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SICREDI Centralizes Processes in Attendance Units With Oracle 2006-12-08 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.

Oracle Case Study: ServeCentric Ltd 2006-12-08 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.

Quova Inc. Pinpoints IT Savings and Scalability 2006-12-08 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.

SPI Invests in Real-Time Traceability to Optimize Warehouse Management 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Oracle

SPI specializes in agro-food industrial packaging, offering product-processing centers that incorporate flow and warehouse management functions. SPI wanted to create an automated information system to manage all aspects of business from the warehouse to production. The company wanted to maintain optimum product safety and maximize employee productivity. Working with STEL, SPI implement a real-time warehouse management solution embodying intelligent information processing based on industrial pocket PCs, Oracle Database Standard Edition at the central location, and Oracle Database Lite at five remote warehouses.

State Bank of Mauritius Improves Reporting Capabilities Using Oracle Technology 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Oracle

Founded in 1973, State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) is the country's second largest domestic bank in terms of assets. The bank wanted to expand use of technology to improve financial processes and effectively satisfy regulatory requirements, manage risk, and make forecasts. The challenge was to refine data extraction process to improve profitability reporting by portfolio, business unit, product, customer, and account. SBM implement Basel II Advanced IRB approach for capital adequacy and implemented Oracle applications to support financial processes; solution included Oracle Funds Transfer Pricing, Oracle Performance Analyzer, Oracle Risk Manager, and Oracle Enterprise Budgeting and Planning. The bank created a monthly, account-level data warehouse using Oracle Database and Oracle Warehouse Builder.

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System Ensures High Availability of Clinical Data at Lower Cost 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Oracle

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System has provided compassionate healthcare to Houstonians for almost five decades from its location in the heart of the Texas Medical Center. St. Luke wanted to reduce hardware expenditures required when SMP servers running McKesson patient care applications reached maximum capacity. The challenge was to keep care providers online 24/7 by eliminating downtime for upgrades and enhance disaster recovery strategies cost-effectively. St. Luke reduced hardware expenditures by deploying Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters on Linux on low-cost Intel-based servers, per McKesson's advice.

Teamwork Leverages Existing Technology to Work Smarter, Improve Cash Flow, and Increase Efficiency 2006-12-06 01:00:24 Oracle

Specialist healthcare consultancy Teamwork Management Services wanted to improve cash flow by invoicing hours worked and expenses incurred by consultants working on customer site more quickly and gain detailed, up-to-date information on cost and duration of projects to assist budgeting and bidding for future assignments. The company wanted to increase knowledge sharing between all staff to enhance business management, reporting, and decision making. Teamwork replaced Microsoft Access-based timesheet and expenses recording system for their 30 consultants with Web-enabled solution built on Oracle Application Express, available free to Oracle Database 10g customers. The company benefited from metadata-driven, wizard-based development environment to create and implement the solution in 20 days.

Telstra Improves Efficiency With Simplified Development Environment 2006-12-06 01:00:24 Oracle

Telstra's data centers are responsible for managing the network records of the company's sprawling resources, which include everything from old copper wiring to the latest high-density optical fiber cables, cable, and satellite links. Compounding the issue for the centers was that they were experiencing an increasing array of problems with the incumbent desktop database platforms. The current databases lacked scalability and reliability, while deployment and maintenance of 'Fat client' desktop software was proving burdensome. Telstra was eager to consolidate its distributed desktop database setup into a centralized environment. This was achieved by combining applications from the seven data centers into a single Oracle 10g Database running on Red Hat Linux and low-cost Intel hardware.

Oracle Case Study: Talk America Holdings, Inc. 2006-12-06 01:00:24 Oracle

Founded in 1989, Talk America is a leading competitive communications provider that offers phone services and high-speed internet access to both residential and business customers. The company wanted to create a reliable and secure data infrastructure to deliver high levels of customer service and develop an IT infrastructure that will scale to accommodate rapid and sustained growth. The challenge was to gain the ability to consistently meet the terms of IT Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and reduce hardware and IT management costs. Talk America implemented Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Automatic Storage Management (ASM) to create a highly available, scalable, secure data infrastructure that manages billions of call records each year.

TAM Updates Platform, Guarantees High Availability 2006-12-06 01:00:24 Oracle

Founded in 1976, TAM has grown to become one of the major airline companies in Brazil. The company wanted to leverage the Oracle platform to support massive increases in data volumes and rapid company growth and maintain a technological infrastructure based on best practices in order to avoid bottlenecks and unexpected stoppages, and prevent production losses. The challenge was to extend performance of critical applications by reducing query times and guarantee high availability of critical applications. TAM implemented Oracle Advanced Product Services, making it possible to achieve the best practices in technology management. The company modernized the technological platform, improving performance of IT environment and guaranteeing nearly 100% availability.

