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Hull City Council Leverages Spatial Assets to Boost Responsiveness and Transform Disaster Management | 2008-04-01 | Oracle |
| Hull City Council wanted to maximize use of location-based asset information for users within council departments and the general public and comply with the "Transformational Government - Enabled by Technology" initiative to build services around the needs of citizens while releasing resources for "Frontline" services. The challenge was to accelerate response times to emergency situations through coordinated, real-time information management and sharing. Hull City Council implemented Oracle Spatial to provide a scalable, secure foundation for deploying a Web-based mapping solution and commissioned Oracle Partner eSpatial to implement iSMART, a comprehensive solution that complements Oracle Spatial and has a successful track record in local government organizations.
Tags: GPS - GIS, Database Management |
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Universidad de los Andes Accelerates Academic Processes With an Integrated IT Infrastructure | 2008-04-01 | Oracle |
| The Universidad de los Andes (University of the Andes) wanted to consolidate information systems in a single, reliable, flexible, and scalable database and automate and standardize operations to attract and retain students and have better access to faculty. The challenge was to make management of academic processes easier for students and graduates to improve operating efficiency and accelerate processing of administrative paperwork to improve services and levels of satisfaction. University of the Andes worked with Oracle Consulting and Itis Support, Ltda. to establish a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure as well as consolidated university information in a single, secure database with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.
Tags: Human Capital Management |
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Swedish Medical Leverages Content Management Solution to Facilitate Patient-Centric Care | 2008-04-01 | Oracle |
| Swedish Medical Center is the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in the Greater Seattle area, with three hospital locations in Seattle, a freestanding emergency room and specialty center in Issaquah (East King County), and a network of 12 primary care clinics. Swedish Medical Center wanted to ensure that patient information is available when and where a provider needs it and improve the organization's ability to manage patient records and provide quality care. The challenge was to improve productivity. Swedish Medical Center implemented Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite to deliver a content-enabled Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system to ensure that patient information is readily available at the point of care and accelerated the creation and management of patient records, allowing staff to focus on other responsibilities.
Tags: Web Content Management |
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Anhui Telecom Deploys Data Warehouse to Manage Up to 40TB Data | 2008-04-01 | Oracle |
| Anhui Telecom Company Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Telecom, the largest fixed service telecommunications provider in China. Anhui Telecom offers voice, data, internet, multimedia, and information services to more than 10.5 million customers in the province of Anhui. Anhui Telecom wanted to build a data warehouse to process and integrate information across the business and store and refine information for operational analysis and decision support systems. The challenge was to provide open architecture, rapid response and comprehensive user support and support complex data sources and provide scalability to manage explosive data growth. Anhui Telecom deployed Oracle Database 10g as the basis of a data warehouse to analyze statistics and support policies across the business.
Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Database Applications |
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File management is evolving. Are you prepared? Free download to learn more | 2008-04-01 | Brocade Communications Systems |
| Ever feel like you're storing everything and managing nothing? As data evolves, so must your file management skills. You need new tools to help you keep up. Thankfully, Brocade File Solutions for Windows File Administrators can clear the clutter. With Brocade File Solutions, you'll consolidate, automate, and manage your files for optimal organization, giving users access to the files they need and keeping you in control. Learn how the data center is changing with the free Enterprise Strategy Group whitepaper, "Data Management Challenges in the Internet Computing Era." Download it now!
Tags: Storage Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Recovery - Security, Virtualization |
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Probabilistic Forecasting Solution Helps BP Manage Oil Field Costs and Risks | 2008-04-01 | Oracle |
| Founded more than 100 years ago, BP is both a pioneer of the oil industry and one of its leading innovators. Oil and energy markets have been going through dramatic changes in recent years. Crude supplies are becoming harder to find outside areas controlled by national oil companies, forcing private-sector oil companies like BP to reach into some of the most remote corners of the earth, and drill to depths never thought possible before. After experimenting with a number of probabilistic forecasting solutions, BP adopted an easy-to-use application called Crystal Ball, one of a suite of business intelligence applications from Oracle.
Tags: Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing |
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Procuraduria Federal del Consumidor (Profeco) Centralizes Financial Data, Improves Budget Control | 2008-04-01 | Oracle |
| Procuraduria Federal del Consumidor (Office of the Federal Prosceutor for the Consumer), known as Profeco has 56 offices and sub-offices, 60 service units, a call center, and 700 users throughout the country. Procuraduria Federal del Consumidor wanted to integrate financial information systems to unify operations among Profeco's offices and sub-offices and centralize administrative information to allow Profeco to standardize processes and establish budgetary control. The challenge was to ensure financial information visibility throughout the organization to guarantee transparency in processes and make performance indicators available for quick strategic decision making. Procuraduria Federal del Consumidor worked with Unisys de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. to implement Oracle E-Business Suite modules, creating a unified application infrastructure and made administrative processes visible throughout the organization.
Tags: ERP, Finance |
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The Dutch Child Protection Board Streamlines Processes With Scalable Case Management Solution | 2008-04-01 | Oracle |
| The Dutch Child Protection Board, part of the Ministry of Justice, defends and protects the rights of children who are at risk relative to their development and upbringing. The Dutch Child Protection Board wanted to connect the systems and databases supporting the board's 22 sites and make management and policy information more readily available to authorized users and streamline the management of child cases and enable record exchanges with other chain partners. The challenge was to link information about children, families, representatives, and chain partners to enable the board's staff to make more informed decisions. The Dutch Child Protection Board improved management of cases with a new operating process system developed by Oracle partner Accenture using Siebel Public Sector Case Management.
Tags: Database Management |
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Hospital Uses Business Intelligence Solution to Save Time and Gain Insight From Data | 2008-04-01 | Microsoft Tips |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is a leading pediatric hospital based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The hospital's department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, which collects and analyzes patient specimens in specialized laboratories, needed to improve processes to meet the demands presented by the hospital's growth. Specifically, the department sought to improve its data analysis and operational management processes. With the help of operational consultancy USC Consulting Group, the department implemented a management solution based on Microsoft business intelligence technologies. As a result, the department has gained more insight into its data and has automated reporting processes, which has helped reduce laboratory result turnaround times by 50 percent. Department employees have improved communication, and supervisors can manage more effectively.
Tags: Spreadsheets |
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HP StorageWorks EBS Solutions Guide for VMware Consolidated Backup With Symantec Veritas NetBackup | 2008-04-01 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| A key component of an Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS), as envisioned by HP, is to maximize the use of shared resources and consolidation. This paper provides technical information and best practices for planning or deploying VMware Consolidated Backup with HP StorageWorks tape libraries. The paper contains planning information that can help when deploying a VMware Consolidated Backup environment running on HP ProLiant servers, HP blade servers, and HP StorageWorks storage solutions.
Tags: Storage Management, Server Consolidation |