If you have ever vacationed in Pennsylvania and had to stop for a tank of gas or a cup of coffee, you probably know the name Wawa. With over 500 stores in five states and 13,000 employees, Wawa ranks as one of the largest convenience store chains in the United States. Because of  the high volume of retail transactions including the warehousing and shipment of merchandise and order fulfillment, Wawa relies on ISE's EnterpriseSCHEDULE to help process transactions for all their stores and EnterpriseBACKUP to back up their sizeable storage.

Bob Blakney, who has worked with ISE software for 16 years, helps manage their 15 node VMS network with the help of only two other employees. Since ISE's software is versatile and stabile, Bob's team is able to accomplish more of their daily tasks while EnterpriseSCHEDULE and EnterpriseBACKUP automate thousands of transactions on a daily basis.

ISE software is the "best in the market".
Bob Blakney
16 year ISE software user
Wawa

Wawa's stores transmit their transactions to the data center where store order fulfillment and financial transactions including payroll are processed on a daily basis. It is at this point that EnterpriseSCHEDULE takes over, automatically processing thousands of transactions at night for use during the next business day. Despite the constant daily processing performed by EnterpriseSCHEDULE, the software has performed flawlessly and Wawa has rarely needed technical support.

EnterpriseSCHEDULE also comes into play in Wawa's backup strategy. Incorporating EnterpriseBACKUP jobs that are scheduled with EnterpriseSCHEDULE, they back up approximately140 disk drives totaling about 1 terabyte of data. Utilizing a Storagetek jukebox with a library of more than 780 DLT tapes on  8 drives, backup jobs are a massive undertaking, made possible only through the use of EnterpriseBACKUP. Tapes are cycled on and off-site once a month using EnterpriseBACKUP's powerful offsite storage features.

Bob has looked at several backup and scheduling packages over the years and has come to the educated conclusion that ISE software is overall the "best in the market". The automation features save him time, leaving him free to work on important tasks and leave routine job scheduling and daily backups to ISE's software solutions.