Autonomic Business Solutions
2007-10-16

Autonomic Business Solutions

In parallel to the development of its technology platform and suites, Whitestein Technologies has applied agent-based, autonomic design and solution principles and technologies to provide agile, self-managing business solutions to major customers in various application fields, resulting in an initial portfolio of vertical products.

Designed as so called Multi Agent Systems (MAS), Whitestein's autonomic business solutions autonomously and (pro)actively strive to follow a behavior orientated towards configurable business objectives, such as cost and productivity goals, or guaranteed service levels. Moreover, the self-management properties of Whitestein's autonomic business solutions enable enterprises to optimize their processes and relationships in real-time and to react timely and precisely to unexpected events, disruptions, and also opportunities in today's increasingly complex, dynamic, and networked business world.

As of today, the company's Living Systems® Business Solutions offering includes various autonomic, self-managing solutions for the telecommunications, logistics & supply chain management, and manufacturing industries:


Telecom:
Seamless Mobility and
Autonomic Service Access Management

The rising demand for seamless mobile broadband access creates attractive business opportunities for operators. However, it also poses significant new challenges for communications and service access management in resource-limited wireless networks. Whitestein's products and solutions for the telecom markets effectively manage the connectivity of mobile devices across heterogeneous access networks while optimizing the way network performance and resource availability are managed. [more]


Logistics and Supply Chain Management:
Adaptive Transportation and Supply Networks

The logistics and transportation industries are highly complex and time-critical business environments: A high number of organizational units and equipment have to achieve an optimal allocation of resources while coping with dynamically changing requests and conditions. Whitestein's products and solutions for the logistics and transportation markets help providers optimize cost, process efficiency and equipment utilization. [more]


Manufacturing:
Adaptive Production Networks and
Autonomic Machine Control

For the users and administrators of manufacturing control software the increasing flexibility of their equipment is a pivotal trend. However, the centralized, hardwired designs of traditional approaches impose limits on successfully dealing with unpredictability. Whitestein's novel products and solutions stand out due to their superior flexibility and adaptivity and drive the automatization and optimization of control systems further. [more]


Other Industries

Whitestein's technology platform has the potential to form a strong technological foundation for many other application domains and industries. [more]