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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Partners With IBM to Make Tomorrow's Patient Care a Reality | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| IBM and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) saw the opportunity to combine and complement each other's strengths to forge a new generation of healthcare solution. UPMC, a leading IT innovator, sought to become a truly integrated, self-regulating healthcare system, utilizing evidence-based medicine to produce superb clinical outcomes and lower costs. In a landmark strategic partnership valued at $402 million over 8 years, UPMC's systems will be transformed into an On Demand Business environment using IBM products and services. At the core, infrastructure simplification - characterized by the flexibility, adherence to standards and data model consistency of IBM's service-oriented architecture approach - is what makes it possible.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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Washington Group International Integrates Business Processes With Service-Oriented Architecture | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| Washington Group International provides the talent, innovation, and proven performance to deliver integrated engineering, construction, and management solutions for businesses and governments worldwide. The company wanted to unify applications and business processes across multiple lines of business and diverse geographic locations. The challenge was to align IT infrastructure with business goals and improve efficiency enterprise-wide. Washington Group implemented Oracle Fusion Middleware as the foundation for a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to help integrate applications and streamline business processes. The company also leveraged Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle JDeveloper 10g, and Oracle Web Services Manger to transition from a point-to-point integration model to a Web Services based model.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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USi Drives Integration and Strengthens Security With Oracle Fusion Middleware | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| As a premier provider of hosted and on-demand software solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, USinternetworking, Inc. (USi) must consistently enhance the value and security of its services while driving down the cost of managing technology internally and for its clients. Using several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle JDeveloper 10g and Oracle Web Services Manager, USi developed an SOA that enabled it to significantly reduce costs by automating critical business processes and streamlining regulatory compliance while extending best practices around user provisioning and identity management to its clients.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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Major Financial Services Company Turns Around Its Fortunes With Automated Loan Processing Solution | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| As the nation's third largest service provider of nonprime residential mortgages, Large Financial Services Company makes its money by expeditiously handling loan payments to transform them into performing assets for the financial institutions that own the mortgages. The company wanted to provide greater manageability of external data sources, eliminate data entry errors and speed loan servicing for payoffs, bankruptcies and liquidations. The financial services company sought a flexible, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) because it wanted to leverage back-end systems, automate repeatable tasks to reduce errors and process transactions in real time. The solution was an automated loan payment processing system built upon IBM WebSphere middleware platform.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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LibGo Travel, Inc. Enhances Operational Efficiency | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| LibGo Travel, Inc. is the umbrella company of Liberty Travel, a retail travel chain with more than 200 stores along the East Coast and online, and GOGO Worldwide Vacations, the wholesale arm of the organization. LibGo Travel wanted to acquire a scalable, state-of-the-art IT infrastructure for maximum growth and flexibility. The challenge was to increase operational efficiency through integration and move to the next level in using Oracle applications. The company deployed Oracle Fusion Middleware applications to enhance and modernize all key business functions. This enabled the company to expose Web services to business partners and enhance customer service.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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New Paths for the Marketplaces of businessMart AG | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| businessMart AG was founded in February 2000 and currently employs a workforce of twenty-eight. The company wanted to create a scalable open platform for an electronic B2B marketplace. With IBM WebSphere software, a stable, robust, and secure platform could be found which became the basis of a consistent restructuring into a service oriented architecture.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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Xerox Enhances Productivity With IBM Enterprise Service Bus Solution and SOA | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| Based in Stamford, Connecticut, Xerox has 58,100 employees worldwide who are committed to helping people find better ways to work. Xerox wanted custom coding for new and updated business applications slowed production and raised costs. This was solved by Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) which enabled the integration of back-end databases with decoupled front ends without custom coding. ESB enabled the integration of back-end databases with decoupled front ends without custom coding.
Tags: Application Development |
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Despar Aspiag Enhances Communications With Grid and Service-Oriented Architecture | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| Established more than 40 years ago, Despar is a leading Italian food and grocery supermarket chain, formed by 12 different companies. In the Northeast of the country, Despar is represented by Aspiag Service and its more than 500 stores. The company wanted to replace an aging, inflexible, proprietary IT infrastructure with one capable of delivering Web services through an up-to-date Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The challenge was to raise productivity by improving monitoring and tracking of communications and by eliminating inefficient Web-based services. Despar replaced inefficient, antiquated system with a reliable, scalable grid architecture from Oracle, lowering total cost of ownership and gaining immediate flexibility. The company used Oracle JDeveloper to rewrite applications for the new SOA architecture, simplifying development and delivering needed standardization.
Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development |
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Sprint's Innovative Use of Web Services Turns Possibilities Into Profit | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| To engage more enterprise customers, Sprint needed a way to make its internal application functions - services - available to consumers outside its own enterprise. Sprint engaged IBM Global Services to assist with service development and deployment. The company wanted to find new ways to engage enterprise customers. Sprint engaged IBM Global Services to assist with service development and deployment. The solution to this was implementing web services to extend network functions, such as device location.
Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture |
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Yulon Nissan Enhances Customer Convenience With IBM RFID Solution | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| Founded in 2003, Yulon Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. (Yulon Nissan) strives to achieve its business goals of providing its customers the highest quality service in automobile maintenance, repair and sales. The company wanted to enhance customer convenience in automobile repair and maintenance operations by using RFID technology to quickly identify and access customer information. Considering the scope of the solution and the depth of IBM's expertise, Yulon Nissan made IBM's RFID solution system their final choice. Enabling Web services and the service oriented architecture, the IBM solution leverages reusable code components that can be written once and used over and over again, accelerating time to value.
Tags: RFID, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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