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Mobile Database Improves Usability, Facilitates Offline Access for Hosted E-Payables Solution 2006-12-15 01:00:19 Microsoft

Transzap, a provider of hosted e-payables solutions for the energy industry, is turning to smart client user interfaces to improve the usefulness and performance of its products. However, the desktop database Transzap originally chose to store data on user PCs exhibited stability and performance problems, thereby resulting in a suboptimal customer experience. By switching to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Transzap eliminated its database stability issues, increased solution performance by a factor of ten or more, and reduced its overall costs.

Case Study: WebSphere Product Center at Panasonic 2006-12-14 10:55:17 IBM

In Europe's consumer electronics market, Panasonic Europe and its competitors are constantly updating product offerings due to changing technologies. With such fierce competition and short product lifecycles, Panasonic's level of success greatly depends on how quickly it can market new products. New product information must be quickly and accurately distributed to regional sales and marketing teams located in every country in Europe, with translations in every European language. To address this need, Panasonic Europe teamed with IBM to implement a solution based on IBM WebSphere Product Center. This case study outlines their success in achieving global simultaneous product launches, correct information for catalogs and advertising, faster price change notifications and better Point of Sale (POS) integration.

Case Study: WebSphere Product Center at Panasonic 2006-12-14 10:55:17 IBM

In Europe's consumer electronics market, Panasonic Europe and its competitors are constantly updating product offerings due to changing technologies. With such fierce competition and short product lifecycles, Panasonic's level of success greatly depends on how quickly it can market new products. New product information must be quickly and accurately distributed to regional sales and marketing teams located in every country in Europe, with translations in every European language. To address this need, Panasonic Europe teamed with IBM to implement a solution based on IBM WebSphere Product Center. This case study outlines their success in achieving global simultaneous product launches, correct information for catalogs and advertising, faster price change notifications and better Point of Sale (POS) integration.

Oracle Case Study: Perstorp AB 2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle

With more than 120 years' experience in the chemicals industry, Perstorp is the market leader in the niche areas of specialty chemicals and materials technology. The company wanted to replace disparate, partially integrated financial systems with a single integrated system. The challenge was to reduce overhead and maintenance costs and decrease dependence on a small number of key IT personnel responsible for managing the various systems. Perstorp wanted to create a modern, enterprisewide IT platform that can be rolled out to include foreign subsidiaries. The company implemented Oracle Financials to consolidate its four financial systems into a totally integrated system for Perstorp and ten subsidiaries in Sweden. They enhanced the finance department's analytical toolbox by implementing Oracle Discoverer.

Portman Building Society Standardizes Financial Management and Reporting to Boost Performance 2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle

With more than 1.8 million members and over 140 branches, Portman Building Society is the U.K.'s third largest building society. Portman wanted to streamline and simplify financial management, reporting, and compliance across Portman and its acquired subsidiaries. The company wanted to improve business analysis and performance monitoring and standardize and automate purchasing across the society, consolidate processes, and reduce administration costs. Portman consolidated financial management on Oracle Financials, replacing four general ledgers and spreadsheet-based systems used by the smaller subsidiaries with a single general ledger and created a suite of reports using Oracle Discoverer to allow managers to explore transactional information in Oracle Cash Management and spot anomalies, such as overdue payments.

Powergen Individualizes Service Offerings Using Improved View of Customer Data 2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle

Part of E.ON, the world's largest private-sector power and gas energy company, Powergen is one of the United Kingdom's largest energy suppliers, with around 6 million electricity and gas customers. The company wanted to create a technical environment in which to integrate customer and analytic data. The challenge was to improve corporate understanding of customer value and segmentation by bringing together fragmented customer information and distinguish between profitable and non-profitable customers and prioritize resources accordingly. Powergen introduced Oracle Database 10g to provide a single-source repository of customer information.

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Spares Staff, Helps Students With Online Registration 2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle

Most of the 6,000 students at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (PUJ), one of the most prestigious private universities in Colombia, use PUJ's Web-based application for class enrollment. However, the university's enrollment database was incapable of handling more than 100 concurrent users, causing problems for students and administrators alike. PUJ's IT staff had to work overtime due to the system's instability. To remedy the situation, the university sought a highly available, flexible system that would better distribute its server power to cover its peak enrollment needs. PUJ also wanted to reduce administration costs associated with maintaining three separate databases. The university achieved its goals by consolidating the three separate databases onto one Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters.

