Company

Borders Group, Inc., is a FORTUNE 500 company that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BGP. The company is a leading global retailer of books, music, movies and other information and entertainment items. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Borders Group operates over 375 Borders Books and Music stores in the U.S., as well as 23 international Borders stores, approximately 800 Waldenbooks locations and 36 U.K.-based Books etc. stores. Online shopping is available through www.borders.com. Borders Group employs more than 32,000 people worldwide and posted revenues of approximately $3.4 billion.
 

Projects

SPOS

We were responsible for the design and implementation of the three-tiered infrastructure to support the Special Order System for Borders and Walden stores and Borders-Online, a Web book store. The infrastructure supported order management, customer set-up, credit card authorization, and real-time availability checking for books, CDs and videos. The legacy systems included Ingrams and Borders fulfillment centers on MVS mainframes, DB2 order and customer databases on AIX and SUN, and a credit card authorization system on NT. Complex shopping algorithms were developed by using the transaction flow capabilities of DOT/XM. The infrastructure was implemented using Orbix, MQSeries, and DOT/XM.

 

Technology