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whitepaper Energy Monitoring Firm Saves Money, Scales Business With Hosted Computing Platform2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Advanced Telemetry develops systems to help businesses monitor and control energy usage, onsite or via the Internet. The company employees 22 people. Advanced Telemetry needed a cost-effective way to scale its computing power, improve service, and maintain a rich and engaging user experience. Advanced Telemetry used Visual WebGui from Gizmox to migrate to the Windows Azure cloud computing platform.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, 		  
whitepaper Intel Provides Solid Backbone for e-commerce, CRM and Network2009-10-30 Intel
  Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc. is an industry leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of juvenile furniture products through its brands Stork Craft Furniture, Ragazzi Fine Furniture, Status Commercial Furniture and Canwood Furniture, which are sold in North America through leading retailers such as WalMart, Amazon, BabysRUs, Target and Sears; and internationally through wholesalers in China, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. It needed a complete technology-assisted makeover of the company to streamline the costs, eliminate compliance charges and remain competitive, while enhancing internal process to adapt to the new manufacturing environment. Stork replaced a modest server network with a secure, scalable and robust environment built on Dell servers and powered by Intel Xeon processor technology.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Authentication - Encryption		   
whitepaper Law Enforcement Solution Developer Revitalizes Approach at Technology Center2009-10-27 Microsoft
  Total Computer Group develops software for the law enforcement industry and wanted to ensure the scalability of its Total Enforcement solution so that it could confidently approach larger municipalities. The company attended a Proof of Concept workshop at a Microsoft Technology Center, which helped it increase the solution's scalability, improve its developers' productivity, and change its overall approach to software development.   
whitepaper Citigroup Uses FAST to Accelerate Delivery of Customer On-Boarding Application2009-10-23 Microsoft
  Citi had invested significant time and resources in creating its certified 'Gold copy' customer database. This was not merely a technology challenge. The team wanted to create an intuitive, easy to use search system that by reducing the time spent searching for customer records, would re-enforce the value of the 'Gold copy' investment. Citi chose to work with the Microsoft FAST Search technology and Search Business Consulting (SBC) team to rapidly integrate two customer information repositories used for customer on-boarding, to ensure consistency with the company's 'Gold copy' database. This project had to satisfy the information requirements of a diverse group of users within the global trading, back office, compliance, and risk teams.   
whitepaper Fax Solution Extends Messaging, Cuts Costs, Boosts Fax Productivity by Up to 90 Percent2009-10-23 Microsoft
  emFAST, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a leader in fax solutions, optimized its FACSys fax-server software to extend the messaging capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By deploying FACSys solutions with Exchange Server 2010, businesses gain incoming and outgoing fax services. As a result, they can increase productivity, reduce costs, enhance security, and get a more complete business record for compliance and other business purposes.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Family Dollar Selects Windows Server, Saves Millions of Dollars2009-10-20 Microsoft
  Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2009, Family Dollar required a more robust merchandising solution to accommodate its continuing growth. In 2007, Family Dollar began the transformation of its merchandising tool set to a planned implementation of the SAS Integrated Merchandise Planning solution. Family Dollar faced a significant investment in new hardware, software, personnel, and maintenance because SAS recommended an AIX operating system; an infrastructure with which Family Dollar has limited experience. In a creative effort to reduce costs, Family Dollar partnered with SAS to explore the option of implementing a large scale solution on the Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition. This would provide substantial savings, flexibility to scale with commodity hardware, greater interoperability with other systems, and cost-effective future growth.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Server Platforms - OS		   
whitepaper Microsoft Positions German Unified Communications Specialist to Ride the Online Wave2009-10-19 Microsoft
  For many years, Munich-based infoWAN Datenkommunikation GmbH has wanted to provide a true enterprise-class online messaging and collaboration option to clients. It first explored such an offering 10 years ago, but the costs were too high. Today, though, the cost of an online solution can be lower than the cost of an on-premises solution, and this change has renewed interest in online messaging and collaboration services. Because of its considerable experience with Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, infoWAN has chosen to offer its clients an online messaging and collaboration option based on the Business Productivity Online Suite from Microsoft Online Services. As a result, infoWAN anticipates a significant expansion of business over the next several years.

Tags: Office Suites		   
whitepaper Microsoft Uses Sync Framework to Create New Collaboration Solution2009-10-19 Microsoft
  As Microsoft, the world leader in software for personal and business computing, prepared the next version of its Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications it wanted to combine the functionality of two of its most popular collaboration tools: Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft Groove. The company's development teams, however, faced the challenge of handling data synchronization to ensure version control. They found the technology they needed with the Microsoft Sync Framework, a technology developed by the Microsoft Sync Framework group, which is part of the Microsoft SQL Azure team. The result is Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010, which provides the rich user experience of a desktop application, with the Sync Framework handling data synchronization with sites created using SharePoint Server 2010.

Tags: Office Suites		   
whitepaper Intelligent Office Increases IT Efficiencies With Help of Small Business Server 20082009-10-14 Microsoft
  Intelligent Office is a virtual office solutions provider with seven locations across Ontario, and plans for growth across Canada. The company provides entrepreneurs and businesses with executive office space and services such as professional phone answering and receptionist services. With an eye on sustainable business growth, Intelligent Office wanted to improve collaboration and integration across its locations in order to make better business decisions and facilitate additional franchises. After researching various technology options, Intelligent Office deployed Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 to help improve productivity and focus on growth. Today, the company is using Windows Small Business Server 2008 to automate paper-bound processes, enhance security, improve customer service and increase revenues by operating more efficiently.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Ontario School Board Streamlines Web Content With Help From Microsoft2009-10-14 Microsoft
  The Halton District School Board serves approximately 52,300 public school students in the municipalities of Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville in southern Ontario. The technology that underpinned the board's public web site and intranet was based on proprietary systems and lacked automation. This made it impossible for staff to add or update content themselves, put time and resource strain on the IT department, and made the site difficult to navigate. Halton District School Board decided to work with Cyberplex Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, which recommended Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Tags: Office Suites