NOW Health Group, Inc., as a producer and distributor of natural supplements and foods, relies on its vendors and trading partners as its primary source of revenue. The company was utilizing Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as its enterprise platform for order processing and shipping, but quickly realized a need to expand integration to better support current and future partnerships.
With more than 60% of its business conducted electronically in the B2B space, NOW needed to stabilize its infrastructure, establish scalability for seasonal volume increases, and develop a long-term sustainability roadmap. A move to the cloud would enable NOW to optimize costs, maintain the latest supported version of SOA, and support the organization’s need to expand and innovate.
NOW established the following objectives for this engagement:
AST has provided enhanced technical guidance in delivering two successful SOA projects for NOW Foods. AST's team is not only very capable in delivering the full technical solution but they have recently helped us navigate a very difficult upgrade in escalating SRs with Oracle on Oracle's latest and greatest OCI platform. They also introduced my team to some new deployment standards that that have helped us to stay in alignment with best business practices. AST is our first choice when it comes to SOA.
Jim Chino Sr. Manager of Business Applications, NOW FoodsAST has provided enhanced technical guidance in delivering two successful SOA projects for NOW Foods. AST's team is not only very capable in delivering the full technical solution but they have recently helped us navigate a very difficult upgrade in escalating SRs with Oracle on Oracle's latest and greatest OCI platform. They also introduced my team to some new deployment standards that that have helped us to stay in alignment with best business practices. AST is our first choice when it comes to SOA.
Jim Chino Sr. Manager of Business Applications, NOW FoodsAST has a long history of delivering success to B2B clients with Oracle SOA and SOA Cloud Service. After conducting a successful Architecture Review Board with NOW to determine the most appropriate path forward for NOW’s specific objectives, AST’s experts presented requirements and key design elements for migration to Oracle SOA Cloud Service.
The successful implementation of the latest version of SOA, along with cloud migration, met the client’s primary need for continued innovation in support of its partner relationships, and NOW continues to realize additional benefits, including:
AST has delivered success to this client with a migration to SOA Cloud Service, resulting in significant time savings, reduced maintenance costs, and minimized human error through automation.
