Case Study
Lakeside Book Company Reduces Infrastructure & Licensing Costs by 40% and Accelerates Integration Deployment with Boomi iPaaS
Download Case StudyIndustry: Book Manufacturing and Distributing
Key Technologies/Platform: WebSphere, Informatica, DataStage, Boomi iPaaS, SAP, Oracle, Ceridian, IBM Mainframe and iSeries.
About the Client
Lakeside Book Company is the premier book manufacturing company in North America with a legacy of printing quality books for over 160 years for publishers in every market segment. Offering a range of services, from digital and offset printing to binding and distribution, the company enables publishers to meet market demands efficiently. With a commitment to innovation and sustainability, it provides advanced technologies and environmentally responsible practices across the book manufacturing and distributing ecosystem.
Business Challenge
The company’s integration environment relied on multiple legacy systems, including WebSphere, Informatica, and DataStage, leading to:
- High maintenance costs for hardware and licensing
- Slow integration deployment cycles
- Limited compatibility with cloud infrastructure
- Siloed resources across platforms
Business Requirements
To address these challenges, Lakeside Book Company aimed to:
- Consolidate its integration platforms
- Reduce operational costs and simplify licensing
- Accelerate integration, development, and deployment
- Build a scalable, cloud-ready architecture for future growth
- Enable real-time data access and business agility
The Solution
Jade Global, a certified Boomi partner, collaborated with Lakeside Book Company to implement a structured Boomi migration with the following key actions:
- Assessment & Planning: Mapped integrations, evaluated complexity, and defined a phased strategy.
- Migration Strategy: Balanced re-architecture vs. lift-and-shift, with minimal business disruption.
- Platform Deployment: Set up Boomi AtomSphere across DEV (Atom), QA and PROD (Molecule) with hybrid and HA design.
- Integration Execution: Built integrations for Finance, Supply Chain, HR, and Customer Experience; consolidated and standardized them.
- Automation & QA: Applied reusable patterns and implemented automated regression testing.
Business Benefits Achieved
The Boomi iPaaS implementation delivered measurable improvements across performance, cost, and efficiency, enabling Lakeside Book Company to shift from legacy maintenance to innovation-led operations.
- Reduced infrastructure and licensing costs by 40%, driving significant savings for the business.
- Improved integration deployment times by 40%, accelerating time-to-value and reducing project delays.
- Reduced development time by 40%, enabling faster implementation and quicker project turnarounds.
- Achieved a 2-3x improvement in performance, boosting efficiency and enhancing system responsiveness.
- Maintained 99% integration uptime, ensuring seamless operations and minimal downtime.
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