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UC provides substantial benefit to the enterprise in terms of capabilities that allow staff to collaborate in real time, access critical information and communicate seamlessly with coworkers and customers  regardless of location.
7 days ago by CDWThe client is the world leader in open network storage solutions for data-intensive enterprises. The client needed for a complete enterprise-wide CRM strategy and solve complex customer data integrity issues. The challenge was to automate core systems to share and exchange data and eliminate manual processes and expand the scalability of the entire customer support infrastructure. Infogain's team planned and implemented an end-to-end CRM Data Integration Solution for the client in two phases. The two-phased implementation helped to achieve a step-by-step deployment within the time and budget constraints of the client.
59 days ago by InfogaineSilicon Corporation wanted to create a unified reporting and planning environment that spans eSilicon's operations, replacing disparate systems and enabling a single source for financial reporting and planning to improve accuracy and speed. The challenge was to improve the company's ability to forecast, recognize, and manage revenue for its nonrecurring engineering services business, a process that involves complex revenue and cost estimates driven by contract terms and project milestones. eSilicon Corporation worked with Oracle Partner Idhasoft Limited to deploy Oracle's Hyperion solutions - creating, in just three months, a unified and integrated environment improving visibility as well as the reliability and speed of reporting and planning processes.
80 days ago by OracleThis paper takes the reader step-by-step through a series of integration scenarios to help one start building their own solutions with IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator. Once they have mastered some basic skills one will quickly be wiring their IBM Lotus Domino applications (both the shrink-wrapped and home-grown varieties) more tightly into the infrastructure, and one will also be sharing data between Lotus Domino and other systems more simply and easily that one probably thought was possible.
98 days ago by IBMWhen it comes to content, "one size fits all" used to be the norm and web traffic was measured in "hits". No longer. Companies that are leading the way in 2009 and beyond are incorporating geotargeting to help them pinpoint where their web visitors are located and deliver locally relevant content. Further, IP geolocation has demonstrated significant business value in four primary areas - fraud prevention, marketing, compliance, and security.
118 days ago by QuovaThe Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. is one of the largest regional department store operators in the United States, with 279 stores in the Northeast, Midwest, and upper Great Plains areas. The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc wanted to ensure the efficient handling of Point Of Sale (POS) and payments systems to streamline business operations and optimize customer service. The Bon-Ton Stores leveraged the continuous availability, linear scalability, and bulletproof data integrity of HP NonStop technology to reduce unplanned downtime to near-zero levels, while benefiting from generation-over-generation improvements in processing speed and price/performance.
141 days ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)Instead of focusing on recovery after disasters, midmarket businesses need solutions that enable business continuity before and during them. Listen to the recording, "CDPS Analyst Interview with John Webster of Illuminata," to see how the IBM® Comprehensive Data Protection Express solution addresses the needs of midmarket companies that don't have adequate backup and recovery capabilities for their critical data.
147 days ago by IBMAs organizations look to keep operating expenses down, "free" technology solutions start to look more attractive. However, when choosing a solution for patching your systems and servers, it is important to consider the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the difference in key capabilities between point patching products and comprehensive patch management solutions. This white paper uncovers those differences.
161 days ago by KACEPrevious business decisions to deploy your IT solutions on RISC based architectures was most likely the right decision at the time based on the business need, the solutions availability and the architecture available to run that solution. Some of these solutions are likely due for an upgrade due to changing business needs, a better version of the application now being available or have become to expensive to maintain and support on older server system. It is time to make a change and change is likely to include upgrading to next generation of software solution and choosing a new server system that will perform and work with the software solution.
172 days ago by IntelFinansbank wanted to implement a new enterprise data warehouse solution to support core banking data from a variety of sources and relieve performance loads on the existing data warehouse and manage a large and rapidly growing data store, now at 16 terabytes and doubling in size approximately every 15 months. The challenge was to optimize backup processes to increase efficiency while safeguarding valuable financial data. Finansbank implemented an Oracle enterprise data warehouse loaded daily using Oracle Data Integrator, to handle crucial bank data such as information for the bank's 3.5 million credit card accounts and optimized performance by providing each business group with its own data mart within the data warehouse, including a new dedicated environment to support campaign management.
172 days ago by Oracle