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Tecumseh Products Company Unifies Global Business Systems to Improve Decision Making and Efficiency

Tecumseh Products Company wanted to support business goals to unify operations in five key countries, which had previously operated independently and improve inventory management of its manufactured products. The challenge was to enable the company to conduct global sales and operations planning and share financial information across sites. Tecumseh Products...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Decision-making, Hardware Upgrade, Financial Accounting, Sales Strategy, Operational Planning, Hardware, Finance, Sales, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-11-01

TDC Saves $700,000 Annually With Microsoft Customer Care Framework

TDC found that its disparate CRM legacy systems were simply no longer equipped to support the aggressive sales strategy that the company was poised to implement. The customer care system being used by TDC's contact center staff was distributed across multiple applications, making it difficult for employees to quickly and...

Tags: Legacy System, Contact Center, Microsoft Corp., TDC, Hardware Upgrade, Call Centers, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Hardware, It Operations, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-11-01

Harris County Hospital District Cuts Overhead Costs by Millions With Integrated IT Solution

Located in Houston, Texas, Harris County Hospital District HCHD operates in the densest population of high-end healthcare systems in the United States. To compete effectively, HCHD knew that it not only needed to provide top-notch care delivered through talented professionals, but also had to focus on optimizing its operational efficiency....

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Overhead Cost, Health Care, Enterprise Application, Human Resource Management (HRM), Financial Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Hardware Upgrade, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Hardware, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-11-01

Staying on legacy systems ends up costing IT more

The cost of legacy systems and the cost of supporting the mainframe hasn’t changed in 12 months. What has changed is the available cash that companies have to spend on IT. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Information Technology, Legacy System, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Eurotransplant Improves Patient Safety and Transparency With Service-Enabled Legacy Systems

Eurotransplant wanted to ensure rapid donor information capture and improve data accuracy and increase patient safety by providing surgeons with better access to the transplant waiting list and organ availability data. The challenge was to achieve greater transparency of organ allocation rules and enable the organization to evolve from data-driven...

Tags: Patient, Oracle Corp., Legacy System, Eurotransplant, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2009-09-01

System Optimizer 7.3 (Windows)

System Optimizer suit contains the most essential system maintenance and tweaking utilities that work together to increase your PC's overall performance and stability. By using System Optimizer utilities your will be amazed at your computer performing like new. It will optimize your system, improve your Windows general performance and stability,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Computer, Digeus Incorporation, Productivity, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-04

Chery Automobile Cuts Development Training Costs by 80% and Reduces Implementation Expenses by 30%

Chery Automobile wanted to adopt more efficient application development methodologies, as the existing point-to-point approach was complicated and made maintenance difficult and implement a robust platform to underlie legacy systems. The challenge was to provide greater visibility into development processes and ease the development and maintenance pressure on IT staff...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Training, Software Development, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2009-08-01

Achieved 17% Year End Inventory Reduction in Less Than 5 Months

Headquartered in Fullerton, California, Beckman Coulter is a $2.6 billion global medical device company with more than 78% of its revenue generated by recurring revenue from test kits, supplies and services. Beckman Coulter experienced a loss of critical reporting and broken connections to their legacy systems. At the same time...

Tags: Revenue, Information Technology, Oco, Hardware Upgrade, PDAs, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Hardware, Handhelds, Finance, Management

Case studies 2009-07-31

Jaspersoft APIs Integrating BI With Your Application

Almost every commercially viable business application offers built-in reporting or analytics. Too often, however, the Business Intelligence BI features included with these applications fail to meet customer expectations. At the same time, product managers and developers become increasingly frustrated with home-grown and legacy systems that are far too expensive to...

Tags: JasperSoft, API, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Hardware Upgrade, Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-23

NutriGreen Cuts Inventory Costs by 30%, Shortens Month-End Reporting Time by 16 Days

NutriGreen wanted to replace multiple legacy systems with a single, integrated management platform that would support the company's plans to double its product range, add retail operations to its business, and expand into greater China, beginning with Macau and make it easier and faster for frontline staff to place orders....

Tags: Oracle Corp., PDAs, Sales Strategy, Hardware Upgrade, Handhelds, Sales Force Management, Hardware, Sales

Case studies 2009-07-01

Ramco Systems Case Study: Roop Telsonic

Roop Telsonic Ultrasonix Ltd. is a joint venture with a well-known ultrasonic machine manufacturer M/S. Telsonic AG, Switzerland, a world leader in ultrasonic technology. Roop Telsonic was initially operating using a standalone legacy system, due to which there was very little visibility of the overall inventory. Roop Telsonic required a...

