{"id":7102,"date":"2021-07-14T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T10:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=7102"},"modified":"2021-07-21T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T10:54:52","slug":"ampol-accelerates-business-projects-and-cuts-integration-costs-with-boomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2021\/07\/14\/ampol-accelerates-business-projects-and-cuts-integration-costs-with-boomi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ampol accelerates business projects and cuts integration costs with Boomi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fuel and convenience retailer taps cloud integration platform to enable business transformation and accelerate speed of IT delivery.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boomi, a leading provider of cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS), has revealed that Ampol is using the Boomi AtomSphere Platform to drive agility and speed to market for critical business projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boomi enables Ampol to deliver new system integration services 70% faster and at 30% of the previous cost, providing a secure and scalable way of connecting customer, supplier and SaaS platforms to its self-hosted IT applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speed and reduced cost of leveraging the Boomi platform has allowed Ampol IT to deliver many projects, including smaller projects that previously would not have had viable business cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To become an agile organization that can adapt to fast-changing market conditions and customer demands, Ampol, Australia\u2019s leading transport fuels provider that serves 80,000 business customers every year and three million retail customers every week, has overhauled its digital capabilities. The company is leveraging a service-based architecture to connect myriad systems and data across the supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its ambitions inspired a multi-year strategy that required a major cloud migration and replacing legacy, on-premises systems with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Ampol also needed a unified integration solution to connect these new digital investments and provide a single conduit of data sets across all technologies and processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn an organization as diverse as Ampol \u2013 running hundreds of technology solutions crucial to daily workflows, retail operations and customer experience initiatives \u2013 we needed something in the middle to connect the data being generated,\u201d said Lindsay Hoare, Head of Technology at Ampol. \u201cWe also needed to orchestrate it across the organization. This became especially important once we started bringing new digital assets to the business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lindsay Hoare, Head of Technology at Ampol<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ampol implemented Boomi to replace what Hoare calls a \u2018spaghetti junction\u2019 featuring hundreds of on-premises, point-to-point integrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs well as connecting Ampol\u2019s IT environment, Boomi feeds accurate information back into our enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform in near-real-time so it can be analyzed to inform business decisions \u2013 for example, fuel prices, stock levels and shipping activities,\u201d added Hoare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith a single, automated platform handling information anonymously, our people can get on with their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need to think about how the data got there, whether it\u2019s reliable or protected, or if there could be missing pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ampol has built and launched a suite of core reusable integration services with Boomi that have been repurposed hundreds of times, enabling critical business functions and linking core business applications, including the ERP platform, customer relationship management (CRM), point-of-sales (POS) and supply chain systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a two-tier architecture stack and Boomi\u2019s low-code design, Ampol is enabling a common cybersecurity framework to be easily maintained and implemented, while also allowing for more rapid development of integration services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Boomi AtomSphere Platform is our data gateway; it\u2019s the single entry and exit point for Ampol data, which promotes security because we aren\u2019t forced to make Swiss cheese from our corporate firewall,\u201d said Hoare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Ampol\u2019s first Boomi projects was to implement an integrated bulk fuel ordering process for its commercial fuel customers. This process has already been reused over 60 times and is enabling supply chain deals to be delivered reliably against tight timeframes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoomi’s reusability and service-driven architecture has helped us deliver new services to stakeholders much faster, reduced integration costs and increased reliability as we\u2019ve eliminated extensive manual data entry from our employees\u2019 workflows,\u201d said Hoare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He continued: \u201cIn another example, the on-going administration and logistics behind our rebrand to Ampol required significant updates to site information to ensure all data points are accurate. Boomi provided a single, reusable master data service that didn\u2019t require any manual re-entry at any stage of the Location Master project. The data could be maintained once, extracted, and then, using APIs, securely transmitted to the correct endpoints \u2013 whether it\u2019s the Ampol FuelPay mobile app, Google Maps or the Site locator on the Ampol public website.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ampol also leveraged Boomi to efficiently onboard vendors from various EDI gateways on to a single EDI provider for more streamlined procurement of merchandise for its retail network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional outcomes include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Simplified compliance and reporting: Various Australian State Governments require fuel retailers to report changes within prescribed timeframes. Using Boomi, Ampol set up automated processes to relay near-real-time data from the field into a specialist pricing modelling engine to allow compliance to the price reporting regimes to be monitored with confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Decommissioned on-premises legacy middleware platform: Now that the cloud-based Boomi AtomSphere Platform has improved connectivity across the enterprise, Ampol could decommission its legacy on-premises middleware platform \u2013 another step in its journey to shift all workloads from on-premises data centers to the cloud. Another benefit was productivity gains for its IT staff, who no longer are consumed with coding and supporting complex legacy integrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ampol leveraged the services of Sydney-based IT services provider, Anatas, who provided Ampol with specialist integration consulting expertise, resources and architectural guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBad data causes outages in the integration landscape, which quickly leads to broader business disruption as departments, teams and customers struggle with the consequences of outdated or missing information,\u201d said Jason Frost, Chief Executive Officer at Anatas. \u201cAs Ampol continues to diversify its services, Boomi provides an incredibly flexible and scalable \u2018software glue\u2019 that structures systems and data to stand the test of time and deliver the right information wherever it\u2019s needed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmpol is an iconic brand engrained in Australia\u2019s consumer and business landscape, making connected data a critical factor in building intelligence across such a large-scale operation,\u201d said David Irecki, Director Solutions Consulting APJ at Boomi. \u201cThrough its pragmatic investments \u2013 and adopting the Boomi AtomSphere Platform to steer its Digital Transformation \u2013 Ampol has engineered a digital landscape that drives integrated experiences for Australian consumers and companies globally. From managing shipping activities, stock levels and supply right through to fuel prices and its fuel card initiative, Ampol can rely on Boomi\u2019s low-code integration to keep its systems and data connected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fuel and convenience retailer taps cloud integration platform to enable business transformation and accelerate speed of IT delivery. Boomi, a leading provider of cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS), has revealed that Ampol is using the Boomi AtomSphere Platform to drive agility and speed to market for critical business projects. Boomi enables Ampol to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,50,55,44,54],"tags":[2202,694,2203,2204],"class_list":["post-7102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-case-studies","category-case-study-newsletter","category-oceania","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-ampol","tag-boomi","tag-boomi-atomsphere-platform","tag-lindsay-hoare"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7102"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}