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Systems Integrator Builds Affordable, Flexible Mobile Robot 0000-00-00 Microsoft

CoroWare provides solutions and systems integration and offers a number of specialty areas, including robotics. When CoroWare executives saw the market potential for affordable mobile robots based on standardized components, they needed to move fast to get a working prototype to an industry trade show. The company chose Microsoft Windows XP Embedded over Linux to build the prototype, cutting development time by 60 percent or more over Linux-based development while offering customers a standardized, cost-effective, and highly extensible mobile robotics platform that can be customized for an array of businesses.

Tags: Application Development, Windows XP

The Alberta Teachers' Association Improves Communication With Integrated Technology 0000-00-00 Microsoft

Established nearly 90 years ago to promote the teaching profession in Alberta, Canada, the Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) advances the goals of public education, safeguards standards of professional practice, and advocates for its 33,000 members. A traditionally decentralized organization, the ATA made a strategic decision to centralize IT operations and upgrade and standardize aging, heterogeneous systems. To realize this vision, the organization needed a technology foundation that would help improve interoperability and integration, ensuring a seamless flow of information among departments and external stakeholders. The ATA is taking advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework to help it realize that vision. Desktops were also upgraded with the Windows XP operating system.

Tags: .NET, Upgrades and Migration

Embedded System Ensures Low-Cost Deployment of Entertainment Devices on U.K. Trains 0000-00-00 Microsoft

Volo, based in the U.K., planned to implement a number of entertainment devices in train carriage seats. The devices needed a hardware and software environment that ensured cost-effective development and compliance with regulations on carriage modifications. It was vital the infrastructure created minimal heat and avoided fan-assisted cooling. After analysing the market, including a Linux solution, the company chose a processor running Microsoft Windows XP Embedded created by Microsoft Gold Windows Embedded Partner, DSP Design in the U.K. As a result, Volo built and deployed the device that met industry standards in only six months. The company gained a stable software environment that ensures low-cost application development and developer tools that are widely known.

Tags: Windows XP, Linux Server OS

Software Company Saves a Million Script Pages as the Tablet PC Debuts in Hollywood 0000-00-00 Microsoft

Final Draft, a scriptwriting software company based in Southern California, holds an annual screenwriting competition called Big Break. Every year, staff, professional script readers, and a panel of celebrity judges evaluate more than 3,000 scripts. Handling that much paper and successfully tracking each script through several rounds of eliminations was a logistical nightmare. Final Draft worked with Microsoft to implement a cost-effective Tablet PC-based solution to automate script management. Readers and judges use an online Web site portal solution and Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 with ink-enabled forms to download, read, and score their scripts on a Tablet PC. Instead of printing more than 500,000 pages of screenplays, evaluation forms, and score sheets, Final Draft printed none and saved approximately U.S.$120,000 in printing costs.

Tags: Tablets

U.K. Holiday Village Operator Upgrades Desktop Environment and Increases Productivity 0000-00-00 Microsoft

Center Parcs, the United Kingdom's leading short break operator, wanted to standardise its IT infrastructure and deploy latest-version technology that delivered real business value. The organisation wanted a desktop environment that delivered cost-effective, flexible management tools and helped personnel work more efficiently. After a thorough review, Center Parcs rolled out Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) across its 1,000 desktops. Since deployment, network administration is more cost-effective with IT personnel now able to manage desktops remotely. The system's familiar user interface allowed Center Parcs to avoid a re-training programme and simply provided a 'Tip sheet'. Workers compared the system performance improvements with a hardware upgrade.

Putting Process Improvements to Work Enhancing Patient Care 0000-00-00 Microsoft

For a world-class healthcare organization like Baylor, creating an environment of superior care delivery means meeting the needs of many customers: physicians, nurses, administrative staff, and the patients they serve. With the Tablet PC running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Baylor Health Care System has enabled new levels of mobility and collaboration for care providers, streamlined intake and record-keeping processes, and taken another step closer to providing the ideal patient experience.

Tags: Tablets

U.K. Financial Advisors Improve Client Servicing With Tablet PC 0000-00-00 Microsoft

Independent Financial Advisors existing systems for collecting data were inefficient, with data needing entering multiple times at different stages in the customer advice process. Positive Solutions Financial Services looked to create a more time-effective, automated system that delivered a user-friendly data entry system for IFAs while on the move. The organisation developed the Intuitive Advisor Software as the ideal mobile system. IFAs input customer data on a Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 device, using a stylus to enter information directly into Intuitive Advisor. Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 provides the operating system with the software created using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 development system.

