i-Seaports Leverages the Cloud for 24/7
i-Seaports gives its users 24/7 global trade advantages with its multi-language, multi-currency and multi-port management capabilities. It also provides a platform for web-services integration to applications a port needs at its fingertips – current weather and tides, graphically mapped AIS ship location tracking, web-cam connections for security and monitoring activities at berths or in container yards, mobile landside assets tracking, and radar and sonar.
i-Seaports runs in any browser and on any operating system. It integrates well with leading NetSuite services such as fixed asset management, detailed worker and employee payroll management. The Seamless management of every billable vessel and cargo related activity and service from time of scheduling to billing, collections and reporting eliminates redundancies, points of failure and mistakes, and greatly reduces the time from activity to collections.
Key Benefits
i-Seaports offers a level of resiliency in its ability to empower seaport owners, managers, and the seaport user community to work on location from PCs and laptops, at dockside with tablets (fully touchscreen enabled) or work remotely from anywhere, anytime in any language or any currency to manage their seaports operations and services.
i-Seaports removes the on-premise hardware and software dependency when weather might disrupt operations by storing both critical data and operating capability in the cloud. Remote support from providers also removes the arduous task of disk-based upgrades and patches on port LANs and PCs. i-Seaports upgrades occur twice a year during business downtime with no on-premise time requirements. Port IT personnel can preview and test new features well in advance of any upgrade. Providers of i-Seaports can run their test scripts and inform users with online training and support in how to use new features.
Customer Quote
“If someone asks me what does i-Seaports and NetSuite do for our seaport,I say for the past five years it has enabled us to put together all the pieces that give us an integrated ERP solution.The Harbour Mastery team has performed above and beyond expectations for managing very complex vessel scheduling and financial billing and accounting.Their Minimum Annual Guarantees and integrated lease management system has enabled us to stay on top of every detail we need. We see i-Seaports/NetSuite as a platform for the future to continuously improve our ERP. And finally Harbour Mastery’s day-to-day support has been there every time we needed it delivering ahead of schedule when issues and needs arise”.
– Kenneth L Washington, CIO & VP, Port Tampa Bay, USA
Country or Regional Multi-port Capabilities
i-Seaports has also accounted for the fact that in many countries, ports are centrally managed and controlled by their governments, or private enterprise that have global holdings of ports they are managing in many countries.
To accommodate this possibility, i-Seaports leverages NetSuite’s OneWorld solution that lets ports independently manage their operations while central control for finance and/or security monitoring can be given to the enterprise or government that owns them.