Success Stories

Barnes Aerospace, producers and overhaulers of machine and fabricated components and assemblies for aircraft engine and airframe builders, needed big-company IT infrastructure at a small-company price. They needed a solution to tie together their sales force, engineering teams and customers worldwide, with speed, reliability, and no downtime. Barnes selected IBM and Corente to supply secure application delivery with automated operational support (all at a low total cost of ownership), allowing deployment of distributed applications and business capabilities on a platform that is secure, scalable, reliable and highly available. Corente gives the aerospace company a comprehensive, turnkey solution that has all the features, functions and operational support it needs.

The Reilly Mortgage Group, a privately held company that provides acquisition, refinancing, and new construction loans for multi-family dwellings across the country, required an on-demand solution to increase the uptime of its financial services network, to gain better visibility into network performance and security for its applications, and to reduce the operational burden on the company's IT team. Reilly selected IBM and Corente to provide an outsourced secure IP network that it can quickly adapt to new application needs as its business grows. Now Reilly has a highly secure and reliable application delivery infrastructure that not only boots up by itself, but monitors and updates itself as well.

Two companies—Marco Polo Network (MPN) and Barnes Aerospace—met their distinct network needs using IBM and the Corente application delivery solution, which is based on the Software-as-Services (SaS) business model. At its core, the SaS concept is simple: deliver business functionality as a standardized, discrete service; price the solution based on usage; and provide all-inclusive licensing costs, hosting, application management, and service delivery. What MPN and Barnes receive from a SaS business model are: rapid application deployment and time to value; reduced risk and complexity; lower upfront costs and consistent, usage-based billing; and flexibility and scalability with less reliance on internal IT resources.

The Clearing Corporation (CCorp), a leading independent clearinghouse for futures markets, needed a streamlined and efficient process for deploying its Global Clearing Link service to new customers in the United States and Europe. CCorp selected Corente and Digital Family to create an on-demand application infrastructure to deliver this service. The Clearing Corporation can now connect its customers to its Global Clearing Link service over the public Internet securely, rapidly, and cost effectively, while maintaining the high performance and high availability required for critical financial clearing house transactions.

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Fortune 500 manufacturer Illinois Tool Works (ITW) needed to connect its 300 global business units to new centralized finance applications without disrupting the business networks and security systems of the subsidiaries and without the expense of a large IT staff. By using Corente's solution, ITW maintained its existing business processes and rolled out its global financial applications in less than four months, without re-engineering its network and with no additional staff. The result was a 30% total cost of ownership reduction.

An international luxury hotel chain needed to connect its worldwide properties to its reservation system and customer-profile database located in North America. The diverse geography and ownership of the properties required a solution that could work with any mix of network providers and access technologies, as well as support remote installation and central management. They chose Corente because only Corente's solution bridged the many geographic, technological and business boundaries of their company.