Tags: Tablets

Software Maker Uses 64-Bit Platform to Enhance Connectivity Application 0000-00-00 Microsoft

Organizations around the globe use Exceed, an application made by Hummingbird to help its users run UNIX-based applications with Microsoft Windows-based workstations. For the new version of Exceed, Hummingbird wanted to enhance the software's performance by using new 64-bit computing technology - but without risking its customers' investments in 32-bit systems. Hummingbird decided to port Exceed to Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-Bit Edition. Tests show that Exceed, running on the 64-bit desktop operating system, performs at least 25 percent faster on complex rendering tasks. By basing Exceed on the 64-bit Windows platform, which is backward-compatible with 32-bit applications, Hummingbird customers can migrate to a more powerful computing environment while protecting their existing IT investments.

Tags: Application Development

Spanish Retailer Signs Co-Marketing Plan After Deploying New Point-of-Sale Solution 0000-00-00 Microsoft

El Corte Ingles (ECI) is a leading retailer in Spain with ?12 billion (U.S.$14.5 billion) of annual revenue and more than 72,000 employees. ECI executives wanted to improve the company's Avenew Point-Of-Sale (POS) system and market it to other retailers. Working with Microsoft, Accenture, and its own subsidiary firm, Informatica El Corte Ingles (IECISA), ECI first decided to look for a replacement for its IBM proprietary operating system. After a proof of concept, ECI decided to standardize on the Microsoft Windows XP Embedded operating system and Web services. ECI has delivered the new architecture to a specialty fashion store where staff are now better supported, enabling them to provide excellent service for shoppers.

Tags: Point of Sale Devices, Windows XP

Merrill Lynch Reduces Security Maintenance and Enhances Wireless Support 0000-00-00 Microsoft

Merrill Lynch wanted to establish a consistent environment for its 75,000 desktops, which were on multiple versions of the Microsoft Windows desktop operating system. A standardized desktop environment would enable the Merrill Lynch IT staff to manage updates efficiently and enable developers to write applications that take advantage of the latest technologies. After upgrading the vast majority of its desktops to Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 in November 2004, the company immediately launched an initiative to move to Windows XP Service Pack 2. That migration, completed by late 2005, is adding significant security enhancements, reducing update maintenance and support time, and simplifying wireless setup for users.

