Saving Millions in the Cloud
Posted by Kathy Jameson on Wed, Nov 30, 2011
A recent ComputerWorld article mentioned how Mohawk Fine Papers uses cloud-based services to sell its products on Amazon.com. The company has generated tens of thousands of dollars by creating business processes in the cloud.
Mohawk discovered our Foreign Currency Exchange Rates Web service. This Web service provides "up-to-date currency exchange rates to Mohawk's on-premises ERP system at the time of invoice for international orders." It easily keeps track of foreign exchange rates for 160 currencies. This service provides both current (updated every 30 minutes) and historical foreign exchange rates.
Mohawk cites recent projects, including the one with StrikeIron, responsible for "producing new revenue opportunities and millions of dollars in savings."
Thanks to low cost and short integration time, cloud-based Web services make it possible to reap big benefits.
What are your thoughts? Is this really the end of massive IT architectures?