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whitepaper Darden Restaurants Cuts Operational Costs, Speeds Time-to-Market, With POS Solution2007-11-01 Microsoft
  Florida-based Darden Restaurants - owner and operator of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and other popular casual-dining restaurants - wanted to replace an aging Point-of-Service (POS) system in its 1,400 restaurants with one that offered higher reliability, greater manageability, and faster deployment to new locations. That's what it has with a solution built on Microsoft technologies. With greater visibility into POS status, automated self-healing, and proactive on-site maintenance, Darden has almost eliminated the time needed to service POS devices, has cut the time to deploy devices to new restaurants by half, and is saving millions of dollars per year in POS-related maintenance and deployment costs. Best of all, according to one executive, IT at Darden is now a driver of the company's continued business success.

Tags: Windows XP		   
whitepaper Siemens Hungary Maximizes In-House Technology Know-How With Online Learning Solution2007-10-01 Oracle
  Siemens Hungary wanted to reduce continual stream of ad-hoc Information Technology (IT) queries directed at the helpdesk by promoting a culture of greater IT knowledge and self-help. The challenge was to improve quality of IT training for all staff by introducing e-learning and ensure more effective and efficient use of IT infrastructure. Siemens Hungary chose Oracle iLearning in favor of SAP because of its user-friendly interface, functionality, strong partnership with local e-content partners, and pricing structure. It allowed employees to manage the pace of their own learning according to individual needs and schedules, while ensuring progress across the company.

Tags: Learning Management Systems		   
whitepaper NEC Infrontia Embeds Change Control From Solidcore as Foundation for Point-of-Sale Systems2007-09-26 Solidcore Systems
  NEC Infrontia is engaged in three business areas: i-Communication System, i-Appliance, and i-Solution. The company wanted to reduce its support costs so the company could focus on expanding its core business based on XP Embedded and WEPOS POS terminals. The company was looking to secure and gain better control over the state of its point-of-sale devices sold to retail customers globally. This added control would also provide NEC-i with a competitive differentiation in the market that could drive additional revenue. The company deployed Solidcore's S3 Control, NEC-i aims to continue expanding its sales of POS running XPE and WEPOS leveraging Solidcore's Runtime Control and Software Change Control technology.

Tags: ITIL		   
whitepaper Aventis Accelerates Drug Development With Informatica PowerCenter0000-00-00 Informatica
  Aventis is dedicated to the improvement of human health, the prevention and treatment of diseases by research, and the development of drugs and vaccines by innovation in major therapeutic areas. The company wanted to develop new drugs as soon as possible, with early detection of factors impacting market entry. As a solution the company deployed Informatica PowerCenter. This resulted on large-scale deployment: Solution has grown from 350 developers using it to more than 850 developers. Complete assurance of the extraction processes and the integration of data into the data warehouse and data marts to maximise Aventis' R&D. Researchers can react faster by providing access to systematically updated information.   
whitepaper EVERTEC Pioneers Outsourced Data Integration Services With Real-Time Customer Transaction Vault Utilizing Informatica Data Integration Platform0000-00-00 INFORMATICA
  EVERTEC is the IT outsourcing and transaction processing subsidiary of Popular Inc., a 112- year-old financial holding company based in Puerto Rico, with more than $44.4 billion in assets, 2005 net income of $540.7 million, and operations in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. The company wanted to provide a consistent and single view of the customer to all delivery channels (Internet banking, ATMs, voice-recognition phone system, agent assisted call centers, and branches) of a major bank through the real-time and batch integration of heterogeneous data from mainframe legacy applications into a customer-centric operational data store. The company deployed Informatica PowerExchange and PowerCenter.   
whitepaper Gibson Overseas Serves Customers Better With Streamlined Order Fulfillment and Inventory System0000-00-00 Oracle
  Founded in 1979, Gibson designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of products including dishes, flatware, pots and pans, and heat mitts. The company wanted legacy systems could not accommodate user growth, requiring temporary, patchwork systems and inventory system was inefficient and plagued by inaccuracies, making it difficult to find and ship products on time. The challenges were to customers increasingly demanded fully automated processes and legacy systems did not support EDI, requiring manual entry between systems. The company leveraged expertise of DAZ Systems to implement a broad solution footprint in less than five months and improved accuracy of inventory and bin tracking, dramatically increasing efficiency of order fulfillment.   
whitepaper Mobile Access to Inventory Data Reduces Back Orders by 80 Percent0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Fossil designs, develops, and distributes stylish accessories and apparel around the globe. Account executives at Fossil Group Australia lacked the latest information about pricing and inventory when travelling around the country taking orders from wholesale customers. High-demand items were often out of stock by the time orders were entered. Retailers couldn't be sure that they would have the stock that customers wanted when they wanted it. To deal with these issues, Fossil deployed a mobile sales solution from Spectrax that connects users with current inventory data using Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics Mobile Development Tools, and Windows Mobile software.

Tags: .NET, Application Development		   
whitepaper Guangdong Development Bank Strengthens Financial Management0000-00-00 Oracle
  Guangdong Development Bank (GDB) was established in September 1998 with the approval of the State Council and The People's Bank of China. The bank wanted to establish a unified finance and accounting system to improve management and boost competitiveness and ensure the accuracy and currency of financial and accounting information, and enable data to be shared across the bank. The challenge was to review internal procedures to minimize risk, improve productivity, and reduce costs and undertake accounting reforms to meet global regulations. The bank implemented Oracle Financials, Oracle Assets, and Oracle Internet Expenses as the foundation of an integrated finance management platform. The bank expanded global business with support for multi-currency and multi-accounting principles, enabling GDB to work closely with foreign banks and other financial institutions.

Tags: Finance, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation Streamlines HR and Payroll Management0000-00-00 Oracle
  The EUROpean Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL) is a joint civilian-military agency that develops and coordinates air traffic strategies and associated action plans. The company wanted to implement single, integrated HR suite to replace multiple legacy and custom-built HR applications and improve ability to cope with heavy and very complex regulatory and management constraints and allow rapid adaptation to any changing regulation. The challenge was to make it easier to acquire an open, flexible enterprise resource planning system that can adapt swiftly to any regulation changes in a "Multi-everything" environment. The company replaced obsolete legacy payroll system and custom-built HR applications with a single instance of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (career management, payroll).

Tags: HR, Human Capital Management		   
whitepaper DT Power Achieves Robust Financial Management0000-00-00 Oracle
  Datang International Power Generation Company Limited (DT Power) is an independent power supplier with total assets worth CNY63.273 billion. The company wanted to improve financial management by establishing a unified accounting and finance system and maintain better budget, fund, and cash management. The challenges were to enable greater insight into project accounting and capital construction costs, cut materials and fuel costs and facilitate daily profit analysis. The company facilitated integration between financial, inventory, and project management systems by implementing a range of Oracle E-Business Suite applications. The company improved efficiency by streamlining contract procurement, order processing, invoice generation, supplier management, fuel accounting, and account payments.

Tags: Finance