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SolidWorks Boosts Service, Drives Growth With Integrated Portal for Partners and Customers 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Oracle

SolidWorks Corporation, a leading provider of three-Dimensional (3D) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) solutions, has experienced phenomenal growth in past few years. Executives realized that to sustain the growth, the company would need a scalable business platform that would control costs and keep customers coming back. The system would also need to work hand in hand with SolidWorks' global network of Value-Added Resellers (VARs). After trying several CRM solutions, SolidWorks found the answer in Oracle's Siebel applications, which it is using to improve partner relationships, enhance customer service, streamline order management, and gain a strategic edge in product development.

Student Loans Company Handles 700,000 Transactions Daily With Faster Response Times Than Leading Banks 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Oracle

The Student Loans Company was set up in 1990 by the U.K. government to administer the granting and repaying of student loans in England and Wales. The company wanted to centralize and Web enable student loan processing to ensure service consistency throughout England and Wales. The challenge was to enable students to apply for and repay loans online while cutting response times and reducing operating costs and build a scalable solution that can handle rising customer numbers and enable Student Loans Company to extend its service to students in Northern Ireland. The company used Oracle Database to create a single, lifetime record for each customer and built online student portal using Oracle Application Server 10g that handles 700,000 transactions each day.

SPA Improves Collaboration, Information-Sharing, and Communications With New Portal and Web Site 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Oracle

The State Phytosanitary Administration (SPA) wanted to make it easier to share information internally among SPA's employees and externally with the public and other government departments. The challenge was to create a single intranet portal to let employees publish and share information quickly and easily and speed process for publishing information to the external Web site, which was complicated and relied on the availability of a single Web administrator. SPA created a single intranet portal using Oracle Portal 10g running on a single instance of Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition and implemented a single, easy-to-use content management system that lets employees publish documents and information easily to the intranet and external Web site.

Oracle Case Study: Tiens Group 2006-12-06 01:00:24 Oracle

Established in 1995, Tiens Group wanted to establish a uniform information platform that can easily share corporate development strategies, ideas, products, and prices worldwide. The company wanted to meet market and unique requirements of operations in each region around the world and centralize financial management so that headquarters can be kept posted on information about all finances, logistics, and personnel. Tiens standardized on Oracle Database, enabling themselves to share resources with its 90 branches around the world and adopted Oracle Application Server Portal to deploy its corporate portal system, which established a uniform information platform that connects major operations among regions and enables the real-time displaying and sharing of information.

Flexible and Innovative Education Portal in Luxembourg 2006-12-01 BEA Systems

Center of Technology of Education (CTE) had a vision for technology in education. The aim was to provide a multilingual educational working environment for teachers, principals, students, office staff, and parents. This may result in better communication, efficient collaboration, lifelong learning and fostering an understanding of the learning and knowledge society of the future. CTE opted for BEA AquaLogic User Interaction, mySchool! which provides access to educational resources such as multimedia e-learning facilities, virtual learning communities, and Web-based administrative applications. Students can submit homework and participate in community discussions via Collaboration tools.

Tags: Application Development

Healthcare Web Portal Increases Physician Efficiency, Saves 100 Hours Per Week 2006-11-29 01:00:19 Microsoft

Accessing patient records had become one of the major challenges facing staff at the Western Maryland Health System (WMHS) in Cumberland, Maryland. WMHS relied on MEDITECH health information systems for everything from accounting to medical records management, but the MEDITECH text-based terminal interface was so cumbersome that doctors resisted using it. To solve these problems, WMHS called on Park City Solutions and its emPOWERnet application framework, which is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and Internet Information Services version 6.0. WMHS and Park City built a Web portal interface with e-signature capabilities that simplified access to MEDITECH, saving doctors 100 work hours per week.

Online Wine Auction Site Grows Revenue by 10% With Comprehensive Portal Solution 2006-11-29 01:00:19 Microsoft

To improve customer service and employee productivity WineBid.com needed to replace its outdated IT infrastructure, including a UNIX-based auction engine. Determining that Linux was too risky, the company chose to standardize on the Microsoft Enterprise Portal Framework to create, customize, and maintain two portals - an employee portal and a Web auction portal. It also deployed Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains to integrate with a new wine database and the auction engine. Using their portal to collaborate and access data, employees are saving 100 hours a month, providing better customer service, and making better business decisions.

