploying CloudView alongside your existing systems can eliminate many of these barriers quickly, inexpensively, and painlessly. CloudView search-based technologies can provide unified, real- time access to logistics data, regardless of source or volume, and deliver it online with Web-style speed and simplicity—all in only a few weeks, with no impact on existing systems, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional technologies. A New Use for a Familiar Tool CloudView Search-Based Applications (SBAs) leverage a familiar tool, the search engine, in a new way. In a CloudView SBA, primary information access is shifted from databases to the CloudView search engine index. This dramatically boosts performance as CloudView is expressly designed for fast information access (‘read’ operations) by vast numbers of users against massive data volumes. Accordingly, it delivers information access More and more players in the supply chain are with the simplicity and speed of a consu- demanding access to logistics data TM EXALEAD CloudView for Logistics 1 © 2012 Dassault Systèmes Advantages for IT Advantages for Executive Management LATENCY & COSTS SLASHED • Unlimited, Low-Cost Scaling • Enhanced Competitiveness Deploying CloudView alongside its Scale in users and available data without Open visibility for partners and cus- existing it infrastructure enabled scaling underlying database systems; tomers for select information, and an GEFCO to cut data latency from 24 simply add low-cost servers as needed enhancement of your reputation as an hours to 15 minutes, and to cut its industry innovator cost per user 50%. • Vastly Improved Performance Ensure maximum availability and deliver • Improved Decision Making “Why didn’t anyone think of this sub-second responsiveness regardless of A federated view of information and before?... Every day, I see t housands data volume or number of users real-time operational dashboards based of events consolidated in real time on unlimited criteria for better decision and I log on to the system just to • Real-Time Data making and more accurate financial be sure it’s real!... The stability and Instantly go from serving day-old data reporting performance of the application is to delivering real-time information using astonishing given its highly innova- incremental index updates • Improved Productivity tive character.” Increased efficiency and reactivity for – Guillaume Rabier, Manager GEFCO • ‘Virtual’ Data Integration operational and support staff Provide a Web-based, federated view of data (including even unstructured data) • Lower Costs without painful physical data integra- Reduced operational, training, develop- tion ment and IT infrastructure costs • Rapid Deployment Deploy new applications and services in weeks, with no end-user training • Democratized Access Deliver “do-it-yourself” search, access and reporting that is so simple and fami- liar you can extend access to operational field staff regardless of their technical skill level Advantages for Logistics Operations Managers • Better Track and Trace More accurate and timely data concer- ning the movement of goods • Improved Warehousing and Distribution Timelier inventory data and extended supply chain visibility • Greater Reactivity Real-time operational reporting and Business Intelligence for greater reac- tivity in detecting and responding to CloudView-powered Synaxio Analytics aggregates exceptional events and disruptions data across an entire postal organization, extracting data from business systems, datawarehouses, and production equipment like • Simplified Search sorting machines to produce a highly visual, simple-to-use Web application that monitors and Easy data lookups using a single text reports on millions of daily events—in real time box and less structured identifiers and with sub-second responsiveness. TM © 2012 Dassault Systèmes 2 EXALEAD CloudView for Logistics Delivering Best-in-Class Products Virtual Product Design Virtual Planet 3D for Professionals Information Intelligence Realistic Simulation Dashboard Everything Virtual Production Social Innovation Global Collaborative Lifecycle Management Online 3D Lifelike Experiences About EXALEAD Founded in 2000 by search engine pioneers, Dassault Systèmes EXALEAD® provides search and unified information access software that drives innovation and performance in the enterprise and on the Internet. The company’s EXALEAD CloudViewTM platform is the industry’s most sophisticated and scalable infrastructure for Search-Based Applications (SBAs), with over 30,000 business decision makers, half a million enterprise search users, and 110 million Internet users relying on EXALEAD to make their information universe accessible and meaningful. © Dassault Systèmes 2012, all rights reserved. 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