Tags: Upgrades and Migration

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Title	Date Added	Company
Systems Integrator Builds Affordable, Flexible Mobile Robot	0000-00-00	Microsoft
CoroWare provides solutions and systems integration and offers a number of specialty areas, including robotics. When CoroWare executives saw the market potential for affordable mobile robots based on standardized components, they needed to move fast to get a working prototype to an industry trade show. The company chose Microsoft Windows XP Embedded over Linux to build the prototype, cutting development time by 60 percent or more over Linux-based development while offering customers a standardized, cost-effective, and highly extensible mobile robotics platform that can be customized for an array of businesses. Tags: Application Development, Windows XP
The Alberta Teachers' Association Improves Communication With Integrated Technology	0000-00-00	Microsoft
Established nearly 90 years ago to promote the teaching profession in Alberta, Canada, the Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) advances the goals of public education, safeguards standards of professional practice, and advocates for its 33,000 members. A traditionally decentralized organization, the ATA made a strategic decision to centralize IT operations and upgrade and standardize aging, heterogeneous systems. To realize this vision, the organization needed a technology foundation that would help improve interoperability and integration, ensuring a seamless flow of information among departments and external stakeholders. The ATA is taking advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework to help it realize that vision. Desktops were also upgraded with the Windows XP operating system. Tags: .NET, Upgrades and Migration
Embedded System Ensures Low-Cost Deployment of Entertainment Devices on U.K. Trains	0000-00-00	Microsoft
Volo, based in the U.K., planned to implement a number of entertainment devices in train carriage seats. The devices needed a hardware and software environment that ensured cost-effective development and compliance with regulations on carriage modifications. It was vital the infrastructure created minimal heat and avoided fan-assisted cooling. After analysing the market, including a Linux solution, the company chose a processor running Microsoft Windows XP Embedded created by Microsoft Gold Windows Embedded Partner, DSP Design in the U.K. As a result, Volo built and deployed the device that met industry standards in only six months. The company gained a stable software environment that ensures low-cost application development and developer tools that are widely known. Tags: Windows XP, Linux Server OS
Software Company Saves a Million Script Pages as the Tablet PC Debuts in Hollywood	0000-00-00	Microsoft
Final Draft, a scriptwriting software company based in Southern California, holds an annual screenwriting competition called Big Break. Every year, staff, professional script readers, and a panel of celebrity judges evaluate more than 3,000 scripts. Handling that much paper and successfully tracking each script through several rounds of eliminations was a logistical nightmare. Final Draft worked with Microsoft to implement a cost-effective Tablet PC-based solution to automate script management. Readers and judges use an online Web site portal solution and Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 with ink-enabled forms to download, read, and score their scripts on a Tablet PC. Instead of printing more than 500,000 pages of screenplays, evaluation forms, and score sheets, Final Draft printed none and saved approximately U.S.$120,000 in printing costs. Tags: Tablets
U.K. Holiday Village Operator Upgrades Desktop Environment and Increases Productivity	0000-00-00	Microsoft
Center Parcs, the United Kingdom's leading short break operator, wanted to standardise its IT infrastructure and deploy latest-version technology that delivered real business value. The organisation wanted a desktop environment that delivered cost-effective, flexible management tools and helped personnel work more efficiently. After a thorough review, Center Parcs rolled out Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) across its 1,000 desktops. Since deployment, network administration is more cost-effective with IT personnel now able to manage desktops remotely. The system's familiar user interface allowed Center Parcs to avoid a re-training programme and simply provided a 'Tip sheet'. Workers compared the system performance improvements with a hardware upgrade.
Putting Process Improvements to Work Enhancing Patient Care	0000-00-00	Microsoft
For a world-class healthcare organization like Baylor, creating an environment of superior care delivery means meeting the needs of many customers: physicians, nurses, administrative staff, and the patients they serve. With the Tablet PC running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Baylor Health Care System has enabled new levels of mobility and collaboration for care providers, streamlined intake and record-keeping processes, and taken another step closer to providing the ideal patient experience. Tags: Tablets
U.K. Financial Advisors Improve Client Servicing With Tablet PC	0000-00-00	Microsoft
Independent Financial Advisors existing systems for collecting data were inefficient, with data needing entering multiple times at different stages in the customer advice process. Positive Solutions Financial Services looked to create a more time-effective, automated system that delivered a user-friendly data entry system for IFAs while on the move. The organisation developed the Intuitive Advisor Software as the ideal mobile system. IFAs input customer data on a Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 device, using a stylus to enter information directly into Intuitive Advisor. Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 provides the operating system with the software created using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 development system. Tags: Tablets
Software Maker Uses 64-Bit Platform to Enhance Connectivity Application	0000-00-00	Microsoft
Organizations around the globe use Exceed, an application made by Hummingbird to help its users run UNIX-based applications with Microsoft Windows-based workstations. For the new version of Exceed, Hummingbird wanted to enhance the software's performance by using new 64-bit computing technology - but without risking its customers' investments in 32-bit systems. Hummingbird decided to port Exceed to Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-Bit Edition. Tests show that Exceed, running on the 64-bit desktop operating system, performs at least 25 percent faster on complex rendering tasks. By basing Exceed on the 64-bit Windows platform, which is backward-compatible with 32-bit applications, Hummingbird customers can migrate to a more powerful computing environment while protecting their existing IT investments. Tags: Application Development
Spanish Retailer Signs Co-Marketing Plan After Deploying New Point-of-Sale Solution	0000-00-00	Microsoft
El Corte Ingles (ECI) is a leading retailer in Spain with ?12 billion (U.S.$14.5 billion) of annual revenue and more than 72,000 employees. ECI executives wanted to improve the company's Avenew Point-Of-Sale (POS) system and market it to other retailers. Working with Microsoft, Accenture, and its own subsidiary firm, Informatica El Corte Ingles (IECISA), ECI first decided to look for a replacement for its IBM proprietary operating system. After a proof of concept, ECI decided to standardize on the Microsoft Windows XP Embedded operating system and Web services. ECI has delivered the new architecture to a specialty fashion store where staff are now better supported, enabling them to provide excellent service for shoppers. Tags: Point of Sale Devices, Windows XP
Merrill Lynch Reduces Security Maintenance and Enhances Wireless Support	0000-00-00	Microsoft
Merrill Lynch wanted to establish a consistent environment for its 75,000 desktops, which were on multiple versions of the Microsoft Windows desktop operating system. A standardized desktop environment would enable the Merrill Lynch IT staff to manage updates efficiently and enable developers to write applications that take advantage of the latest technologies. After upgrading the vast majority of its desktops to Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 in November 2004, the company immediately launched an initiative to move to Windows XP Service Pack 2. That migration, completed by late 2005, is adding significant security enhancements, reducing update maintenance and support time, and simplifying wireless setup for users. Tags: Upgrades and Migration