database in case studies
Musical retailer improves stock visibility
Case Study Prior to that, the company was using Claris Filemaker, a simple database to manage stock. In mid 2007, the company upgraded its database systems from the native Navision offering to SQL, which has improved stock system performance in terms of... [08 Apr 2008]
PA spreads the news on open source
Case Study Berman added: "PA's been using open source software - be it web server or database server - really for some time but we're now moving up the technology stack more into the complete application area. Press Association (PA) is moving to an open... [20 Mar 2008]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study D is for Database Police in Staffordshire are trialling video technology to capture and store footage officers have gathered on the beat using cameras worn on the body. The trial is funded from the £3m that the Home Office has set aside for camera... [12 Mar 2008]
McLaren in pole position with data
Case Study MES MD Peter van Manen said the most important part of SQL Server for the team is the Filestream application, which collates unstructured data and feeds it into the SQL Server database engine. McLaren Electronic Systems (MES) has been using... [03 Mar 2008]
Rotherham NHS ups network access security
Case Study The trust has now implemented Quest's ActiveRoles Server, which integrates its Microsoft Active Directory network management system with the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) database, a mandatory data store that all NHS organisations have to... [25 Jan 2008]
Specsavers boosts customer vision with CRM system
Case Study It allowed its call centre staff to update customer enquiries to the central customer database, also used by the retailer's 800 stores, and give them quick access to customer information when dealing with telephone enquiries. [04 Jan 2008]
How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive
Case Study The pilot database had to deal with the creation of 20 million rows every day. At that point, one of NU's IT team tasked with taking this on to the next step asked several key questions, Lovick said, including - what's the world's biggest database? [27 Nov 2007]
Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth
Case Study Philips senior sourcing specialist for airlines Peter Sijbers said: "American Express has an extensive customer database. Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has streamlined its travel and entertainment programme through strategic... [03 Oct 2007]
Holiday company steps up data security
Case Study Holiday company Attraction World has beefed up security around its business critical database and has boosted customer confidence as a result. The company is using the Secerno.SQL security technology to protect its database from hackers and... [17 Aug 2007]
Cambridge speedy software brings out the stars
Case Study The Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (Casu) - part of the university's Institute of Astronomy - is testing the Kognitio WX2 database system with legacy data. The Casu team analyse all of this data by searching through the database to pick out... [16 Apr 2007]
Digital archive replaces paperwork at Lloyd's Register
Case Study As the ship is designed and built we are accruing a lot of information in the form of diagrams, forms and progress reports and that helps us to populate our database - we have the largest technical shipping database in the world - and there's an... [02 Nov 2006]
AXA cuts out the paper chase
Case Study Previously staff would have dealt with paper faxes, adding the information to the database and then faxing the client back. Using the hosted service means that staff do not have to collect faxes or scan them into its database. [18 Oct 2006]
Sage signs schools science supplier deal
Case Study Speaking of the move to Sage 1000, Palser said: "We wanted one customer database," which enables the company to join up its disparate systems with an integrated approach. Scientific & Chemical Supplies, a major supplier to the education system of... [06 Sep 2006]
Newcastle City Council saves millions from IT overhaul
Case Study It also involved automating business processes such as payroll, digitising document management, rationalising Oracle database licensing and setting up a call centre for contacting the council. Its negotiations with Oracle to procure database... [15 Jun 2006]
Data clean-up pays off for Business Link
Case Study Mike Pratt, data integrity manager at BLL, told silicon.com: "They just brought it all together and planted it into a database. Not-for-profit start-up advisory group Business Link for London (BLL) has saved £100,000 after embarking on a business... [09 May 2006]
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