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Mutuelle Prevea Improves Responsiveness to Changing Health Care Regulations 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

Prevea is major player in its sector, insuring 183,600 individuals and 1,200 business clients. Prevea wanted to modernize its core-business management system, which had become obsolete and lacked potential for growth. The company wanted to support recent and ongoing health-sector reforms, including new European rules, new mutual insurance codes, social-security refund rules, and directions to channel health care through a referral to a general practitioner. The company implemented Oracle-based architecture as the foundation for a comprehensive enterprise resource planning system from Oracle Partner Protectia. The company relied on Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters and Oracle Partitioning to guarantee flexible, high-powered access to data concerning its 183,600 insured.

Tok & Stok Enhances Supply Control and Improves Delivery Time 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

Tok & Stok has stores in 10 Brazilian states, the Federal District, and 18 cities. It offers 9,000 items and sells 600,000 products a month. Tok & Stok wanted to implement an IT infrastructure to support company growth and improve delivery time. The company wanted to develop tools to enhance warehouse verticalization and increase system performance and availability. Tok & Stok integrated stores with Oracle Real Application Clusters, ensuring better response time and enhanced operational efficiency and significantly improved system availability with Oracle Real Application Clusters. The company provided supply control with a data retrieval application developed with Oracle Forms, improving operational efficiency.

Servista Delivers Cutting-Edge Management Information Using Oracle Technology 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

Servista Ltd is a leading European provider of outsourced customer-care and billing services. Servista wanted to provide detailed, up-to-date management information to clients that enable them to develop and grow their businesses in fast-moving markets. The company wanted to analyze sales information by channel, and by individual branch, store, agent, and geography to provide a complete understanding of the performance of each and provide clients with the ability to easily manipulate data so that they can investigate the interrelationships between different parts of the business. Servista used Oracle Database, Oracle OLAP, and Oracle Business Intelligence Beans to provide the clients with ServistaKnowlege, a highly flexible management-information solution.

Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. Gains Enterprise-Class Reliability and Functionality With New Data Infrastructure 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

Copper State Bolt & Nut Co., founded in 1972, is a manufacturer and distributor of fasteners, power tools, construction equipment and related products. The company wanted to implement a cost-effective, yet feature-rich data infrastructure to support continued growth and new business applications and ensure IT scalability. They wanted to implement and manage the new data infrastructure without outside help to keep costs low. Copper State Bolt & Nut implemented Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One - a system designed for small-to-midsized businesses - to create an affordable and scalable enterprise-strength data infrastructure that supports the company's continued growth and improved date infrastructure reliability and business application performance.

Conference Planners Delivers Reliable, Affordable IT Services to Conferences Worldwide 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

Established in 1914, Conference Planners (CP) is a leading provider of global event marketing solutions - helping clients forge better customer relationships through strategic marketing integration, creative brand experiences, events, and exhibits. CP wanted to build reliable internet applications that can be deployed rapidly. They wanted to provide convenient IT services to thousands of users at CP-managed conferences. The company created a highly reliable data and application infrastructure with Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server and implemented Oracle JDeveloper to enable an integrated development environment that provides end-to-end support for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying Java applications and Web services.

Centro Nacional de Registros Makes Land Registry More Accessible 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

In 1992, El Salvador established its national land registry, Centro Nacional de Registro (CNR), which is responsible for providing official real estate, commercial, and intellectual property information to citizens, businesses, and government agencies within El Salvador. However, the agency's FoxPro-based database on DOS was not up to the task of managing the country's growing data store, nor could it provide transactional security. CNR deployed Oracle Database with its built-in geospatial features and developed Web-based applications using Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Server development tools.

