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IBM Japan Builds New Accounting System for NYK Line

Posted on: Friday, 16 June 2006, 12:00 CDT

IBM Japan today announced the implementation of NYK Line's new accounting system as part of the company's medium-term management plan "New Horizon 2007" announced in March 2005.

NYK Line, one of the world's leader maritime service providers, is drawing on its international network of ocean, land and air transport operations with the aim of becoming the world's leading global logistics megacarrier group. In support of its corporate objective, NYK Line's "New Horizon 2007," focuses on three key strategies: expanding the company's maritime business, evolving its logistics integration capabilities, and enhancing corporate fundamentals including technology infrastructure and processes.

As part of its corporate fundamentals focus, NYK Line contracted IBM Global Business Services to renew its accounting system and the supporting IT infrastructure.

The new accounting system standardizes and brings transparency to NYK's financial processes including charter fee settlement management, fuel inventory management, container management to improve corporate compliance and reduce time spent on finance processing tasks. IBM Global Business Services Value Delivery Center (VDC) provided comprehensive support during the project including system strategy development, integration of common processes across the enterprise and IT architecture expertise.

To implement a system that improved responsiveness to rapidly changing market conditions, scaled according to throughput increases required a minimal implementation period, NYK Line selected IBM's open mainframe IBM System z990, Linux and SAP's ERP package.

The strongest feature of IBM's mainframe z990 is its ability to run its flagship z/OS operating system concurrently with open and industry standard technologies such as Linux and Java(TM) Linux on a single server. Another distinguishing feature is the z990 offers an Integrated Facility for Linux, a central processor dedicated to Linux workloads, which allows users to temporarily turn on additional IFL engine capacity for spikes in usage, thereby enabling better cost management and utilization of IT resources.

NYK Line will run its core data on its z/OS-based database and has built a reliable and highly secure open system to run SAP's ERP package on Linux.

With IBM's unique virtualization technology, duplicate infrastructures previously needed to separate the live system environment and the development system environment are no longer needed. Both environments can coexist on a single server as multiple logical partitions can be configured on the z990 which in turn will reduce the TCO of the company's IT infrastructure.

In addition to its robust hardware features with near-zero latency, the IBM System z990 has received the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5) certification level for the security of its logical partitions. IBM's mainframe is the only general-purpose hardware product that has received the EAL5 certification. Since each logical partition is connected with HiperSockets, which provides a high speed connectivity between virtual servers and a single z990, a high level of security can be maintained to avoid the risks of interception and manipulation of sensitive data that external network connections are vulnerable to.

Unmatched flexibility, robustness and scalability are the result of the IBM's mainframe market-leading virtualization technology. IBM pioneered virtualization technology in its mainframe over 40 years and today, the mainframe's virtualization and collaborative capabilities remain on a level never before seen in the computer industry.

For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com

 Contact: Jenny Galitz IBM Media Relations 646-598-4551 galitz@us.ibm.com

SOURCE: IBM

Source: MARKET WIRE

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