European parcel company picks BroadVision

DPD, one of Europe's leading parcel carriers, has selected BroadVision Commerce Agility Suite 8.1 as the web platform for global deployment of its new internet presence and e-commerce applications.

"We have developed DPD from a company serving domestic markets to a real international organisation - we're focusing on expanding the network and offering our customers a homogeneous product portfolio with international products and fully integrated services," said Dr Pia-Maria Zecevic, Director Communications of DPD.

"BroadVision enables us to create a multi-language site with an integrated system and application architecture.

"Ease of web content management; reusable components; and reduced maintenance and administrative overhead made the decision easy to go with BroadVision's solution suite".

"We are pleased that DPD, a leading European parcel provider, selected our innovative BroadVision Commerce Agility Suite as its web platform," said Andrea Rubei, General Manager of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), BroadVision.

"BroadVision Commerce Agility Suite is a proven integrated platform for strategic companies that want superior flexibility, scalability and cost-effective components".

DPD also chose BroadVision Global Services to implement the project.

BroadVision 8.1 incorporates the K2 (Kona * Kukini) methodology, a rapid implementation paradigm that dramatically speeds up the application development lifecycle, resulting in significant productivity improvements for customers.

To help its customers harness these benefits, BroadVision developed the K2 Methodology, or K2M, based on best practices accumulated from the company's 14-plus years of e-business project experience.

The methodology emphasises a "time-boxed" approach, iterated throughout all phases of a project's lifecycle.

It follows the 80-20 principle, replacing much of the effort expended on hard coding with simpler configuration and assembly of reusable Kona objects and Kukini patterns.

Laborious coding, which represents 80 per cent of the work, is delegated to "role players" - freeing high-end resources to focus on the inevitable, but more challenging, "one-off" programming tasks representing 20 per cent of the work.

Field implementations of K2M have demonstrated substantial time-to-market gains and convincing cost savings across a wide spectrum of e-business initiatives.

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