Railinc uses Axway’s Managed File Transfer (MFT) to ensure seamless railroad operations with secure data transfers. Jeff Yusiewicz from Railinc discusses the company’s MFT system that delivers trust and reliability to customers, as well compliance with security and auditing standards.
Railinc is a company of about 300 people. We are in the B2B messaging business for the North American railroad industry. We have revenue of about $65 million a year, although we deal with hundreds of millions of dollars because we process a lot of information for the North American railroad industry.
The messages that we process for the railroad industry amount to about half a million transactions per day throughout the industry. It’s vital, critical information for people to get their routing, their planning for their businesses. Without the system, or if the system stops for even up to maybe two or three hours, freight rail traffic can actually be impeded, and our customers will not get their information. Factories can start to shut down. It’s very critical, and the service level that we need to be familiar with is about 99.95% uptime. We have to be up and running.
Secure transport is at the heart of our system. It takes messages from other software avenues into Railinc, but it’s the heart of the system where the messages are processed. Information can be translated slightly and then put into customers’ mailboxes. We either push to a customer or pull from a customer. They could be sending things to Railinc, or we could be sending information from our systems. A car location message could be government-related, where one of the government agencies needs to track and trace certain types of materials being transported around the country.
The big thing is trust with our customers, reliability for customers, and it also helps with our auditing standards. We have very strict auditing standards from internal folks and also external auditors. Secure transport helps us abide by very strict standards.
