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Korean Fashion and Discount Retailer Deploys 4 Terabyte Database on SQL Server 2005

whitepaper The success of E.Land Group has enabled it to expand through a number of mergers and acquisitions in recent years. Based in Seoul, Korea, E.Land Group's Retail Division has become a major force in fashion and discount retailing, partly through its...

Tags: monitoring systems

[15 May 2008]

Internet Retailer Cuts IT Costs, Increases Order Capacity With E-Commerce Solution

whitepaper Some of the company's Web sites are the result of mergers and acquisitions, and maintaining the sites' multiple architectures became increasingly cumbersome and expensive. Miles Kimball Company offers cards, gifts, and household items through...

Tags: application servers

[14 May 2008]

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment Construction isn't an industry noted for its heavy reliance on technology but she says her priority is to develop an IT strategy and build a team that will support the company's ambitious growth plans and frequent acquisitions over the next three...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News In recent years, HP has also been spending big on corporate infrastructure software companies, including the acquisitions of Mercury Interactive, Opsware, SPI Dynamics, Bristol Technology, and Peregrine.

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

More Than 3,000 Users Migrate to New IT Landscape in Seamless, Rapid Transition

whitepaper The company has grown through a number of mergers and acquisitions, resulting in a fragmented IT landscape. Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) provides life assurance, banking, mortgage, and investment services to consumers and businesses in Ireland.

Tags: customer support services

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid

News shareholders or to withdraw our proposal and focus on other opportunities," either from internally generated growth or growth through acquisitions. no hope of a higher takeover price, and said it is ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if...

Tags: microsoft, yahoo

[25 Apr 2008]

O2 to launch mobile broadband offering

News Jonathan Earle, head of customer acquisitions in O2's broadband division said: "We're not going to be the cheapest but we hope to bring a fantastic customer experience. O2 will launch its mobile broadband service on Friday, becoming the last major...

Tags: dongle, mobile, broadband, o2

[17 Apr 2008]

Why Enterprises Should Choose HP-UX 11i v3 for Their Data Center Migration Plans

whitepaper First, the rash of mergers and acquisitions dictates a rationalization of duplicate processes and infrastructure. Many IT executives today are looking at consolidating IT operations for several reasons.

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage Solutions at Work: NACA Logistics Group

whitepaper NACA, formed through a series of mergers and acquisitions, functions as a coordinated group of separately operating transportation brands and has grown steadily. Like any evolving operation, NACA reached the point where it was time to upgrade its...

Tags: back-up, operation, enabled, reached

[10 Apr 2008]

Manugistics Helps Bacou-Dalloz Turn Supply Chain Into Competitive Advantage

whitepaper Now Bacou-Dalloz appears as one entity to distributors, thus improving its service, and lowering its shipping and other costs; the company can now assimilate new acquisitions quickly; and it has the agility to respond quickly to spikes in demand.

Tags: x86-standard servers, distributors, intel xeon, suite

[10 Apr 2008]

Baxter Healthcare Thinks Globally With PeopleSoft 8 HCM

whitepaper With customers in more than 100 countries, Baxter Healthcare continues to grow through strategic acquisitions. But each new acquisition presents the company with the challenge of quickly integrating new employees into its HR system.

Tags: hr, healthcare, peoplesoft, human

[02 Apr 2008]

Reducing Total Cost of Ownership With a Corporate Reporting System for a Global Insurance Company

whitepaper Rapid growth and international expansion through diverse acquisitions had increased the complexity of the enterprise. The client recognized the need to improve its business metrics through process optimization, functional integration, and increased...

Tags: finance

[27 Mar 2008]

Consolidated Future-Ready IT Backbone Integrating Disparate IT Systems and Applications for Cartus Corporation

whitepaper Cartus' exponential growth and acquisitions brought a large set of heterogeneous applications and systems that needed to be integrated to allow ease of data management and monitoring. Cartus wanted a consolidated system that would have the...

Tags: infrastructure management

[27 Mar 2008]

Oracle Fusion Architecture and Oracle Fusion Applications

whitepaper These changes can come from a myriad of sources: mergers and acquisitions, new partnerships, corporate reorganizations and expansions, changes in tax codes, new government regulations, or changes in corporate strategy, tactics, or priorities.

Tags: database management, description, fusion, detailed description

[24 Mar 2008]

TETRA Technologies, Inc. Improves Performance With Successful, Enterprise-Wide System Upgrade

whitepaper TETRA Technologies, wanted to upgrade enterprise resource planning software to improve performance and ensure scalability for the expanding enterprise and streamlines business processes to unify mixed cultures across the enterprise resulting from...

Tags: erp

[24 Mar 2008]

Bank Expects to Improve Security and Manageability With New Operating System

whitepaper The Standard Bank Group staff grows by an average of 20 percent annually, partly from acquisitions. Although great for business, those acquisitions have resulted in a decentralized, less consistent IT infrastructure.

Tags: infrastructure management

[23 Mar 2008]

Pharmaceutical Company Expects to Improve Security With Affordable Solution

whitepaper During 2007, it completed acquisitions of other companies, including the largest pharmaceutical company in Poland. Richter Gedeon makes pharmaceutical products for distribution throughout the world. The company has offices in 30 countries and...

Tags: security management

[23 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08

Round-Up This reinvention has been done mostly through acquisitions - around $1bn was spent last year trying to consolidate its position in the market but frankly the Round-Up was none the wiser. It's difficult to know what to make of AOL these days.

Tags: web 2.0, iphone, airport, data breach

[14 Mar 2008]

AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m

News The Bebo acquisition comes at a time when AOL is still struggling to make the transition to a leader in online advertising after amassing nearly $1bn in acquisitions - Tacoda, Buy.at, Quigo, and AdTech, to name a few - into its Platform-A ad...

Tags: bebo, acquisition, social networks, aol

[13 Mar 2008]

Trends in Outsourcing: Strong, Sustainable and Growing

whitepaper This paper provides a review of the outsourcing landscape, a segmentation of the outsourcing industry and definitions of each major sector including Business Process Outsourcing, Platform IT Outsourcing, Application Outsourcing, and Network...

Tags: outsourcing

[12 Mar 2008]

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