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NIOSH Provides Occupational Health Data to State Agencies With SAS to Augment Research 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

State agencies in charge of monitoring the well-being of workers once faced the daunting challenge of manually sifting through U.S. Census data and county death certificates to determine if, for example, coal miners were indeed at greater risk for respiratory ailments than, say, office workers. Such associations and determinations enable them to establish policies to protect workers while ensuring that they can continue to go about their jobs. Using SAS, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has created a Web-based, automated reporting system to assist the states in monitoring the health and well-being of their citizens. Known as National Occupational Respiratory Mortality System (NORMS), the reporting system is a data storage and interactive data-retrieval system developed and maintained by NIOSH.

SAS Analyzes Inmate Data Alongside Fiscal and HR Data 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

Hoping to increase system efficiencies and improve prisoner success rates, many state and county corrections systems provide education, life and work skills, and alcohol and drug treatment programs. But oftentimes, those who are footing the bill - voters, state legislatures and county budgeting offices - question the effectiveness of these programs. In Oregon, those questions are being addressed with the help of SAS. Questions like: Are education and treatment programs reducing prison cycles? Are cognitive programs decreasing inmate-on-staff assaults? Are department operations fiscally sound? Is recidivism dropping? The Oregon Department Of Corrections (ODOC) Research and Evaluation unit can assist in answering these and other questions with a new system that uses SAS for data warehousing and analysis.

HypoVereinsbank Takes Control With SAS 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

European banking giant HypoVereinsBank (HVB) wanted to improve portfolio quality and control. In 2004, HVB created the Active Credit Portfolio Management (ACPM) Division to change the Corporates & Markets business division's credit portfolio management from "Buying and storing" credits to active management. Portfolio managers needed a reliable way to actively control their portfolios. HVB is now using SAS to centralize its credit portfolio management while helping to diversify its holdings and avoid risk.

Fund-Raising Efficiency That Would Make Any Organization - For-Profit or Not - Green With Envy 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

The Nature Conservancy achieves a fund-raising efficiency of 89 percent, according to Forbes magazine's annual survey of the largest U.S. charities. Despite its standing as a leading international, nonprofit organization that has been working since 1951 to preserve the diversity of life on Earth, the Conservancy faces challenges specific to the philanthropic sector. To ensure a strong base of support for the critical conservation work, the company needed to invest in a leap in technology that could overcome these fund-raising challenges. Consulting services and software from SAS allowed the conservation organization to integrate data selection, transformation and analysis in a single environment with a single software solution.

Improving Storage Utilization by 50 Percent With Symantec Solutions Helps Build Asia's Most Profitable Bank 2006-12-23 01:00:25 Symantec

Faced with increasing competition, China Construction Bank needed to consolidate, unify, and streamline its storage infrastructure. Symantec data management solutions delivered a 50 percent improvement in storage utilization, the ability to avoid 10TB in new storage, and the capability to manage a 50 percent annual increase in data without adding any administrative hours. The bank has 40 percent fewer storage administrators than many similar-sized competitors.

Nortel Improves Data Accuracy and Accessibility 2006-12-22 01:00:22 Oracle

Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice-over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world's greatest challenges. The company wanted to improve its Real Estate data accuracy and accessibility. The challenge was to reduce operating costs and internal technical support requirements and increase real estate management efficiency. Nortel implemented Oracle Application Server to improve workflow processes with elements such as automated workflow, automated move approval processes, and dynamic Web-drawings.

Robust HP Technologies Help Fresno-Based Hospital Network Relieve Data-Management Discomfort 2006-12-20 01:00:25 Hewlett-Packard

Fresno, California-based Community Medical Centers' legacy of medical excellence and compassionate care has flourished in central California for more than a century. Facing competition from other Fresno hospitals, Community requires technology systems that allow affiliated physicians to refer their patients to its facilities and conduct business transactions with the healthcare group. In addition, the medical staff needs access to reliable medical information in order to enhance patient safety, wellness, and the quality of care. Beyond being able to make quick infrastructure changes, Community also needed to economically manage 30 percent data growth annually. Community resolved these issues by migrating to HP StorageWorks technologies.

Property Condition Assessments, LLC Increases Efficiency and Boosts Productivity With Integrated Data Infrastructure 2006-12-14 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.

Orwo Net GmbH Expands Platform to Accommodate Up to 500,000 Development Orders Per Day 2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle

Founded in 2002, ORWO Net GmbH is a modern photo-service provider for analog photo service by mail and online delivery offered under the brand names PixelNet and ORWO. The company wanted to improve efficiency of managing several hundred thousand digital pictures, whose size averages 1MB per picture, per day. ORWO wanted to resolve and eliminate all bottlenecks and ensure fast, secure, continuously available processing. ORWO installed Oracle Database Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters, improving the effectiveness of their Net's massive data management requirements and collaborated with Oracle Partner CosiFan Computersysteme to configure and install the system.

