I blogged very briefly awhile back about the way shipping company Wallem embraced Enterprise RSS. At the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference, Scott from Attensa was in the audience when Patrick Slesinger, CIO of Wallem, spoke of his simple implementation and integration with the K2 business intelligence platform. Scott published the presentation Patrick gave over on the Attensa blog.
Patrick’s key motivations for deploying the platform are fascinating to me. His four big challenges in developing an IT infrastructure for their floating contingent of vessels and personnel around the globe were:
- Making processes mobile
- Moving process away from terrestrial email
- Pushing information anywhere
- Measuring the real value of information
All are summed up by the notion of “getting the right information to the right people at the right time.”
But the most stunning revelation of the presentation, now that I can see it, is the savings passed along to Wallem’s customers as a result of better information tools leading to improved fleet management…
RSS and Black Gold
In two extremely important and obvious areas of expense, Wallem was able to deliver an 8% fuel oil savings for each of its 329 ships under management. That 8% translated to $394,800,000 annual savings. And they were able to save 6% of each ship’s annual lube oil expenditures - generating another $11,844,000 in savings annually.
How?
The managed enterprise RSS system from Attensa, the Blackpearl BI system from K2 and Microsoft’s SharePoint portal combined to deliver these benefits:
- Increased visibility into systems and resources
- Mobile connected process and feedback loops
- Alignment of information and process, creating knowledge and value
- Better understanding of information required by: Who, What, When, Where and Why…
Imagine the relative ease of deployment, associated benefits and savings that one might discover by connecting any global (or even regional) enterprise’s people and systems through enterprise RSS - without having to rig it up for a floating, constantly moving fleet and personnel.
Mike Gotta, analyst at the Burton Group, and RSS and social media expert moderated the session and summed it up nicely:
“This is not the typical RSS application. That was great. I think it’s stunning how simple things can work so well.”
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