Willamette Education Service District Chooses Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for Their Enterprise Portal, Predicting 20% Improvements in Service Delivery, 10% Reduced Costs, and Increased Community Support 2006-11-29 01:00:19 Microsoft

Willamette Education Service District (WESD) is the administrative agent for over 40 state and federal projects across three Oregon counties. WESD needed to improve service delivery, coordinate its operations, and improve communication and teamwork. After evaluating several products from leading vendors, WESD decided to implement a solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Over 1000 employees, administrators, teachers, students, and parents will use the portal as a single, secure point of access for all school-related information. This has reduced overlapping programs and services, increased cooperation among departments, and reduced IT support costs.

Warner Music Italia Increases Supply Chain Efficiency With Business-to-Business Portal 2006-11-29 01:00:19 Microsoft

Warner Music Group is the parent company for some of the most prestigious record production companies in the world. Warner Music Italia has developed a business-to-business portal using the Microsoft .NET Framework to support 1,500 small business outlets. This solution forms the basis for the development of Warner's international supply chain services, increasing efficiency and providing Warner with the latest business information to support its sales and marketing strategy.

WHSmith Sets Up Shop on the Net 2006-11-29 01:00:19 Microsoft

WH Smith launched its first branded web site in January 1998. During that year a number of other UK booksellers including Heffers, Blackwells and Waterstone's also launched transactional web sites. WH Smith knew that it had to act quickly to take full advantage of the internet phenomenon. In April of that year it acquired The Internet Bookshop, a small independent online bookseller for �9.4m.The next step was to add suitable content to the site. The company's ambition was to create an online portal - a location on the internet that would provide its customers with a huge variety of services ranging from free email to the latest news and sports information. The resulting product, called WH Smith Online, was launched in April 1999.

