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whitepaper A European Company Sought to Strengthen Its Relationship With an Existing IT Services Vendor in India, and Wanted a Second Opinion2006-12-01 01:00:18 ValueNotes Database
  The client is a European company sourcing IT services from a vendor in India. To strengthen the relationship they wanted to buy equity in the vendor. Second opinion sought from an unbiased source based on ground research. ValueNotes research found the vendor highly competent and well regarded. Also found that the vendor had a relationship with another international services firm which was a possible conflict of interest. The client could bargain more effectively. They drafted legal provisions to eliminate possible future conflicts of interest.   
whitepaper A Company Seeking New Opportunities in a "Hot" Sunrise Industry Wants to Evaluate Its Chances of Success2006-12-01 01:00:18 ValueNotes Database
  Client was looking for opportunities to diversify out of their traditional businesses, which were showing declining growth and profitability. Their consultants had prepared feasibility and market research studies. They were advised to enter a "Hot" new sunrise industry. The potential, projections and future profits were fantastic, in fact, almost too good to be true. They wanted to gauge the competitive scenario in the sunrise industry. ValueNotes found that the future potential was huge. Capital requirements were larger than anticipated. The market would take much longer to develop than had been assumed. Client had no real strengths or advantages to be able to compete effectively in the chosen market. The client pulled out of the project, and today is thankful that they did so.   
whitepaper Identify Technologies and Applications Under "Biodiversity" and "Climate Change" (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) and SMEs in 24 Countries2006-12-01 01:00:18 ValueNotes Database
  An international management consulting company wanted business intelligence on biodiversity. The company needed to understand the different technologies/ applications/ activities which come under "Biodiversity" and "Climate change" (energy efficiency and renewable energy). They also wanted to identify SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) involved in these applications/ activities in 24 target countries. The company wanted highly manpower intensive and yet skilled work that required and understanding of technologies. ValueNotes research identified technologies in areas such as Eco-tourism, agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, fisheries, solar, wind, geothermal, hydel & wave energies, energy efficiency in building, transportation and power management. Valuenotes identified (and got some basic details on) over 300 companies involved in the relevant applications.   
whitepaper Corporate Performance Management Solution Enhances the Eyes and Ears of Police Force2006-11-08 01:00:18 Microsoft
  Israel Police is regarded as one of the most progressive, best-trained, and most dedicated forces in the world, with approximately 27,000 officers spread over six districts, 17 sub-districts, and some 70 police stations. In 1999, in an effort to be accountable and responsive to the needs and concerns of citizens and to demonstrate the impact of its efforts in areas of crime, traffic law, and beyond, Israel Police implemented a basic system for collecting performance information. However, the system lacked tools for organizing information to make informed decisions about how to improve service performance. Israel Police chose a corporate performance management solution from Microsoft Certified Partner Panorama Software that is based on Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005.   
whitepaper Mortgage Company Improves Report Quality, Decreases Creation Time by 75 Percent2006-11-01 01:00:29 Microsoft
  New Century Mortgage Corporation needed a better way to generate and access reports. The company's solution wasted developers' time and delayed the creation of new reports. It was expensive to maintain and update. And because each department had a different reporting structure, varying results and duplicated effort were common. Working with Avanade, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, the company created a solution integrating its data warehouse with a reporting portal. Users now access a wide variety of reports and scorecards through the Web-based interface of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. New Century Mortgage has decreased the amount of time it takes to create reports by 75 percent, improved the quality of its reports.   
whitepaper Business Intelligence Center of Excellence Builds Robust Reporting Portal With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 20072006-11-01 01:00:29 Microsoft
  Microsoft's Business Intelligence Center Of Excellence team (BICOE) is a service organization dedicated to helping groups throughout the company benefit from the spectrum of databases and reporting tools available across the enterprise. A key challenge for users has long been the lack of a central, easy to use, integration point for hosting so many different types of reporting solutions, and the BICOE team is eager to develop a solution that will bolster the company's internal Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 gives the BICOE team the integration platform they need to create a BI portal and begin to implement their vision of providing a single point from which users can access all the reports and other metrics their work requires.   
whitepaper Johnson & Johnson Diagnostics Firm to Improve Report Integration and Analysis With New Business Intelligence Capabilities in the 2007 Microsoft Office System2006-11-01 01:00:29 Microsoft
  For more than a half-century, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (OCD), a Johnson & Johnson company, has provided accurate, timely, and cost-effective solutions for screening, diagnosing, monitoring, and confirming diseases to the global healthcare community. Despite OCD's efforts to acclimate employees to the current business intelligence platform, employees view the system as unintuitive and difficult to use. Because the current platform lacks simple report generation and data gathering techniques, the IT department has been forced to think of other ways to present sales information. Joining the Microsoft Office Rapid Deployment Technology Adoption Program, OCD hopes to adopt a new solution centered on Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.   
whitepaper Tshwane University of Technology Uses BI to Enhance First Year Student Retention2006-10-20 01:00:16 SAS Institute
  Tertiary institutions face the problem of students not completing their first year successfully, and taking too long to graduate. Tshwane University of Technology wanted to develop a statistical model to predict first-year success of research and development at the university. The university completed a research project on student retention at the Pretoria campus of the University. Using SAS business intelligence software, the university is designing a model that can assist in improving first-year student retention, get students to finish more quickly and limit the number of drop-outs.   
whitepaper Too Inc. Enables New Store Growth Using Marketmax Retail Solutions2006-10-20 01:00:16 SAS Institute
  Too Inc. is comprised of the Limited Too chain of more than 560 stores offering apparel, shoes, accessories, and lifestyle items to girls ages 7-14 and Justice, which is Too's new specialty retail concept store focused on value-priced sportswear for 'tween girls. Marketmax, division of SAS, will replace multiple legacy systems, old technology and silos with an integrated solution comprised of planning, forecasting and business intelligence applications. SAS, the leader in business intelligence, will provide Too with retail software solutions for financial planning, in-season management, assortment planning, high performance forecasting, micromarketing and the SAS Enterprise BI Server.   
whitepaper Tianjin Unicom Partners With SAS2006-10-20 01:00:16 SAS Institute
  After Tianjin Unicom, a branch of the China Unicom group, was listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, it came under pressure from international investors to raise its management standard, improve the extent of globalization and pursue better profitability. Responding to the pressure, Tianjin Unicom began searching for a way to incorporate advanced solutions and service systems to raise or improve its management standard. After extensive research, Tianjin Unicom discovered that the functional modules of SAS products possessed the widest industry interoperability, a fact supported by SAS' impressive list of clients spanning the global market.