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whitepaper MGM Creates Virtual Online Tour to Expand Fan Base, Drive New Revenue2009-08-13 Microsoft
  To give fans the ultimate preview of its Stargate Universe television series, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) worked with Microsoft to create a three-dimensional virtual tour of the show's set. The team used Microsoft Photosynth to stitch together hundreds of digital images of the set and then embedded the synths in a rich Internet application built on Microsoft Silverlight. Now, visitors to the Stargate Web site can virtually explore every corner of the 1,000-year-old spaceship Destiny, the backdrop for the upcoming series. MGM expects that the new application will strengthen its connection to existing fans and extend the reach of the series to new audiences.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Vision Integrated Graphics, Graphic Service Bureau: HP Major PM Service Renews HP Indigo Digital Presses2009-08-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Vision Integrated Graphics is a Chicago-based, full-service marketing solutions provider with a thriving variable print business. Over the years, the company has acquired seven HP Indigo Digital Presses. It needed to increase lifespan, improve output quality, and reduce service calls for seasoned HP Indigo Digital Presses. It conducted HP Indigo Major PM Service.   
whitepaper Visio Partner Uses Process Visualization to Cut Sales Engagement From Months to Days2009-06-01 Microsoft
  Since 1998, Bluespring Software, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has been a leading business process analysis and management software innovator. To give customers better visibility into their processes, help justify process improvements, optimize and standardize processes, and reduce costs, Bluespring needed to add process visualization functionality to its software. Now, with Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and its process modeling capabilities at the core of all Bluespring process modeling efforts, the company has been able to decrease the length of its sales engagements from several weeks or months to just three to five days, realize a 100 percent closure rate for reengagements with previously hesitant customers, and increase sales pipeline growth by 50 percent in three months.

Tags: Data Tools, Office Suites		   
whitepaper HP Integrity NonStop System and PDSG CDX Software at the Heart of Successful NCHCI/State of Montana Pilot2009-06-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  National Center for Health Care Informatics wanted to demonstrate that the HP-PDSG solution could enable health information exchange among disparate data sets quickly, easily, and cost-effectively. Source data was collected from four geographically dispersed Montana hospitals and fed through the HP-PDSG solution into the syndromic surveillance system at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS). The PDSG software, which complies with all relevant data-sharing and technology standards, normalized the data into the required format for the DPHHS system.

Tags: Security Administration		   
whitepaper Maritime Agency Provides Real-Time Data With Enhanced Visualization Technology2009-06-01 Microsoft
  As part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Maritime Administration acts as the information advocate for the Marine Transportation System, which consists of waterways, ports, and intermodal connections that allow the various modes of transportation to move people and goods to, from, and on the water. The agency's process for gathering critical information - especially during a crisis - caused frustration and delays, so it wanted to find a solution that would give decision makers a single, geographic view of the vast array of data sources. Working with IDV Solutions, the agency developed MarView, a solution based on the Microsoft Single View Platform (Microsoft SVP), a framework for developing data visualization solutions.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Clear Channel Outdoor Simplifies Targeted Advertising, Shows Clients the "Real Picture" With Google Maps API Premier2009-05-17 Google
  Clear Channel Outdoor - Plakanda AG (CCO) is the Swiss subsidiary of Clear Channel Outdoor Holding, one of the world's leading outdoor advertising companies. Companies who are planning to take advertising measures want to make sure that their advertising reaches the target groups which they are aiming for. Clear Channel Outdoor deployed Google Maps API Premier that's more than just an integral part of customer-orientated processes within Clear Channel Outdoor - it is at the very heart of the CCO offer and marketing strategy. The real catalyst for its success was the tried and trusted Google Maps visualisation tool.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Gamesys Finds a Safe Bet With Its Balanced Warehouse Solution From IBM2009-05-11 IBM
  Founded in 2001, the Gamesys Group has rapidly built a profitable online entertainment business providing Instant Win, Bingo and Casino games to a worldwide audience. Despite its rapid growth, in an increasingly competitive market, Gamesys needed to work harder at retaining its existing customers. This required deeper analysis of reliable business information but the company's analytics and reporting solution was struggling to cope. The existing data platform was replaced by an IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse solution using IBM's Retail Data Warehouse Industry Model. Reporting is provided through Cognos. The new solution is already delivering quick and easy access to reliable business information and will enable simplified analysis of customers across geographic locations.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Canadian Fire Safety Officer Puts SmartDraw and MobileEyes Responder to the Test2009-05-06 SmartDraw.com
  Since 1997, Rick Percival has been the fire prevention-safety officer for Environmental Health and Safety at Carleton University, One of Ottawa's largest post secondary educational institutions and the "Home away from home" to more than 25,000 students, faculty, staff and visitors. They needed a faster, more accurate and efficient way to do fire safety inspections and planning for 41 campus buildings. SmartDraw made it very easy to create different visuals in a logical manner. They could take base plans and, using libraries and dimensions automatically created while in the field, ensure that their Fire Safety Plan references and drawings were accurate and current. That just blew them away.   
whitepaper DLI Market Intelligence Rapidly Develops Sales Analysis Tool for Pharmaceuticals2009-05-01 Oracle
  DLI Market Intelligence wanted to develop a timely and cost-efficient solution that presents pharmaceutical sales data in map format and ensure flexible installation at the customer site through a Web-browser accessible application. The challenge was to generate simple and uncomplicated solution for the customer accessing the analytical information via a Web portal. DLI Market Intelligence created user-friendly and intuitive solution that is instantly understood by sales staff and sales directors by showing data graphically as regions on the map of Denmark, using colors to show things such as potential turnover or competitors' turnover and developed the application in 1,200 hours without the use of external consultants by using Oracle components, such as Oracle Application Express and Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper IT Firm Uses Software-Plus-Services Approach, Saves Customer $1.2 Million2009-05-01 Microsoft
  New York, New York - based Infusion Development specializes in the architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale financial systems and mission-critical solutions for a wide range of industries. As an early adopter of emerging technologies, Infusion wanted to create a solution using the software-plus-services strategy-integrating Web-based components with existing on-premises applications. Infusion built an online "Journey management product" for Travelport using Microsoft Virtual Earth and Windows Live technologies, which were integrated onsite with Office Outlook and Windows Mobile.

Tags: Internet and Web, Internet and Web