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A furniture maker, a timber group, a global logistics operator, a frame manufacturer twice over, a real-estate data body, a theatre-seating firm, a wine merchant and two banks. All of it on IBM i, and all of it published — each page names where its numbers come from.
Manufacturing · JORI
A 3D configurator that asks the manufacturing rules rather than a copy of them, so it cannot produce an order the factory has to reject. Then, during the 2020 lockdown, the production planning system underneath it.
Manufacturing · Cras Woodgroup
Business logic in Db2 for i drives the machines through Node-RED — temperature, pressure, glue, per order. Two Power S924 in PowerHA failover, because a line that runs around the clock cannot wait for a server.
Logistics · ID Logistics
22,000 employees across 320 sites, running on a 5250 interface when lockdown sent online orders through the roof. Modernised with CDVTS, our own translation tool, then moved to Power Systems Virtual Server.
Retail · Deknudt Frames
A white-label storefront each retail partner presents as their own, integrated at database level with pricing and promotion rules built up over decades — so a catalogue change reaches every partner site at once.
E-commerce · Print & Frame
RPG and SQL, WordPress and PHP, Python, Ghostscript and Node.js — all on IBM i, side by side with code from the 1970s. It turned a B2B manufacturer into a B2C business during the year its shops were shut.
Real estate · ORIS
New legislation meant every Belgian holiday home had to be registered. Lazee does it automatically, feeds several booking sites from one listing, and makes a double booking impossible.
Manufacturing · FIBROCIT
Fixed seating for theatres and lecture halls, where every chair is custom-built to its position in the room. Project management, accounting and a digital archive, hosted on the CD-Invest IBM i cloud.
Retail · Wijnen Van Maele
A Bruges wine merchant since 1949. Cloud migration to POWER9, green screens replaced with a Node.js interface, and a blockchain application because a customer asked for traceability in writing.
Banking · Banco Santander & Andbank
Publish an event once and let the systems that care subscribe, so adding a consumer stops being a change to the core. It won the Benelux Power 2020 Excellence Award for System Management.
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