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whitepaper Coromandel Sugars Cuts Financial Closing Time by 70%2008-11-01 Oracle
  Coromandel Sugars Ltd wanted to unify disparate systems that prevent the business from achieving end-to-end control of sugar cane manufacturing and distribution processes and communicate with the 20,000 farmers that supply sugar cane to the business. The challenge was to achieve efficient order management, accounting, and production processes to improve productivity Receive data in time for the managers to make decisions. Coromandel Sugars Ltd reduced financial closing time by 70% with improved data analysis capabilities that enabled managers to make informed decisions quickly as well as increased operational efficiency by 30% as a result of automating processes and streamlining the supply chain.

Tags: Finance, Supply Chain Management		   
whitepaper Alfresco Software Case Study: The Clinical Research Information Exchange (CRIX)2008-11-01 Alfresco Software
  Clinical Research Information Exchange (CRIX) International is a not-for-profit collaborative consortium that includes government agencies, members of the biopharmaceutical industry, academic researchers, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders in the development of new drug therapies. Getting new drugs to market has always been a complex, costly and labor-intensive process. One of the most painful aspects of this procedure has been the vast amount of paperwork involved in collecting, processing, and distributing documentation of clinical trials to submit to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The CRIX Collaborative Platform was developed using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, including JBoss Hibernate for database access. It also utilized TriCipher as a unified authentication infrastructure.

Tags: Infrastructure Management		   
whitepaper Alfresco Software Case Study: go2 Media - go2.com2008-11-01 Alfresco Software
  A mobile media company, go2 Media was using a customized version of WordPress as a Content Management Solution (CMS) for its mobile media service business. go2 found that scalability and maintenance were extremely difficult with WordPress because it was very tied to the PHP model. go2 realized that it needed a true enterprise scale content management system that would allow it to more easily and quickly create and update content for its growing mobile sites. go2 explored a selection of Open Source content management solutions including Joomla, Drupal and JCR. Ultimately, go2 chose Alfresco Software because it was a more flexible, scalable and cost-effective solution.

Tags: Web Content Management		   
whitepaper Proactive Management Shapes Up IT Applications2008-11-01 Fujitsu
  In 2004, Raisio divested its chemical business, which previously constituted almost half of the company's turnover. At this point, the remaining business units decided to examine whether SAP would be an option worth considering for an appropriate and uniform ERP system. The new ERP solution was deployed in the domestic animal feed industry in May of the following year, in the Food unit at the beginning of 2006 and a year later in the Ingredients unit. As the SAP implementation progressed, Raisio mulled over different options for application management. In addition to ERP, Raisio's SAP system incorporated finances, procurement, warehouse management, sales and distribution as well as sales forecasting.

Tags: ERP		   
whitepaper Alfresco Software Case Study: Reed Managed Services2008-11-01 Alfresco Software
  Reed Managed Network Services (RMNS), part of Reed Managed Services, provides IT services to the six Reed companies. The top priority project for RMNS in 2005 was to provide a single desktop for all branch consultants. The company wanted to replace current business excellence manual and incorporate role-specific training and computer based training, produce best practice in documented form and distributed access for all Reed Employment including Hospitality, Industrial Divisions and, in the next phase, other Reed companies. Reed wanted an open source solution, which offered performance and scalability, but that could easily be integrated with the existing infrastructure. This was made much easier by Alfresco's stated aim of making anything they do transparent and open.

Tags: Document Management, Web Content Management		   
whitepaper Nobleza Piccardo Centralizes Information and Improves Sales Transaction Times2008-11-01 Oracle
  Nobleza Piccardo wanted to establish a stable, robust database with a large daily transaction processing capability and centralize sales information to accelerate times for transactions and daily sales processing. The challenge was to improve operating efficiency in sales, logistics, and distribution to facilitate its relationships with tobacco distributors in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay and improve the efficiency of the organization's database administration and monitoring to avoid operational or performance problems. Nobleza Piccardo worked with Synchro Technologies, an Oracle partner, to implement Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, establishing a stable, robust database with vast transactional capabilities as well as centralized business information, consolidating data from 50,000 points of sale in Argentina, improving efficiencies in logistics and distribution.

Tags: Sales - Marketing		   
whitepaper Giant Eagle Reduces Lead Times, Safety Stock, and Overall Transportation Costs2008-11-01 Oracle
  Giant Eagle needed a single, transportation platform for inbound freight that provides real-time benefits at every step of the logistics lifecycle: transportation optimization, execution, planning, visibility/ analytics, event management and freight payment. There was a need to automate key transportation processes, increase on-time deliveries, and reduce freight spend. Giant Eagle implemented Oracle Transportation Management to create an integrated transportation platform that helped Giant Eagle reduce overall safety stock by 40% as well as reduced freight spending by 5%.   
whitepaper Diligenta Cuts Human Resources and Payroll System Implementation Costs2008-11-01 Oracle
  Diligenta wanted to benefit from the advanced capabilities of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management while minimizing implementation time, cost, and risk as well as streamline and automate payroll management by replacing a standalone tier-two solution. The challenge was to add best-practice Human Resources (HR) and payroll functionality incrementally to meet the needs of a rapidly growing BPO provider. Diligenta selected Oracle Accelerate solutions to benefit from comprehensive, pre-configured applications with industry-specific functionality and rapid implementation as well as leveraged self-service functionality for routine administrative HR tasks.

Tags: Accounting Applications, Human Capital Management		   
whitepaper Comic Relief Leverages Technology Innovations to Increase Donations Almost 100-Fold in 10 Years2008-11-01 Oracle
  Comic Relief wanted to guarantee continued ability to capitalize on the emotional response of viewers during live broadcasts by capturing and processing instantly the thousands of donations, every minute. The challenge was to continue to cut operating overheads for the entire technology stack while reducing power consumption and cutting carbon footprint and process an anticipated US$50 million from Red Nose day 2009. Comic Relief pursued strategy of leveraging technology advances to increase transaction speed, improve service to donors, drive innovation, and cut IT costs by upgrading to Oracle Database 11g as well as processed 100% of donations received during Red Nose Day and sport relief live events using Oracle's virtualized, grid-based infrastructure.

Tags: Database Applications		   
whitepaper Continental Special Risks Inc. Eliminates Data Overload and Accelerates Report Generation2008-11-01 Oracle
  Continental Special Risks Inc. writes business in the United States under a license from Lloyd's of London. While Lloyd's is an important part of Continental's success, handling its specific reporting needs introduces significant complexity. Continental saw the need for a reporting tool to help it tap into the vast amount of data residing in Oracle Documaker (previously known as Skywire policy production system). The Oracle Documaker reporting tool enables Continental's users to utilize features such as unlimited data exporting; flexibility in data exporting to Excel, Access, and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) formats; and visual mapping of forms and fields to data columns for simple report creation.   


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