When Pony Express completed implementation of an integration bus

On September 23, 2015 the EPAM company and Pony Express company announced project completion of implementation of an integration bus on the platform of the products TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service.

Project Tasks

In addition to difficult interfilial data exchange with a set of rules of determination of availability of information and an order of its input and change, in the company ten heterogeneous information systems requiring exchange inside only of one central node are used.

Pony Express, 2014

Initially information exchange is organized by system means of MS SQL and own developments. However at such approach the company faced a number of problems. It and high requirements to communication channels which in regions are often difficult for implementing, and the distributed and beloved logic of implementation of rules of data exchange. For the company also external integration with information systems of partners has huge value. For quality improvement of integration into Pony Express the decision on implementation of an integration bus is made.

In selection process different ESB products – as the developed leading vendors (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Software AG, TIBCO) and constructed based on open - source - technologies (Mule ESB, UltraESB, NServiceBus, MassTransit, WSO2 ESB, Open ESB, ServiceMix) were considered. The choice was stopped on the solution TIBCO.

Project implementation was charged by EPAM companies.

Project Progress

Within the project specialists of EPAM developed and implemented architecture of synchronization of the distributed data. Focus of the project was directed to problems of interfilial exchange. In the course of Pony Express cargo delivery quite often there is a situation when work with one sending in several regions, and in each of them parameters of the order can change. The approach implemented by EPAM allowed to check the data entered in different databases on the same delivery and to automatically resolve the arising conflicts. As a result, complete and consistent information about each delivery is always available.

Design and development of architecture of synchronization of data and the subsequent implementation of an integration bus took several months. A framework of the project included training of specialists of Pony Express and transfer of examination to them on operation and development of solutions on TIBCO ESB. For September 23, 2015 all branches Pony Express are connected to internal information exchange through TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, there is a gradual improvement of interfilial information streams.

Main directions of works:

• intersystem integration in the central office
• integration with external information systems of partners.

Project Results

Yaroslav Bochurin, the chief architect of information technologies, Pony Express company, noted: "Pony Express stakes on providing a full range of logistics services which are configured under needs of the specific client. An opportunity to obtain up-to-date and reliable data about any changes in process of accomplishment of orders and to provide to our partners the interface, qualitative and suitable for them, to this information and to our services is extremely important for us. Now, thanks to the implemented EPAM project and use of the modern integration TIBCO platform, we received for this purpose the fine tool which we use very actively, doing our business by more technological and responding to the growing requests of the domestic and foreign partner companies".

"Our experience in integration includes tens of difficult and complex projects for banking sector, insurance, the oil and gas industry and other industries as in Russia, and in the West. Logistic business in general and Pony Express business in particular has the serious specifics, but exactly thanks to experience we managed to develop the solution which allows to carry out effectively all assigned tasks and as much as possible corresponds to needs of the customer", - Eduard Tarasenko, the project manager, EPAM company said.