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whitepaper Metro Health Village Improves Patient Care With Immediate "Anywhere" Information Access2008-05-01 Microsoft
  Metro Health Village is redefining the healthcare experience. This unique village has an advanced hospital facility surrounded by a community of physician offices, specialty centers, medical suppliers, a fitness center, and more. Approximately 1,000 Wyse Technology V90L thin clients running the Windows XP Embedded operating system are spread throughout the campus, providing healthcare workers with instant, anywhere access to applications and patient data. The Windows XP Embedded environment is familiar to end users, highly secure, and supports multiple options for connectivity and peripherals. Even more important, accurate up-to-date patient information can be accessed in about 15 seconds, versus several minutes with PCs, potentially saving lives when every moment counts.

Tags: Windows XP, 		  
whitepaper jNetX Deploys Embedded Database to Support Growth and Innovation, While Ensuring Reliability2008-04-01 Oracle
  jNetX develops and markets the key service components of programmable SS7 and Internet Protocol (IP) networks. jNetX wanted to continue it's growth levels of more than 200% in 2007 and expand customer base globally and focus resources on innovation and product development. The challenge was to grow reputation as a key player in next-generation service delivery and increase market leadership and raise profile by Gartner as an "On-the-rise" company for event-based application platforms. jNetX migrated from homegrown, embedded in-memory database to Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database to maximize latency, stability, performance under load, and high availability as well as chose Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database for its ease of configuration, which allows system integrators and operators to build end-user solutions on less expensive hardware.

Tags: Database Management, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Wireless Digital Picture Frame Retrieves Live Information From Windows Vista Computers2007-12-21 Microsoft Tips
  The Momento digital picture frame needed to stand out from a pack of look-alike products. To differentiate their product from a standalone digital frame, which simply reads photos from memory cards or USB keys, OEM i-mate designed a connected, services-oriented device intended for the high-end segment of the consumer electronics market. Windows Embedded CE provided built in WiFi connectivity, advanced graphics, and powerful, integrated development tools. Using Visual Studio and .NET Compact Framework to build applications and web services, i-mate completed development in four months. Today, the Momento frame not only communicates wirelessly with local computers to stream photos and other content from hard drives, it also streams pictures from the Internet and displays live information from Windows Vista systems using Windows SideShow gadget technology.

Tags: Web Services, Application Development		   
whitepaper Medical Device Manufacturer Makes Hand-Carried Ultrasound a Reality2007-10-01 Microsoft Tips
  SonoSite, Inc. is leading in the race to make medical imaging devices smaller and more portable. Its lightweight, hand-carried, point-of-care ultrasound products enable clinicians to deliver safer, better, faster care, right at the patient bedside. For its latest product, SonoSite M-Turbo system, the company wanted to maintain rapid boot-up time of less than 15 seconds, while increasing system performance and enabling high-bandwidth transfer of image data files for clinicians to be able to seamlessly access digital images for diagnostic consultation, instruction, and publishing. SonoSite sought an embedded operating system to run with Texas Instruments' DaVinci Technology. As a Windows Embedded Partner, Texas Instruments recommended Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 for its support of connectivity options, multimedia capabilities, and integration with Visual Studio 2005 development tools.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Digital Services Developer Launches Handheld Media Player With Embedded System0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Commodore International Corporation (CIC), based in the Netherlands, planned to develop a range of innovative digital media services. One, the Gravel-in-Pocket, aimed to meet the increasing demand for music and video streaming through handheld devices. To launch the product at CeBIT 2007 - the digital showcase event - CIC needed to develop the software platform rapidly. It chose Windows CE version 5.0 as the operating system and worked with Windows Embedded Partner PTS Software to create the application layer. As a result, CIC saved up to five months in development time and established a reliable software platform supporting the latest media formats such as MPEG 4, Xvid, DivX, and Windows Media Video (WMV).

Tags: Streaming Media, Windows CE		   
whitepaper Digital Cinema Server Ushers in Next Generation of Movie Technology Worldwide0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Market adoption of digital cinema technology has been slow, especially for movie theaters, which have very stringent requirements for security and reliability. Qube Cinema needed to solve those problems as it developed its next-generation digital cinema server. The company considered using Linux as the operating system, but ultimately rejected open source software because it lacked key functionality, including a robust streaming media architecture and broad catalogue of device drivers. By choosing Microsoft Windows XP Embedded, Qube Cinema was able to select just the required operating system components, resulting in a secure and reliable operating system. Qube Cinema was also able to leverage key Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft DirectShow and the .NET Framework.

Tags: Windows XP, .NET		   
whitepaper Systems Integrator Builds Affordable, Flexible Mobile Robot0000-00-00 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		   
whitepaper Spanish Retailer Signs Co-Marketing Plan After Deploying New Point-of-Sale Solution0000-00-00 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		   
whitepaper Software Development House Reduces Development Time and Boosts Revenue by 20-30 Percent0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Founded in 2004, Strong Union Technology Co. Ltd is a software and hardware developer based in Beijing, China. The company has a dedicated research team of 20 developers who focus on the development of products for e-banking services. The company is dedicated to providing a secure, customizable banking kiosk platform for its banking customers. It adopted Windows XP Embedded for its stability, enhanced security, customization and tight integration with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for online accessibility. Using Windows XP Embedded, Strong Union successfully shortened their time to market, lowered down the development costs, and boosted revenues up to 30 percent.

Tags: Web Browsers, Windows XP		   
whitepaper Consortium Learns to Please 19 Bosses From Competing Companies0000-00-00 CommPros Group
  How to make progress when 19 competitors are simultaneously giving orders? Such was the dilemma faced by the fledgling Embedded Linux Consortium as it endeavored to promote an underdog technology vs. the world's largest software company and the world's number-one ranked embedded software vendor. Working in pro-bono stealth mode, the co-founder of Ampro Computers and CommPros Group Associate Partner designed a business plan for the trade association whose goal was very clear: promotion and implementation of the Linux Operating System for thousands of embedded applications.

Tags: Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS