Cordys Plays Key Role in China's Bid to Develop World's Largest Hydro Power Capability.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Cordys SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. platform ensures roll out of 20 new hydro hy·dro adj. Hydroelectric. n. pl. hy·dros 1. Hydroelectric power. 2. A hydroelectric power plant. power plants over the next 15 years can be achieved with maximum business and IT efficiency Cordys, a leading provider of integrated SOA-based software that enables organizations to simplify business, today revealed the results of a comprehensive independent study into the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and benefits of its SOA technology in China's plans to become the World's leading hydro electric power producer. Presented at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. Summit 2006 in San Diego today, the study takes a three year view of the implementation of Cordys SOA platform by the Ertan Hydropower hy·dro·pow·er n. Hydroelectric power. Development Corporation (EHDC EHDC East Hertfordshire District Council (UK) ), a company that has just completed the first of 20 planned hydro electric power plants in the Sichuan Province of China. Undertaken by Quintel, an independent consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , the study shows the positive impact of Cordys SOA technology on:
-- Overall IT cost savings
-- 40% savings over alternative solutions considered
-- 25% savings in IT related costs
-- The management and efficiency of dam construction
-- First plant completed nine months ahead of schedule
-- 10% savings in overall procurement and support costs
-- 50% reduction in HR support costs
-- The visibility and accessibility of information across
multiple and remote locations, and implementation of Single
View
-- Up to 50% improvement in the availability, accuracy and
presentation of information
-- The scalability of the system, which will be developed to
control and manage the roll out of 20 new power plants over
the next 15 years
-- Including the scaleable integration of critical systems,
such as Energy Accounting, River Level Monitoring across
new dams as they are completed
"EHDC needed to address legacy IT issues that limited the sharing of data and business collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. opportunities, by implementing a single integrated solution that provides enterprise wide, unified and centrally managed access to distributed IT resources." said Charney Hoffman, Senior Pre-Sales Architect, Cordys. "This solution needs to both address inefficiencies in existing IT architecture as well as provide the framework for the effective and efficient addition of new plants and associated complex management systems, over time." The Cordys SOA platform was implemented by EHDC over a three year period to support the construction of the first in a series of planned hydro electric power plants, as well as to ensure that IT and business efficiency were maximized throughout the entire 18 year project. "Cordys has dramatically increased the efficiency and visibility of EHDC's operations as well as laid the foundations for a fully scalable system that will be able to facilitate EHDC's development plans", said Omid Razavi, President of Cordys Americas. "Cordys is unique in the market because its flexible composite application In computing, the term composite application expresses a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple services. People often compare composite applications to mashups. framework was built from the ground-up. It has been designed to address all aspects of SOA, unlike the best of breed players, and is free from the integration issues faced by those vendors that have adopted an acquisition approach to their SOA plays." Notes to Editors About Cordys Cordys (www.cordys.com) is a leading provider of software that enables an organization to simplify their business. Cordys delivers an integrated SOA platform that adopts a Business Process centric approach to IT systems, allowing customers to become more efficient and more responsive to change. Companies from major industries worldwide have selected Cordys open standards-based platform and methodology to reduce IT complexity, leverage existing IT systems and better meet evolving business needs. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Cordys is a global company with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, China and India. About Ertan Ertan Hydropower Development Corporation (EHDC) is the organization responsible for the development, management and ongoing maintenance of all current and planned hydropower plants along the Yalong River Yalong River or Ya-lung River River, Sichuan province, southern China. It rises in mountains at an elevation of nearly 16,500 ft (5,000 m) in Qinghai province and flows into the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) on the Yunnan border. in the Sichuan Province of China. Established in 1988, the Corporation's headquarters are located in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. |
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