availability system in case studies
RSS availability system in case studies
Sort by: Relevance | Date
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study That de-risked the project immensely for us because issues such as capacity and availability were all answered," Ramsay added. We required as a business to implement a new mail system. Around 1,000 staff undertook training through Google Sites... [10 Jul 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study Carter explained: "With the traditional disaster recovery service you've got three problems: firstly it's becoming too expensive, secondly you've got no guarantees of its availability. The company also needed to make its disaster recovery system... [20 Jun 2008]
Musical retailer improves stock visibility
Case Study This system had to be polled every night and was little use to sales staff in the stores that wanted to check availability and condition of stock in other stores.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Pro audio music retailer Digital Village implemented a... [08 Apr 2008]
Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni
Case Study And there are bandwidth benefits too, says Lea: "In a traditional [wi-fi network architecture] system all the clients will be contending against each other to gain the access point's availability so that they can transmit and receive traffic. [18 Mar 2008]
Tennis federation rallies web presence
Case Study The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has beefed up its website to improve availability and speed for millions of tennis fans following the scores of Davis Cup matches online. To cope with the increase in internet traffic the ITF has been using... [12 Mar 2008]
Betbrokers fancies Sapphire's form
Case Study Because the company was effectively creating a new market, the availability of ready-made packages was limited. It chose to develop a bespoke back-end system that effectively runs the whole company - rather than adapt an off-the-shelf offering - in... [19 Sep 2007]
Carpetright rips and replaces to keep up with growth
Case Study Information about availability of stock and delivery times is also much more accurate. One of his prime considerations was supplying an order processing system that could cope with the complexities of the majority of Carpetright sales. [25 Jun 2007]
It's good to talk, says supermarket chain
Case Study Somerfield has reaped the benefits of improved communication flow by upping its use of conference calls, including improvements in stock availability. Heyes said: "I couldn't quantify the benefits we get from using conference calling, but since we... [13 Jun 2007]
Paymaster saves £300k with mainframe move
Case Study The migration was completed within 10 months and Paymaster has also been able to improve levels of system availability and security, while reusing its core application code and data to minimise risk and expense. [08 May 2007]
Virtualisation powers up energy group
Case Study E.ON's infrastructure is stored over three tiers - tier one holding the most used applications and therefore needing 100 per cent data availability; tier two holding the less critical applications; and tier three mainly used for archiving and... [23 Apr 2007]
Cambridge speedy software brings out the stars
Case Study Getting information out of a telescope and into a usable format is a laborious task that can take months, delaying the availability of data for analysis and research. The Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (Casu) - part of the university's... [16 Apr 2007]
How UCAS made its website a high achiever
Case Study Although the site can cope with up to 7,000 concurrent users and 2,000 staff users, OneSight allows UCAS to monitor the website's key performance indicators of health and availability. The e-Load system allowed UCAS to simulate up to 60 site logins... [16 Feb 2007]
Publisher gets smart about marketing
Case Study The availability of up-to-date customer profiles means marketing staff are able to plan more strategically, said Wolters Kluwer's Turner. Turner said one key advantage of the SAS system is the "clarity of knowledge" it provides for marketing... [28 Nov 2006]
Lloyd's Register chooses Microsoft over Linux
Case Study In particular what swung Lloyd's Register towards the Microsoft option were issues such as interoperability and availability of staff - and the organisation's future plans to move to a hosted environment. [04 Jul 2005]
Meadowhall retailers profit from warehouse tech
Case Study For retailers, the system gives them more information about which products are moving fastest and thus "helps them maximize stock availability and range", said Hope. Previously the British Land marketing team had discovered research saying... [15 Jun 2005]
Keep updated for stories matching availability system in case studies via RSS
