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Sanyo Semiconductor Cuts Downtime, Improves Productivity With Help From Global Sapphire Inc. 2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle

Sanyo Semiconductor Manufacturing Philippines (SSMP) began experiencing irregular system outages and longer transaction processing time as its aging production server struggled to cope with an increase in workload. This resulted in data losses, long report generation times, a decrease in overall productivity, and frustrated, overworked staff. Maintenance costs were also skyrocketing. In 2005, SSMP engaged Oracle Partner Global Sapphire Inc to migrate its database and applications to Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters running on Red Hat Linux.

Samsung Life Insurance to Save US$20.8 Million Over Four Years With Grid Computing 2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle

Samsung Life has led the Korean insurance industry for the last half century. The ever-increasing quantity of customer-related data meant Samsung Life had to expand its IT systems. The company realized it needed an open environment system that would allow its major businesses to interoperate with external sources such as call centers and online channels. Samsung Life selected Oracle 10g grid technology as the basis of its new open system environment, enabling the company to increase management efficiency and cut costs by more than US$20 million for the next four years.

RIAS Turns Information Into Knowledge by Leveraging Data Assets 2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle

RIAS, a specialist insurer for clients in the over-50s age bracket, has a rapidly growing customer base of 840,000. The company wanted to enhance ability to analyze customer and product data to improve cross-selling and up-selling and increase market share. They wanted to extend the availability of actionable information from Business Intelligence (BI) professionals to a wider accountable audience. RIAS replaced SQL server and Cognos-based management information system with Oracle Database 10g and BI tools. The company used Oracle Warehouse Builder to design and deploy a BI solution using data from in house and third-party sources.

ReserveAmerica Improves IT Performance and Scalability 2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle

ReserveAmerica, an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp, is North America's leading camping reservation, campground management, and tour/ticketing solutions provider. Managing the largest campsite inventory in North America, ReserveAmerica wanted to implement a cost-effective, scalable database infrastructure and increase production system service levels. The company wanted to streamline IT management to optimize existing database administrator resources. ReserveAmerica implemented Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters to create a highly flexible, reliable, and cost-effective IT platform and ensured continuous data availability in an easy-to-manage infrastructure.

Replacements, Ltd. Improves IT Performance and Reliability While Planning for Future Growth 2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle

Founded in 1981, Replacements, Ltd. offers the world's largest selection of old and new tableware, serving more than six million customers. The company wanted to maximize availability and performance of reporting, training, and development systems. They wanted to reduce hardware and IT maintenance costs and gain the ability to increase IT capacity incrementally and non-disruptively. The company deployed Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g to create a more reliable, scalable, and cost-effective data infrastructure. Using Oracle Database's Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature to optimize input/output performance, allows dynamic and non-disruptive changes to the storage configuration while at the same time reducing the ongoing administrative effort for this system.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Sanyo Semiconductor Cuts Downtime, Improves Productivity With Help From Global Sapphire Inc.	2006-12-08 01:00:19	Oracle
Sanyo Semiconductor Manufacturing Philippines (SSMP) began experiencing irregular system outages and longer transaction processing time as its aging production server struggled to cope with an increase in workload. This resulted in data losses, long report generation times, a decrease in overall productivity, and frustrated, overworked staff. Maintenance costs were also skyrocketing. In 2005, SSMP engaged Oracle Partner Global Sapphire Inc to migrate its database and applications to Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters running on Red Hat Linux.
Samsung Life Insurance to Save US$20.8 Million Over Four Years With Grid Computing	2006-12-08 01:00:19	Oracle
Samsung Life has led the Korean insurance industry for the last half century. The ever-increasing quantity of customer-related data meant Samsung Life had to expand its IT systems. The company realized it needed an open environment system that would allow its major businesses to interoperate with external sources such as call centers and online channels. Samsung Life selected Oracle 10g grid technology as the basis of its new open system environment, enabling the company to increase management efficiency and cut costs by more than US$20 million for the next four years.
RIAS Turns Information Into Knowledge by Leveraging Data Assets	2006-12-08 01:00:19	Oracle
RIAS, a specialist insurer for clients in the over-50s age bracket, has a rapidly growing customer base of 840,000. The company wanted to enhance ability to analyze customer and product data to improve cross-selling and up-selling and increase market share. They wanted to extend the availability of actionable information from Business Intelligence (BI) professionals to a wider accountable audience. RIAS replaced SQL server and Cognos-based management information system with Oracle Database 10g and BI tools. The company used Oracle Warehouse Builder to design and deploy a BI solution using data from in house and third-party sources.
ReserveAmerica Improves IT Performance and Scalability	2006-12-08 01:00:19	Oracle
ReserveAmerica, an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp, is North America's leading camping reservation, campground management, and tour/ticketing solutions provider. Managing the largest campsite inventory in North America, ReserveAmerica wanted to implement a cost-effective, scalable database infrastructure and increase production system service levels. The company wanted to streamline IT management to optimize existing database administrator resources. ReserveAmerica implemented Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters to create a highly flexible, reliable, and cost-effective IT platform and ensured continuous data availability in an easy-to-manage infrastructure.
Replacements, Ltd. Improves IT Performance and Reliability While Planning for Future Growth	2006-12-08 01:00:19	Oracle
Founded in 1981, Replacements, Ltd. offers the world's largest selection of old and new tableware, serving more than six million customers. The company wanted to maximize availability and performance of reporting, training, and development systems. They wanted to reduce hardware and IT maintenance costs and gain the ability to increase IT capacity incrementally and non-disruptively. The company deployed Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g to create a more reliable, scalable, and cost-effective data infrastructure. Using Oracle Database's Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature to optimize input/output performance, allows dynamic and non-disruptive changes to the storage configuration while at the same time reducing the ongoing administrative effort for this system.
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.
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.
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.
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.