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Greyhound-Data Dog Racing Site Relies on the Speed of MySQL 2006-10-11 01:00:17 MySQL

Greyhound-Data is the world's most popular greyhound racing web site. It is the de facto web site for greyhound fans in worldwide who follow the results of the 'Big tracks' in the United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, and Australia. Founded in 1999, Greyhound-Data is a non profit organization with the goal of providing freely accessible information about greyhounds. The highlight of the site is that even very complicated race statistics across millions of records are calculated in fractions of a second due to the optimized MySQL backend.

Sandstorm Secures Enterprise Networks Using Embedded MySQL 2006-10-11 01:00:17 MySQL

Existing network monitoring and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) cannot provide all the information that network managers need to pinpoint network problems and investigate security breaches. Instead, users are forced to manually inspect network traffic and data, which is extremely time consuming and makes getting an in-depth view of what has crossed a network nearly impossible. To solve this problem, Sandstorm Enterprises developed NetIntercept, a network monitoring and auditing device that is delivered as a complete solution with software pre-installed. NetIntercept relies on MySQL to store and structure the searchable data to identify network and network security issues in the most demanding customer environments.

Oracle and Microsoft Bring Scalability, Availability, and Lower Costs to Business 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

Ohio Savings Bank's business witnessed phenomenal growth in the past few years. As a result of the dramatic growth, their IT requirements have grown rapidly as well - particularly in the wholesale mortgage business, in which they buy loans from correspondents and brokers and sell them to investors. Like many other companies, Ohio Savings Bank decided to meet these needs by choosing what it considered the optimal products for each part of the solution - a combination of Oracle and Microsoft tools. They built a mission-critical application to support the buying and selling of mortgages that runs 24/7 and is employed by more than 20,000 internal and external users such as mortgage agencies and brokerage firms.

Oracle Case Study: XIAM 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

XIAM is a privately-held software vendor whose application software helps mobile operators to market, manage and deliver content services. XIAM wanted to build a scalable retail marketing platform for mobile operators in a market where new, interactive, multimedia services generate 50% yearly growth in traffic and ensure high performance and 100% availability for real-time, premium-rate subscriber services. They wanted to create a solution that runs on multiple operating systems to maximize XIAM's penetration of the mobile operator markets. Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters' open technology enables customers to run XIAM's products on any commercially available operating system. High availability and high performance guarantees delivery of time-sensitive services such as subscriptions to football results and stock prices.

Wotif.com Scales the Heights of Commerce 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, Wotif.com is Australia's leading accommodation Web site. The company has grown considerably year-on-year since 2000 and attracts nearly 2 million users and processes more than 110,000 bookings each month. In 2003, however, the company predicted that its current systems would not scale to cope with rapid growth. In 2004, Wotif.com implemented Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition to improve the speed, reliability, and availability of its Web portal. As a result, the company was able to meet peak-load scalability needs with ease, simplify system administration, and extend database use to include transaction processing.

Wilson Transportation and Leasing Group Streamlines Operations and Increases Up-Time to 99.999% 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

Wilson Transportation and Leasing Group is a $160 million company with 800 employees across seven branches that serve the United States and Canada. The company wanted to replace existing, unstable legacy systems and improve availability and scalability of mission-critical ecommerce and fleet management software applications. Wilson wanted to ensure 24x7 operations across different time zones and integrate platform with enterprise resource planning components, including dispatch, logistics, order entry, and financials. The company implemented Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g and Oracle Database 10g to protect Wilson against server failure, improve scalability, and allow for rolling upgrades without system shutdown.

Where2GetIt, Inc. Adopts New Spatial Technology to Broaden GeoSpatial Platform and Handle Increased Customer Transaction Demands 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

Where2GetIt, Inc. is a premier provider of location-based services for Fortune 1000 channel dependent companies with multiple dealer or retail store locations. The company wanted to upgrade the company's legacy technology and reduce time and labor costs by freeing employees from having to devote too much time to customizing and managing systems. Where2GetIt, Inc. implemented an Oracle-based public geospatial API for both North America and Europe and implemented Oracle Spatial to better manage the company's various geo-spatial services and provide a robust foundation for its complex Global Information System (GIS) applications.

