At the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit 2006 in San Diego today, Cordys, a provider of integrated SOA-based software that seeks to enable organizations to simplify business, today shared the results of a comprehensive independent study into the ROI and benefits of its SOA technology at a leading Chinese hydro electric power producer.

ebizQ received the following details:

The study takes a three year view of the implementation of Cordys SOA platform by the Ertan Hydropower Development Corporation (EHDC), 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, 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

“EHDC needed to address legacy IT issues that limited the sharing of data and business collaboration 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 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.”

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ebizQ's Beth Gold-Bernstein is in San Diego this week at the Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit. Make sure you stop by and say hi.

If anyone is at Gartner and feels the compulsion to take pity on those who had to stay home and mann the fort, and can send in a live report on anything interesting being said there, please send it on over. I'll post your entry as a live guest blog!

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I'm pleased to share that ebizQ has started aggregating the podcasts of Dana Gartner, Interarbor Solutions' principle analyst. Interarbor Solutions is involved with strategic IT analysis, RSS communications and produces informational business-to-business podcasts.

The first podcast from Dana that we'd like to share is his recent interview with Object Management Group CEO Richard Soley, where they discuss standards and complexity.

Dana also has a ZdNet blog, that you can check out here.

We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship wtih Dana.

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I recently sat down with John Randles, the new CEO of Dublin-based PolarLake. We talked about why anyone should open their wallets and spend money on an SOA, and talked a little more specifically about PolarLake's ESB. We made a podcast for the benefit of the ebizQ audience. Enjoy.

Click here to listen!

John joins PolarLake from Siebel Systems, where he was CTO of Banking and responsible for the Retail Banking business across the Americas and EMEA. Prior to joining Siebel John was CTO of Eontec, a world leader in component-based banking systems, which was acquired by Siebel Systems in 2004. John also led Eontec’s business in North America and had previously led Product Development, Strategy, Product Marketing, and pre-Sales globally. John graduated from the University of Limerick with a degree in computer engineering.

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