M. Dias Industria e Comercio de Alimentos Ltda Enhances Enterprise-Wide Collaboration 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

M. Dias Industria e Comercio de Alimentos Ltda is Brazil's leading manufacturer and distributor of cookies, breads, and pastas. The company wanted to enhance collaboration between geographically dispersed business units and improve efficiency and productivity with an enterprise-wide content management system. M. Dias wanted to continue to leverage the company's existing technology investment and reduce IT hardware and management costs. The company implemented Oracle Content Database (Oracle Content DB), Oracle Collaboration Suite, and Oracle Application Server to create an enterprise-wide content management system that enhances collaboration across the organization, while enabling consistent control over all documents - from creation and processing through retention and archiving.

ICEC Enhances Business Continuity, Achieves Higher IT Performance 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

ICEC is a Brazilian organization that has been operating at the civil engineering and construction market since 1979, offering complete engineering solutions. The organization wanted to achieve better data performance and security; guarantee business continuity if hardware fails and expand communication channels among branch offices and departments and facilitate the arrangement of fast, secure remote meetings. They wanted to reduce costs related to reporting, developing applications, and collaborating. ICEC implemented Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters 10g, boosting performance, heightening security of data storage, and achieving process continuity. The organization used the Web conferencing capabilities of Oracle Collaboration Suite to share and broadcast content generated at remote meetings; reduced costs previously associated with meeting in person.

Dell's View From the Top Gets Brighter With a Single Global Instance of Oracle 11i 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

Dell is unique in that they are the global leader in quality, customer satisfaction, and pricing, and the industry leader in profitability. The only way that Dell could maintain that unique position is to continue to reduce their costs over time. This is where Dell saw Oracle applications being able to help them drive down costs and run their internal infrastructure.

Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Centralizes Identity Management, Increases Security 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retail chain, offering current, high quality designer merchandise at discounted prices. Burlington Coat Factory wanted to manage identities of all employee desktop users, users of server-based applications, and intranet portal users. The company wanted to strengthen IT security while decreasing employee dependence on IT help desk support. Burlington Coat Factory used Oracle Identity Management to create a centralized user repository, providing a single, more efficient, and more manageable source of enterprise-wide identity. The company provided capability to drive costs out of IT operations by seamlessly integrating with existing Oracle applications and Linux-based Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) infrastructure.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Mutuelle Prevea Improves Responsiveness to Changing Health Care Regulations	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
Prevea is major player in its sector, insuring 183,600 individuals and 1,200 business clients. Prevea wanted to modernize its core-business management system, which had become obsolete and lacked potential for growth. The company wanted to support recent and ongoing health-sector reforms, including new European rules, new mutual insurance codes, social-security refund rules, and directions to channel health care through a referral to a general practitioner. The company implemented Oracle-based architecture as the foundation for a comprehensive enterprise resource planning system from Oracle Partner Protectia. The company relied on Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters and Oracle Partitioning to guarantee flexible, high-powered access to data concerning its 183,600 insured.
Tok & Stok Enhances Supply Control and Improves Delivery Time	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
Tok & Stok has stores in 10 Brazilian states, the Federal District, and 18 cities. It offers 9,000 items and sells 600,000 products a month. Tok & Stok wanted to implement an IT infrastructure to support company growth and improve delivery time. The company wanted to develop tools to enhance warehouse verticalization and increase system performance and availability. Tok & Stok integrated stores with Oracle Real Application Clusters, ensuring better response time and enhanced operational efficiency and significantly improved system availability with Oracle Real Application Clusters. The company provided supply control with a data retrieval application developed with Oracle Forms, improving operational efficiency.
Servista Delivers Cutting-Edge Management Information Using Oracle Technology	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
Servista Ltd is a leading European provider of outsourced customer-care and billing services. Servista wanted to provide detailed, up-to-date management information to clients that enable them to develop and grow their businesses in fast-moving markets. The company wanted to analyze sales information by channel, and by individual branch, store, agent, and geography to provide a complete understanding of the performance of each and provide clients with the ability to easily manipulate data so that they can investigate the interrelationships between different parts of the business. Servista used Oracle Database, Oracle OLAP, and Oracle Business Intelligence Beans to provide the clients with ServistaKnowlege, a highly flexible management-information solution.
Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. Gains Enterprise-Class Reliability and Functionality With New Data Infrastructure	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
Copper State Bolt & Nut Co., founded in 1972, is a manufacturer and distributor of fasteners, power tools, construction equipment and related products. The company wanted to implement a cost-effective, yet feature-rich data infrastructure to support continued growth and new business applications and ensure IT scalability. They wanted to implement and manage the new data infrastructure without outside help to keep costs low. Copper State Bolt & Nut implemented Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One - a system designed for small-to-midsized businesses - to create an affordable and scalable enterprise-strength data infrastructure that supports the company's continued growth and improved date infrastructure reliability and business application performance.
Conference Planners Delivers Reliable, Affordable IT Services to Conferences Worldwide	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
Established in 1914, Conference Planners (CP) is a leading provider of global event marketing solutions - helping clients forge better customer relationships through strategic marketing integration, creative brand experiences, events, and exhibits. CP wanted to build reliable internet applications that can be deployed rapidly. They wanted to provide convenient IT services to thousands of users at CP-managed conferences. The company created a highly reliable data and application infrastructure with Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server and implemented Oracle JDeveloper to enable an integrated development environment that provides end-to-end support for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying Java applications and Web services.
Centro Nacional de Registros Makes Land Registry More Accessible	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
In 1992, El Salvador established its national land registry, Centro Nacional de Registro (CNR), which is responsible for providing official real estate, commercial, and intellectual property information to citizens, businesses, and government agencies within El Salvador. However, the agency's FoxPro-based database on DOS was not up to the task of managing the country's growing data store, nor could it provide transactional security. CNR deployed Oracle Database with its built-in geospatial features and developed Web-based applications using Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Server development tools.
M. Dias Industria e Comercio de Alimentos Ltda Enhances Enterprise-Wide Collaboration	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
M. Dias Industria e Comercio de Alimentos Ltda is Brazil's leading manufacturer and distributor of cookies, breads, and pastas. The company wanted to enhance collaboration between geographically dispersed business units and improve efficiency and productivity with an enterprise-wide content management system. M. Dias wanted to continue to leverage the company's existing technology investment and reduce IT hardware and management costs. The company implemented Oracle Content Database (Oracle Content DB), Oracle Collaboration Suite, and Oracle Application Server to create an enterprise-wide content management system that enhances collaboration across the organization, while enabling consistent control over all documents - from creation and processing through retention and archiving.
ICEC Enhances Business Continuity, Achieves Higher IT Performance	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
ICEC is a Brazilian organization that has been operating at the civil engineering and construction market since 1979, offering complete engineering solutions. The organization wanted to achieve better data performance and security; guarantee business continuity if hardware fails and expand communication channels among branch offices and departments and facilitate the arrangement of fast, secure remote meetings. They wanted to reduce costs related to reporting, developing applications, and collaborating. ICEC implemented Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters 10g, boosting performance, heightening security of data storage, and achieving process continuity. The organization used the Web conferencing capabilities of Oracle Collaboration Suite to share and broadcast content generated at remote meetings; reduced costs previously associated with meeting in person.
Dell's View From the Top Gets Brighter With a Single Global Instance of Oracle 11i	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
Dell is unique in that they are the global leader in quality, customer satisfaction, and pricing, and the industry leader in profitability. The only way that Dell could maintain that unique position is to continue to reduce their costs over time. This is where Dell saw Oracle applications being able to help them drive down costs and run their internal infrastructure.
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Centralizes Identity Management, Increases Security	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retail chain, offering current, high quality designer merchandise at discounted prices. Burlington Coat Factory wanted to manage identities of all employee desktop users, users of server-based applications, and intranet portal users. The company wanted to strengthen IT security while decreasing employee dependence on IT help desk support. Burlington Coat Factory used Oracle Identity Management to create a centralized user repository, providing a single, more efficient, and more manageable source of enterprise-wide identity. The company provided capability to drive costs out of IT operations by seamlessly integrating with existing Oracle applications and Linux-based Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) infrastructure.