Icertis has announced the General Availability of its Transportation Management product on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Azure. Icertis Transportation Management System (ITMS) is an innovative product suite developed to cater to all transportation management requirements and emerging supply chain execution challenges.

Volatility in fuel prices, unpredictable capacity requirements, increasing customer demand for improved serviceability, growing modern trade, and changing regulatory environment are the key concerns for transportation operations in today’s marketplace. ITMS with its rich set of capabilities on a cloud native platform delivers a marked improvement in the operating parameters by improving overall freight efficiency, reducing freight costs, and securing capacity.

“ITMS is the only transportation solution in the market that is architected ground up in the cloud and meets all transportation requirements of cargo, people and fleet on one platform. The system leverages the true potential of the cloud to deliver a best of breed, flexible, agile and transparent TMS,” said Samir Bodas, CEO and co-founder Icertis. He further added, “With its high impact capabilities and quick time to deployment, ITMS helps businesses significantly reduce their cost of transportation operations.”

Icertis TMS offers a complete functionality footprint across planning and execution, a thorough visibility into operations, data driven decision making, and an integrated fleet management capability. The product’s ‘born in the cloud’ transportation planning engine provides an advanced streaming optimisation capability at enterprise scale. Also notable amongst the array of features offered by ITMS is its modern user interface which is highly intuitive and extremely easy to use. The interface allows for quick adoption across the end user community to make full use of the functional depth of the product.

"Microsoft believes in the power of cloud computing and is delighted that Icertis has selected Azure as their platform of choice for Icertis Transportation Management System. The growing breadth and extent of partner solutions on Azure is exciting for customers and their potential”, said Pat Schlight, Senior Director - US Azure Partnerships.