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Siemens Deploys Cast Iron Integration Solution Enterprise Wide
Cast Iron Enables Enterprise IT at Major Manufacturer to Focus on Strategy, Reduce Costs, Improve Productivity, and Streamline Business Processes
| Source: Cast Iron Systems
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - February 17, 2009) - Cast Iron Systems, The #1 SaaS
integration Company™, today announced that Siemens
Energy, Inc., the world's leading supplier of a complete spectrum of
products, services and solutions for the generation, transmission and
distribution of power and for the extraction, conversion and transport of
oil and gas, has expanded its use of the Cast Iron Integration Solution to
all divisions, building on its successful use in Siemens' Power
Transmission division. The company is enjoying major savings in project
development time and cost, as well as in ongoing support costs.
"Our Power Transmission division was the first to experience the value of
the Cast Iron Integration Solution," said Tanner Shamrock, IT Project
Manager at Siemens Energy. "Now that we've adopted Cast Iron at the
enterprise level, its simplicity and speed give us the time and resources
to focus on strategic IT initiatives and deliver increased value to all of
our divisions."
The performance degradation of an aging, proprietary, and yet
mission-critical integration solution prompted Siemens IT group to turn to
Cast Iron. The solution connected the company's SAP ERP system with its
Salesforce CRM solution to share financial information and reports of plant
outages. Based on an outdated technology, the solution was difficult and
expensive to maintain and upgrade. When IT attempted an upgrade, the
solution malfunctioned.
Outages at power plants are sales opportunities for Siemens and if the
sales people don't know about them, those opportunities are lost. Over
time, the sales and marketing teams lost confidence in the existing system,
and management didn't have good insight into the company's business
information. IT had to act, but estimated that rewriting the entire
solution using the same technology would cost significantly more, and
maintaining the application as it was would overrun the support budget.
Therefore, based on the Power Transmission division's success, the IT team
selected the Cast Iron integration solution to replace the aging internal
integration solution. It took just three weeks from start to finish to
deploy a complete and robust solution into production using the Cast Iron
product, while it would have taken five times that long by writing custom
code. Siemens saved 80 percent of the project development cost and
dramatically reduced support costs in the first year alone.
The Cast Iron Integration Solution was particularly attractive because it
simplified and accelerated the application integration project via a
"configuration, not coding" approach. In contrast to older and more
expensive ETL batch-based data integration solutions, it also provided
real-time integration between the company's Cloud and on premise
applications. Companies using the Cast Iron Integration Solution choose
from two options to integrate such applications: the
Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) Cast Iron Cloud, or the on premise Cast
Iron Integration Appliance. The On premise appliance comes in two flavors
depending on the customer's needs -- a physical appliance or a virtual
appliance that can run on existing hardware. All the Cast Iron product
offerings operate identically, provide exactly the same functionality, and
have access to a library of pre-built integrations that solve a wide
variety of application integration projects out-of-the-box.
"The experience Siemens had with our solution is typical of the benefits
all our customers are receiving from Cast Iron's fast and flexible approach
to SaaS and enterprise integration," said Ken Comée, CEO of Cast Iron
Systems. "Cast Iron provides real business value for our customers and,
unlike our many competitors, we deliver results, not hype."
About Siemens Energy, Inc.
The Siemens Energy Sector is the world's leading supplier of a complete
spectrum of products, services and solutions for the generation,
transmission and distribution of power and for the extraction, conversion
and transport of oil and gas.
About Cast Iron Systems
Founded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems is The #1 SaaS
Integration Company™. With thousands of customer integrations across
all industries and around the world, including Allianz, British American
Tobacco (BAT), Amerisource Bergen, Emerson, IBA Molecular, Krueger
International, Peet's Coffee & Tea, PGP Corporation, salesforce.com, The
Sports Authority, and Tesla Motors, among many others, companies are
benefiting from the simplicity, speed, and flexibility of the Cast Iron
integration solution to integrating SaaS with the enterprise in just days.
Backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Lehman Brothers,
Cast Iron is privately held and led by experienced technology executives
from Informatica, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vitria, and webMethods. For
more information about Cast Iron, please visit www.castiron.com.
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