Petrobras Increases Efficiency With High Availability Solution From Oracle 2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle

Petrobras is the biggest Brazilian energy company, producing approximately 1.8 million barrels per day. The company wanted to provide its users with a database platform able to support massive data increases due to the company's rapid growth and meet the requirements of performance and services level expected by users. The challenge was to create an environment with high availability database in order to prevent system downtime and its effect on service levels and standardize and reduce the cost of database administration by consolidating applications on a server grid. Petrobras implemented Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters, a high-availability solution that provides users with non-stop access to its critical applications.

PriceMinister Makes Marketing Dynamic and Interactive With Oracle Business Intelligence Tools 2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle

PriceMinister is the third most popular e-commerce site in France and attracts more than 12 million visits per month, with over 4 million members and more than 18 million products for sale. The company wanted to replace an outdated and rigid decision-support tool with a more useful business intelligence solution. PriceMinister wanted to increase the autonomy of the marketing team with a flexible and user-oriented decision-support tool and enable the marketing team to refine strategy and better target its members using more up-to-date and higher quality business data. The company implemented a business intelligence strategy based on Oracle OLAP 10g and Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g.

PriceMinister Makes Marketing Dynamic and Interactive With Oracle Business Intelligence Tools 2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle

PriceMinister is the third most popular e-commerce site in France and attracts more than 12 million visits per month, with over 4 million members and more than 18 million products for sale. The company wanted to replace an outdated and rigid decision-support tool with a more useful business intelligence solution. PriceMinister wanted to increase the autonomy of the marketing team with a flexible and user-oriented decision-support tool and enable the marketing team to refine strategy and better target its members using more up-to-date and higher quality business data. The company implemented a business intelligence strategy based on Oracle OLAP 10g and Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Mobile Database Improves Usability, Facilitates Offline Access for Hosted E-Payables Solution	2006-12-15 01:00:19	Microsoft
Transzap, a provider of hosted e-payables solutions for the energy industry, is turning to smart client user interfaces to improve the usefulness and performance of its products. However, the desktop database Transzap originally chose to store data on user PCs exhibited stability and performance problems, thereby resulting in a suboptimal customer experience. By switching to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Transzap eliminated its database stability issues, increased solution performance by a factor of ten or more, and reduced its overall costs.
Case Study: WebSphere Product Center at Panasonic	2006-12-14 10:55:17	IBM
In Europe's consumer electronics market, Panasonic Europe and its competitors are constantly updating product offerings due to changing technologies. With such fierce competition and short product lifecycles, Panasonic's level of success greatly depends on how quickly it can market new products. New product information must be quickly and accurately distributed to regional sales and marketing teams located in every country in Europe, with translations in every European language. To address this need, Panasonic Europe teamed with IBM to implement a solution based on IBM WebSphere Product Center. This case study outlines their success in achieving global simultaneous product launches, correct information for catalogs and advertising, faster price change notifications and better Point of Sale (POS) integration.
Case Study: WebSphere Product Center at Panasonic	2006-12-14 10:55:17	IBM
In Europe's consumer electronics market, Panasonic Europe and its competitors are constantly updating product offerings due to changing technologies. With such fierce competition and short product lifecycles, Panasonic's level of success greatly depends on how quickly it can market new products. New product information must be quickly and accurately distributed to regional sales and marketing teams located in every country in Europe, with translations in every European language. To address this need, Panasonic Europe teamed with IBM to implement a solution based on IBM WebSphere Product Center. This case study outlines their success in achieving global simultaneous product launches, correct information for catalogs and advertising, faster price change notifications and better Point of Sale (POS) integration.
Oracle Case Study: Perstorp AB	2006-12-14 01:00:24	Oracle
With more than 120 years' experience in the chemicals industry, Perstorp is the market leader in the niche areas of specialty chemicals and materials technology. The company wanted to replace disparate, partially integrated financial systems with a single integrated system. The challenge was to reduce overhead and maintenance costs and decrease dependence on a small number of key IT personnel responsible for managing the various systems. Perstorp wanted to create a modern, enterprisewide IT platform that can be rolled out to include foreign subsidiaries. The company implemented Oracle Financials to consolidate its four financial systems into a totally integrated system for Perstorp and ten subsidiaries in Sweden. They enhanced the finance department's analytical toolbox by implementing Oracle Discoverer.
