.NET-based stops and starts: lack of knowledge--and lingering fear about technology spending--are stalling the migration to Microsoft .NET, but those who have made the move say it pays.(Information technology: innovation & insights)

MSI, December, 2004 by Baer, Tony

Like most logistics service providers, American Port Services tailors its business processes--which entail receiving goods at seaports in the Southeastern U.S. and transporting them to their final destinations--to suit individual customers. And that fact figures prominently in the Savannah, Ga.-based freight forwarder's information technology choices.

For instance, American Port Services uses a warehouse and yard management application from High-Jump Software because the system was written in a unique 4GL language that makes it easier to customize business processes. Now American Port Services is exploring possibilities for further enhancing its ability to create custom processes by exploiting another feature of the HighJump architecture: its use of...

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