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Calor Gas smelling of tech success
Case Study This information also flows into a scheduling package which pushes delivery schedules into handheld computers used by gas tanker drivers. Calor Gas has been using integration software to connect its technology infrastructure and boost efficiency. [17 Mar 2008]
American Golf drives expansion with store system
Case Study K3's package had already been implemented in beds retailer Dreams and video games specialist Gamestation, and Gould said: "Dreams does special customers orders for beds and Gamestation resells second-hand computer games, so we knew it could be done. [14 Sep 2007]
Visit London gets 'WebTrendy'
Case Study Willmott said: "I wasn't convinced it [the old package] was totally accurate. Tourism group Visit London has received a significant boost in website traffic following changes made using intelligence gained from web analytics. [21 Jun 2007]
Left-handed stormtroopers fight for ecommerce site
Case Study The site runs on Actinic's ecommerce package, which Milson turned to when a deal to outsource development to a third party went wrong, forcing him to redevelop the whole site himself in two months. An ecommerce website specialising in products for... [21 Nov 2006]
Police crack down on dodgy data
Case Study It is using a software package - the Informatica Data Quality package - to standardise data across its crime and vehicle systems, and make sure its records are accurate and up to national quality standards. [09 Nov 2006]
Halfords cuts costs with IT revamp
Case Study The company decided to implement the SAP for a retail enterprise resource planning (ERP) package to replace a host of systems running on the mainframe, with a consortium led by integrator CIBER Novasoft. [30 Aug 2006]
Finance company finds way though Basel II maze
Case Study M&S Money chose Informatica's PowerCenter data integration package, using the Data Quality and Data Profiler modules to check the quality of data going into and coming out of its Oracle datawarehouse to make sure the business intelligence data... [09 Aug 2006]
Castle goes high-tech with IP
Case Study Convergence has also seen the addition of a new electronic-point-of-sale system, which cuts out the need for staff to rekey data from the system into the company's accountancy package. Hever Castle was once home to Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn. [21 Jun 2006]
Insurer monitors staff use of PCs
Case Study The MAS package uses a software agent to capture data such as applications opened, files saved or printed, and whether devices such as USB memory sticks have been attached. Insurer Royal London is testing security software which could allow its IT... [07 Mar 2006]
Paramedics treat patients with BlackBerrys
Case Study To do this, it used a software package called AppSwing, which delivers records on encrypted web pages to the BlackBerry message servers. By treating patients in their homes, Cambridge paramedics are saving £300 for every short-term hospital... [24 Feb 2006]
Bank builds grid out of idle PCs
Case Study The bank's equity and derivatives division, BNP Paribas Arbitrage, is deploying Platform Computing's Symphony package to make use of the processing power of PCs that sit idle at night. French bank BNP Paribas is saving money by connecting idle... [31 Jan 2006]
Lloyd's of London updates key system software
Case Study Lloyd's had previously been using software from Information Builders called PC Focus but as this package began to age it started looking for an alternative, and decided last year to upgrade to the same software company's WebFocus product. [20 Oct 2005]
Hasbro sorts its SOX with content management software
Case Study The $3bn company - which manufactures 'leisure time entertainment products' such as the board games Monopoly and Risk - first implemented the LiveLink package from OpenText in its engineering department. [16 Sep 2005]
Health insurance giant opts for IT "heart transplant"
Case Study The company was reluctant to build the new system from scratch - as it would take too long - but didn't want to simply buy in a package that wouldn't fit its needs. Health insurance provider HSA is working on a £10m IT "heart transplant" which will... [23 Jun 2005]
Centrica unties top execs with wireless
Case Study After a one-to-one session to discover each manager's particular work style and needs, a package was created for them, followed by a half-hour familiarisation session to bring them up to speed with the device and software. [22 Jun 2005]
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