Leading SaaS EDI Service Provider SPS Commerce Leverages Oracle's Software As a Service Platform
SPS Commerce Deploys its Multi-Tenant Services on Oracle Platform for Superior Reliability and Scalability
Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 13, 2007 - SPS Commerce, the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), announced today that it leverages the Oracle SaaS Platform, comprised of Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager, for all of SPS’ hosted supply chain services. With more than 10,000 suppliers, retailers, 3PLs, freight forwarders, sourcing companies and other supply chain partners using SPS’ services daily, SPS Commerce needed to simplify its systems integration and increase overall system flexibility, reliability, and throughput. In 2007, the company transitioned to the Oracle SaaS Platform to support its growing EDI outsourcing services.
By choosing the Oracle SaaS Platform, the company has experienced the following short and long-term benefits to its EDI services:
- Allowed the company to confidently process 3 million transactions monthly and scale to meet increasing demand
- Reduced processing time for individual documents by 80%
- Improved error handling, notifications, and document-tracking capabilities
- Minimized the workload for the tech support team by helping them easily identify problems and resolve issues
- Automated processes to reduce manual labor
“Oracle’s leading database, middleware, and enterprise manager software provide SPS Commerce with a rich platform on which to deliver a competitive SaaS offering,” stated Archie Black, President and CEO at SPS Commerce. “We not only leverage the Oracle SaaS Platform for our supply chain services at our data center, but also integrate with Oracle systems at many of our customer sites, such as Welch’s. Software-as-a-service is the future, and we are pleased to partner with an organization that shares our vision.”
