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whitepaper Oracle Case Study: Orkuveita Reykjavikur2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  Orkuveita Reykjavikur, also known as Reykjavik Energy, is an independent service company owned by the city of Reykjavik, the town of Akranes, and the local authorities of Borgarbyggo and Borgarfjaroarsveit. The company wanted to combine and synchronize various data sources using Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle Discoverer and find an IT-solution to manage various Human Resources (HR) initiatives, including appraisals, performance management, training, payroll, recruitment, as well as simplifying distribution of HR information to both employees and managers. The company uses Oracle products, including Oracle Human Resources, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Warehouse Builder, running main information systems on Oracle databases.   
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.   
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.   
whitepaper ReserveAmerica Improves IT Performance and Scalability2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  ReserveAmerica, an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp, is North America's leading camping reservation, campground management, and tour/ticketing solutions provider. Managing the largest campsite inventory in North America, ReserveAmerica wanted to implement a cost-effective, scalable database infrastructure and increase production system service levels. The company wanted to streamline IT management to optimize existing database administrator resources. ReserveAmerica implemented Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters to create a highly flexible, reliable, and cost-effective IT platform and ensured continuous data availability in an easy-to-manage infrastructure.   
whitepaper Replacements, Ltd. Improves IT Performance and Reliability While Planning for Future Growth2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  Founded in 1981, Replacements, Ltd. offers the world's largest selection of old and new tableware, serving more than six million customers. The company wanted to maximize availability and performance of reporting, training, and development systems. They wanted to reduce hardware and IT maintenance costs and gain the ability to increase IT capacity incrementally and non-disruptively. The company deployed Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g to create a more reliable, scalable, and cost-effective data infrastructure. Using Oracle Database's Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature to optimize input/output performance, allows dynamic and non-disruptive changes to the storage configuration while at the same time reducing the ongoing administrative effort for this system.   
whitepaper Quova Inc. Pinpoints IT Savings and Scalability2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  Quova Inc. provides geolocation data and services that empower online businesses to target customers and safeguard their assets. The company wanted to deploy a cost-effective, scalable database infrastructure to support core business processes. The challenge was to maintain 24x7 performance of critical business applications and streamline IT management to optimize existing DataBase Administrator (DBA) resources. Quova deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Database to create a highly flexible, reliable, and cost-effective IT platform. The company deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux to further reduce IT costs.   
whitepaper SICREDI Centralizes Processes in Attendance Units With Oracle2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  SICREDI is a cooperative credit system formed by 130 credit cooperatives that operate about 900 attendance units throughout Brazil. The company wanted to build a common platform in about 900 attendance units, replacing several disparate systems and unify and standardize processes among 130 cooperatives, eliminating needless duplication and strengthening communication among them. They wanted to prevent critical system downtime and data loss, which happened too frequently on the previous database and build a platform for application development to facilitate the integration of cooperatives. SICREDI implemented Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters to guarantee central standardized administration, reducing management costs and increasing efficiency.   
whitepaper Oracle Case Study: ServeCentric Ltd2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  ServeCentric Ltd is a young company that provides complex managed technology infrastructure hosting services, mainly to customers in Ireland. The company wanted to identify and implement a technology platform for a new start-up ServeCentric client specializing in travel bookings. The challenge was to ensure the technology platform fulfils the client's preference for a Linux environment that offers scalability to match the client's own growth plans and robustness to protect the business from system crashes and meets client's capital investment constraints, including low starting costs for hosting arrangements. Oracle provided ServeCentric's client with a stable and easy-to-operate preferred Linux solution based on Oracle Real Application Clusters.   
whitepaper SBS Leasing Saves 35% on Document Management Costs and Prepares for Growth2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  SBS Leasing sells financial and operating leases through direct and indirect agency channels in northern Italy. The company wanted to reduce risk in document management, as business disruption could cost as much as EUR40,000 an hour. The challenge was to manage expected growth in document flow and reduce document management costs for 4.5 million documents handled every year. They wanted to improve processing speed and sales force efficiency by automating document flow process. SBS Leasing implemented Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g using its shared disk architecture to deliver high availability and scalability and its standard computing resources to cut operating costs and add new servers.   
whitepaper Saraswat Bank Boosts Profit by 40%, Growth by 30% With Support From Centralized Banking Platform2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  Founded in 1918 as the Saraswat Co-operative Banking Society, the Saraswat Co-op Bank is the largest cooperative bank in Asia. Like many Indian banks, Saraswat's investments in IT were small before the country's economic liberalization process began, leaving it ill-equipped for unregulated competition. Attempts to improve this situation through the acquisition of a central banking application failed, as the chosen software could not provide the decentralized services the Bank wished to offer its customers. According to the managing director of Saraswat Bank, the institution sought to remedy its IT problems by selecting Oracle 10g technology to underpin its core banking application and other systems.