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
NIOSH Provides Occupational Health Data to State Agencies With SAS to Augment Research	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
State agencies in charge of monitoring the well-being of workers once faced the daunting challenge of manually sifting through U.S. Census data and county death certificates to determine if, for example, coal miners were indeed at greater risk for respiratory ailments than, say, office workers. Such associations and determinations enable them to establish policies to protect workers while ensuring that they can continue to go about their jobs. Using SAS, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has created a Web-based, automated reporting system to assist the states in monitoring the health and well-being of their citizens. Known as National Occupational Respiratory Mortality System (NORMS), the reporting system is a data storage and interactive data-retrieval system developed and maintained by NIOSH.
SAS Analyzes Inmate Data Alongside Fiscal and HR Data	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
Hoping to increase system efficiencies and improve prisoner success rates, many state and county corrections systems provide education, life and work skills, and alcohol and drug treatment programs. But oftentimes, those who are footing the bill - voters, state legislatures and county budgeting offices - question the effectiveness of these programs. In Oregon, those questions are being addressed with the help of SAS. Questions like: Are education and treatment programs reducing prison cycles? Are cognitive programs decreasing inmate-on-staff assaults? Are department operations fiscally sound? Is recidivism dropping? The Oregon Department Of Corrections (ODOC) Research and Evaluation unit can assist in answering these and other questions with a new system that uses SAS for data warehousing and analysis.
HypoVereinsbank Takes Control With SAS	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
European banking giant HypoVereinsBank (HVB) wanted to improve portfolio quality and control. In 2004, HVB created the Active Credit Portfolio Management (ACPM) Division to change the Corporates & Markets business division's credit portfolio management from "Buying and storing" credits to active management. Portfolio managers needed a reliable way to actively control their portfolios. HVB is now using SAS to centralize its credit portfolio management while helping to diversify its holdings and avoid risk.
Fund-Raising Efficiency That Would Make Any Organization - For-Profit or Not - Green With Envy	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
The Nature Conservancy achieves a fund-raising efficiency of 89 percent, according to Forbes magazine's annual survey of the largest U.S. charities. Despite its standing as a leading international, nonprofit organization that has been working since 1951 to preserve the diversity of life on Earth, the Conservancy faces challenges specific to the philanthropic sector. To ensure a strong base of support for the critical conservation work, the company needed to invest in a leap in technology that could overcome these fund-raising challenges. Consulting services and software from SAS allowed the conservation organization to integrate data selection, transformation and analysis in a single environment with a single software solution.
Improving Storage Utilization by 50 Percent With Symantec Solutions Helps Build Asia's Most Profitable Bank	2006-12-23 01:00:25	Symantec
Faced with increasing competition, China Construction Bank needed to consolidate, unify, and streamline its storage infrastructure. Symantec data management solutions delivered a 50 percent improvement in storage utilization, the ability to avoid 10TB in new storage, and the capability to manage a 50 percent annual increase in data without adding any administrative hours. The bank has 40 percent fewer storage administrators than many similar-sized competitors.
Nortel Improves Data Accuracy and Accessibility	2006-12-22 01:00:22	Oracle
Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice-over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world's greatest challenges. The company wanted to improve its Real Estate data accuracy and accessibility. The challenge was to reduce operating costs and internal technical support requirements and increase real estate management efficiency. Nortel implemented Oracle Application Server to improve workflow processes with elements such as automated workflow, automated move approval processes, and dynamic Web-drawings.
Robust HP Technologies Help Fresno-Based Hospital Network Relieve Data-Management Discomfort	2006-12-20 01:00:25	Hewlett-Packard
Fresno, California-based Community Medical Centers' legacy of medical excellence and compassionate care has flourished in central California for more than a century. Facing competition from other Fresno hospitals, Community requires technology systems that allow affiliated physicians to refer their patients to its facilities and conduct business transactions with the healthcare group. In addition, the medical staff needs access to reliable medical information in order to enhance patient safety, wellness, and the quality of care. Beyond being able to make quick infrastructure changes, Community also needed to economically manage 30 percent data growth annually. Community resolved these issues by migrating to HP StorageWorks technologies.
Property Condition Assessments, LLC Increases Efficiency and Boosts Productivity With Integrated Data Infrastructure	2006-12-14 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.
Orwo Net GmbH Expands Platform to Accommodate Up to 500,000 Development Orders Per Day	2006-12-14 01:00:24	Oracle
Founded in 2002, ORWO Net GmbH is a modern photo-service provider for analog photo service by mail and online delivery offered under the brand names PixelNet and ORWO. The company wanted to improve efficiency of managing several hundred thousand digital pictures, whose size averages 1MB per picture, per day. ORWO wanted to resolve and eliminate all bottlenecks and ensure fast, secure, continuously available processing. ORWO installed Oracle Database Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters, improving the effectiveness of their Net's massive data management requirements and collaborated with Oracle Partner CosiFan Computersysteme to configure and install the system.
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.