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Electricity Distributor ETSA Utilities, Simplifies Connections With SAP NetWeaver | 2007-10-01 | SAP |
| There was a need to improve engagement with key stakeholders, such as Energy Retailers and Electricians and a need to consolidate IT skills around a specific technology. There was a desire to reuse technology to expand the project to enhance relationships with customers and suppliers. ETSA Utilities wanted to simplify the request process for new connections, metering changes, service alterations, system augmentation or permanent removal of electricity supply and reduce turn around time and handling time on such requests. The challenge was to provide greater flexibility through web-based 24/7 self-service facility. As a solution the company deployed SAP NetWeaver and SAP Services. | |||
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Eurocopter Improves Product Development Operations With Web-Based Visualization Solution | 2007-10-01 | Oracle |
| Global distribution of development and production, and the growing trend toward outsourcing development tasks to international system suppliers represented a major challenge for the company. At the same time, the company faced growing pressure to reduce development cycle times and costs. Eurocopter needed to improve the efficiency of its product development operations and other business processes. One possible starting point for improvement was the way in which Eurocopter communicated Computer-Aided Design (CAD) data across the company. Digital product development enables Eurocopter to shorten development cycles for its helicopters, but it requires powerful tools to make the digital data accessible to non-CAD departments.
Tags: Database Management, CAD |
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Reliable and Efficient Personnel Controlling With mySAP Business Intelligence | 2007-09-28 | SAP |
| DGZ-DekaBank strategically realigned its personnel controlling to ensure swift access to high-quality and reliable information. The company implemented mySAP Business Intelligence to help it achieve this objective. From the many powerful features in the mySAP Business Intelligence suite, DGZ-DekaBank selected SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW). This enabled DGZ-DekaBank to achieve a high degree of visibility to data across all human resources processes and to optimize the quality and quantity of information required to meet information needs enterprise-wide.
Tags: Business Management, HR |
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SAP Business Information Warehouse at SAP AG: Global Reporting Creates Transparency for Customer-Related Decisions | 2007-09-28 | SAP |
| With its SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP has established a standardized reporting procedure in the whole group. Top management, line managers and a large number of employees in all parts of the world can now make decisions flexibly and quickly, based on consistent and transparent data. Thanks to the continuous exchange of experience and information between practical application at SAP and the development department, customers of SAP´s data warehouse solution also benefit.
Tags: Business Management, Application Development |
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Community College District Upgrades to Centralized, Scalable Student Database | 2007-09-28 | Microsoft |
| The Maricopa Community Colleges (MCCCD) in Arizona relied on 10 individual mainframe computers, one per college, to handle its business processes and its Student Information System (SIS). The complex mainframe environment not only required a great deal of customization but also kept student records at multiple sites. Seeking a centralized solution that would provide each student with a single data record, MCCCD contacted Hewlett-Packard (HP), Microsoft, and Intel. Representatives from the three companies, through the HP Microsoft Frontline Partnership, recommended HP hardware, Itanium technology, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to build a new Student Information System and a Decision Support System. The solution has helped the Maricopa Community Colleges build a reliable infrastructure that can grow with expanding enrollment and improve support services.
Tags: Application Development, Database Management |
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Need for a Single, Integrated Global Pipeline Drives Adoption of mySAP Customer Relationship Management | 2007-09-14 | SAP |
| With 78,000 employees around the world and corporate headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) earns more than $14 billion annually by providing consulting, system implementation and management, business process outsourcing, and other IT and business services. The company wanted to integrate information and processes for selling services. The challenge was to provide more accurate pipeline information and present a single view of the customer. As a solution the company deployed mySAP Customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM), SAP NetWeaver Portal Component and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence component.
Tags: Portals, CRM Software |
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Europcar Reduces Development, Administration, and Maintenance Costs With Informatica Data Integration Platform | 2007-09-14 | Informatica |
| Founded in Paris in 1949, Europcar is the leading car rental company in Europe. The company needed effective and rigorous decision-support facilities. Europcar needed a complete data integration solution that provided: real-time data, better analysis capabilities and greater reliability and availability. Europcar chose Informatica PowerCenter as an enterprise data integration platform for its ability to ensure data quality and to scale to support Europcar's operations in seven countries.
Tags: Data Quality, Data Sharing and Integration |
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How SAP Education Is Playing a Key Role in Helping Royal Mail Group Manage Its Business More Effectively | 2007-09-14 | SAP |
| In its quest to become more efficient and competitive, the Royal Mail Group embarked on a major SAP implementation in 2001, completing the successful roll-out of SAP R/3 across 18 business units and over 10,000 users. Having standardised and merged the organisation's internal processes and moved all legacy systems on to a single consistent platform, the next phase of development is well underway - the enhancement of the decision support capabilities to help Royal Mail Group manage its business more effectively. The ongoing SDS (Strategic and Decision Support) project - which comprises major SAP SEM and SAP BW implementations - is already delivering significant benefits to the business, and SAP education has been a crucial success factor.
Tags: ERP, Business Management |
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M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Unlocks Critical Patient Data With Informatica | 2007-09-14 | Informatica |
| The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is located in Houston, Texas, on the campus of the Texas Medical Center. The company wanted to integrate patient data from five major disparate sources to improve analysis capabilities, operational planning and research. M. D. Anderson decided to develop a fully integrated patient centered data warehouse and selected the Informatica as part of a strategic initiative focused on re-designing its reporting infrastructure for patient data analysis.
Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Sharing and Integration |
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Dial Improves Sales Performance With the Informatica Data Integration Platform | 2007-09-14 | Informatica |
| The Dial Corporation, headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., is $1.7 billion company and is one of America's leading manufacturers of consumer products, including Dial soaps, Purex laundry detergents, Renuzit air fresheners and Armour Star canned meats. The company wanted to create a more sophisticated, robust method for conducting enterprise business analysis. In 1997 Dial selected the Informatica data integration platform to develop a centralized data warehouse and several supporting data marts. This has enabled Dial to improve sales performance, establish more effective sales promotions and product distribution strategies, and reduce IT support - ultimately improving the company's overall performance.
Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Sharing and Integration |