Portman Building Society Standardizes Financial Management and Reporting to Boost Performance	2006-12-14 01:00:24	Oracle
With more than 1.8 million members and over 140 branches, Portman Building Society is the U.K.'s third largest building society. Portman wanted to streamline and simplify financial management, reporting, and compliance across Portman and its acquired subsidiaries. The company wanted to improve business analysis and performance monitoring and standardize and automate purchasing across the society, consolidate processes, and reduce administration costs. Portman consolidated financial management on Oracle Financials, replacing four general ledgers and spreadsheet-based systems used by the smaller subsidiaries with a single general ledger and created a suite of reports using Oracle Discoverer to allow managers to explore transactional information in Oracle Cash Management and spot anomalies, such as overdue payments.
Powergen Individualizes Service Offerings Using Improved View of Customer Data	2006-12-14 01:00:24	Oracle
Part of E.ON, the world's largest private-sector power and gas energy company, Powergen is one of the United Kingdom's largest energy suppliers, with around 6 million electricity and gas customers. The company wanted to create a technical environment in which to integrate customer and analytic data. The challenge was to improve corporate understanding of customer value and segmentation by bringing together fragmented customer information and distinguish between profitable and non-profitable customers and prioritize resources accordingly. Powergen introduced Oracle Database 10g to provide a single-source repository of customer information.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Spares Staff, Helps Students With Online Registration	2006-12-14 01:00:24	Oracle
Most of the 6,000 students at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (PUJ), one of the most prestigious private universities in Colombia, use PUJ's Web-based application for class enrollment. However, the university's enrollment database was incapable of handling more than 100 concurrent users, causing problems for students and administrators alike. PUJ's IT staff had to work overtime due to the system's instability. To remedy the situation, the university sought a highly available, flexible system that would better distribute its server power to cover its peak enrollment needs. PUJ also wanted to reduce administration costs associated with maintaining three separate databases. The university achieved its goals by consolidating the three separate databases onto one Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters.
Petrobras Increases Efficiency With High Availability Solution From Oracle	2006-12-14 01:00:24	Oracle
Petrobras is the biggest Brazilian energy company, producing approximately 1.8 million barrels per day. The company wanted to provide its users with a database platform able to support massive data increases due to the company's rapid growth and meet the requirements of performance and services level expected by users. The challenge was to create an environment with high availability database in order to prevent system downtime and its effect on service levels and standardize and reduce the cost of database administration by consolidating applications on a server grid. Petrobras implemented Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters, a high-availability solution that provides users with non-stop access to its critical applications.
PriceMinister Makes Marketing Dynamic and Interactive With Oracle Business Intelligence Tools	2006-12-14 01:00:24	Oracle
PriceMinister is the third most popular e-commerce site in France and attracts more than 12 million visits per month, with over 4 million members and more than 18 million products for sale. The company wanted to replace an outdated and rigid decision-support tool with a more useful business intelligence solution. PriceMinister wanted to increase the autonomy of the marketing team with a flexible and user-oriented decision-support tool and enable the marketing team to refine strategy and better target its members using more up-to-date and higher quality business data. The company implemented a business intelligence strategy based on Oracle OLAP 10g and Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g.
PriceMinister Makes Marketing Dynamic and Interactive With Oracle Business Intelligence Tools	2006-12-14 01:00:24	Oracle
PriceMinister is the third most popular e-commerce site in France and attracts more than 12 million visits per month, with over 4 million members and more than 18 million products for sale. The company wanted to replace an outdated and rigid decision-support tool with a more useful business intelligence solution. PriceMinister wanted to increase the autonomy of the marketing team with a flexible and user-oriented decision-support tool and enable the marketing team to refine strategy and better target its members using more up-to-date and higher quality business data. The company implemented a business intelligence strategy based on Oracle OLAP 10g and Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g.