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whitepaper Hosting Provider Uses Scalable Computing to Create Hybrid Backup Solution2009-11-23 Microsoft
  Mamut provides smaller businesses with a simple, cost-effective way to meet their IT services needs by offering a range of applications, services, and support through single sign-on access to the Mamut Business Platform. The company also offers Mamut One, a "Software-plus-services" solution that provides Mamut and Microsoft products and technologies over the Web. Mamut chose the Windows Azure platform in part because it offers a relational database in Microsoft SQL Azure. Mamut also believes that because Windows Azure is a development platform, partners will be able to collaborate on new applications and go to market together.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper The NSW Health Department Introduces New Business Intelligence Solutions to Provide Holistic Patient-Centric Data Analysis2009-11-08 Microsoft
  NSW Health manages healthcare for the state of New South Wales. It comprises 232 public hospitals across eight geographical areas, as well as numerous radiology and specialist units. NSW Health wanted to obtain holistic patient data across the continuum of care and provide hospital and area health managers with relevant views of data. They also wanted to improve patient care and flow by providing up-to-date information at the point of care. After investigating a range of business intelligence options, the tender was awarded to Microsoft who signed an agreement for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to cover around 90,000 employees, across 40,000 desktops and 2,500 servers.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper GuestLogix Gains Deeper Business Insight With the Help of SQL Server 20082009-11-03 Microsoft
  GuestLogix Inc. is a leading provider of onboard retail technology to the passenger travel industry. The Toronto-based company delivers innovative products and services to enhance the customer experience and drive ancillary revenue growth for airlines. The company wanted capitalize on current market trends and increased industry demand for onboard retail solutions. To achieve this, GuestLogix first needed to improve its Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting capabilities and enable staff to access a single view of operational performance to evaluate sales efforts and make meaningful forecasts. With this in mind, GuestLogix has developed a new BI environment based on Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools		   
whitepaper U.S. Foodservice Optimizes Lead Management With Hosted Customer Relationship Management Solution2009-11-01 Oracle
  U.S. Foodservice wanted to provide an easy-to-use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system that enables U.S. Foodservice to standardize account and lead management nationwide and increase visibility into the sales pipeline and expand reporting capabilities to improve decision-making. The challenge was to tailor information access controls and CRM processes to match the complex, multilayered organizational structure of the company, which employs a large field team for selling and distributing food and related products and services. U.S. Foodservice implemented Oracle CRM On Demand to provide U.S. Foodservice employees with access to consolidated customer data, using Oracle Business Intelligence Suite to standardize and improve visibility into lead and account management.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Essent Consolidates IT Infrastructure to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership by 50%2009-11-01 Oracle
  Essent wanted to increase computing capacity to better service the processes and reduce costs by standardizing and consolidating IT infrastructure. The challenge was to ensure high availability and performance for business-critical systems such as customer registration and energy consumption forecasting, which is performed every five minutes. Essent worked with Oracle Partner IBM Nederland B.V. to implement an Oracle Database grid with Oracle Real Application Clusters on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server consisting of 28 Intel Xeon servers, each with eight cores and 32 gigabytes of RAM.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper AngloGold Ashanti's Clustered Database Environment Makes Transactional Data Sets Highly Available2009-11-01 Oracle
  AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. wanted to ensure optimal implementation of Oracle Database 11g and stream 50 terabytes of spatial information from a central point to all global operations, for both greenfields and brownfields. The challenge was to deliver highly available platform for Oracle 11g environment to facilitate dissemination of data for global exploration teams and accommodate future growth in data volumes and access demands. AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. implemented a two-node system of Oracle Real Application Clusters across special and online transactional datasets and guaranteed future scalability and availability.

Tags: Network Management, Data Tools		   
whitepaper MVS Television S.A. de C.V. Integrates Information and Increases Its Competitiveness2009-11-01 Oracle
  MVS Television wanted to fully integrate quality financial information to allow for rapid and informed executive decision making and accelerate response times for consolidating and accessing financial information to increase the company's productivity. The challenge was to improve the organization's financial procedures and operating efficiency of its businesses and maintain the company's competitive advantage by providing the highest possible client service and improving its business intelligence capacity. MVS Television worked with Oracle Partner ERP Soluciones to implement integrated Oracle E-Business Suite On Demand applications, consolidating quality financial information online and in real time.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper US Oncology Improves Care, Grows Business, and Cuts IT Costs With New Patient Management System2009-11-01 Oracle
  US Oncology, Inc. wanted to improve the company's ability to support patients throughout their treatment and improve outcomes through education, advice, and monitoring and reduce the need for avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations and the associated risk and costs through improved interaction with patients. The challenge was to strengthen the company's ability to set up and service reimbursement-support and Patient-Assistance Programs (PAPs). US Oncology, Inc. selected Oracle's Siebel applications to create an integrated patient management system that supports improved outcomes and operational efficiency, as well as cost-control initiatives.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Tecumseh Products Company Unifies Global Business Systems to Improve Decision Making and Efficiency2009-11-01 Oracle
  Tecumseh Products Company wanted to support business goals to unify operations in five key countries, which had previously operated independently and improve inventory management of its manufactured products. The challenge was to enable the company to conduct global sales and operations planning and share financial information across sites. Tecumseh Products Company worked with Oracle Partner Deloitte to replace disparate legacy systems and bring all four regions onto a single global instance and standardized on a common set of business processes for 1,400 users worldwide, while maintaining necessary localizations.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Customer Management		   
whitepaper Aviva Insurance Company, ZAO Processes Claims Five Times Faster With Integrated Data Warehouse2009-11-01 Oracle
  Aviva Insurance Company wanted to ensure the company uses the same data and data standards across multiple sites and systems and provide claims handling agents with access to instant, accurate information to accelerate the processing time of insurance claims. The challenge was to reduce effort involved in management reporting and enhance the capabilities for analyzing industry-specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Improve overall collaboration with business partners. Aviva Insurance Company established a corporate data standard and a single database of business partners, consolidating data from heterogeneous systems using specifically-developed migration algorithms and reduced efforts required for data collection and processing by two-thirds, resulting in significant annual savings.

Tags: Data Tools