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Leading Consultancy Enhances International Teamwork With New Collaborative Solution | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Accenture is a world leader in management consultancy and information systems. The Dutch government was introducing e-payments for public transport. The project was being managed by geographically-distributed Accenture consultants and success depended on excellent teamwork. Accenture deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. This technology, in tandem with a centralised Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database, provided a comprehensive log of all project documentation, including contracts, design templates, testing reports, and minutes of relevant meetings.
Tags: Portals, Database Management, |
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Think.com Provides More Than 160,000 Email Accounts to Students and Teachers | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| Think.com was developed in 1998 as an introduction to technology and online collaborative tools for students and teachers. A not-for-profit that is funded by Oracle, Think.com is based on Oracle Email, a component of Oracle Collaboration Suite. The service provides email to more than 4,000 schools around the world, and its user base is expanding rapidly. Think.com understood the risks of such aggressive growth and prepared by building its technology infrastructure on Oracle Collaboration Suite using Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (Oracle9i RAC) running on Linux to ensure continued delivery of its services to students without breaking the bank.
Tags: Linux - Open Source, Collaborative Web, |
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Mainstream Technologies Slashes IT Costs and Maintenance With Self-Managing Database and Scalable Application Clusters | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| As a full-service information technology development and hosting company, Mainstream Technologies has built its business by helping customers leverage and manage IT solutions to fuel corporate growth. Mainstream Technologies provides a number of services to its customers, including custom application development, consulting, and contract programming. With these objectives in mind, Mainstream saw an opportunity to deploy Oracle Database 10g - a self-managing technology that automatically monitors, adapts, and fixes itself - to reduce IT management costs and increase the productivity of its database administrator (DBA). The company also implemented Oracle Real Application Clusters to ensure reliability and scalability, while taking advantage of the cost benefits of clustering technology.
Tags: Collaborative Web |
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Oracle Case Study: Phone Directories Company, L.P. | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| Phone Directories Company, L.P., publishes 168 Yellow Pages and business directories in Canada, the western United States, and Alaska. The company faced the challenge of creating a scalable, cost-effective communication infrastructure that lets employees communicate and collaborate effectively and efficiently with colleagues and customers and improving operational efficiency by reducing reliance on paper forms and enable Phone Directories' Mac-based infrastructure to handle e-mail attachments formatted for PCs. The company implemented Oracle Collaboration Suite on an Apple Macintosh desktop environment to create a secure, reliable, scalable infrastructure to simplify business communication and consolidate information.
Tags: Infrastructure Management, Email |
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Oracle Case Study: California Polytechnic State University | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| Cal Poly is a nationally ranked, four-year, comprehensive public university located in San Luis Obispo, California. The university faced the challenge of providing up to 3,000 students and faculty members with a fully featured and easy-to-use online calendar system, gradually extending the system to provide email and calendar capabilities to about 20,000 students, faculty and staff and replacing the university's aging computing platform, which included an old email system (HP Open Mail) for which the vendor was dropping support. The university rolled out a new university-wide email and calendar system based on Oracle Collaboration Suite technology, featuring Oracle Email and Oracle Calendar applications. It controlled costs by using industry standard hardware and Linux operating system.
Tags: Web Services, Email |
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Cornell University Deploys Oracle Calendar for Cost-Effective, Cross-Platform Calendaring and Scheduling | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| In response to campus demand for shared calendaring and scheduling (C&S) services in April 1998, Cornell University embarked on a process to select, a calendaring system that would best meet the needs of the Cornell community. Oracle Calendar, a component of Oracle Collaboration Suite, was viewed as a mature, well thought out C&S application that meets Cornell's needs for cross-campus meeting scheduling.
Tags: Infrastructure Management, |
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University of California at Berkeley Improves Staff Productivity With Campus-Wide Calendaring System | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| The University of California at Berkeley is home to more than 15,000 staff and faculty working in nearly 300 departments. Increasingly, staff and faculty have found it difficult to manage the multitude of activities they are responsible for including classes, conferences, office hours, vacations, lectures, and so forth. Faced with increasing demands on time and the need to coordinate schedules, several departments over the past few years had developed individual, non-integrated calendaring systems that became increasingly unreliable. The need to create a stable, universal calendaring system led U.C. Berkeley to Oracle Calendar, a component of Oracle Collaboration Suite. | |||
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Bahrain Defense Force Royal Medical Services Becomes a Knowledge-Based Organization While Improving Efficiency | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| Bahrain Defense Force Royal Medical Services, which is the second largest in Bahrain, has 400 beds and offers a comprehensive range of medical services to military and government staff and other Bahraini residents. Oracle Collaboration Suite is driving Bahrain Defense Force Royal Medical Services' (BDFRMS) strategy to integrate real-time collaboration into its business while delivering the highest levels of medical excellence and patient care at the lowest possible cost.
Tags: Web Content Management, Database Management, |
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Nonprofit Group Uses Desktop Collaboration Tools to Improve Program Delivery | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Based in Battle Creek, Michigan, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a nonprofit organization with approximately 200 employees. Kellogg Foundation workers in remote communities had difficulty communicating and collaborating with other employees, grantees, head office staffers, and partners, reducing efficient workflow. The foundation deployed a communication and collaboration solution based on the Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Windows Server System integrated server software. With its new communication and collaboration solution, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a more integrated organization.
Tags: Collaborative Web, Email |
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Hitachi Group Achieves an Integrated Collaboration Environment With 200,000 Users Groupmax Collaboration | 0000-00-00 | Hitachi |
| Hitachi's collaboration portal, Groupmax Collaboration, is based on the highly reliable Collaborative E-business Platform Cosminexus, and provides functionality realize the vision of a cross-functional organization built around the idea community. Even with tools intended to maximize an organization's potential, phrases like "collaboration transcending organizations" and "global information sharing" can be but a pipe dream if scalability and operational issues get in the way. This is why Hitachi, Ltd. has started actual Groupmax Collaboration operation with its employees, one of the largest user pools in the world; to solidify impressive scalability and secure a variety of functional and operational advantages. The introduction of Groupmax Collaboration is part of the "IT Infrastructure One Hitachi Initiative" project.
Tags: Groupware - Workflow, Network Security, |
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