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Despar Aspiag Enhances Communications With Grid and Service-Oriented Architecture

Overview Established more than 40 years ago, Despar is a leading Italian food and grocery supermarket chain, formed by 12 different companies. In the Northeast of the country, Despar is represented by Aspiag Service and its more than 500 stores. The company wanted to replace an aging, inflexible, proprietary IT infrastructure with one capable of delivering Web services through an up-to-date Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The challenge was to raise productivity by improving monitoring and tracking of communications and by eliminating inefficient Web-based services. Despar replaced inefficient, antiquated system with a reliable, scalable grid architecture from Oracle, lowering total cost of ownership and gaining immediate flexibility. The company used Oracle JDeveloper to rewrite applications for the new SOA architecture, simplifying development and delivering needed standardization.

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Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development

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