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Calor Gas smelling of tech success
Case Study He added: "The fact that we have actual gas levels being transmitted to us on a periodic basis means that flows very nicely into our sales order processing system so that we can adjust orders according to the usage of gas. [17 Mar 2008]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study Even with a traditional betting engine, Betfair processes five million transactions per day - much more than the London Stock Exchange's transaction processing system is capable of. Betfair has applied for a patent for Flywheel and is in... [15 Nov 2007]
TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet
Case Study TalkTalk Direct has upgraded its enterprise server infrastructure, speeding up bill processing and cutting energy consumption. The business process outsourcing division of Carphone Warehouse upgraded to Fujitsu Siemens Primepower servers to run its... [11 Oct 2007]
American Golf drives expansion with store system
Case Study The system also enables American Golf to run Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) for processing credit card payments and has Euro processing capability, ready for when the retailer moves into Europe. American Golf has upgraded and integrated its store... [14 Sep 2007]
Carpetright rips and replaces to keep up with growth
Case Study One of his prime considerations was supplying an order processing system that could cope with the complexities of the majority of Carpetright sales. He said: "Our requirements were built around ERP processing. [25 Jun 2007]
Software gets Nasa back to the moon and Mars
Case Study It gave us an electronic avenue for processing these comments. Nasa has launched a software system to help its scientists work together more effectively as they design and build vehicles for the agency's Constellation Program - George Bush's... [22 Jun 2007]
Supercomputer boosts brain research
Case Study Stathakis said: "It [the imaging] needs quite of lot of processing. Researchers at Cardiff University are using their supercomputer to significantly improve the efficiency of their brain analysis work. [14 Jun 2007]
Linux move reaps dividends for stockbroker
Case Study Since making the move, the business has seen an 88 per cent reduction in overnight processing time - from 13 hours down to 1.5 hours - along with a tenfold increase in processing power. Since stockbroker Redmayne-Bentley revamped its IT... [18 May 2007]
BA saves £500m with smart shopping software
Case Study At the end of the 1990s, BA was spending more than £4bn per year with suppliers, processing in excess of 350,000 orders annually and processing more than half a million invoices. British Airways has saved more than £500m by streamlining its buying... [07 Mar 2007]
Everton FC gets a kick out of IT
Case Study Everton FC has upgraded its entire IT network and fully outsourced its payment processing system. Phillip Davies, systems analyst at Everton, told silicon.com the outsourcing of the payment processing has been a "massive change" for the IT department. [11 Jan 2007]
O2 stops fraudsters with online ID checks
Case Study He added: "We no longer have to check and copy paperwork used to prove identity, helping to ensure quick and consistent decisions and reduced processing times. O2 is making it harder for fraudsters to set up mobile phone contracts by using an... [20 Nov 2006]
Holiday resort slashes time for data queries
Case Study This data would be flattened into a comma-separated file and then uploaded into an Olap (Online analytical processing) tool, Gentia, for analysis. Holiday resort chain Center Parcs is using business intelligence tools to better understand its... [26 Oct 2006]
Travel data centre serves up speedy requests
Case Study To speed processing at Pegasus' data centre, Lapekas chose to install hardware appliances from Azul Systems. Azul's processing technology and hardware will save Pegasus $70,000 over three years on power alone and Lapekas estimates the company spent... [15 Aug 2006]
Home working plan reduces disaster risk for Apacs
Case Study Sue Yoe, director of technology and facilities for Apacs, told silicon.com: "The central administration at Apacs did not have as much disaster recovery in place [as the payments processing section]. Apacs, the UK's payments association, has signed... [08 Aug 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. Platform said the PC grid could be extended out to 2,000... [31 Jan 2006]
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