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whitepaper News Cooperative Creates Touch-Friendly Mobile News Service for Windows Phones2009-10-23 Microsoft
  As newspapers seek a way to thrive in the world of digital media, The Associated Press is assisting by identifying new outlets and revenue streams for member news providers. Its first response is AP Mobile, which delivers international, national, and local news from more than 1,000 content providers to Windows phones. The application takes advantage of gesturing, a touch-friendly interface, and polling that delivers breaking news alerts.   
whitepaper Cash Handling Firm Uses Mobile Applications to Deliver Data to Customers and Their Banks2009-10-20 Microsoft
  To boost service, Loomis Armored US had to improve the flow of cash information among Loomis, its customers, and their banks. The company chose devices running the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system for messengers to send data to the data center where customers and their banks can access it. In addition, Loomis used a Windows Mobile device on customers' safes to enable daily provisional crediting of deposits - before the cash leaves a customer's premises.   
whitepaper School District Makes Technology Available to Enhance Student Achievement2009-10-12 Microsoft
  The Pittsford School District in New York State is one of the highest achieving school districts in the United States, and its commitment to student achievement begins at the elementary-school level. But in its elementary schools, disparate IT environments had become too inefficient to effectively enhance instruction or support the curriculum. Pittsford wanted to deploy a standardized, easy-to-use-and-manage solution that would help it to enhance productivity and learning for elementary students. The district initiated a successful pilot program to provide a computer cart with 30 portable computers running Microsoft Office Professional 2007 for fifth graders at one elementary school, incorporating technology into daily learning, enhancing student achievement, and improving educational and administrative efficiency.

Tags: Workflow Management		   
whitepaper Games Maker Cuts Two Months From Operating System Development; Releases Product at Launch2009-10-09 Microsoft
  Impulse users are early adopters of technology who will likely be among the first users of Windows 7 when that software becomes available. Because gamers will want Windows 7, the game publishers who participate on Impulse need Stardock to migrate to Windows 7 as quickly as possible. To accommodate both the gamers and publishers who are eager for Impulse to be ready for Windows 7 from the first day of that software's release, Stardock enrolled in the Front Runner early adopter program.

Tags: Desktop Client OS, Desktop Client OS		   
whitepaper New Solution Helps Pilot Users at IT Company Save at Least 30 Minutes a Day2009-10-08 Microsoft
  Zipper by Enfo employees often work away from the office and need easy access to corporate information. The company is evaluating Windows phones with Windows Mobile 6.5. With improved ease of handling and faster operation, Windows phones are saving pilot users at least 30 minutes a day. Zipper plans to deploy the phones companywide and to recommend them to its customers.   
whitepaper Mobile Solution Saves Busy Realtor Up to Three Hours a Day, Increases Response Time2009-10-07 Microsoft
  Realtor Kris Anderson was using a smartphone running Windows Mobile 6 to respond to client needs and conduct business while out in the field. For more agility and speed, she decided to try a Windows phone with Windows Mobile 6.5. The software provides new touch features and a new Web browser that Anderson uses to help her work smarter, respond faster, and save up to three hours a day, which could translate into a savings of U.S.$35,000 a year.   
whitepaper The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society Ensures Organizational Scalability With Consolidated Enterprise Messaging Solution2009-10-01 Oracle
  The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society wanted to replace legacy communication collaboration applications to provide the organization with a modern, highly available and unified messaging platform and provide a scalable solution that can meet the needs of the growing not-for-profit organization that must communicate among 230 facilities and its headquarters. The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society migrated 230 facilities and 5,500 users at the Good Samaritan Society to a single instance of Oracle Beehive On Demand in just eight months - housing applications and data in the organization's own data center, with Oracle On Demand managing the application and technology stack.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Improved Scalability Boosts Agora's Ability to Deliver Web-Based Advertising2009-10-01 Oracle
  Agora SA wanted to improve the performance of the ad server supporting Gazeta.pl and address a sudden increase in the volume of ads in the system, stemming from Agora's launch of an ad network providing services to other portals and Web sites. The challenge was to reduce, by several times at least, the response time for reading and writing information to and from the ad server database. Agora SA deployed Oracle Coherence on 18 instances of Java Virtual Machines and three physical entry-level machines to achieve a scalable ad-publishing system, which had previously been impossible without a dramatic increase in data processing time.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Finansbank Improves Performance and Availability of Enterprise Data Warehouse2009-10-01 Oracle
  Finansbank wanted to implement a new enterprise data warehouse solution to support core banking data from a variety of sources and relieve performance loads on the existing data warehouse and manage a large and rapidly growing data store, now at 16 terabytes and doubling in size approximately every 15 months. The challenge was to optimize backup processes to increase efficiency while safeguarding valuable financial data. Finansbank implemented an Oracle enterprise data warehouse loaded daily using Oracle Data Integrator, to handle crucial bank data such as information for the bank's 3.5 million credit card accounts and optimized performance by providing each business group with its own data mart within the data warehouse, including a new dedicated environment to support campaign management.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Mexico Improves Analysis With Integrated Information System2009-10-01 Oracle
  Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz wanted to create a robust, flexible, and scalable information system to facilitate information gathering and provide access to up-to-date information for objective decision making and provide a secure data warehouse to extend information visibility throughout the organization. The challenge was to establish performance analysis indicators for administration, finances, collections, service to citizens, drivers licenses, and public safety - with easy access to state directives. Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz created an integrated system for analysis of 50,000 yearly citizen requests - providing easy, secure access to accurate data for decision making and established a robust data warehouse - facilitating the gathering and exploitation of information to help manage [ss1] areas such as administration, collections, citizen services, and public safety.

Tags: Data Tools