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whitepaper Castello Banfi Improves Operational Agility to Support Continued Expansion in International Markets2007-12-01 Oracle
  Castello Banfiis a family-owned vineyard estate and winery in the Brunello region of Tuscany. Castello Banfiis wanted to improve decision support for the company, which is growing its presence in international markets. The challenge was to reduce IT maintenance costs and optimize company resources to improve productivity and quality, and enhance service. The company deployed Oracle Database and Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications to create a flexible, scalable and multi-lingual system that expands visibility of critical business data across the organization, driving more informed decisions and centralized system management and maintenance, reducing IT costs.

Tags: Database Applications		   
whitepaper Rudolf Wild GmbH & Co. KG Creates Strategic IT Roadmap by Leveraging Business Insight2007-12-01 Oracle
  Rudolf Wild GmbH & Co. KG (WILD) was founded in 1931 with the vision of producing alcohol-free beverages using purely natural ingredients. Rudolf Wild GmbH & Co. KG wanted to outperform market growth and profitability in the face of growing competition and leverage innovative new technologies to improve responsiveness and reduce cost. The challenge was to determine strategic next steps for enterprise resource management implementation. The company worked with Oracle Insight to develop a long-term IT roadmap clearly linking corporate strategic initiatives with the underlying enabling technology across the entire value chain. It gained an understanding of the added value that Oracle's extensive functionality would yield over the company's limited SAP implementation.   
whitepaper The Bureau of Labor Insurance Creates a Robust Labor Protection and Service Network2007-12-01 Oracle
  Established 57 years ago, Taiwan's labor insurance service now covers a record-breaking 8.79 million people. To cope with increasingly complex business content and fast-growing data volumes, the BLI is changing the architecture of its IT systems. The business is moving from a closed mainframe environment to an open Unix platform. The five-year transition began in September 2005. With application data volumes reaching 6 terabyte and the data warehouse up to 8 terabyte, the BLI has progressively upgraded its database from Oracle8i to Oracle9i to Oracle 10g. It has also introduced the latest grid computing technology to enhance the overall usability, reliability, stability, and manageability of its systems.

Tags: High Performance Computing, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Pathfinder Helps BEZ Unlock the Power of Their Product2007-12-01 Pathfinder Development
  BEZ makes Strategic Performance Management products for NCR Teradata, IBM DB2 UDB and Oracle database and data warehouse applications. At the time, the latest release version of the product was extremely feature rich, but the user interface was perceived as confusing and difficult to use. As a result, many users abandoned the product after a short period. Pathfinder redesigned the BEZ product to make it easier to navigate and use. After conducting an information architecture analysis, functionality analysis and usability testing of the product's highest impact/highest value functionality. The information architecture work also resulted in a global navigational model that enables non-experts to access and understand the product.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Application Development		   
whitepaper Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has made advances in healthcare that have impacted hundreds of thousands of lives. The company challenge was to analyze vast amount of proteomic data from patient blood samples to minimize the amount of time required to crunch data and discover correlations among highly complex data sets. They wanted to maximize use of limited data center floor space; and minimize energy costs. A Sun Grid Rack System for High Performance Computing, comprised of 400 Sun Fire X2100 servers, was integrated by the Sun Customer Ready Systems program.

Tags: High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Sun Storage Consolidation and Virtualization Solution Boosts Performance, Lowers TCO2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  KnowledgeBase Marketing provides information and database marketing solutions that enable companies to acquire and manage profitable customer relationships across traditional and Web-based contact points. The company's challenge was to provide cost-effective storage for data growing at more than 35% per year to improve storage utilization and management. They wanted to reduce storage administration and maintenance costs and move data center from Houston to Dallas. Following a storage assessment performed by Sun Professional Services, KnowledgeBase Marketing consolidated multiple storage platforms and implemented an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)/storage virtualization strategy to improve its storage utilization and reduce TCO. As a follow-on project, Sun helped the customer move its data center from Houston to Dallas, Texas, and refresh its mainframe environment.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper Busy Airport Becomes an Agile, Secure, Unified Enterprise With Sun Portal and Communication Products2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Athens International Airport has established a reputation as one of the most efficiently run airports in the world. Handling around 1.2 million passengers a month, the airport depends on state-of-the-art technology to ensure safe, efficient operations. The company wanted to improve airport communication and information access; cut data center costs and time to deploy applications; and also provide user authentication and single sign-on for increased data protection. They deployed sun's portal-based access to financial applications, flight information and other business-critical applications as well as e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with single sign-on and user authentication.

Tags: Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper Lekkerland Relies on Sun StorageTek Technology for System Backup2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Lekkerland GmbH & Co. KG is the full-service partner for all convenience distribution channels in Germany. Last year, the group's 7,400 workforce achieved sales of EUR 9.3 billion. The company's challenge was to keep pace with growing data volumes and complete backups within time windows. The company wanted to improve storage utilization to reduce maintenance and administrative overhead and increase data availability. They deployed Sun's a new virtual tape library backup system based on Sun StorageTek technologies provides a redundant disk cache for storing and managing data across data centers prior to its transfer to physical tape.

Tags: Storage Management, Data Center		   
whitepaper Providing for Data Protection and Faster Backups With Sun2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Named after Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventors of powered flight, Wright State University continues their tradition of innovation. A rich and dynamic community of nearly 17,000 students, Wright State offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and nearly 50 Ph.D., master's and professional degrees, and its School of Medicine is home to the nation's first civilian aerospace medicine program. The company's challenge was to encrypt heterogeneous data to accelerate system backups and support increasing storage requirements in a cost-effective way. Wright State University deployed a Sun StorageTek encryption and tape backup solution to archive and protect University data while achieving performance improvements and reducing data center costs.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Improving Performance and Reducing Costs to Supply Growing Demand2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Sabah Electricity Sendirian Berhad (SESB) is the only power utility company in Sabah (formerly North Borneo) supplying electricity to over 350,000 customers distributed over a wide area of 74,000 sq. km. The company wanted to improve performance and resiliency to increase computational speed, throughput and storage capacity. The company's challenge was to reduce data center footprint, power consumption and heat and improve disaster rollover and customer response times. SESB migrated its SAP application and system to Sun Fire E4900 and Sun Fire V240 servers running the Solaris 10 OS, and increased its storage expansion capability for its Oracle 9i database system and Veritas backup software with a Sun StorageTek 3510 Storage Area Network (SAN).

Tags: Data Center, SANs