C. R. Laurence, the glass industry's leading North American source for supplies and equipment, has implemented Client Server Link (CSL) as Remote Server Call infrastructure for their HP NonStop servers supporting the brisk ordering activities for its over 20,000 products.
 
"I was interested in CSL because it was much more reasonably priced than RSC", says Dave Scott, VP of MIS at CRL. "I saw the product demonstrated at ITUG in September 2001, we took it on a trial basis in November, and by December we had purchased it, implemented it, and were already enjoying the benefits".

CSL has not only saved money but has also increased the efficiency and conserved precious server resources in C. R. Laurence's Web-based ordering process. CSL also simplified the nightly transfer of the master data files from HP NonStop to SQL servers by minimizing network traffic and processing time, being up to five times faster than RSC.

Statistical and analytical tools enable CRL to monitor its CSL environment to determine if a problem is related to network or middleware.