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whitepaper Software Company Saves a Million Script Pages as the Tablet PC Debuts in Hollywood0000-00-00 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		   
whitepaper Merrill Lynch Reduces Security Maintenance and Enhances Wireless Support0000-00-00 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		   
whitepaper Lift Manufacturer Reduces Annual IT Salary Costs With Estate Management Solution0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Family-owned Stannah, the United Kingdom's (U.K.'s) most successful lift and stair lift manufacturers, wanted to improve the management of its IT estate. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Silversands, the company deployed Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, Active Directory directory service, and Microsoft Windows XP Professional on its desktops. The resulting efficiency gains mean Stannah has avoided expanding its IT help desk by almost 50 per cent, an annual cost saving of £60,000 (U.S. $106,000). Infrastructure management is far more effective as IT personnel no longer have to audit the infrastructure or deploy software manually. Applications can be implemented company-wide overnight instead of taking two weeks. In addition, IT staff can deploy system updates as soon as they become available, improving network security.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, 		  
whitepaper University Laboratory Safeguards Environment With Operating System Update0000-00-00 Microsoft
  One of the major research universities in the United States strives to push the limits of science and needs technology that can support its efforts. Therefore, staying current with its technology - and ensuring that the technology is reliable - is important. Although it had not experienced any systemwide security breaches, the university took steps to safeguard its environment by updating to Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2. With initial help from Microsoft Services Premier Support, the university smoothly rolled out the update to its 1,700 workstations and portable computers over the course of one month. It takes advantage of the Windows Firewall to help protect users, even when they are off the network.   
whitepaper UK Care Agencies Integrate, Improve Services With Information-Gathering Solution0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) provides community care services to Cambridgeshire residents, often working with health care providers. To improve coordination between the two jurisdictions, it wanted to find a way for health and social workers to share information about elderly patients under the care of both disciplines. CCC used Windows XP Tablet PCs with the Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 information-gathering program so care workers can gather information while visiting patients at home or in the hospital and submit it to a Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 messaging hub for access by other related agencies. InfoPath, working with this back-end system, is a key enabler for a new multi-disciplinary Overview Assessment Protocol to reduce "Bed blocking".

Tags: Tablets, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Fire Department Gets Information Access on the Front Line0000-00-00 Microsoft
  For the fire department of the Technical University Munich (TUM), the many different chemicals handled at the university pose an added threat to the normal course of duty. To optimize their response to a call, firefighters need the most up-to-date information about a building that sets off an alarm. However, they had access only to the information that they carried in bulky paper folders. By deploying Tablet PCs running on the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, the fire department at TUM gained a powerful mobile computing solution that delivers wireless access to the most current information in the department's back office systems.

Tags: Tablets, Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper Tablet PCs Help Nationwide Insurance Resolve Claims Quickly and Accurately0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Everybody benefits when a field adjuster from Nationwide Insurance, one of the world's largest insurance and financial services companies, resolves a claim on-site. Customers receive their check immediately, and Nationwide obtains more accurate estimates, reducing the time and expense needed to resolve each claim. Though completing claims on-site has been a goal at Nationwide for many years, the difficulty of collecting and processing information in the field often prevented on-site resolution. Now, with Tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Nationwide's adjusters travel to a claim site with all the tools they need to record the incident information and process the claim. Using Tablet PCs, adjusters input information directly into their estimation programs while inspecting damaged items.

Tags: Tablets		   
whitepaper Zoo Brings Curricula to Students With Disabilities Using Tablet PCs0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Chicago's Brookfield Zoo wanted to broaden the reach of its CONNECTIONS program, which helps students build on classroom learning by conducting field research and other activities at the zoo. Over one thousand students with disabilities often have difficulty participating in programs that involve animal observations and data collection on paper. The zoo teamed up with Quilogy to design a solution for use on Motion Computing Tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. The solution employs built-in accessibility features of Windows XP to enable students who have visual, hearing, or physical disabilities to participate. The students' data is stored in the zoo's database and made available later for in-depth study in the classroom.

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whitepaper University Improves Collaborative Hands-On Learning With Tablet PC Projects0000-00-00 Microsoft
  In 2002, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) successfully incorporated the Tablet PC into the collaborative design phase of an international robot-design competition. Since then, both faculty and students have been using the Tablet PC running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 to enhance the learning process for project-based courses. Improved drawing capabilities and an operating system that easily handles mathematics and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) programs set the Tablet PC above desktop computers when students use virtual-design learning aids. The built-in wireless capabilities and portability of the lightweight Tablet PC increased students' productivity, simplified team work, and improved access to Web-based services, including an essential online peer-review process for completing coursework.

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whitepaper Elevator Maintenance Field Engineers Achieve Speedier On-Site Service With Tablet PCs0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Mitsubishi Electric Building Technology Service Company (MELTEC) provides maintenance services for buildings systems, including elevators and escalators. MELTEC field engineers responsible for on-site maintenance of these transportation systems use portable maintenance computers to collect data required to perform repairs and build customized service programs for clients. MELTEC's portable computers were wearing out due to a harsh work environment, and engineers found keyboarding difficult in cramped work sites. MELTEC needed a more robust mobile hardware platform to support its field engineers. It chose the slate Tablet PC running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Version 2005. Using pen-based computers to retrieve and collect data on-site reduced the need for carrying technical documents, increased engineers' efficiency, and improved customer service.

Tags: Tablets