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whitepaper Hospital Transport Service Saves Money, Boosts Quality With Integrated-Data Solution2008-02-15 Microsoft Tips
  MedSTAR Transport provides air-medical and ground-ambulance services to tertiary-care facilities around Washington, D.C., and Baltimore and emergency transport to other area hospitals. To cope with a 25 percent growth rate between 2004 and 2006 and simultaneously meet the strategic and financial goals of its parent organization, MedStar Health, the transport company needed integration between its dispatch and communications systems and the hospitals' systems for admission, registration, and discharge. Using Microsoft Amalga, the Unified Intelligence System, MedSTAR Transport is dramatically reducing claims denials, boosting equipment utilization and staff productivity, expanding its business model for greater efficiency, and providing more responsive service to the hospitals.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Cancer Center Empowers Researchers With New Data Exploration Tool2008-02-14 Microsoft Tips
  Moffitt wanted to develop a cancer care delivery paradigm called Moffitt Total Cancer Care (TCC). The key goals were to develop clinical trials and utilize bio-markers and evidence-based guidelines to personalize cancer care. To do this, Moffitt TCC partnered with a range of other industry stakeholders. Researchers needed a tool to access and explore genomic, proteomic, bio-specimen, imaging, and clinical data. Moffitt deployed Microsoft Amalga, the Unified Intelligence System, as a tool to present data from the warehouse to the researchers including clinical, bio-specimen, research data, and clinical images. Data from the data mart is fed into Amalga through an XML-based interface. The IT team groups the data into "Base views" for researchers to modify/filter/sort by themselves.

Tags: XML, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Medical Center Develops Automated Patient Screening and Early Detection Tool2008-02-01 Microsoft
  Severe sepsis is the tenth leading cause of death worldwide and costs hospitals over U.S.$16.7 billion each year (Angus, DC et al. Critical Care Medicine, 2001; 29:1303-1310). Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) decided to develop a technology-based patient screening tool to help its clinicians more effectively detect and manage sepsis. Physicians at VUMC collaborated with the healthcare application developers at Accent on Integration to create the Patient Safety Screening Tool (PSST) for Sepsis. The new tool was built using the guidelines in the Microsoft Connected Health Framework Architecture and Design Blueprint. VUMC anticipates that using the PSST for Sepsis solution will reduce the frequency and severity of sepsis through early detection and improved compliance with treatment standards.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Newcastle Building Society Protects Customer Data With Centralized Security and Retention Management2008-02-01 Oracle
  Newcastle wanted to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of customers' financial information that is shared with third-parties such as solicitors, valuers, government agencies, and the judiciary and enforce audit trail for sensitive data, even when used within applications, and authenticate sender and receiver identity. The challenge was to use internationally recognized industry standards to encrypt documents and ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act and avoid interference with normal workflows, both internally and within partner organizations, while sharing sensitive data. Newcastle implemented Oracle Information Rights Management to control access to and track policy documents, deeds, and financial statements both internally and beyond the firewall.

Tags: Security Management, Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper Development Dimensions International Automates Printing and Invoicing Processes to Improve Productivity2008-02-01 Oracle
  Founded in 1970, Development Dimensions International (DDI) is a global human resources consulting firm focused on helping organizations close the gap between today's talent capabilities and future talent needs. DDI wanted to eliminate manual document printing processes to increase throughput and reduce operator error and eliminate manual input of currency rate data. The challenge was to improve the timeliness and accuracy of data used for invoicing and other critical business activities. DDI developed and implemented a Windows Service application using Oracle's Data Provider for .NET to efficiently process document printing orders for printed materials not in stock on warehouse shelves and automated document printing tasks, improving throughput and operator capacity.

Tags: .NET, Application Development		   
whitepaper Taobao.com Turns to Grid Computing to Improve System Performance and Reliability2008-02-01 Oracle
  Founded in 2003, Taobao.com is the leading shopping Web site in China, with a 70% share of the market and more than 40 million registered members. Taobao.com wanted to design more and better promotions to attract customers and make better use of business data to inform decision making and Web site development. The challenge was to improve infrastructure planning and ensure architecture can scale with business growth and address poor database performance and speed up response times. Taobao.com implemented a reliable, scalable, and high performing information technology architecture using a range of Oracle grid computing products and satisfied scalability requirements with four-node server cluster, with the option of expanding to 16 nodes in the future.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Mobilitie LLC Improves Business Agility and Scalability With Integrated Applications2008-02-01 Oracle
  Mobilitie LLC, a US$600 million market capital company, is reinventing the way telecommunications assets - specifically communications towers and antennae - are managed for wireless providers. Mobilitie LLC wanted to manage multiple independent funds, as well as thousands of discrete properties and tenant relationships and focus on partnership approach with customers, with open lines of communication and transparency. The challenge was to implement an integrated and scalable solution to support the growth of the business. Mobilitie LLC implemented Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications for financial and human capital management to centralize critical business data and improve efficiency and streamlined financial management, allowing Mobilitie to improve data accuracy and vendor relationships.

Tags: Finance, Human Capital Management		   
whitepaper Aluline A/S Improves Service Levels and Collaboration Abilities With Streamlined Information Access2008-02-01 Oracle
  Aluline A/S achieves added value for the customer through competence, ingenuity, and state-of-the-art technology by developing and manufacturing aluminum material products. The company wanted to improve level of customer service and improve profitability. The challenge was to control access to information from disparate systems and meet company demand for more automated workflows and improved quality assurance in all processes. Aluline A/S implemented a suite of Oracle applications to improve efficiency across sales, purchasing, and accounting activities as well as enabled prompt access to data, decreasing response times to customers and suppliers.

Tags: Database Applications		   
whitepaper Riverbed Technology, Inc. Reduces Costs and Scales WDS Management With Oracle Berkeley DB2008-02-01 Oracle
  Riverbed Technology wanted to collect and store application and network performance data from Steelhead WDS appliances deployed at remote sites into the Steelhead Central Management Console (CMC) and collect and store application and network performance data from Steelhead Mobile software deployed to mobile users into the Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC). The challenge was to scale the CMC and SMC's data collection to support thousands of remote sites accumulating data over time periods ranging from five minutes to years and minimize administrative overhead and cost for customers. Riverbed Technology embedded Oracle Berkeley DB in Riverbed's CMC and SMC to make it easier for customers to manage by avoiding the administrative burden and costs associated with a separate database.

Tags: Database Management, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Yarra Valley Water Turns to Enterprise Software to Improve Information Flow2008-02-01 Oracle
  Yarra Valley Water (YVW) is the largest of the city of Melbourne's three metropolitan water retailers. To fulfill its mission, YVW decided to invest in a more flexible architecture and integrated billing, finance, asset management, and business intelligence systems. The company's existing technology platform was highly fragmented, with reporting undertaken in ad-hoc fashion and senior managers often working with superseded or incorrect information when making decisions. After a thorough evaluation process, YVW selected a range of Oracle products, including Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (BIEE), Oracle SOA Suite, and Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to build the new environment.

Tags: Middleware, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing