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EMC Corporation Delivers Reports in Minutes With Unified Data Warehouse and Analytics Tools | 2009-09-01 | Oracle |
| EMC Corporation wanted to consolidate disparate data sources to reduce total cost of ownership, improve efficiency, and sharpen decision making and provide diverse users with insight into data on various topics, from sales metrics and customer information to Human Resources (HR) and financial figures. The challenge was to grow market share against other high-end storage competitors by leveraging data on customers and markets, and by improving customer service. EMC Corporation implemented a unified data warehouse with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Database 11g, eliminating four legacy data warehouses and numerous overlapping business and analytics applications and improved accuracy and efficiency in financial reporting by eliminating 13 shadow business applications.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools |
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Customer Video: SAP IT Chooses DB2 | 2009-08-26 | IBM |
| SAP's main driver for choosing IBM on DB2 was about the simple question: "What do we get for the money?". Find out why SAP Corporate Business Systems chose IBM DB2.
Tags: Data Tools, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools, Data Tools |
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Software Firm Provides Real-Time Data Mining Solutions Using SQL Server 2005 | 2009-08-14 | Microsoft |
| GSTAT provides business intelligence and data mining solutions, including real-time Next Best Offers (NBO) to customers across a range of industries. GSTAT developed its GSTAT Xeligence data mining solutions using the Microsoft Application Platform, including Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database software. Customers using GSTAT's Xeligence NBO solution from finance, telecom and retail, have enjoyed up to 10 times better response rates by making offers that have greater relevance to customers. The solution automates development and deployment of data mining models that used to take months of manual statistical work. Within healthcare, GSTAT Xeligence solutions have helped physicians use data mining of patient records to identify those that should be contacted proactively to prevent health deterioration that could lead to a medical crisis.
Tags: Data Tools, Data Infrastructure |
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HARDI INTERNATIONAL A/S Optimizes Operational Efficiency With Enhanced Analytical Tools | 2009-08-01 | Oracle |
| HARDI INTERNATIONAL wanted to enable follow-up on key figures such as the degree of coverage of products and geographical areas, purchasing, warehousing, production effectiveness, and compliance with delivery targets and standardize data to create a common platform on which to make decisions. The challenge was to provide quick template options for the budget process to simplify forecasting and budgeting and simplify the production of consolidated accounts with multiple currencies. HARDI INTERNATIONAL implemented Oracle's Hyperion Essbase & Enterprise Analytics to generate precise data and a consolidated view of the entire business through effective and rapid analyses of areas such as the contribution margin of products and geographical areas.
Tags: Data Infrastructure |
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UGA Digital Sharpens Its Display Offerings With Embedded Database | 2009-08-01 | Oracle |
| UGA Digital's content delivery networks are useful for managing digital photo frames and other displays. However, UGA Digital needed to provide data mining capabilities to collect data on user behavior. They needed a method to understand consumer behavior with digital signs with the same accuracy it is understood on the internet. UGA Digital turned to Oracle Berkeley DB embedded database to provide the capability to mine data relating to how consumers interact with digital photo frames and digital signs.
Tags: Data Infrastructure |
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Burgess Pigment Improves Reporting and Analysis of Orders With a Data Warehousing Solution | 2009-07-31 | IBM |
| Burgess Pigment Company is a leading provider of functional anhydrous and hydrous aluminum silicates, used in everything from ceramics, paints and ink to additives in food, medicines and cosmetics. Burgess Pigment Company's business data was too large and cumbersome to be easily analyzed with conventional reporting tools. The organization needed to replace its legacy mainframe systems that stored valuable order information with a new data warehousing system that would improve the efficiency of reporting and data analysis. IBM Business Partner Project Performance Corporation (PPC) implemented a data warehouse that optimizes reporting and analysis of customer orders for Burgess Pigment Company.
Tags: Data Tools |
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USA Drug Improves Company Performance by Speeding Access to Data With Web-Based Solution | 2009-07-01 | Oracle |
| USA Drug wanted to improve reporting processes to reduce reliance on cumbersome spreadsheets and expand analytical capabilities and automate report distribution to facilitate swift decision-making on key matters. The challenge was to provide faster and easier access to information with Web-based reporting and reduce IT and maintenance costs. USA Drug expanded the company's implementation of Oracle's Hyperion Essbase and implemented Oracle's Hyperion Web Analysis to improve reporting by converting legacy spreadsheet models to dynamic Web-based analysis dashboards and reduced reporting documentation load from hundreds of spreadsheets to 20 documents with streamlined reporting processes. | |||
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Clarity in Customer Insight at Confused.com | 2009-07-01 | SAS Institute |
| With annual group turnover around £900 million, the business also owns Confused.com, launched in 2002 as the first insurance aggregator website. The challenge was to make use of valuable data in a competitive marketplace to gain new customer insights, better target campaigns and improve operational efficiency, enhance cross-selling and increase revenue. Confused.com deployed SAS Analytics including a range of models and customer segmentation.
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Banco BHD Manages Risk-Performance Relationship Using SAS Business Analytics | 2009-07-01 | SAS Institute |
| BHD Bank, a pioneer in multiple banking services in the Dominican Republic, was founded in July 1972 and is still the leader in promoting important historical changes in the financial system. As measured by assets, BHD is the second-largest private bank in the country. The challenge was that BHD needed to learn of its clients' changing credit behaviors in order to emphasize improved services and offer customized products. BHD deployed SAS9 which assisted in recovering increase of 40 percent in client consumption level, credit card approval success rate rise up to 40 percent and ten times faster to process internal data.
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Fido Uses SAS to Connect With High-Margin Customers and Products | 2009-07-01 | SAS Institute |
| In an industry marked by intense competition and rapid expansion, Fido Solutions Inc. has been at the forefront of the development of wireless telecommunications and fast mobile data connectivity in Canada. The challenge was to determine the most profitable customers and products for marketing activities in the competitive telecom market. Fido deployed SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Activity-Based Management.
Tags: Data Tools |
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