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Customer Spotlight
Southern States Cooperative, Inc. is a 300,000 farmer-owned cooperative that encompasses over 1,200 retail stores in 23 states. Throughout its 80 year history, Southern States remained at the forefront of the U.S agricultural market and most recently, sold $1.2B annually in combined products and services. The cooperative needed a way to quickly adapt their legacy JD Edwards ERP system to allow product and service pricing to reflect the changing characteristics of different retail markets they sold into.
Business Driver
- Extend JD Edwards to provide more flexible pricing options
- Target: $1.5M+ additional revenue per year
- Allow Southern States to develop and deploy their new pricing module without locking themselves into any application server
Skyway Platform Business Benefits
- Pragmatic SOA: Extend functionality of legacy application, experience immediate business value and gain implicit SOA
- Model Driven Design: Deliver solution 1/3 faster, 1/3 cheaper and capture incremental revenue
- Platform Independent Delivery: Deployed initially on JBoss with potential move to WebSphere without touching code.
ROI Analysis
One World Tools |
Skyway Platform |
Delta |
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Duration |
8.8 Months |
5.5 Months |
3.3 Months/ 37% less |
Cost |
$119K |
$76K |
$43K/ 36% Less |
Incremental Revenue |
N/A |
$402K |
$402K |
