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Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Uses Integrated Solution From Partners to Build Web Site | 2006-11-08 01:00:18 | Microsoft |
| The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games met all expectations: pageantry, athletic skill, moments of sporting magic, and a stunning haul of gold medals for the host country. The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation (M2006) needed a Web site to deliver schedules, venue and transport information, team and athlete profiles, photos, and up-to-the-minute news and results from 16 sports during the 12 days of the Games. Microsoft, the Official Technology Partner for the Games, built and operated the Web site between April 2005 and March 2006. Working with local partners Devtest, Readify, and Telstra, Microsoft Services consultants at the Microsoft Solutions Development Centre built the site on a wide range of Microsoft software. | |||
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Commonwealth Games Partners Collaborate to Design Web Site for Outsourced Hosting | 2006-11-08 01:00:18 | Microsoft |
| The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation (M2006) needed a Web site to deliver schedules, venue and transport information, team and athlete profiles, photos, and up-to-the-minute news and results from 16 sports during the 12 days of the Games. As Official Technology Partner for the Games, Microsoft built and operated the Web site between 2005 and 2006. Working with local partners, Microsoft Services consultants at the Microsoft Solutions Development Centre constructed the site on a wide range of Microsoft software. Telstra hosted M2006's servers in one of its purpose-built datacenters to give it optimal security, performance, availability, and ease of management. Microsoft needed to take this hosting environment into account when designing the system. | |||
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Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Web Site Delivered on Time and on Budget | 2006-11-08 01:00:18 | Microsoft |
| The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation needed a Web site to deliver schedules, venue and transport information, team and athlete profiles, photos, and up-to-the-minute news and results during the 12 days of the Games. Microsoft Services consultants at the Microsoft Solutions Development Centre and local partners built the site on a wide range of Microsoft server software. Microsoft faced an immovable deadline, the need to contain costs, and a long list of must-have features. A series of best practices including the Microsoft Solutions Framework helped balance the competing demands of time, budget, and scope while actively managing the risk of such a high-profile project. | |||
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Vastly Scalable Web Site Is Built for Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games | 2006-11-08 01:00:18 | Microsoft |
| The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation (M2006) needed a Web site to deliver schedules, venue and transport information, team and athlete profiles, photos, and up-to-the-minute news and results during the 12 days of the Games. Microsoft Services consultants at the Microsoft Solutions Development Centre and local partners built the site on a wide range of Microsoft server software. During the Games, the Web site processed up to 10,000 page requests per second and reached a global audience of nearly 12 million. Research and past experience allowed M2006 and Microsoft to forecast the amount of content that would be generated and the number of people who would visit the site. | |||
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EDS Uses Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 to Help Customers Reduce Expenses and Time-to-Market | 2006-11-01 01:00:29 | Microsoft |
| Electronic Data Systems (EDS), the world's leading IT outsourcing company, is using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 as a vital component in their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. PLM helps companies increase productivity and product quality through powerful, web-enabled applications that can be developed quickly, deployed easily, and maintained efficiently. Built on a foundation of Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, these applications give EDS customers entirely new capabilities to organize, integrate, and view data from highly disparate sources, enabling them to make smarter, faster business decisions with greater confidence. | |||
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An Introduction to Web 2.0: The User Role | 2006-11-01 | SlideShare |
| Web 2.0, refers to a supposed second generation of Internet-based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. The various services of Web 2.0 are social networks, web-based applications, wikis, etc.
Tags: Application Development |
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Wikis: Do They Need Usability Engineering? | 2006-11-01 | SlideShare |
| This presentation presents Wikis. A wiki is a medium which can be edited by anyone with access to it, and provides an easy method for linking from one page to another. Wikis are typically collaborative websites, though there are now also single-user offline implementations.
Tags: Collaborative Web |
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Trends In Webdesign | 2006-10-25 | SlideShare |
| This presentation explains the trends in Webdesign. | |||
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Exploring Libraries (...and Our Users) in the Web 2.0 Realm | 2006-10-24 | Case Western Reserve University |
| In the analysis and promotion of web-technology, the phrase Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services - such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies - which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004, and has since become widely used.
Tags: Application Development |
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Cybersettle Makes a Strong Case for a New Kind of Collaboration in the Dispute Resolution Space | 2006-10-20 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. |