P&O Ferries initiated its legacy replacement programme. With more than 30,000 sailings each year and numerous initiatives around the decarbonisation of its fleet, the British shipping company will implement a platform that will enable them to deliver solutions and capabilities to set them apart in the market - faster and better, while removing the risk of changing their core ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). P&O Ferries will continue its collaboration with Netcompany, the IT services consultancy who has been a strategic partner and advisor for their digital transformation journey since it was announced in 2022.

Netcompany will implement its PULSE platform to build and safely deliver a minimum viable product (MVP), to provide an integration layer for both legacy applications and a new suite of business applications, which are currently being implemented. This layered, step-change approach means that P&O Ferries can prove capability in the new applications suite first, before decommissioning the legacy applications and gives the company more control and opportunities for feedback at each phase. The PULSE platform will enable better process and workflow digitisation to improve business efficiency and in the long-term, to enable the use of new machine learning and AI-powered solutions.

Once the MVP has been successfully delivered for a specific ferry route, it will then be rolled out across the entirety of P&O Ferries' routes, until the company is ready to fully decommission the remaining legacy applications. PULSE has proven success in de-risking transformation projects across transport, logistics, and other critical infrastructure environments. At its core, PULSE can simultaneously process and translate millions of unstructured data from multiple inputs to enable and simplify real-time decision-making.

Most notably, the platform was recently announced as the foundation of AIRHART, which enables AI-based real-time decision-making for over 4,500 operational staff at Copenhagen Airport in Denmark.