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Tennis federation rallies web presence

Case Study To cope with the increase in internet traffic the ITF has been using NTT Europe Online's Smart Content Delivery system which manages large volumes of traffic via a global network of caching servers. The ITF runs the annual Davis Cup tournament...

Tags: tennis, ntt, website, servers

[12 Mar 2008]

McLaren in pole position with data

Case Study Read more on how F1 relies on technology   F1 champions put their faith in technology   Photos: The tech driving Renault Formula 1  Q&A: Alex Burns, COO at AT&T Williams F1 team   AT&T backs F1 in bid to go global...

Tags: server, sql, data, f1

[03 Mar 2008]

Multiple choice helps council IT measure up

Case Study The tool, which is being offered to public sector organisations by global trade association CompTIA, uses a multiple choice questionnaire to assess the skills of IT staff and enable them to benchmark themselves against each other and known...

Tags: comptia, skills, county, council

[24 Jan 2008]

AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date

Case Study Global pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca, has just completed a huge project to upgrade its ageing email system, helping the company reduce the number of servers it uses and save money. Speaking to silicon.com, Gary Keogh, global programme manager...

Tags: astrazeneca, migration, global, email

[23 Jan 2008]

Law firm beefs up search power

Case Study The firm has been using Recommind's MindServer search platform since last October to help its global employees access and manage information both within and outside the organisation. European law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has improved...

Tags: web 2.0, search, legal, lawyer

[18 Jan 2008]

Betfair betting engine goes supersonic

Case Study The R&D team expects one million trades per second to be possible through Flywheel, which it estimates is the equivalent of the entire combined annual global equity trading volume being processed in a matter of hours.

Tags: betting, betfair, transaction processing, volume

[15 Nov 2007]

How tech drives the World Rally Championship

Case Study The WRC's global audience rivals that of Formula One and MotoGP motorcycle racing but faces significantly different challenges. AT&T backs F1 in bid to go global ¦ The World Rally Championship (WRC) is one of the most technologically advanced...

Tags: communication, networking, hosting, f1

[08 Nov 2007]

ICI takes the plunge with WLAN

Case Study The global paint and chemical manufacturer has been putting the WLAN in place with wireless networking specialists Aruba Networks since the end of last year, and the network has been running on several sites since the beginning of 2007.

Tags: remote access, security, aruba, wireless

[10 Oct 2007]

Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth

Case Study In 2005, the manufacturer chose to rationalise its supplier base, buying services on a global basis. As part of that strategy, it signed a deal to take travel services through SkyTeam, a global airline alliance of nine members - Aeromexico, Air...

Tags: travel, benchmark, american express, philips

[03 Oct 2007]

Holiday company steps up data security

Case Study The level of security at the company now complies with bank security regulations and this has been instrumental in winning business to sell tickets through a global payment card provider. Holiday company Attraction World has beefed up security...

Tags: hackers, information, security, travel

[17 Aug 2007]

Connecting to the world when disaster strikes

Case Study TSF uses Inmarsat's Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) terminals to provide affected regions with internet speeds of up to 492Kbps. Walton added because BGAN is a global service then TSF does not have to use a variety of equipment to provide...

Tags: satellite, comms, disaster, connect

[11 Jun 2007]

Engineers use their SaaS for recruitment

Case Study Young said there were some minor problems when defining and agreeing on the standard processes for worldwide recruitment but the difficulties recruiting in a global market are balanced by the ability to consolidate some common hiring policies.

[25 Apr 2007]

Testing boosts Friends Provident's ecommerce apps

Case Study We are working more in global teams and we needed a test management product that worked that way. Financial service company Friends Provident is using software testing tools to improve the quality of its ecommerce applications.

Tags: testing

[08 Nov 2006]

Digital archive replaces paperwork at Lloyd's Register

Case Study The organisation decided to get someone with "contemporary knowledge", and signed a deal with Xerox Global Services, transferring Lloyd's Register's record centre and staff over to the tech company. Lloyd's Register has replaced crates of paperwork...

Tags: document management

[02 Nov 2006]

AXA cuts out the paper chase

AXA cuts out the paper chase

Case Study It has been using the eFax fax-to-email service from j2 Global as a central hub for holiday insurance claims coming in from around the world. AXA Assistance is using a fax-to-email service to process the thousands of pages of information it gets...

Tags: fax

[18 Oct 2006]

Unilever scales an Iron Mountain

Unilever scales an Iron Mountain

Case Study Consumer packaged goods giant Unilever is rolling out automated back-up across its global operations to beef up its business continuity strategy and limit the risk of losing data. Tony Farah, head of global desktop strategy at Unilever, told...

Tags: unilever

[21 Aug 2006]

What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?

Case Study At the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Florida, one of Coke's top techies revealed the challenges of managing mobility on a global scale. Internal problems can also bug global deployments, particularly on the helpdesk side, Morning said.

Tags: blackberry, coca cola, rim, coke

[17 May 2006]

Beauty giant gives IT systems multimillion makeover

Beauty giant gives IT systems multimillion makeover

Case Study Coty's global CIO David Berry explained that getting the merger of the two companies done fast was vital: "It was very much a case of how do we merge the companies together and generate savings as part of the acquisition.

Tags: soa

[26 Apr 2006]

Bank automates to boost customer service

Case Study Initial projects include the Securities, Asia Pacific Retail Lending and the Global Payments and Cash Management businesses. The bank is working on a payment transformation programme to significantly improve the cost efficiency and the quality of...

Tags: banking

[06 Feb 2006]

Bank "maps" its way through SOX maze

Case Study Stephen Ashton, director of global IT business management for DrKW, said complying with the act has been a major activity. Any global organisation has a framework of regulation and legislation to deal with.

Tags: sox, compliance

[15 Nov 2005]

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