car in case studies
Red Bull Racing revs up computing grid
Case Study The Red Bull Racing Formula One team is using grid computing to help design and build the car it hopes can take on and beat Lewis Hamilton in 2009. As a result of the upheaval, teams are facing a greater need for... [24 Mar 2009]
Leicestershire police save time with virtualisation
Case Study Pearce told silicon.com: "Not everybody's got a car so not everybody's going to have access to the ToughBook so for people like your beat officers that are working the street, they don't need to do a full report there... [11 Nov 2008]
Renault goes multilingual
Case Study Car maker Renault has used translation technology to convert its product documents into 23 different languages to support its expanding global car dealership network. Using technology from global... [06 Jun 2008]
McLaren in pole position with data
Case Study With each car producing 2GB of data per race from 125 sensors - which is often received in an unstructured way via telemetry - this kind of technology is vital to make sense of the information. McLaren Electronic Systems... [03 Mar 2008]
Monarch soars with Google search tech
Case Study The search tech was easily extended to other connected sites - from hotels to car hire - as the search tech is able to index additional sites much more quickly than Monarch's old system. Monarch Airlines has recently... [03 Dec 2007]
How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive
Case Study As far back as 2003 word got out that insurer Norwich Union (NU) was working on a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) in-car 'black box' device. However, with in-car devices and customers now numbering more than... [27 Nov 2007]
How tech drives the World Rally Championship
Case Study For live time splits, the WRC uses satellites and GPS data points on each stage, allowing the information to be available about two seconds after each car has passed through. Each car produces around... [08 Nov 2007]
Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth
Case Study Hertz car rental is one of those suppliers it has recently migrated to the Amex system. Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has streamlined its travel and entertainment programme through strategic alliances... [03 Oct 2007]
Blackpool saves £2m with contact management
Case Study More importantly, it was able to deliver more joined-up services to constituents including council tax, business rates, planning, street scene services, electoral registration, highways, street lighting, permits for skips and scaffolds,... [06 Aug 2007]
Concert hall makes sure callers don't sing the blues
Case Study Woods noted 12 per cent of calls are enquiries about show times, restaurant bookings and car-parking and is sure these customers are better served now. Home of the Proms the Royal Albert Hall (RAH) has updated its call... [30 May 2007]
Isle of Man building for a tech future
Case Study A centralised out-of-hours patient record service for GPs is already in the pipeline, along with the possibility of car-park ticket machines operating over the network.silicon.com Public Sector The Isle of Man has... [28 Mar 2007]
Halfords cuts costs with IT revamp
Case Study Car accessories to bikes retailer Halfords has slashed £1m from its IT costs by replacing outdated IT systems. When the company was acquired by CVC Venture Capital Partners from Boots, the race was on to move the... [30 Aug 2006]
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