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Speedel Speeds Up Preclinical Research 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

Preclinical research involves a wide range of systems, with myriad data sources feeding into the process. Integrating data from experiments is a key challenge, closely followed by delivering results in a way that meets the needs of different stakeholders, from laboratory scientists to senior business managers. With SAS, Speedel reduced file processing time from days to minutes, trimmed study review times from two or three weeks to a few days, and streamlined its reporting.

Asset Management With SAS Risk Dimensions: An Integral Part of Capital Investment Management in the Allianz Group 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

IDS GmbH - Analysis and Reporting Services (IDS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz AG. IDS operates and maintains a financial database containing data on all the capital investments managed by the Allianz Group worldwide and delivers performance and risk measures and other finance-specific evaluations. IDS looked for a flexible solution that would enable them to identify changes in the capital market even more quickly, allowing fast and efficient implementation of specific requirements. In the face of increasing globalization and their own expansion strategy, the company wanted an extremely scalable solution which could be expanded easily and smoothly, as required. To solve these issues, IDS chose the SAS Risk Dimensions solution.

Improving Data Quality for Operational Efficiency and Freedom of Information 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

Gloucestershire Constabulary, a UK police force with 1,280 officers (plus 786 civilian staff and 170 Special Constables), is responsible for policing 560,000 people in 270,000 hectares (approximately 1,050 square miles) of urban and rural countryside. Community policing is at the heart of Gloucestershire Constabulary and in the mobile society that depends on accurate and up-to-date information. However, criminals do not respect county boundaries, so Gloucestershire Constabulary also owes a duty of care to the other 43 police forces of England and Wales, to ensure that the data in its records are accurate. SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server addresses data quality concerns and lays the foundation for business intelligence, providing more reliable and consistent data.

Quick Start Guide 2006-12-23 01:00:24 Perpetuum Software

In order to provide proper decision-making information must be easy to read and comprehend, focusing on business priorities and filtering out information that isn't relevant. There is a vast number of Business Intelligence solutions (such as Scorecards, KPIs, EIS applications and digital dashboards) offering a real-time and visual summary of the information with the help of comprehensible elements such as tables, charts and gauges. Usually, gauges are used in such applications to display critical real-time data. Gauges are specifically designed to convey real-time information in a quick, accurate and effective way. Instrumentation ModelKit provides a set of .NET components allowing developers to integrate gauges into various sophisticated visualization applications displaying real-time data.

Nequalsone Improves Patient Experience With Real-Time Feedback Tool 2006-12-23 01:00:25 Oracle

Nequalsone, a provider of healthcare support and patient feedback tools, assists hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and large physician practices in their quest to better patients' overall experience. The company wanted to provide healthcare facilities with reliable, automated, real-time alert system and deliver advanced data management and reporting capabilities. The challenge was to insure patient privacy and HIPAA compliance. The company implemented Oracle 10g technologies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to create a foundation for NEOlisten and built and delivered customizable reports to customers, using Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Portal 10g.

Shared Systems Enables NHS Organisations to Release Funds for Front-Line Services 2006-12-22 01:00:22 Oracle

North East Patches Shared System wanted to cut IT overhead by sharing a centrally managed infrastructure and applications for financial and purchasing processes. They wanted to consolidate combined GBP1 billion (US$1.7 billion) per annum non-payroll spend of NHS organizations to negotiate lower prices for frequently purchased goods and cut transaction processing costs for NHS organizations and suppliers by replacing paper-based processes with electronic procurement using latest technology. The consortium reduced IT costs by running financial and purchasing processes for all organizations on a single instance of Oracle and created North East Patches eMarketplace, an electronic catalog-based purchasing system built on Oracle Exchange, and accessed by the National Health Service (NHS) organizations using Oracle iProcurement.

Media Company Streamlines Accounts Across Europe With Business Management Solution 2006-12-15 01:00:19 Microsoft

Without standardized reporting processes, employees at international media company VNU found collating reports from its European companies a time-consuming manual process. VNU operations in Europe relied on Oracle Financials to create reports, but employees found Oracle both expensive to support and difficult to integrate with Hyperion, a business intelligence solution employed at the VNU headquarters in New York. The result was a disparate network that invited data inaccuracies. VNU engaged Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Peracto Solutions to deploy Microsoft Dynamics NAV across Europe - complemented with a scalable Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure and a Citrix network.

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.

Embedding Open Source BI in Mission Critical Applications: Dos and Don'ts 2006-12-14 15:03:17 JasperSoft

If you're wondering if Open Source BI is ready for the enterprise, consider that savvy enterprises prefer Open Source BI for mission-critical business applications. But you need to evaluate carefully. Open Source BI provides great new opportunities, but there are still challenges and limitations.

Download this white paper for insider tips on how to evaluate Open Source BI solutions. The document includes advice on topics such as reporting and analysis capabilities, whether you need to write your own server, and the role that the eclipse IDE plays in modern Open Source BI solutions. It also touches on licensing issues, and offers advice on how to approach "commercial open source" vendors.

