Geo–Replicator Case Studies.
APL.
APL has deployed the Regs4ships Safety Management System which uses Infonic's Geo–Replicator software to deliver compression of the Safety Management System updates of up to 90% - so that they can be efficiently sent over low bandwidth satellite networks to ships allover the world.
- Client:
- APL
- Country:
- USA
- Industry:
- Shipping.
- Profile:
- APL is a 13 ship division of APL is part of NOL, the world's second largest container shipping company with over 100 ships world wide.
- Key Drivers:
- The client purchased Geo-Replicator for deployment across the fleet - to deliver compression of updates across its SharePoint® 2007 based Quality and Safety management Syestem. This would deliver improvements in health and safety compliance and control of satellite costs.
APL had been looking at proprietary SMS systems but was concerned about the need to train staff on proprietary user interfaces, the requirement for external consultancy in the system deployment and their inflexibility in the event of migration to any other system. APL were worried that they would become locked into a proprietary SMS system that it was virtually impossible to migrate away from at any point in the future. Therefore APL opted to adopt a Microsoft SharePoint based system designed by Regs4Ships Ltd from Southampton in the UK. Because this system is SharePoint based it would provide great flexibility for APL to adjust or change their SMS system in the future.
The system links to all the regulatory and statutory publications including IMO, SOLAS, FLAG. The Regs4ships system is a standard Microsoft® Word® system built in SharePoint 2007: it uses no proprietary software or user interfaces. Updates to the SMS content are sent to remote users onboard ship by either Internet, or via the email system. Either way the update process is totally automated – requiring no user action.
The Regs4ships SMS uses Infonic's Geo–Replicator software to compress the SMS updates by up to 90% so that they can be efficiently sent over low bandwidth satellite networks to ships allover the world. The system could not operate without Infonic's enormous data compression and network acceleration.