Community Supply Chain Solutions for CIOs

A brief overview of the benefits of multi-party solutions for CIOs

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According to the CIO Research, the two top business requirements from IT in these turbulent economic times are – lower costs and agility.

“The tensions between flexibility, efficiency, and the need to focus on flexible business processes force a new convergence of the roles of the business managers, CIOs, and chief technology officers.”

C.K. Prahalad et al
The new age of innovation
Driving co-created value through global networks

Lower costs

One Network Enterprises is an innovator of multi-party supply chain solutions for global enterprises. One Network's multi-party and multi-enterprise capabilities are delivered in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).  They are complement existing IT infrastructure and provide a rapid way to create a shared business process with your trading partners while cutting operational and IT costs.

According to a McKinsey research, IT executives cited SaaS as one of the top tools they are investigating because this model can cut the total cost of deploying enterprise applications by 30-40 per cent as compared to the total cost of purchasing and maintaining them in house. Further, in the same survey, CIOs said the implementation is usually quicker with few demands on IT resources.

According to a Gartner report, nearly 90% of the respondents said they will continue or increase SaaS in 2009, with a third of them moving from on-premise to on-demand options due to lower cost and unmet expectations of on-premise software.

One Network has experience operating very large industry-specific networks and applications that can be implemented in days to weeks depending on the scope.  An added benefit of One Network is that you connect once and you are connected to your trading community. One of our customer's CIOs calls it a competitive disadvantage not to be on the network.  This was cited as one of the reasons why the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) chose One Network as their distribution and logistics backbone. This choice was re-affirmed when after only 120 days more than 25% of DoD freight was operational on the network.

More agility

One Network provides a complete cloud computing solution including Platform-as-a-Service or PaaS which allows you to flexibly automate existing multi-party business process and quickly modify them to transform your business as conditions change.  [Please refer to our information on Platform for details.]

“One Network has built a strong SOA and BPP technology platform with Software Development Kit (SDK), that allows them to rapidly compose new capabilities on and around its core solutions either as part of its development plans or by any 3rd party or specifically for customers in an
innovation partner model.”

Dwight Klappich
Gartner