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whitepaper Powergen Individualizes Service Offerings Using Improved View of Customer Data2006-12-14 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.   
whitepaper Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Spares Staff, Helps Students With Online Registration2006-12-14 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.   
whitepaper Petrobras Increases Efficiency With High Availability Solution From Oracle2006-12-14 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.   
whitepaper Property Condition Assessments, LLC Increases Efficiency and Boosts Productivity With Integrated Data Infrastructure2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle
  Property Condition Assessments, LLC (PCA) wanted to streamline its data collection process to coordinate and aggregate information received. The challenge was to increase capacity, productivity, and manageability of IT architecture to allow for rapid growth and provide an efficient, scalable infrastructure to meet future demands. PCA centralized its infrastructure with Oracle Database 10g to increase capacity and accommodate future scalability and established a single collection process for storing, managing, securing, and processing data.   
whitepaper ProMOS Technologies Achieves High Reliability and Availability With Clustering Technology2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle
  Founded in 1996, Taiwan-based ProMOS Technologies is a leading manufacturer of semiconductor memory solutions. ProMOS opened its third factory in 2006; doubling the number of 12-inch dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips it could produce each month to 45,000. The challenge was to ensure its Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could cope with the increase in workload. The company upgraded its Oracle Database 9i platform to Oracle Database 10g and installed Oracle Real Application Clusters. This gave ProMOS a robust, highly available, and scalable database platform on which to run the MES.   
whitepaper Primary Electric Supply, Inc. Improves Data Management and Builds New Business Applications2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle
  Primary Electric Supply, Inc. is an independently owned wholesale electrical distributor. The company wanted to improve flexibility and scalability of data management as the company continues to grow. The challenge was to implement a stable, easy-to-use database to improve business efficiency and find a cost-effective way to develop and deploy custom applications. They wanted to deploy a mission-critical inventory management system that has cross-platform capabilities. Primary Electric Supply implemented Oracle Database Standard Edition One on Linux - replacing aging Microsoft Access database applications and spreadsheets - to manage corporate data more effectively on a scalable, stable, and secure platform. The company leveraged Oracle Application Express, a Web application development tool included with Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One, to design and deploy scalable applications quickly.   
whitepaper SICK AG - On Its Way to Information Lifecycle Management2006-12-13 01:00:24 Hewlett-Packard
  SICK AG had a highly complex heterogeneous storage environment which had associated high costs. It needed centralisation for its entire globally-operative corporate group, which had large volumes of data. The company looked for a storage solution that could meet its tough requirements: high data availability, high safety and security, and a small backup window. The company selected uniform system platform and integrated storage solution from online storage to archiving; HP FSE for archiving; online storage using two HP StorageWorks EVA5000, each with 10TB storage capacity; daily backup with HP StorageWorks ESL9322 and HP OpenView Storage Data Protector software for backup and restore.   
whitepaper Banco Espirito Santo Finds a Powerful New Way to Generate Effective Business Intelligence2006-12-13 01:00:24 Hewlett-Packard
  Banco Espirito Santo (BES), one of Portugal's top three banks, found that its four year-old HP Superdome could not keep pace with the increased size and number of business critical, financial reports being requested by 3,000 users. BES decided to upgrade the HP Superdome from 32-bit PA-RISC to 64-bit Integrity. It migrated its MicroStrategy business intelligence platform from the traditional Windows environment to HP-UX on 64-bit. To streamline its credit scoring environment it has also successfully migrated to a new infrastructure that uses Superdome with IBM WebSphere MQ v6.0.   
whitepaper Quilmes Industrial S.A. (Quinsa) Consolidates Systems and Reduces Maintenance Costs2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  Quilmes Industrial S.A. (Quinsa) controls beverage and malting businesses in five Latin American countries. Quinsa wanted to centralize data from all countries to improve visibility and decision making. The challenge was to reduce IT costs and introduce a multilayer system, which users can access either over the internet or the intranet. The company wanted to standardize all corporate applications and data. Quinsa centralized information from all countries with Oracle Database 10g, reducing maintenance costs and improving data quality and improved data security with Oracle Database 10g. The company used Oracle Discoverer to create accurate reports more rapidly.   
whitepaper RIAS Turns Information Into Knowledge by Leveraging Data Assets2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  RIAS, a specialist insurer for clients in the over-50s age bracket, has a rapidly growing customer base of 840,000. The company wanted to enhance ability to analyze customer and product data to improve cross-selling and up-selling and increase market share. They wanted to extend the availability of actionable information from Business Intelligence (BI) professionals to a wider accountable audience. RIAS replaced SQL server and Cognos-based management information system with Oracle Database 10g and BI tools. The company used Oracle Warehouse Builder to design and deploy a BI solution using data from in house and third-party sources.