Oracle Case Study: WellPoint 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

Since WellPoint's formation in 1992, a series of mergers and acquisitions made it one of the leading publicly traded healthcare companies in the United States. Rapid, continuous growth and increasing intranet use soon intensified the difficulty of locating information for associates and management. WellPoint's Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) department could not use the intranet to leverage human resource data for management-level decision making. In addition, communicating with the company's 20,000 associates had become a challenge. The vision of the HRIS department at WellPoint was to establish a single source for company-wide information via a portal. HRIS selected Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal because WellPoint relied on its PeopleSoft database to source HR information.

Warner Music Group Streamlines Management and Storage of Digitally Formatted Data 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

With its broad roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group (WMG) is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry. WMG wanted to replace their existing data infrastructure, which lacked the flexibility needed to handle new and standardized XML based data and prepare for compliance with anticipated Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) standards for electronic messages. WMG implemented Oracle Database 10g Release 2 to streamline collection, consolidation, verification, and mining of critical data and gained the ability to collect, validate, and track information from a variety of business partners with Oracle XML DB, preparing WMG to comply with an anticipated RIAA initiative to standardize electronic messages and data in the recording industry.

Voca Supports Over 100 Million Global Transactions Each Day With New Technology Platform 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

Founded in 1968, Voca, formerly BACS Limited, is one of the world's largest and most advanced providers of payments services to banks and corporates. Voca wanted to replace existing technology infrastructure - hardware and software - with a flexible technology platform able to support global volumes in excess of 100 million daily transactions and improve customer service by offering online interaction and direct corporate access. Voca introduced a new technology platform built on Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, and Oracle Reports to support large and growing volumes of transactions and provided customers with efficient online interaction and electronic payment services.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Greyhound-Data Dog Racing Site Relies on the Speed of MySQL	2006-10-11 01:00:17	MySQL
Greyhound-Data is the world's most popular greyhound racing web site. It is the de facto web site for greyhound fans in worldwide who follow the results of the 'Big tracks' in the United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, and Australia. Founded in 1999, Greyhound-Data is a non profit organization with the goal of providing freely accessible information about greyhounds. The highlight of the site is that even very complicated race statistics across millions of records are calculated in fractions of a second due to the optimized MySQL backend.
Sandstorm Secures Enterprise Networks Using Embedded MySQL	2006-10-11 01:00:17	MySQL
Existing network monitoring and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) cannot provide all the information that network managers need to pinpoint network problems and investigate security breaches. Instead, users are forced to manually inspect network traffic and data, which is extremely time consuming and makes getting an in-depth view of what has crossed a network nearly impossible. To solve this problem, Sandstorm Enterprises developed NetIntercept, a network monitoring and auditing device that is delivered as a complete solution with software pre-installed. NetIntercept relies on MySQL to store and structure the searchable data to identify network and network security issues in the most demanding customer environments.
Oracle and Microsoft Bring Scalability, Availability, and Lower Costs to Business	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
Ohio Savings Bank's business witnessed phenomenal growth in the past few years. As a result of the dramatic growth, their IT requirements have grown rapidly as well - particularly in the wholesale mortgage business, in which they buy loans from correspondents and brokers and sell them to investors. Like many other companies, Ohio Savings Bank decided to meet these needs by choosing what it considered the optimal products for each part of the solution - a combination of Oracle and Microsoft tools. They built a mission-critical application to support the buying and selling of mortgages that runs 24/7 and is employed by more than 20,000 internal and external users such as mortgage agencies and brokerage firms.
Oracle Case Study: XIAM	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
