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Diversified Global Company Standardizes on Softscape | 2009-04-07 | Softscape |
| ALFA is the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech aluminum engine heads and blocks; One of the world's largest producers of PTA, a petrochemical product; The Mexican leader in the production of processed meats and cheese; One of the most important telecommunications services companies in Mexico. ALFA was looking to establish global consistency and best practices in managing its employees. This was challenging due to the proliferation of different HR systems at each of its four major business units. ALFA needed to centralize its HR information and data to make better business decisions about personnel and to promote cross-business unit transfers, therefore minimizing employee attrition. ALFA selected Softscape's complete people management platform, Softscape Apex, to be its standard human capital platform across its diverse business units.
Tags: IT Budgeting, Workflow Management |
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Publisher Virtualizes Systems, Cuts Servers by a Third, Reduces Staff Costs by $83,000 Annually | 2009-04-01 | Microsoft |
| Richard Anderson is out to forge a new communications model that transforms community newspaper companies into virtual neighborhood companies. Anderson is Chief Executive Officer of VillageSoup, a software company in Maine. As the company grew through acquisitions, technology issues consumed ever more time. Anderson used Microsoft virtualization technology to reduce the company's server count by one-third, avoiding new hardware costs of roughly U.S.$25,000 and IT labor costs of about $83,000 annually. Anderson can now hire more talent to grow the business. Also, improved server reliability increases staff productivity.
Tags: Server Hardware |
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Shui on Land Limited Shortens the Time Required for Budget Revision and Consolidation by Three Days | 2009-04-01 | Oracle |
| Shui On Land Limited wanted to build a Web-based budgeting platform that can be accessed by property managers in branch offices and headquarters and provide staff with the tools to manage yearly budgets, complete monthly cash flow forecasts, and undertake long-term planning for large-scale development projects. The challenge was to enable reporting and analysis of expenditure to ensure project costs do not exceed set budgets. Shui On Land Limited engaged Oracle Certified Partner Beijing Noahark Consulting to deploy a budget management system based on Oracle Hyperion Planning to 75 users at seven offices in six months and shortened the time required for budget revision and consolidation by three working days for each round of updates.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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Shenyang Machine Tool Improves Cash Flow Management With Integrated Budgeting System | 2009-04-01 | Oracle |
| Shenyang Machine Tool (Group) Co., Ltd (SMTCL) is China's largest machine tool manufacturer. With the domestic market conquered, SMTCL then set out to extend its range of services. Its aim was to move from a pure manufacturing business to one that undertook Research and Development (R&D) and offered customized services. To achieve this, the company needed to strengthen budget planning and management across more than 10 subsidiaries. SMTCL engaged Oracle Certified Partner Beijing Noahark Consulting to implement an integrated budget management system based on Oracle's Hyperion Planning.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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Switch and Data Automates Governance, Risk, and Compliance Processes and Trims Audit Costs by 20% | 2009-04-01 | Oracle |
| Switch and Data wanted to improve the young public company's governance, risk, and compliance structure to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and keep pace with continued growth in the dynamic commercial internet exchange market and streamlines auditing processes and reduce the costs associated with audit consulting services. The challenge was to provide senior management with GRC information in an accessible format to facilitate strategic decision-making and improve efficiency of compliance with centralized GRC information to provide a single, shared source of information for auditors and line of business users. Switch and Data implemented Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager to consolidate compliance management across all 34 company sites with one central system.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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VASCO's VACMAN Controller and DIGIPASS Go 1 Protect Real Estate Database and Revenue of B-to-B e-Commerce Company | 2009-04-01 | VASCO Data Security |
| A U.S. based online provider of commercial real estate information wanted to offer its customers secure online access to a database with critical corporate real estate information. The challenge was to secure the application without compromising the users' mobility and ease-of-use. DIGIPASS and VACMAN are a winning combination for every b-to-b e-commerce company. The enhanced security, combined with reduced risks for password sharing and the possibility to turn security into a marketing tool.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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AMD Offers Distributors Secure Risk-Based Single Sign-On to Enterprise Portals, Thereby Sharpening Its Competitive Edge | 2009-04-01 | RSA Security |
| AMD designs and produces innovative microprocessor and graphics and media solutions. It is focused on best meeting the needs of leading computing, wireless and consumer electronics companies to help them deliver high-performance, energy-efficient and visually realistic solutions. The challenge was to speed up the time it takes to approve external distributors for secure online access to critical information such as sales orders and invoices and to deploy a strong authentication solution that eliminates deployment logistics of hardware tokens but still offers a higher level of security than a user name and password, balancing strong authentication with user convenience. AMD deployed integrated RSA Access Manager and RSA Adaptive Authentication solution for single sign-on to web applications, with authentication granted on risk analysis.
Tags: Security Administration, IT Budgeting |
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Investing in Customer Banking Protection With an Online Anti-Fraud Strategy | 2009-04-01 | RSA Security |
| As a leading financial institution in India and named by Forbes magazine as one of the best 50 companies in Asia Pacific, HDFC Bank is committed to leading the industry in terms of customer service. The challenge was to maintain bank's position as an industry-leader in innovative products and services by being the first in India to offer online third party transactions and to ensure protection of customers' private details from fraud attacks like Trojans and phishing. Bank deployed RSA Adaptive Authentication platform powered by the RSA Risk Engine enables risk-based authentication and fraud detection and RSA FraudAction service offers 24x7 monitoring and alerting to online security risks.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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Outsourcing Delivers Flexibility, Convenience | 2009-04-01 | Diebold |
| Serving residents, professionals and students in one of Ohio's fastest-growing counties, Medina County Federal Credit Union is a full-service financial institution with three branch locations. Chartered as a small credit union in 1960 with deposits of $50, the organization has grown to nearly $50 million in assets and is among the top 25 largest credit unions in Northeast Ohio. A longtime Diebold customer, its most recent partnership with the company allowed Medina County Federal Credit Union to expand its capabilities without growing its staff. By leveraging Diebold's Integrated Services for security and transaction processing, the credit union achieves a more efficient operation and enables its staff to focus on what it does best - help members improve their personal finances.
Tags: Security Administration |
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Macy's Automates PeopleSoft HRMS Business & IT Processes | 2009-03-14 | Tethys Solutions |
| One of the most well-known retail names today, Macy's USA operates over 850 nationwide and has more than 30,000 employees. Macy's wanted a reliable solution to automate many of their PeopleSoft HRMS business & IT processes. The challenge was managing the human resources requirement for an organisation as large as Macy's required enterprise class reliability and development and deployment to quickly adapt to their growing business. Automation Anywhere offered a unique approach by allowing Macy's to automate using the PeopleSoft HRMS web Front-end.
Tags: Enterprise Planning, IT Budgeting |
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