Case Study: Avnet achieves IT transformation — 60% faster development and real-time integration with Software AG

Avnet - Customer Case Study

Avnet, a global technology distributor founded in 1921 with more than 17,000 employees and $25.7 billion in 2012 revenue, faced growing IT complexity after 70+ acquisitions and multiple platforms and applications. Its legacy, high-cost integration approach—thousands of ETL maps and services—created latency, high maintenance overhead and limited agility, and IT needed to lower development costs while improving integration quality and speed.

Avnet adopted a Service-Oriented Architecture using Software AG’s webMethods Integration suite, webMethods Broker, CentraSite and webMethods Mediator to centralize integration and governance. The new SOA delivered real-time integration (replacing 15-minute latency), 60% faster development through asset reuse, hundreds of thousands of dollars in expected savings, improved visibility for business users, high availability with no maintenance downtime, and critical interfaces consistently performing under 100 milliseconds.

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