Abra Terminales Marítimas Integrates Data Processes, Reducing Costs by 20% and Ensuring Availability
 
 

Abra Terminales Marítimas Integrates Data Processes, Reducing Costs by 20% and Ensuring Availability

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Abra Terminales Marítimas (ATM) is one of the biggest and most modern container terminals in Europe’s South Atlantic region. Equipped with the most advanced means of management and handling, it is the natural entry and exit port for container goods in the Iberian Peninsula or southwestern France.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Abra Terminales Marítimas

  • “By reconfiguring our database environment with Oracle, we have greater security against failures, more speed, and enhanced reliability. In addition, the implementation centralized our infrastructure and enhanced tracking capabilities for intervening components, helping us reduce costs and increase productivity.” – Lorena Casas Gómez, IT Manager, Abra Terminales Marítimas

  • Ensure continuous availability for business-critical systems that support the shipping terminal’s high volume of operations, trade, and interactions with various agents
  • Enable maximum, around-the-clock information availability
  • Install a disaster recovery solution and back-up strategy to enable recovery of critical data —such as shipping records and manifests—in case of a disaster affecting the terminal
  • Automate tracking and administration of the technological platform, which was previously manual and decentralized
  • Optimize the technological configuration of the company’s second data center, which was under utilized

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with Oracle Partner Prioritic to implement Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Automatic Storage Management and integrate them with an existing high availability solution in one of ATM’s data centers, improving key system performance
  • Leveraged Oracle Real Application Clusters to implement a disaster recovery solution to ensure protection for crucial business data, such as container tracking records
  • Implemented Oracle Data Guard to obtain a maximum availability architecture, guaranteeing business continuity
  • Integrated loading and unloading operations and various types of transport—such as ship, automobile, and train—into a unified, highly efficient logistics platform
  • Centralized alert and report system administration and tracking to reduce manual processes by around 50%
  • Enhanced the quality of logistical and transportation services, resulting in a 30% improvement in speed and accuracy
  • Leveraged the implementation to reduce costs by 20%, decrease maintenance times by 40%, realize 5% personnel savings, and improve customer service by 70%

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