Con-way Drives to Real-time Optimization with TIBCO Fast Data Uses real-time events, processes, insight, and decision-making CHALLENGE The primary goal of Con-way’s integration strategy was to provide the core business with real-time analytics and automated decision-making. “The risk in our business is not having real-time visibility,” says Maja Tibbling, principal enterprise architect. “Our key metric is operating ratio: cost over revenue. If we’re running trucks that are empty, we’re getting no revenue, only cost. We need to optimize drivers, trailers, routes, and the miles we travel continuously as conditions change. “If we have a major weather event, we still need to know how to get critical shipments delivered, perhaps food that may even be needed because of the storm. We

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