business applications in case studies
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study By setting up a mirrored data centre for disaster recovery, the company reduced the time to recover systems and applications in the event of an outage. The company plans to switch between servers as a regular business procedure in order to check... [20 Jun 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Camwood CEO Frank Foxall pointed out that one of the additional outcomes of compatibility testing was getting a good idea of any unwanted applications on the system (such as Tiger Woods Golf) and unused licences. [30 May 2008]
Retailer takes stock with business intelligence
Case Study The retailer has already been using Microsoft Dynamics-based software from systems integrator K3 for around two and a half years, and is now upgrading to a version of the software which includes business intelligence applications so users can... [10 Sep 2007]
Channel Five switches on to virtualisation
Case Study The arrays allow the network to balance demand for individual applications through a centralised pool of storage. The changing business model has changed the business requirements, the system requirements. [22 May 2007]
Linux move reaps dividends for stockbroker
Case Study The migration saw a series of applications moved onto a Linux environment on Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Servers. Since stockbroker Redmayne-Bentley revamped its IT infrastructure with a move to Linux the business has been reaping the rewards. [18 May 2007]
British Energy lights up with SOA
Case Study The SOA has also changed how Bepet models, documents and manages its IT operations with service orientation breaking down monolithic blocks of applications or services. Bepet implemented a process driven architecture (PDA) - a more process-centric... [02 May 2007]
Virtualisation powers up energy group
Case Study Energy company E.ON has shifted to a virtualised infrastructure to help it save money and make the most of its applications. E.ON's infrastructure is stored over three tiers - tier one holding the most used applications and therefore needing 100... [23 Apr 2007]
Virtualisation helps teachers slash electricity bill
Case Study Using virtualisation tools, King said, applications can easily be moved from one server to another, meaning the ATL was able to match business change "quite quickly" by turning around services to match new department structures. [26 Mar 2007]
BlackBerrys set legal beagles free
Case Study MacRoberts plans to stay ahead of the game and continue to encourage mobile-working by handing out more datacards to those employees who are regularly on the road and giving their BlackBerrys access to more of MacRoberts' business applications. [15 Feb 2007]
Small and Medium Enterprise Business Communications in the UK
Case Study G has been around for some time and is still waiting for popular applications to catch on; there is clearly demand for high-bandwidth mobile services, but again, the technology that will deliver those services is still open to question. [07 Dec 2006]
Testing boosts Friends Provident's ecommerce apps
Case Study Financial service company Friends Provident is using software testing tools to improve the quality of its ecommerce applications. The company's tech team designs, implements and manages ecommerce applications that deliver insurance information to... [08 Nov 2006]
Great Ormond Street Hospital overhauls IT
Case Study The Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSHCC) will make it easier for donors to give money online by integrating the website with its back office systems and integrating a customer relationship management system with finance... [07 Sep 2006]
Sage signs schools science supplier deal
Case Study Scientific & Chemical Supplies, a major supplier to the education system of scientific goods and services, has signed an £80,000 deal with UK software company Sage to use its suite of CRM and ERP applications. [06 Sep 2006]
Newcastle City Council saves millions from IT overhaul
Case Study The council undertook a four-year IT transformation programme with support from Fujitsu Services which included adopting a new client-server infrastructure based on Fujitsu Prime Power boxes, moving to SAP applications for HR and payroll and... [15 Jun 2006]
What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?
Case Study Morning said: "We started to approach BlackBerry applications with small, quick hits. For example, BlackBerry security applications for "execs [who] lose them like candy" and mobile server administration were among the first to get pushed out to... [17 May 2006]
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