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- Construction Materials Supplier Simplifies Branch Office IT Management, Saves $400,000
- Lafarge North America needed a cost-effective solution to reduce network security risks at branch offices while increasing the efficiency of centralized server administration. The company became an early adopter of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise to test the enhanced features of the Server Core installation option, read-only domain controller, and Terminal...
- Tags: IT Administration, Microsoft Office, Construction Material, Lafarge, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Terminal Services, Construction, Servers, Networking, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
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- BlackBerry Custom Application Offers Competitive Edge for Largest Supplier of Construction Materials
- Lafarge North America is the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in the U.S. and Canada. Lafarge's North American gypsum operations needed to improve the efficiency of translating pricing changes for raw materials to their customers. Lafarge already had a substantial BlackBerry deployment to 1,500 users companywide. Its gypsum operations...
- Tags: Custom Application, Construction Material, Supplier, RIM BlackBerry, Lafarge North America, Lafarge, Handhelds, Hardware
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- Lafarge Optimizes Career-Planning Management for Its Staff
- Founded in 1833, Lafarge is one of the world's leaders in building materials. The issue was to unify the group's human resources and pay systems by implementing a single, all-encompassing human capital management tool. The company wanted to optimize the management of employees throughout the group and within individual business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Group, Human Capital Management, Lafarge, Human Capital, Professional Development, Human Resource Management (HRM), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career
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- Lafarge Standardizes Financials, Supply Chain Across All Lines of Business
- Founded in 1833, Lafarge is the world leader in construction materials. The company wanted to standardize its IT tools and management systems on one Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution for all four of its major lines of business: cement, roofing, granulates and concrete, and plaster. The issue was to leverage...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., Line Of Business, ERP, Lafarge, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
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