databases in case studies
Sony Pictures sets sights on best IT Oscar
Case Study In order to do this, the organisation used BMC's Remedy IT service management software to bring the data - which was mainly contained in spreadsheets and Lotus Notes databases - onto a single platform over the last 12... [17 Apr 2009]
AstraZeneca on the quest for perfect data
Case Study With more than 300 separate databases, each with a possible 100 variables and an offshore team preparing datasets that will be transformed into complex analytical models, pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca is reliant on... [04 Dec 2008]
RSA rings the changes with Salesforce.com
Case Study Previously, staff would have to search through databases to check product information. Insurance group, RSA (formerly Royal Sun Alliance) is using technology from Salesforce.com to keep customer service and support staff... [06 Nov 2008]
Bracknell Forest reaps virtual rewards
Case Study Applications being run on the virtual servers include Novell Groupwise email, SAP Document Management and SQL Server databases, along with those developed in-house. Bracknell Forest Borough Council is reaping the rewards... [08 Aug 2008]
Specsavers boosts customer vision with CRM system
Case Study Having already used software specialist Infor for other business processes, Specsavers turned to the supplier to build a CRM gateway, called Epiphany, that integrated with its existing databases. Specsavers has beefed up... [04 Jan 2008]
Blackpool saves £2m with contact management
Case Study Blackpool council has consolidated a number of citizen records databases to reduce IT costs by £2m a year. According to the council's assistant director for ICT, Phil Baron, prior to the upgrade the authority was plagued... [06 Aug 2007]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study The RSPB is using between 15 and 20 physical VMware ESX servers to run 60 to 70 virtual machines, which hold the charity's applications and databases. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has buffed up... [04 Jun 2007]
Cambridge speedy software brings out the stars
Case Study Another advantage of the WX2 is it does away with the lengthy task of indexing astronomical measurements - a process that makes finding information within the astronomy department's databases a lot easier. [16 Apr 2007]
Publisher gets smart about marketing
Case Study Another benefit is that staff will no longer be needed to maintain legacy databases which contained customer info, as all the data has been migrated to the new system - and this staff can now be re-deployed elsewhere. [28 Nov 2006]
University liberates users with business intelligence
Case Study Before the switchover to the new BI software, the university was constrained in the type of reports it could create from various databases holding student records, timetable information, financial data, course curricula... [13 Nov 2006]
Sports council cuts hassle with blades
Case Study It has updated its infrastructure by replacing a number of out-dated servers - which ran some of its critical system and databases - with 12 Fujitsu blade servers. The Sports Council for Wales has replaced ageing server... [01 Nov 2006]
Home working plan reduces disaster risk for Apacs
Case Study The Apacs project took six months to ensure staff could work at home and run applications and databases. Apacs, the UK's payments association, has signed a contract with outsourced services company Attenda to bolster its... [08 Aug 2006]
London council improves search with Google
Case Study The council has also bought another appliance to run the search on its new intranet, which is used by its 6,000 employees, so staff can use one interface to search across PDFs, directories, databases and web pages. [09 Jun 2006]
Data clean-up pays off for Business Link
Case Study Not-for-profit start-up advisory group Business Link for London (BLL) has saved £100,000 after embarking on a business intelligence project to clean up duplicate and incorrect information in the organisation's databases. [09 May 2006]
Bank automates to boost customer service
Case Study The system will provide the connectivity between the databases to create the electronic files when customer raise enquiries. Banking giant HSBC is updating the workflow automation system it is using, in order to get... [06 Feb 2006]
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