Tags: Ramco Systems, Hardware Upgrade, Financial Services, Leadership, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2009-06-09

e-Rewards, Inc. Achieves Near Real-Time Reporting, Increasing Capacity and Scalability for Members

e-Rewards, Inc wanted to provide fast response time whenever members enter online responses to surveys and meet service level requirements of members, clients, and internal users. The challenge was to align IT resources to support e-Rewards' unique business model and integrate legacy systems and databases to increase scalability and capacity...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Scalability, Hardware Upgrade, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Security and the New Economy: Security and the New Economy

SonicWALL solutions enable all organizations to leverage the Internet and their networks to enhance productivity, while maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their information assets. SonicWALL helps one break free from premium-priced, complex legacy systems with easy, affordable solutions that are robust enough to support the needs of any...

Tags: SonicWall, Hardware Upgrade, Internet, Asset Management, Security, Hardware, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations

White papers 2009-06-01

Ramco Systems Case Study: Coimbatore Compressor

Coimbatore Compressor Engineering Company Pvt Ltd was incorporated in 1989; they are into manufacturing of compressors and electric motors. Coimbatore Compressor Engineering Company Pvt Ltd was using a standalone legacy system to manage their production and day-to-day operations, which resulted in total lack of visibility for the overall inventory and...

Tags: Ramco Systems, Hardware Upgrade, Financial Services, Hardware

Case studies 2009-05-28

Offload Reporting To Improve Oracle Database Performance

Is your organization looking for a more cost-effective way to get critical data from Oracle production databases to make business decisions? Hardware upgrades and databases reserved for ad-hoc reporting are expensive, and often affect the performance and productivity of your IT environment. Splitting online transaction processing is...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Oracle Database, Quest Software Inc., Hardware Upgrade, Performance Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-05-20

Save Money, Improve Security, Meet Security Compliance Requirements and Increase Efficiency by Switching From FTP to SFTP for Legacy Systems File Transfer

Everyone is looking to cut costs in the recession, but there is one solution which many companies don't realise has the potential to save money for minimal investment and minimal disruption, which also can provide fast ROI. FTP file transfer from legacy systems normally goes on in the background without...

Tags: Security, Legacy System, FTP, SFTP, Wick Hill, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware

White papers 2009-04-14

Epicor Software Case Study: Arizona Correctional Industries

Arizona Correctional Industries ACI is an integrated group of businesses providing one of the main components of the state's Getting Ready initiative. The company wanted to migrate from a legacy system to an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution based on True SOA, improving systems security and business unit oversight...

Tags: Arizona Correctional Industries, Epicor Software Corp., Finance, Hardware, Hardware Upgrade, Human Resources, Job Training, Operational Accounting, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-04-03

SAVE MONEY, IMPROVE SECURITY, MEET SECURITY COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS AND INCREASE EFFICIENCY BY SWITCHING FROM FTP TO SFTP FOR LEGACY SYSTEMS FILE TRANSFER

Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group, explains how switching from FTP to SFTP for legacy systems file transfer can save money, improve security, help meet compliance security requirements and increase efficiency.

Tags: Security, Compliance, Legacy System, FTP, SFTP, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware

White papers 2009-04-01

Emaar Misr Increases Business and Employee Efficiency by 60%

Emaar Misr wanted to consolidate legacy systems for a single view of customer data and accelerate query management to improve customer satisfaction and reduce customer service costs. The challenge was to eliminate errors arising from manual re-entry and manipulating customer data in spreadsheets and eliminate inefficient manual data sharing processes....

Tags: Oracle Corp., Customer Data, Hardware Upgrade, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2009-03-01

School District Speeds Deployment, Boosts Application Access With Virtualization

IT staff at Fairfax County Public Schools FCPS, a large district with 90,000 computers, had to manage and update many separate disk images. This complexity led to the deferral of most application deployment until hardware upgrades were done, which reduced application availability to teachers. At times, applications were deployed singly,...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Information Technology, School District, Application Deployment, Teacher, Upgrades, Quality, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware Upgrade, Storage Management, Strategy, Business Operations, Hardware, Storage, Management

Case studies 2009-03-01