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Title	Date Added	Company
SolidWorks Boosts Service, Drives Growth With Integrated Portal for Partners and Customers	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Oracle
SolidWorks Corporation, a leading provider of three-Dimensional (3D) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) solutions, has experienced phenomenal growth in past few years. Executives realized that to sustain the growth, the company would need a scalable business platform that would control costs and keep customers coming back. The system would also need to work hand in hand with SolidWorks' global network of Value-Added Resellers (VARs). After trying several CRM solutions, SolidWorks found the answer in Oracle's Siebel applications, which it is using to improve partner relationships, enhance customer service, streamline order management, and gain a strategic edge in product development.
Student Loans Company Handles 700,000 Transactions Daily With Faster Response Times Than Leading Banks	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Oracle
The Student Loans Company was set up in 1990 by the U.K. government to administer the granting and repaying of student loans in England and Wales. The company wanted to centralize and Web enable student loan processing to ensure service consistency throughout England and Wales. The challenge was to enable students to apply for and repay loans online while cutting response times and reducing operating costs and build a scalable solution that can handle rising customer numbers and enable Student Loans Company to extend its service to students in Northern Ireland. The company used Oracle Database to create a single, lifetime record for each customer and built online student portal using Oracle Application Server 10g that handles 700,000 transactions each day.
SPA Improves Collaboration, Information-Sharing, and Communications With New Portal and Web Site	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Oracle
The State Phytosanitary Administration (SPA) wanted to make it easier to share information internally among SPA's employees and externally with the public and other government departments. The challenge was to create a single intranet portal to let employees publish and share information quickly and easily and speed process for publishing information to the external Web site, which was complicated and relied on the availability of a single Web administrator. SPA created a single intranet portal using Oracle Portal 10g running on a single instance of Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition and implemented a single, easy-to-use content management system that lets employees publish documents and information easily to the intranet and external Web site.
Oracle Case Study: Tiens Group	2006-12-06 01:00:24	Oracle
Established in 1995, Tiens Group wanted to establish a uniform information platform that can easily share corporate development strategies, ideas, products, and prices worldwide. The company wanted to meet market and unique requirements of operations in each region around the world and centralize financial management so that headquarters can be kept posted on information about all finances, logistics, and personnel. Tiens standardized on Oracle Database, enabling themselves to share resources with its 90 branches around the world and adopted Oracle Application Server Portal to deploy its corporate portal system, which established a uniform information platform that connects major operations among regions and enables the real-time displaying and sharing of information.
Flexible and Innovative Education Portal in Luxembourg	2006-12-01	BEA Systems
Center of Technology of Education (CTE) had a vision for technology in education. The aim was to provide a multilingual educational working environment for teachers, principals, students, office staff, and parents. This may result in better communication, efficient collaboration, lifelong learning and fostering an understanding of the learning and knowledge society of the future. CTE opted for BEA AquaLogic User Interaction, mySchool! which provides access to educational resources such as multimedia e-learning facilities, virtual learning communities, and Web-based administrative applications. Students can submit homework and participate in community discussions via Collaboration tools. Tags: Application Development
Healthcare Web Portal Increases Physician Efficiency, Saves 100 Hours Per Week	2006-11-29 01:00:19	Microsoft
Accessing patient records had become one of the major challenges facing staff at the Western Maryland Health System (WMHS) in Cumberland, Maryland. WMHS relied on MEDITECH health information systems for everything from accounting to medical records management, but the MEDITECH text-based terminal interface was so cumbersome that doctors resisted using it. To solve these problems, WMHS called on Park City Solutions and its emPOWERnet application framework, which is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and Internet Information Services version 6.0. WMHS and Park City built a Web portal interface with e-signature capabilities that simplified access to MEDITECH, saving doctors 100 work hours per week.
Online Wine Auction Site Grows Revenue by 10% With Comprehensive Portal Solution	2006-11-29 01:00:19	Microsoft
To improve customer service and employee productivity WineBid.com needed to replace its outdated IT infrastructure, including a UNIX-based auction engine. Determining that Linux was too risky, the company chose to standardize on the Microsoft Enterprise Portal Framework to create, customize, and maintain two portals - an employee portal and a Web auction portal. It also deployed Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains to integrate with a new wine database and the auction engine. Using their portal to collaborate and access data, employees are saving 100 hours a month, providing better customer service, and making better business decisions.
Willamette Education Service District Chooses Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for Their Enterprise Portal, Predicting 20% Improvements in Service Delivery, 10% Reduced Costs, and Increased Community Support	2006-11-29 01:00:19	Microsoft
Willamette Education Service District (WESD) is the administrative agent for over 40 state and federal projects across three Oregon counties. WESD needed to improve service delivery, coordinate its operations, and improve communication and teamwork. After evaluating several products from leading vendors, WESD decided to implement a solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Over 1000 employees, administrators, teachers, students, and parents will use the portal as a single, secure point of access for all school-related information. This has reduced overlapping programs and services, increased cooperation among departments, and reduced IT support costs.
Warner Music Italia Increases Supply Chain Efficiency With Business-to-Business Portal	2006-11-29 01:00:19	Microsoft
Warner Music Group is the parent company for some of the most prestigious record production companies in the world. Warner Music Italia has developed a business-to-business portal using the Microsoft .NET Framework to support 1,500 small business outlets. This solution forms the basis for the development of Warner's international supply chain services, increasing efficiency and providing Warner with the latest business information to support its sales and marketing strategy.
WHSmith Sets Up Shop on the Net	2006-11-29 01:00:19	Microsoft
WH Smith launched its first branded web site in January 1998. During that year a number of other UK booksellers including Heffers, Blackwells and Waterstone's also launched transactional web sites. WH Smith knew that it had to act quickly to take full advantage of the internet phenomenon. In April of that year it acquired The Internet Bookshop, a small independent online bookseller for �9.4m.The next step was to add suitable content to the site. The company's ambition was to create an online portal - a location on the internet that would provide its customers with a huge variety of services ranging from free email to the latest news and sports information. The resulting product, called WH Smith Online, was launched in April 1999.