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Introducing the Cube-IQ Load Planning SOA

I hope to show you how focus on a Service-Oriented Architecture can directly improve your bottom line, and on the way explain exactly how Cube-IQ can adapt itself to your particular load planning and optimization niche.

But first, what is Service-Oriented Architecture?

The term Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) expresses a perspective of software architecture that defines the use of services to support the requirements of software users. In an SOA environment, resources on a network are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation.

One of the fundamental design principles that drove development was the requirement to have a Load Planning product that was extremely flexible, customizable and friendly to other systems. The SOA paradigm fits the bill admirably, enabling us to split our systems into a number of “services” each of which perform an essential part of Load Planning, but can be implemented quickly, easily and in either a centralized or distributed way to maximize our fit with any existing systems out there.

The Cube-IQ loading algorithm from MagicLogic Optimization Inc. is already recognized to be the best on the market. Over ten years of continued development have resulted in the most performant algorithm of its kind. Side-by-side tests continue to prove that our system handles the most complex loading rules, provides the most features and above all, loads the most!

Yet its license fees are not prohibitive at all. In fact, in a very short time, Cube-IQ will be paying you back – over and over. We’ll see exactly how presently, but of course first we have to make sure that you can use the system in your existing operation; so: till the next time...