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.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Speedel Speeds Up Preclinical Research	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
Preclinical research involves a wide range of systems, with myriad data sources feeding into the process. Integrating data from experiments is a key challenge, closely followed by delivering results in a way that meets the needs of different stakeholders, from laboratory scientists to senior business managers. With SAS, Speedel reduced file processing time from days to minutes, trimmed study review times from two or three weeks to a few days, and streamlined its reporting.
Asset Management With SAS Risk Dimensions: An Integral Part of Capital Investment Management in the Allianz Group	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
IDS GmbH - Analysis and Reporting Services (IDS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz AG. IDS operates and maintains a financial database containing data on all the capital investments managed by the Allianz Group worldwide and delivers performance and risk measures and other finance-specific evaluations. IDS looked for a flexible solution that would enable them to identify changes in the capital market even more quickly, allowing fast and efficient implementation of specific requirements. In the face of increasing globalization and their own expansion strategy, the company wanted an extremely scalable solution which could be expanded easily and smoothly, as required. To solve these issues, IDS chose the SAS Risk Dimensions solution.
Improving Data Quality for Operational Efficiency and Freedom of Information	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
Gloucestershire Constabulary, a UK police force with 1,280 officers (plus 786 civilian staff and 170 Special Constables), is responsible for policing 560,000 people in 270,000 hectares (approximately 1,050 square miles) of urban and rural countryside. Community policing is at the heart of Gloucestershire Constabulary and in the mobile society that depends on accurate and up-to-date information. However, criminals do not respect county boundaries, so Gloucestershire Constabulary also owes a duty of care to the other 43 police forces of England and Wales, to ensure that the data in its records are accurate. SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server addresses data quality concerns and lays the foundation for business intelligence, providing more reliable and consistent data.
Quick Start Guide	2006-12-23 01:00:24	Perpetuum Software
In order to provide proper decision-making information must be easy to read and comprehend, focusing on business priorities and filtering out information that isn't relevant. There is a vast number of Business Intelligence solutions (such as Scorecards, KPIs, EIS applications and digital dashboards) offering a real-time and visual summary of the information with the help of comprehensible elements such as tables, charts and gauges. Usually, gauges are used in such applications to display critical real-time data. Gauges are specifically designed to convey real-time information in a quick, accurate and effective way. Instrumentation ModelKit provides a set of .NET components allowing developers to integrate gauges into various sophisticated visualization applications displaying real-time data.
Nequalsone Improves Patient Experience With Real-Time Feedback Tool	2006-12-23 01:00:25	Oracle
Nequalsone, a provider of healthcare support and patient feedback tools, assists hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and large physician practices in their quest to better patients' overall experience. The company wanted to provide healthcare facilities with reliable, automated, real-time alert system and deliver advanced data management and reporting capabilities. The challenge was to insure patient privacy and HIPAA compliance. The company implemented Oracle 10g technologies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to create a foundation for NEOlisten and built and delivered customizable reports to customers, using Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Portal 10g.
Shared Systems Enables NHS Organisations to Release Funds for Front-Line Services	2006-12-22 01:00:22	Oracle
North East Patches Shared System wanted to cut IT overhead by sharing a centrally managed infrastructure and applications for financial and purchasing processes. They wanted to consolidate combined GBP1 billion (US$1.7 billion) per annum non-payroll spend of NHS organizations to negotiate lower prices for frequently purchased goods and cut transaction processing costs for NHS organizations and suppliers by replacing paper-based processes with electronic procurement using latest technology. The consortium reduced IT costs by running financial and purchasing processes for all organizations on a single instance of Oracle and created North East Patches eMarketplace, an electronic catalog-based purchasing system built on Oracle Exchange, and accessed by the National Health Service (NHS) organizations using Oracle iProcurement.
Media Company Streamlines Accounts Across Europe With Business Management Solution	2006-12-15 01:00:19	Microsoft
Without standardized reporting processes, employees at international media company VNU found collating reports from its European companies a time-consuming manual process. VNU operations in Europe relied on Oracle Financials to create reports, but employees found Oracle both expensive to support and difficult to integrate with Hyperion, a business intelligence solution employed at the VNU headquarters in New York. The result was a disparate network that invited data inaccuracies. VNU engaged Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Peracto Solutions to deploy Microsoft Dynamics NAV across Europe - complemented with a scalable Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure and a Citrix network.
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.
Embedding Open Source BI in Mission Critical Applications: Dos and Don'ts	2006-12-14 15:03:17	JasperSoft
If you're wondering if Open Source BI is ready for the enterprise, consider that savvy enterprises prefer Open Source BI for mission-critical business applications. But you need to evaluate carefully. Open Source BI provides great new opportunities, but there are still challenges and limitations. Download this white paper for insider tips on how to evaluate Open Source BI solutions. The document includes advice on topics such as reporting and analysis capabilities, whether you need to write your own server, and the role that the eclipse IDE plays in modern Open Source BI solutions. It also touches on licensing issues, and offers advice on how to approach "commercial open source" vendors.
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.