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whitepaper Microsoft Case Study: William Carey University2008-04-08 Microsoft Tips
  Based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Carey University experienced Hurricane Katrina firsthand. The university's in-house e-mail service went down, and staff had no way to reach students. Determined to replace the old e-mail system with a reliable, hosted, Web-based e-mail service, William Carey chose Microsoft Live@edu. Today, William Carey students are enjoying stable, rich, collaboration services, no matter what the weather.

Tags: Email		   
whitepaper Students Use Online Collaboration to Improve Study Habits and Learning Outcomes2008-03-01 Microsoft Tips
  In Joplin, Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) offers students a high-quality education while striving to keep costs down. To reduce spending, the IT department decided to replace its aging, expensive, in-house student e-mail solution with a hosted solution. To provide e-mail and related services for students and alumni, MSSU chose Microsoft Live@edu, a set of Web-based communication and collaboration services. Students are excited about the new solution's reliability, as well as the ability to keep their important class materials and communications in one place - the solution offers 100 times more storage space per e-mail account and access to online storage with Windows Live SkyDrive.

Tags: Email, Word Processing		   
whitepaper Halo Enables a Swift, Successful Move of HP Manufacturing Operations From Corvallis, Oregon to Singapore2006-12-20 01:00:25 Hewlett-Packard
  Like many large multinational companies with dispersed manufacturing facilities, Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) has sought to attain cost savings by consolidating its manufacturing operations. While needing to maintain ongoing output of its products, the transition of an assembly line from one location to another - sometimes half way around the world - is an enormous logistical puzzle that has to be very carefully coordinated with full knowledge transfer occurring between the groups involved. Chartered with transferring a production line from its R&D beginnings in Corvallis, Oregon to a permanent home in Singapore, the HP manufacturing team looked for new ways to make the transition as effort-less as possible and turned to the HP Halo Collaboration Studio.   
whitepaper Helvetia Patria Turns to HP and SOA to Build and Manage eBusiness Center for Supporting Insurance Business Across Europe2006-12-20 01:00:25 Hewlett-Packard
  Helvetia Patria Versicherungen (HPV) is a multi-line insurance company based in Switzerland and doing business across six European countries. Helvetia Patria needed to expand its business in the face of increased competition in a deregulated European insurance market. The company also needed to control costs and increase data accessibility by streamlining and simplifying its sales processes. The challenge was to do this while accommodating the needs of multiple national organizations - each operating autonomously, and each with its own IT infrastructure and data, different business cultures and practices, and different languages. HPV turned to HP to help build and manage the center using a highly collaborative, modular, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach.   
whitepaper Komatsu Australia Reduces Risk, Improves Compliance With Reliable Internet and Intranet2006-12-15 01:00:19 Microsoft
  Mining, forestry and construction equipment distributor, Komatsu Australia, was struggling with an underperforming Internet and intranet management system. The application was increasingly unstable and difficult to support, made it hard to change Web site design, stifled staff collaboration and did not support online marketing campaigns. Microsoft partner Unique World worked with Komatsu to build a promotional Web site for a new Komatsu product on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Independent analyst BearingPoint found that, by migrating its entire online environment to the Microsoft product, Komatsu could reduce its risk profile, improve compliance. This would enable the company to improve customer service, increase market penetration and ensure the availability of online collaboration tools.   
whitepaper Hosting Company Provides Enterprise-Level Collaboration Tools to Midrange Businesses2006-11-29 01:00:19 Microsoft
  WebCentral provides Web hosting and application services to more than 60,000 businesses in the Asia Pacific region. The company's Managed Exchange service gives customers with limited IT resources access to a rich messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. The company's partnership with Microsoft led to its participation in a trial program that added Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to its line of hosted applications. WebCentral integrates Managed Exchange and Managed SharePoint with its hosting platform and the Microsoft Office System to give customers an enterprise-grade collaboration suite at a low monthly cost. The solution enables the company's developer partners and resellers to extend their own offerings and reach new markets.   
whitepaper Building Inspection Company Increases Revenue While Improving Efficiency2006-11-29 01:00:19 Microsoft
  West Coast Property Consultants (WCPC) is a third-party quality control inspection company used by 8 of the top 10 residential builders in California. Started 15 years ago, the company is based in San Diego and employs 83 people. WCPC inspectors generate Site Inspection Reports (SIRs) after each visit to an inspection site. Using Microsoft .NET technology, the company moved the SIRs away from a paper-based process to a Web-based system that helps inspectors spend more time on job sites conducting inspections, rather than wasting time on data entry and other administrative tasks. The company achieved a 51 percent increase in revenues in 2003 and expects another 35 percent increase in 2004.   
whitepaper Central Piedmont Community College Keeps Technology Running Smoothly2006-11-01 Dell
  Central Piedmont Community College, a large, multi-campus school in North Carolina, needs a streamlined, efficient way to manage the lifecycle of thousands of desktops, notebooks and servers. Dell Premier Pages, a web site tailored specifically for CPCC's needs, provides the technology staff with easy, immediate access to information such as standard configurations, order tracking and repair and maintenance resources including parts and technical assistance. The large school is now able to easily manage thousands of systems while saving cost and time resulting in fast, reliable technology service for the college's faculty, staff and students.   
whitepaper IBM Helps Professional Services Firm Improve Collaboration and Automate Business Processes2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM
  Chio Lim Stone Forest needed to improve its ability to collaborate on transnational projects; its IT subsidiary wanted to create custom collaborative applications that could be used both internally and packaged as service offerings for external clients. The CPA firm implemented a flexible infrastructure for e-mail, instant messaging, calendaring and scheduling, shared team spaces and custom collaborative applications using IBM Lotus Domino Collaboration Express software.   
whitepaper Cybersettle Makes a Strong Case for a New Kind of Collaboration in the Dispute Resolution Space2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM
  Insurance settlement disputes hurt both defendants and claimants. Still, the need to preserve bargaining leverage has kept the resolution cycle long - and very costly for insurers. Streamlining and simplifying the claims resolution process enables insurance companies to transform their claims processes and optimize their legal and administrative resources. Cybersettle combined its patented, breakthrough process with IBM's technology to offer a Web-based settlement negotiation solution.