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whitepaper PEMEX Creates Document Workflow Solution With SQL Server 2008 and BizTalk Server2009-10-09 Microsoft
  Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), the state-owned oil and gas company based in Mexico City, has 150,000 employees and generated U.S.$98.2 billion in 2008. Some years ago PEMEX Exploration and Production, the company's largest business unit, created its own document processing and workflow management application using early versions of Microsoft SQL Server database software and Microsoft BizTalk Server. As success of the internally developed application spread, response times declined. To gain scalability, PEMEX Exploration and Production upgraded the solution to SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) and BizTalk Server 2006 R2. CPU utilization has dropped and the company has gained the scalability it needs to roll out the solution to the rest of PEMEX.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Rockwool Group Consolidating 400 Servers With Enrollment for Application Platform2009-10-07 Microsoft
  Rockwool Group, a leading manufacturer of stone wool insulation products, generated U.S.$2.7 billion in 2008 revenue from the efforts of its more than 8,000 employees. The company operates 21 factories on three continents and has sales and distribution offices around the world. As the company has enjoyed enviable growth, its IT infrastructure blossomed with hundreds of servers including more than 160 database servers. The company wanted to consolidate 9 terabytes of data onto the Microsoft Application Platform, but was concerned about increasing IT expenditures during a global economic downturn. Rockwool is taking advantage of the Microsoft Volume Licensing Enrolment for Application Platform, a flexible new multi-year agreement that allows an organization to deploy as many licenses of selected software as it needs for a set yearly fee.   
whitepaper General Electric Infrastructure Cuts Clone Cycle Time by 84% and IT Management Requirements by 75%2009-10-01 Oracle
  General Electric (GE) Infrastructure wanted to cut costs associated with managing the division's extensive global Oracle E-Business Suite environment that includes 17 production instances and more than 200 development, upgrade, and performance environments and reduce the time and effort required to clone instances of the company's Oracle E-Business Suite implementations. The challenge was to gain insight into the end-users experience so that the IT team can ensure high performance before emerging issues can escalate. General Electric (GE) Infrastructure implemented Oracle Enterprise Manager's Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite as a centralized system to efficiently manage the company's hundreds of Oracle E-Business Suite environments.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH Improves Information Platform Performance by Up to 30%2009-10-01 Oracle
  Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH wanted to meet rising performance demands for processing approximately 70 million documents and a 7 terabyte data volume in full-text online databases and update systems to prepare for the sharp increase in both data quantity and number of users over the next few years, due to the rapid expansion of the field of e-book research. The challenge was to meet memory requirements to reduce data storage costs in the medium term and expand research capabilities. Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH improved system performance in the test phase by 30% and optimized SecureFiles and lowered running times in the test phase from 59 minutes to just 12 minutes with Oracle Advanced Compression.   
whitepaper Improved Scalability Boosts Agora's Ability to Deliver Web-Based Advertising2009-10-01 Oracle
  Agora SA wanted to improve the performance of the ad server supporting Gazeta.pl and address a sudden increase in the volume of ads in the system, stemming from Agora's launch of an ad network providing services to other portals and Web sites. The challenge was to reduce, by several times at least, the response time for reading and writing information to and from the ad server database. Agora SA deployed Oracle Coherence on 18 instances of Java Virtual Machines and three physical entry-level machines to achieve a scalable ad-publishing system, which had previously been impossible without a dramatic increase in data processing time.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Hana Bank Increases Profits by US$586 Million, Reduces Costs by US$56.7 Million2009-10-01 Oracle
  Founded in 1971, Hana Bank is ranked as one of the world's top 100 banks in terms of asset size. In recent years, Hana Bank has embarked on strategies to increase efficiency, improve risk management, and enhance synergies across its businesses to boost competitiveness. The company had to revamp its IT infrastructure to meet its performance goals and gain the functionalities required, to carry out its new business initiatives. Hana Bank selected Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware as the building blocks for its new infrastructure. By adopting a clustered grid framework, the bank has improved the performance, availability, and stability of its critical business systems.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Jeju University Hospital Improves System Performance, Eliminates Network Downtime2009-10-01 Oracle
  Jeju National University Hospital is a teaching hospital, which was established in November 2001. Korea's Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs recognized the hospital as a specialist intensive care and emergency institution. Over recent years, the amount of electronic patient records that needed to be managed and archived had steadily increased, which made data management a difficult task for the Jeju National University Hospital. The hospital's existing applications also required frequent tuning, which led to an overall decrease in performance. To rectify the issue, Jeju National University Hospital engaged Oracle Certified Partner ezCaretech to develop an integrated e-healthcare system based on Oracle Database 11g with Real Application Clusters.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper GGZ NHN Improves Performance and Availability of McKesson's Electronic Patient Dossier Horizon GGZ2009-10-01 Oracle
  GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord (GGZ NHN) wanted to improve primary system performance and stability of McKesson's electronic patient dossier, Horizon GGZ, and enable interactive operations by users while the organization runs batch processes, including monthly invoice runs and improve availability during planned and unplanned outages. The challenge was to achieve a more scalable and extendable environment to support the business. GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord (GGZ NHN) worked with Oracle Partner Dell and Oracle Consulting to replace hardware and make it more uniform, implementing a four-node extended cluster on Windows across two data centers using Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters and improved system performance, scalability, and availability, for phasing out of the HP UNIX environment and simplifying system management.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Data Tools		   
whitepaper NYFIX Cuts Transaction Response Times to Less Than Three Milliseconds With In-Memory Database Solution2009-10-01 Oracle
  NYFIX wanted to ensure high performance of NYFIX Millennium ATS which facilitates swift and easy financial trading transactions between buyers and sellers and reduce system latency and ensure quick response time for online transaction processes to meet the needs of the company's growing customer base and accommodate increased trading and transaction volumes. The challenge was to reduce IT complexity. NYFIX implemented Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database as part of the high performance architecture for NYFIX Millennium to ensure a fast and reliable ATS environment for U.S. and European clients and selected Oracle Times Ten In-Memory Database over competing solutions for its minimal system maintenance requirements and ability to ensure continuous, real-time support for NYFIX online transactions.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Dongguk University Boosts Administration System Security With Audit Control Solution2009-10-01 Oracle
  Established in 1906, Dongguk University is a private, coeducational university in Korea, and one of the few Buddhist-affiliated universities worldwide. As part of its drive to be the number one university in Korea based on student and teacher satisfaction, the institution deployed a Web-based academic administration system, called uDRIMS, to streamline administrative tasks. However, the university ran into issues as IT staff had to analyze all of the Web access logs to match application users with their database operations. As a result, Dongguk University deployed Oracle Audit Vault as part of its auditing system.

Tags: Security Administration