XIAM is a privately-held software vendor whose application software helps mobile operators to market, manage and deliver content services. XIAM wanted to build a scalable retail marketing platform for mobile operators in a market where new, interactive, multimedia services generate 50% yearly growth in traffic and ensure high performance and 100% availability for real-time, premium-rate subscriber services. They wanted to create a solution that runs on multiple operating systems to maximize XIAM's penetration of the mobile operator markets. Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters' open technology enables customers to run XIAM's products on any commercially available operating system. High availability and high performance guarantees delivery of time-sensitive services such as subscriptions to football results and stock prices.
Wotif.com Scales the Heights of Commerce	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, Wotif.com is Australia's leading accommodation Web site. The company has grown considerably year-on-year since 2000 and attracts nearly 2 million users and processes more than 110,000 bookings each month. In 2003, however, the company predicted that its current systems would not scale to cope with rapid growth. In 2004, Wotif.com implemented Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition to improve the speed, reliability, and availability of its Web portal. As a result, the company was able to meet peak-load scalability needs with ease, simplify system administration, and extend database use to include transaction processing.
Wilson Transportation and Leasing Group Streamlines Operations and Increases Up-Time to 99.999%	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
Wilson Transportation and Leasing Group is a $160 million company with 800 employees across seven branches that serve the United States and Canada. The company wanted to replace existing, unstable legacy systems and improve availability and scalability of mission-critical ecommerce and fleet management software applications. Wilson wanted to ensure 24x7 operations across different time zones and integrate platform with enterprise resource planning components, including dispatch, logistics, order entry, and financials. The company implemented Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g and Oracle Database 10g to protect Wilson against server failure, improve scalability, and allow for rolling upgrades without system shutdown.
Where2GetIt, Inc. Adopts New Spatial Technology to Broaden GeoSpatial Platform and Handle Increased Customer Transaction Demands	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
Where2GetIt, Inc. is a premier provider of location-based services for Fortune 1000 channel dependent companies with multiple dealer or retail store locations. The company wanted to upgrade the company's legacy technology and reduce time and labor costs by freeing employees from having to devote too much time to customizing and managing systems. Where2GetIt, Inc. implemented an Oracle-based public geospatial API for both North America and Europe and implemented Oracle Spatial to better manage the company's various geo-spatial services and provide a robust foundation for its complex Global Information System (GIS) applications.
Oracle Case Study: WellPoint	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
Since WellPoint's formation in 1992, a series of mergers and acquisitions made it one of the leading publicly traded healthcare companies in the United States. Rapid, continuous growth and increasing intranet use soon intensified the difficulty of locating information for associates and management. WellPoint's Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) department could not use the intranet to leverage human resource data for management-level decision making. In addition, communicating with the company's 20,000 associates had become a challenge. The vision of the HRIS department at WellPoint was to establish a single source for company-wide information via a portal. HRIS selected Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal because WellPoint relied on its PeopleSoft database to source HR information.
Warner Music Group Streamlines Management and Storage of Digitally Formatted Data	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
With its broad roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group (WMG) is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry. WMG wanted to replace their existing data infrastructure, which lacked the flexibility needed to handle new and standardized XML based data and prepare for compliance with anticipated Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) standards for electronic messages. WMG implemented Oracle Database 10g Release 2 to streamline collection, consolidation, verification, and mining of critical data and gained the ability to collect, validate, and track information from a variety of business partners with Oracle XML DB, preparing WMG to comply with an anticipated RIAA initiative to standardize electronic messages and data in the recording industry.
Voca Supports Over 100 Million Global Transactions Each Day With New Technology Platform	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
Founded in 1968, Voca, formerly BACS Limited, is one of the world's largest and most advanced providers of payments services to banks and corporates. Voca wanted to replace existing technology infrastructure - hardware and software - with a flexible technology platform able to support global volumes in excess of 100 million daily transactions and improve customer service by offering online interaction and direct corporate access. Voca introduced a new technology platform built on Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, and Oracle Reports to support large and growing volumes of transactions and provided customers with efficient online interaction and electronic payment services.