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whitepaper Manufacturer Gains Confidence From Expert Guidance and Embraces IT Overhaul2008-03-31 Microsoft Tips
  Furniture manufacturer American of Martinsville relied on a 28-year-old mainframe system to run its business. The company needed a change but didn't know what was possible with new technologies. The company's executive team attended a Strategy Briefing at a Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), which helped the group gain consensus about the need to invest in technology and better understand how to increase efficiency through integrated software.

Tags: CRM Software, Database Management		   
whitepaper Turkish Vehicle Firm Implements Integrated Customer Relationship Management System2007-10-01 Microsoft
  Borusan Otomotiv wanted to use e-mail and text messages to communicate with customers, but this was impossible with the existing system. Sales and service departments had difficulty accessing and sharing each other's customer information. The firm assessed a number of Web-based products. Some of them had complicated structures or no product support in Turkey. Microsoft partner Tradesoft demonstrated Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Borusan Otomotiv executives who were impressed by its ease of use, receptiveness to customization, and long-term support by Microsoft. Tradesoft had previous experience of installing Microsoft Dynamics CRM at another Borusan subsidiary Borusan Telekom. Muhammet Atalay, CRM Software Development Specialist, Tradesoft, successfully managed the integration of Microsoft Dynamics CRM with the firm's AS/400 mainframe system and then tackled integration of customer and vehicle histories.

Tags: CRM Software		   
whitepaper Mainframe Appliance for Storage Gives Software Developers Room to Do Their Work0000-00-00 Bus-Tech
  Striva Corporation is a fast-growing software developer with headquarters in Scotts Valley, California, and development facilities in Austin, Texas, and London, England. The company wanted to make more mainframe disk space available to developers; allow faster, unattended backups; provide additional storage with minimal environmental impact. The ESCON-attached Mainframe Appliance for Storage virtual tape controller for IBM S/390, z900, z800, and compatible mainframes running zOS, OS/400, MVS, or VSE.

Tags: Storage Management, Hard Drives		   
whitepaper Mainframe-to-Windows Server Move Speeds Key Process 33 Percent at Southern Company0000-00-00 Microsoft
  One of the mission-critical processes at Southern Nuclear - the nuclear facilities subsidiary of energy giant Southern Company - is granting clearances for employees and contractors who enter its facilities. That process was managed by an aging mainframe that could no longer handle the increasing pace of new federal regulations and changing business needs. So, Southern Nuclear turned to Computer Technology Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Together, they created the Employee Plant Access Control Tracking system (EmPACT), a Web-based solution running on Microsoft technologies. As a result, Southern Nuclear gains the flexibility to meet new regulations and requirements, has cut the length of the authorization process by 33 percent, and saves 74 percent of the cost of maintaining the former mainframe solution.

Tags: Application Development, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003		   
whitepaper Case Study: Nationwide Uses Linux and High-Power Virtualization for Web Presence2007-06-29 gartner
  Nationwide Insurance significantly reduced expenditures by consolidating nonmainframe server workloads using Linux-only System z mainframes, while improving quality of service and providing for growth that has minimal impact on floor space, power and cooling. Its approach will interest any organization that houses a combination of Windows (where its applications have Linux equivalents), Linux, Unix and IBM mainframe operating environments and that is looking at new and innovative ways to consolidate its server environment.

Tags: Linux Server OS, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Beiersdorf Cuts Costs and Boosts Resilience With IBM System Z and DB2 for SAP Software2007-04-01 IBM
  Beiersdorf AG is a cosmetics group with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. The company develops, manufactures and markets skincare and beauty products under a number of high-profile brands, including Nivea and Labello. To support its parent group's lean production model, Beiersdorf Shared Services (BSS) needs to demonstrate internal efficiency while providing excellent performance and availability for its SAP software environment. As existing database servers ran out of capacity, BSS wanted to increase headroom while reducing costs. BSS implemented two IBM System z9 Enterprise Class servers and System Storage DS8100 storage servers at separate data centers, running IBM DB2 databases to support the SAP software environment.

Tags: Storage Management, Database Applications, 		  
whitepaper R.L. Polk & Co. Improves Performance and Speed of Data Delivery to Boost Competitive Edge2007-03-01 Oracle
  R.L Polk & Co. has served the automotive industry since 1922, providing a variety of analytical and statistical data services. R.L. Polk realized it needed to make a change to preserve its competitive advantage in the marketplace, amid significant industry, regulatory, and technology change. Previously, R.L. Polk ran its databases on a mainframe, which was very reliable but did not allow the company to deliver data in real-time to its customers. In late 2004, R.L. Polk embarked on a comprehensive business process reengineering program called re-FUEL and decided to replace its mainframe system with an open environment based on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g. The company worked with its wholly owned subsidiary, RLPTechnologies, and Capgemini to develop the new system.

Tags: Database Management, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Azul Systems - Global Banking and Financial Services Firm Drives Down Cost, Risk, and Complexity with Azul Compute Appliances2006-12-01 16:10:28 Azul Systems
  With trading volumes doubling every year, this multinational bank needed to find a way to support growth projections with its existing infrastructure or risk severe business consequences. To solve this challenge, the company had to find a way to make its Java™ environments run faster, while at the same time making it easier for the company to manage. It considered the traditional horizontal/scale-out or vertical/scale-up scaling models, but these approaches would have been costly and added huge amounts of IT complexity. Find out how Azul Compute Appliances provided unprecedented performance and scalability for the bank's Java-based applications, while offering revolutionary power, density, and cooling economics.   
whitepaper An Australian Freight and Transport Conglomerate Uses an IBM Solution to Clone Their SAP Environment2006-11-29 IBM
  An Australian freight and transport conglomerate needed to quickly build a usable production support SAP R3 DB2 environment from a point-in-time copy of the production environment taken using HDS ShadowImage. The client already had a solution in place but this was taking more than 12 hours to build the region. Compounding this was the fact that the target catalog changes that were required, had to be built outside of the DB2 suspend window. IBM DB2 Cloning Tool for z/OS software provides access to cloned data using a very fast and sophisticated technique to rename the cloned data as well as alter and correct any inconsistencies in the target catalog, VTOC, VTOCIX, and VVDS.

Tags: ERP, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Managing Convergence for Enhanced Customer Service2006-08-30 Sun Microsystems
  Entenial Direct had first to deliver a single platform for customers combining mortgages and traditional banking activities across the company's web site, call centres and network of branches, and at the same time offer main partners a flexible front-end solution. To enable this Entenial required an open, flexible and scalable process-driven integration platform capable of satisfying their complex requirements. Entenial decided to develop a single pilot that could be taken forwards into production. These included partners, CRM systems, a repayment mortgage application hosted on an IBM OS/390 and more. The pilot was performed in three months validating the capabilities and benefits of the SeeBeyond integration solution. SeeBeyond manages 140 complex process flows with a throughput of 1.4m transactions per day.

Tags: CRM Software		   

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