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Visualization, Integration Powers Solution for Store Lifecycle Management | 2007-01-05 01:00:23 | Microsoft |
| Accruent specializes in real estate performance solutions that allow retail companies to manage the entire lifecycle: market planning, site selection, project management, lease administration, and facilities management. Accruent lately updated its Store Lifecycle Management (SLM) solution in just seven months. Developers combined Microsoft Virtual Earth maps with demographic data by using the Windows Presentation Foundation features of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0, formerly known as WinFX, managed-code programming model to provide Accruent customers with exciting visualization tools to analyze store locations, predict store performance, and maximize store revenue while reducing store development and occupancy costs. With the powers of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Accruent's SLM software suite is easier to use and more powerful than ever before. | |||
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Stadtwerke Augsburg Streamlines Asset Data for Greater Efficiency and Improved Customer Service | 2006-12-07 01:00:20 | Oracle |
| Stadtwerke Augsburg is an independent public utility that delivers a wide range of services to the 350,000 residents of Augsburg in south central Germany. The utility wanted to reduce response time to customer queries caused by retrieval from two databases - one with installation dates, parts, and cost data, and another with infrastructure and spatial information. Stadtwerke Augsburg wanted to eliminate time wasted querying multiple databases and reconciling the information for each job that Stadtwerke's engineers need to perform. The utility improved integrity of asset data by consolidating it into a single repository using Oracle Database 10g and mapped asset data on to geographic data within the same repository using Oracle Spatial. | |||
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Ruprecht-Karls-University's Medical Research Center (ZMF) Uses SAS to Take a Closer Look at Microarray DNA Research Data to Find New Targets | 2006-09-27 01:00:21 | SAS Institute |
| The Medical Research Center (ZMF), part of the Faculty for Clinical Medicine, Mannheim, a faculty of Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, is a central service-provider for research units at the Faculty. In spite of the high level of investment in microarray systems, the ZMF faced a problem: how to more quickly convert research results into publishable findings and new medical insights. Since January 2004, the SAS Microarray Solution has enabled the ZMF to speed up its microarray gene expression analysis process. More recently, the ZMF has implemented the SAS Scientific Discovery Solution, which is comprised of SAS Research Data Management, the centralized data and analytical process repository, and SAS Microarray, which provides analysis and visualization tools specific to array analysis. | |||
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Nation's leading education technology distributor finds a ready market for Mindjet MindManager software among its resellers—and with its own sales team. | 2006-09-21 01:00:14 | Mindjet |
| The nation's leading education technology distributor finds a ready market for Mindjet MindManager software among its resellers—and with its own sales team. "MindManager is fast becoming a valuable tool in education, and it does not appear to be at the expense of other software publishers." Scott Bukolt President and COO Douglas Stewart Co., Inc. | |||
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When Florida State University wanted to overhaul the system, it turned to Mindjet MindManager to visually map the financial aid process from beginning to end. | 2006-09-21 01:00:14 | Mindjet |
| Florida State University disburses about $200 million in financial aid each year. But until recently the university's computerized system was outdated and unable to quickly adapt to changes in the financial aid environment. When FSU wanted to overhaul the system, it turned to Mindjet MindManager to visually map the financial aid process from beginning to end. "MindManager allows us to flowchart business processes in an iterative and interactive fashion. It helps you visually and clearly analyze where your bottlenecks are and where there is scope for improvement. All of this is possible because you are in an interactive environment where the processes are mapped out visually." Rajiv Kaushik, Director of applications, FSU IT Department | |||
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Two professors of dentistry describe how the visual nature of Mindjet® MindManager® enables them to provide students with a way to turn into knowledge the facts they accumulate from more than 100 classes in four years. | 2006-09-21 01:00:14 | Mindjet |
| Two professors of dentistry describe how the visual nature of Mindjet® MindManager® enables them to provide students with a way to turn into knowledge the facts they accumulate from more than 100 classes in four years. These faculty members also discuss how they use Mindjet software to manage their own research and academic projects. "Too often in education, we ask students to memorize facts -without helping them understand the relationships between the facts. By putting the information into a single MindManager map, they start seeing the big picture." Ronald L. Sakaguchi, DDS, PhD Assistant Dean for Research Professor, Biomaterials & Biomechanics Oregon Health & Science University | |||
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RadioShack uses Mindjet® MindManager® to visually map its priorities for expanding and improving its distribution network. | 2006-09-21 01:00:14 | Mindjet |
| RadioShack® is a household name to most Americans, symbolizing the nation's interest in the newest high-tech consumer technology. But all that technology somehow needs to get to the company's nearly 7,000 stores. To make sure that the right merchandise gets to the right stores, the company uses Mindjet® MindManager® to visually map its priorities for expanding and improving its distribution network... "MindManager gives me the ability to capture everything I want to do, organize it, prioritize it in one visual place, and then share that with everyone." Philip Godden Senior Director of Distribution Project Management Radioshack® Corporation | |||
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This Fortune 500 defense contractor uses Mindjet® MindManager to facilitate week-long events that bring together up to ten people from across many functional areas involved in a business process. | 2006-09-21 01:00:14 | Mindjet |
| Fortune 500 Defense Technology Company uses Mindjet® MindManager to facilitate week-long events that bring together up to ten people from across many functional areas involved in a business process. Results include a more efficient way to improve the mission-critical business processes behind the company's products. "Lean Six Sigma team members know that they have an important task to identify specific changes to existing processes...Mapping helps them understand their current state and visualize their future state process—allowing them to focus on how to improve it." Lean Six Sigma Facilitator Fortune 500 Defense Technology Company | |||
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A global engineering consulting firm leverages the intellectual capital of 500 employees on 5 continents using Mindjet MindManager. | 2006-09-21 01:00:14 | Mindjet |
| A global engineering consulting firm leverages the intellectual capital of 500 employees on 5 continents... runs faster, more effective meetings, resulting in wins of new and incremental client business.
"Companies hire us because we prove to them that we thoroughly understand the [complex] problems they face and can quickly devise innovative solutions. MindManager has given us an affordable and easy-to-learn tool to do both. MindManager saves us a great deal of time, and time is money." Jeff Parshley Principal SRK Consulting |
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The Danish National Board of Health Uses SAS to Provide Health Data for All Citizens | 2006-07-04 04:26:10 | SAS Institute |
| In recent years, The Danish National Board of Health has experienced a growing interest in, and demand for, information and data in the health sector. Administrators, healthcare sector workers, politicians, students, journalists and patients have put forward questions and requests for statistics and documents. The servicing of citizens represents an increasingly time-consuming burden that requires freeing up staff time to help the users. In order to service the citizens better and free resources internally in the department to produce health statistics, they have chosen a solution from SAS that provides them with a clear and easy access to a wide range of health statistics information. |