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Title	Date Added	Company
SICREDI Centralizes Processes in Attendance Units With Oracle	2006-12-08 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.
Oracle Case Study: ServeCentric Ltd	2006-12-08 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.
Quova Inc. Pinpoints IT Savings and Scalability	2006-12-08 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.
SPI Invests in Real-Time Traceability to Optimize Warehouse Management	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Oracle
SPI specializes in agro-food industrial packaging, offering product-processing centers that incorporate flow and warehouse management functions. SPI wanted to create an automated information system to manage all aspects of business from the warehouse to production. The company wanted to maintain optimum product safety and maximize employee productivity. Working with STEL, SPI implement a real-time warehouse management solution embodying intelligent information processing based on industrial pocket PCs, Oracle Database Standard Edition at the central location, and Oracle Database Lite at five remote warehouses.
State Bank of Mauritius Improves Reporting Capabilities Using Oracle Technology	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Oracle
Founded in 1973, State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) is the country's second largest domestic bank in terms of assets. The bank wanted to expand use of technology to improve financial processes and effectively satisfy regulatory requirements, manage risk, and make forecasts. The challenge was to refine data extraction process to improve profitability reporting by portfolio, business unit, product, customer, and account. SBM implement Basel II Advanced IRB approach for capital adequacy and implemented Oracle applications to support financial processes; solution included Oracle Funds Transfer Pricing, Oracle Performance Analyzer, Oracle Risk Manager, and Oracle Enterprise Budgeting and Planning. The bank created a monthly, account-level data warehouse using Oracle Database and Oracle Warehouse Builder.
St. Luke's Episcopal Health System Ensures High Availability of Clinical Data at Lower Cost	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Oracle
St. Luke's Episcopal Health System has provided compassionate healthcare to Houstonians for almost five decades from its location in the heart of the Texas Medical Center. St. Luke wanted to reduce hardware expenditures required when SMP servers running McKesson patient care applications reached maximum capacity. The challenge was to keep care providers online 24/7 by eliminating downtime for upgrades and enhance disaster recovery strategies cost-effectively. St. Luke reduced hardware expenditures by deploying Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters on Linux on low-cost Intel-based servers, per McKesson's advice.
Teamwork Leverages Existing Technology to Work Smarter, Improve Cash Flow, and Increase Efficiency	2006-12-06 01:00:24	Oracle
Specialist healthcare consultancy Teamwork Management Services wanted to improve cash flow by invoicing hours worked and expenses incurred by consultants working on customer site more quickly and gain detailed, up-to-date information on cost and duration of projects to assist budgeting and bidding for future assignments. The company wanted to increase knowledge sharing between all staff to enhance business management, reporting, and decision making. Teamwork replaced Microsoft Access-based timesheet and expenses recording system for their 30 consultants with Web-enabled solution built on Oracle Application Express, available free to Oracle Database 10g customers. The company benefited from metadata-driven, wizard-based development environment to create and implement the solution in 20 days.
Telstra Improves Efficiency With Simplified Development Environment	2006-12-06 01:00:24	Oracle
Telstra's data centers are responsible for managing the network records of the company's sprawling resources, which include everything from old copper wiring to the latest high-density optical fiber cables, cable, and satellite links. Compounding the issue for the centers was that they were experiencing an increasing array of problems with the incumbent desktop database platforms. The current databases lacked scalability and reliability, while deployment and maintenance of 'Fat client' desktop software was proving burdensome. Telstra was eager to consolidate its distributed desktop database setup into a centralized environment. This was achieved by combining applications from the seven data centers into a single Oracle 10g Database running on Red Hat Linux and low-cost Intel hardware.
Oracle Case Study: Talk America Holdings, Inc.	2006-12-06 01:00:24	Oracle
Founded in 1989, Talk America is a leading competitive communications provider that offers phone services and high-speed internet access to both residential and business customers. The company wanted to create a reliable and secure data infrastructure to deliver high levels of customer service and develop an IT infrastructure that will scale to accommodate rapid and sustained growth. The challenge was to gain the ability to consistently meet the terms of IT Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and reduce hardware and IT management costs. Talk America implemented Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Automatic Storage Management (ASM) to create a highly available, scalable, secure data infrastructure that manages billions of call records each year.
TAM Updates Platform, Guarantees High Availability	2006-12-06 01:00:24	Oracle
Founded in 1976, TAM has grown to become one of the major airline companies in Brazil. The company wanted to leverage the Oracle platform to support massive increases in data volumes and rapid company growth and maintain a technological infrastructure based on best practices in order to avoid bottlenecks and unexpected stoppages, and prevent production losses. The challenge was to extend performance of critical applications by reducing query times and guarantee high availability of critical applications. TAM implemented Oracle Advanced Product Services, making it possible to achieve the best practices in technology management. The company modernized the technological platform, improving performance of IT environment and guaranteeing nearly 100% availability.