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whitepaper Petro-Canada Integrates IT Platforms and Deploys an Enterprise Portal to Create a Unified Enterprise2006-12-14 01:00:24 Oracle
  Petro-Canada is "Canada's gas station," with a network of nearly 1,600 retail and wholesale outlets across Canada. The company wanted to offer a unified workplace for 5,000 corporate employees across 1,400 locations and connect gas station franchisees to a single unified CRM system (SAP) for retail operations. Petro-Canada wanted to centralize a fragmented IT environment including .NET, SAP and Documentum and deliver secure, customized applications. The company leveraged Oracle Portal to provide employees and franchisees with secure information access, self-service publishing capabilities, online collaboration, and process automation. Petro-Canada integrated disparate technology platforms with the Oracle Application Server, streamlining operations and reducing costs.   
whitepaper Secure Computing Case Study: Arcadia Group2006-12-11 Secure Computing
  Arcadia Group Limited, the largest clothing retailer in the United Kingdom, boasts over 2,500 retail outlets throughout the UK. With over 3,000 IT users, it was important for Arcadia to maintain a professional environment, and to protect employees and systems from inappropriate Web content. The company deployed Secure Computing Webwasher which was able to deliver a highly resilient failover capability, which also was an instrumental factor in the decision.   
whitepaper Swisscom IT Services AG Enhances Efficiency Through Single Sign-On2006-12-07 01:00:20 Oracle
  Swisscom IT Services is a leading Swiss provider of IT services. The company wanted to consolidate a complex technical infrastructure encompassing four portals with roughly 29,000 transactions per hour. The challenge was to manage 20,000 external customer and partner users, as well as 600 applications more effectively. They wanted to improve security and productivity, while reducing costs. Swisscom used Oracle Identity Management to set up a robust and scalable Single Sign-On infrastructure for heterogeneous Swisscom IT Services environment. The company integrated the existing LDAP directories (Microsoft Active Directory and internal directories).   
whitepaper Guarding and Protecting Dubai Municipality's Network and Ensuring the Integrity of the Information That Drives the City2006-12-05 Symantec
  Few cities in the world are thriving to the extent Dubai is today. Diversification in the last few years into a service and tourism-oriented economy has placed significant pressure on the city's municipal services delivered by the Dubai Municipality. To combat threats to its desktop estate from viruses, worms and other attacks, Dubai Municipality has deployed a next-generation Symantec security solution. As a result, Dubai is benefiting from uninterrupted public services delivery, the Municipality itself has not had a single virus attack for two years, and the time taken to update 3,000 desktops across the estate with security measures has been reduced from one month to 15 minutes.

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whitepaper Professional Security Services Success Story: Alestra2006-11-29 01:00:19 Alcatel-Lucent
  Alestra, a leading service provider in Mexico, was concerned that severe outages caused by security incidents would result in bad publicity, a loss in customer confidence, and potential litigation. It needed a response strategy and team that would be able to: identify and recover from security incidents, shield its internal and external customers from being affected by incidents, and learn from past attacks to help prevent new ones. Lucent delivered comprehensive policies and procedures and a security incident response program that included a recommended set of security tools, an incident response team, and a clearly outlined system for responding to all security incidents.   
whitepaper Professional Services Security Success Story: Latin American Supermarket Chain2006-11-29 01:00:19 Alcatel-Lucent
  As part of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and review process, a large Latin American Supermarket Chain was required to confirm its level of security from external attacks. It had no clear information regarding its external exposure to and threats from Internet-based attacks. Lucent performed an in-depth assessment to evaluate the Supermarket Chain's Internet-exposed infrastructure against the PCI Standards, and most specifically, the Site Data Protection standard. Availability, data integrity, privacy, confidentiality, authentication, and access control were identified as priority issues.   
whitepaper Children's Hospital Streamlines IT Authentication, Eliminates Manual Processes2006-11-08 01:00:18 Microsoft
  Children's Hospital Boston, one of the most successful pediatric hospitals in the United States, supports its clinical and administrative activities with a range of IT applications. Access to these was traditionally managed using a Sun iPlanet directory, but isolated islands of identity information made it difficult to authenticate users effectively. To address this, Children's deployed a platform-independent directory service based on Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode. Children's also implemented Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 to automatically synchronize data between systems. As a result, identity information is accurate and up-to-date, helping ensure compliance with regulatory legislation. In addition, manual data management has been reduced by 75 percent, freeing administrators to focus on value-added development activities.   
whitepaper Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Accelerates Time-to-Learning With Access Management2006-11-08 01:00:18 Microsoft
  One of the secrets to successfully educating students from kindergarten through twelfth grade is to treat each pupil as an individual, and to bring a personalized approach to the education curriculum. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) in Charlotte has garnered a national reputation for excellence in a dynamic and diverse demographic environment. In 2005, the district harnessed the power of identity and access management to optimize its students' chances of getting the education they need to thrive in these days global, digital society. Microsoft and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Version3 played a key role in parlaying an investment in single sign-on technology to deploy an integrated identity and access management system that has contributed to world-class educational results across all grade levels.   
whitepaper Insurance Firm Cuts Costs, Increases Security With Global Identity Management System2006-11-08 01:00:18 Microsoft
  As a global insurance, reinsurance, and financial risk specialist, the XL Capital group of companies (XL) wanted to create a global identity management system. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, the company had acquired many disconnected systems. Because employees needed multiple IDs and passwords to access these systems, the company faced security risks and incurred high support costs. With help from Microsoft, Unisys, and RSA Security, XL implemented a solution using RSA ClearTrust and RSA Sign-On Manager, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), and Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003. Now, the company's systems are more secure, and employees can use a single password to access more than 300 enterprise applications.   
whitepaper IT Solution Provider Streamlines Web Portal Access With New Security Solution2006-11-08 01:00:18 Microsoft
  Getronics, a global provider of IT solutions, operates dozens of Web portals as a service to its customers as well as its employees. One of the issues for users after they logged on to a Getronics portal was the need to repeatedly enter user credentials to access different sites inside the Getronics system. To streamline the user experience and improve IT manageability, Getronics became an early adopter of Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006, the newest version of the firewall, virtual private network, and Web cache solution. By deploying ISA Server 2006, Getronics expects that customers and employees will have easier access to information sources and enterprise applications.