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Chevron Looks to Reduce Costs, Enhance Security With Operating System Upgrade

Chevron is one of the world's leading energy companies with 40 percent of its 59,000 employees using mobile computers. The company sought a solution to help it enhance security while still meeting the needs of its employees. Chevron decided to upgrade its 90,000 computers to the Windows Vista operating system....

Tags: Operating System, Energy Company, Chevron Corp., Productivity, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2008-12-01

What are we breathing now? Let me guess...

There may be a partial answer at a newly created section of the EPA website. It lists all admitted toxic emissions from factories, government operations and other facilities around the U.S. Here's where you can go search your own zip code, or the one for your kid's school....

Tags: Food, ZIP Code, Refinery, Chevron Corp., Food & Beverage, Web Site Development, Financial Statements, Web Technology, Manufacturing, Internet, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Chevron Drives Process Standardization and Efficiency With Mobile Decision Support

The refining industry is driven by tight margins, and oil companies are constantly looking for ways to boost efficiency and reduce costs. Chevron has found significant savings in standardizing refinery process steps using mobile workflow software and rugged PDAs to deliver decision support to field workers. Chevron implemented the solution...

Tags: Mobile, Chevron Corp., Standardization, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Case studies 2008-09-01

Chevron fuels debate over conservation, alternative energy

Chevron fuels debate over conservation, alternative energyenergy conservationHow can a company that sells gasoline can be energy conscious. I mean really it goes against everything they are about.A company is usually out to make as much money as possible, this just defies logic on every level. I guess this ad...

Tags: alternative energy, Chevron Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-09-28

Chevron fuels debate over conservation, alternative energy

I’ll be the first to admit, much to the detriment of my profession, that I don’t usually look at the advertising in print magazines. But a splash spread by Chevron in The Week caught my eye. The ad was for a Web site Chevron has started...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Chevron Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Chevron Corporation: Fueling Growth

This webcast explains why Chevron Corporation, producer/transporter of crude oil and natural gas in approximately 180 countries, relies on HP Integrity systems to help run their business applications.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Chevron Corp., Telecom & Utilities

Webcasts 2007-01-01

Value of Microsoft's patent pledge is questioned

Value of Microsoft's patent pledge is questionedthere is a cost associated with developing software.Exxon Mobil made profits of $40 billion, after paying their top management in very very generous stock options and bonus'. They have been generating this kind of profits for the last few years.Chevron is no saint either....

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Investment, survey, patent pledge, Microsoft Corp., Chevron Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-11-16

Novell Case Study: Chevron

Chevron wanted to extend their brand equity by offering a superior marketing advantage over its competitors. They wanted to improve its financial results by capturing more retail outlets, to improve its revenues and products within the existing network, and to reduce the costs of servicing the entire network. The company...

Tags: Novell Inc., Chevron Corp., Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

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Chevron to Use the 2007 Microsoft Office System to Reduce Information Management Risk and Costs and Improve Worker Productivity

One of the greatest challenges Chevron Corporation, the fifth-largest integrated energy company in the world, faces nowadays is how it manages the sheer volume of loosely structured data - an estimated 180 terabytes - being produced, stored, and consumed across its various businesses and operating companies worldwide. As a participant...

Tags: Information Management, Microsoft Corp., Worker, Chevron Corp., Microsoft Office, Content Management, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software

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Chevron Aims to Accelerate Production and Reduce Downtime Through Implementation of New Business Intelligence Platform Providing Consistent, Available Data in Real Time

The challenge facing the main players in the oil industry is to service this growth in demand by increasing productivity in both upstream and downstream activities, without losing sight of wider goals including safety, and overall corporate responsibility. Chevron is the second-largest integrated energy company in the United States and...

Tags: Downtime, Chevron Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Business Ethics, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Leadership

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Additional Resources

HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies

HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....

Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., No. 2

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

More and more the earth has less and less

More and more the earth has less and lessMaybe, maybe not...I know it's fashionable to be a global warming alarmist, but the climate trends are making it harder and harder to stay the "politically correct" course. Antarctic sea ice has actually been growing over the last two decades (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/antarctic_020822.html) We...

Tags: global warming, wealth redistribution

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

ChevronTexaco: RMAN DUPLICATE - DBA Time Saver to the Rescue

ChevronTexaco Corp. was formed by the merger of Chevron Corp. and Texaco Inc. the company faced many challenges to support ongoing development projects. These challenges, stemming from reliance on OS-level backup and restore procedures, included - refresh could not be performed to the same host, and required a separate database...

Tags: ChevronTexaco Corp., Oracle Corp., Backups, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

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