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whitepaper Publishing Giant Creates Innovative Web-Based Service for Small-Business Market2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Two decades ago, Quark changed the course of traditional publishing with its QuarkXPress desktop publishing software. Today, the company provides publishing solutions to customers around the world across multiple channels. To reach more customers in the huge but fragmented small-to-midsize business market, Quark wanted to offer a service combining the flexibility of Web-based computing and the richness of PC-based software. It used the Windows Azure platform and Microsoft development tools to create Quark Promote, a service through which customers use professionally designed templates to create customized marketing materials that can be picked up at a neighborhood printer or received by mail.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Software Company Efficiently and Cost-Effectively Delivers Software-Plus-Services2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Acumatica is a software company that develops enterprise resource planning and business accounting software. Acumatica developed its Web-based software using the Microsoft .NET Framework and offered on-premises software that required customers to invest in application and database servers. The company wanted to deliver a software-plus-services solution to its customers, effectively hosting and managing its solutions on the Internet through data centers. Acumatica chose to develop its software-plus-services application using Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure. As a result, Acumatica developed its hosted offering in five weeks, reduced capital expenditures, reduced the deployment time for customers while improving their ability to quickly scale up and down, and improved its time-to-market for new services.

Tags: IT Budgeting, IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper ISV Uses Flexible Licensing to Target New Segments, Build Cost-Effective Solutions2009-10-01 Microsoft
  Microsoft Certified Partner Total Enterprise Solutions (TES) provides implementation and support for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Because of customers' cost concerns, TES typically deployed the solution to small groups, mostly within the finance and accounting departments of large organizations. Web services in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 provide TES with an opportunity to integrate data and business logic from the business system to other applications. Now, TES can help customers cost-effectively extend the solution to more people to standardize and fully automate business processes. Microsoft Dynamics Client for Microsoft Office (DCO) licensing gives TES the technologies and licensing framework to take advantage of the integration capabilities offered in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. With the DCO licensing model, TES has penetrated larger markets and reduced development costs.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper National Instruments Improves Process Efficiency and Data Access With Service-Oriented Approach2009-08-01 Oracle
  National Instruments (NI) wanted to create a new standards-based reference architecture to help NI respond to growing internal and external requirements to expose additional applications and data to the Web and enable employees in various locations as well as customers and partners to have secure, real-time access to reliable data from disparate back-end systems. The challenge was to improve the efficiency and productivity of IT teams to accelerate the development of new integrations and services. National Instruments (NI) adopted a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach - standardizing IT development policies and methods while facilitating service reuse across various departments and groups and deployed Oracle BPEL Process Manager in five months to provide NI with a comprehensive infrastructure to reduce the cost and complexity of process integration initiatives.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Estonian eHealth Foundation Promotes and Develops National E-Solutions Within the Healthcare System2009-08-01 Oracle
  The Estonian eHealth Foundation wanted to move healthcare data into the centralized Estonian health information system, while making minimal changes to the healthcare providers' information systems and preserve protection of highly sensitive personal data (including patient health records and demographic data). The challenge was to achieve more efficient information exchange within the Estonian healthcare sector. The Estonian eHealth Foundation implemented Oracle Database Vault to separate the duties of departmental and administrative activities and make it possible to consolidate servers providing doctors with nationwide access to health records via secure Web services.

Tags: Security Administration, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Financial Service Provider Helps Ease Banks' Compliance Burden With Web Service Solution2009-07-20 Microsoft
  Competition among vendors that supply services to banks is fierce, with companies seeking any type of competitive differentiator. In the area of compliance, it's difficult to compete on the basics, because virtually all solutions must meet clearly established regulatory requirements. So Harland Financial Solutions sought to quickly add an automated compliance component that would offer a significantly improved user experience for clients running the company's Intrieve Core System. By integrating the ATTUS WatchDOG Pro application using Microsoft technologies, Harland Financial Solutions provided clients with a compliance solution that is an easily accessible Web service. Smooth integration of the core system and compliance solution saves the company's clients up to four hours per day and simplifies compliance workflows, contributing to higher client renewal rates.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Arval Deploys Service-Oriented Architecture, Ensuring Position as a Trail-Blazer in the Car Leasing Industry2009-07-01 Oracle
  Arval wanted to retain dynamic and forward-thinking reputation in the car-lease market through custom-made applications, including customer relationship management, contracts, repair, and invoice processing applications and make the custom-made applications more flexible and maintainable. The challenge was to migrate multiple user interfaces to a single homogenous environment for improved user convenience and provide management with greater insight into the business. Arval introduced a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on Oracle technology that allowed the complexity of invoice processing to be reduced to small, independent pieces of logic, making development and maintenance faster, less expensive and more responsive to business needs and reduced the processing time for invoices from a few days to a few hours.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Electrabel Automates Complex User Management With Web-Based User Access Management Solution2009-05-01 Oracle
  Electrabel wanted to implement an identity management solution to allow the company to provide Web-based services to customers, including access to energy consumption profile, billing information, and subscription to new services and enabled the company to tailor Web-based services according to customer profiles, such as for business or residential customers. The challenge was to provide Web-based services to company partners and replace manual user management processes, currently performed by call center agents and Electrabel employees, with self-service applications. Electrabel implemented Oracle Access Management Suite to enable effective user authentication with user IDentification (ID) and password functions.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Solution Provider Uses Software + Services to Make Big Gains in Small-Business Market2009-05-01 Microsoft
  In its quest to remain a leading European IT solutions provider for small businesses, Mamut re-evaluated its strategy for providing information technology. The result was a decision by the Oslo-based Microsoft Gold Certified Partner to adopt a software-plus-services model using Microsoft products and technologies. Today the company's flagship solution - called Mamut One - offers small businesses the flexibility of using locally installed software applications and Web-based services within a single solution. The enthusiastic response from small businesses reflects the key benefits for customers, including expanded IT capabilities and affordable fees. It has also boosted Mamut's business presence, and the company anticipates doubling its customer base in the next several years.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper IT Firm Uses Software-Plus-Services Approach, Saves Customer $1.2 Million2009-05-01 Microsoft
  New York, New York - based Infusion Development specializes in the architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale financial systems and mission-critical solutions for a wide range of industries. As an early adopter of emerging technologies, Infusion wanted to create a solution using the software-plus-services strategy-integrating Web-based components with existing on-premises applications. Infusion built an online "Journey management product" for Travelport using Microsoft Virtual Earth and Windows Live technologies, which were integrated onsite with Office Outlook and Windows Mobile.

Tags: Internet and Web, Internet and Web