The Deltion Technology Platform

CarrierNet utilises the world leading Oracle Fusion Middleware suite and the Oracle 11g Database deployed in a cluster. This is a comprehensive, pre-integrated and hot-pluggable product line used by more than 65,000 customers worldwide in every industry. The comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware infrastructure products-ranging from the #1 Java application server to leading Enterprise 2.0 portals and content management products-provides companies and the public sector with the technology solutions they need when they need them. Oracle Fusion Middleware products are pre-integrated with one another and with Oracle Database and Applications products to enable a lower cost of ownership. Unique hot-pluggable capabilities allow customers to extend existing investments in heterogeneous IT environments. For additional information visit: http://www.oracle.com/middleware

Oracle WebLogic Suite, part of the Fusion Middleware Suite, brings together unparalleled performance, scalability, and manageability in a single, unified application server offering.

Simultaneously meeting the computing demand of thousands, while maintaining quality-of-service and manageability, is at the heart of Oracle WebLogic Suite. The proliferation of access device types and high expectations for fast application response times are increasing the load on IT infrastructure. Oracle WebLogic Suite meets these demands with scale out data grids, dynamic system provisioning, and predictable performance. This is of great significance to CarrierNet users who are able to use a wide variety of handheld and other devices to provide 24x7 anytime, anywhere anyone access.

CarrierNet is hosted by Rackspace® Hosting, World's leader in hosting. Since 2001 Rackspace has been hosting and supporting mission critical websites, internet applications, email servers, security and storage services for over 4,000 customers. Rackspace support staff are available 24/7, 365 days a year to meet and exceed customer's expectations. Customers get fast responses to critical issues, unlimited technical phone support, access to our huge online knowledgebase, guaranteed 100% network uptime and many other business-critical support features.

Core Services

These technologies include

• Wireless Services - These are integral to the Deltion platform and enable access to the application via the use of any device capable of accessing the web. This obviates the need for using third party gateways or technology.
• EAI (Enterprise Application Interface) - through flexible adapters - the Deltion platform enables ease of interface to all forms of external systems through intelligent use of its integral adapter technology that enables interfacing either on a live basis (web services) or batch basis (FTP) using many different formats.
• Report Services - The integral report services capability allows extensive remote capability which also includes automated printing at remote sites. Extensive use of pdf and drill down from within pdf to underlying data provides rich reporting Rich reporting functionality, including PDF documents, drill down to underlying data, and the ability to present information in Excel formats at the press of a button or to send as email attachments.
• Messaging - The Deltion platform has inbuilt functionality for sending SMS and emails and now incorporates IM
• Business Intelligence - Business Intelligence capability is engineered into the Deltion Platform and is available to users via a business intelligence platform alongside the main business application.
• Scalability - The whole platform and the underlying technology are designed for immense scalability which can be achieved by the use of multi-core processors, multiple processors, multiple servers, or servers hosted at multiple sites in almost any combination that is appropriate for a specific application. The core platform has been extensively stress tested at IBM's research labs at Hursley.
• Collaborative Operation - The solution allows organisations using their own instances of the Deltion Platform to collaborate dynamically with other networks using the Deltion Platform where they have specific business dealings with each other.

Integration With Internal and External Systems

The Deltion Platform is a single platform that can be used as an enabling application to plug gaps in the technology framework and integrate information from many disparate legacy applications, providing a single interface to users. This prevents duplication of work and data, improving productivity using the highly user friendly and intuitive user interface. This enables the extension of core applications and information to a broad community of users across a company's extended supply chain. CarrierNet has already been integrated with multiple instances of the following internal and external legacy systems:

• Multiple ERP systems
• Track and Trace
• linking to electronic PoDs, mobiles and handhelds
• Order management
• WMS
• Stock management
• Production scheduling
• Routing and scheduling
• Accounting and Billing
• SC partner-integrated "own account" TMS

Based on SOA it deploys some of the most complete standards based technologies available in the market.

It enables integration with external systems and uses all industry standards such as Web Services, EDI, CSV, XML, XSL, FTP, and SMTP in real-time or batch.

This makes it one of the most advanced collaboration and visibility platforms available to managers of logistics and supply chain managers in the Cloud Computing space (SaaS).