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Why next-gen videoconferencing can mean more travel

Case Study The market has broadened since then - with the likes of Cisco's TelePresence and HP's Halo systems. While high-end videoconferencing can play a role in reducing the costs of corporate travel - financial and environmental - the most notable benefits...

Tags: travel, teliris, videoconferencing

[24 Apr 2008]

Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 2008

Case Study We deploy IT systems on new sites. Security is a major factor in helping the event and technology run smoothly and Atos Origin tests its systems extensively during the preparation period. It's the concept of trying to move security from an...

Tags: security, servers, infrastructure, olympics

[16 Apr 2008]

Pitney Bowes boosts efficiency with mobile worker app

Case Study Pitney Bowes has boosted the productivity of its field force engineers with a mobility app to enable on-the-fly access to core Siebel and SAP systems. The AMPower Service app from Antenna allows Pitney Bowes engineers to have real-time visibility...

Tags: pda, sap, siebel, mobile worker

[08 Apr 2008]

Musical retailer improves stock visibility

Case Study It is also integrated with the company's delivery systems and its website, so that orders can be made online by customers out of store hours and only needs to be approved the next morning for items to be sent out.

Tags: great plains, sql, k3

[08 Apr 2008]

PA spreads the news on open source

Case Study Berman said: "One of the things we've found in the past with proprietary systems is our market moves faster than the vendors often are prepared to move at, and we wanted the flexibility to be able to add additional metadata or classifications as...

Tags: savings, open source, media, platform

[20 Mar 2008]

Calor Gas smelling of tech success

Case Study The company used Tibco to integrate its JD Edwards (JDE) enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with its Onyx CRM and plans to use it to help upgrade both systems by summer next year. Calor Gas has been using integration software to connect its...

Tags: telemetry, soa, integration, crm

[17 Mar 2008]

National Carphones dials in to SaaS

Case Study Gordon Anderson, MD of National Carphones, told silicon.com: "Before we had those systems we were running disparate systems, bits here, bits there - using one accounting system, one booking system, one diary, various spreadsheets, that kind of stuff.

Tags: netsuite, saas, online, crm

[13 Mar 2008]

McLaren in pole position with data

Case Study McLaren Electronic Systems (MES) has been using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as it prepares for the 2008 Formula One season opener in Australia on 16 March. MES (formerly TAG Electronic Systems) is the electronics and software arm of the McLaren Group...

Tags: server, sql, data, f1

[03 Mar 2008]

Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts

Case Study Roy Smith, information systems manager at Faber, said rogue fonts had built up over time as demand for a wide range of fonts within the design department grew. It also allows Faber to stop unlicensed fonts from creeping back onto systems by...

Tags: bsa, unlicensed, font, publishing

[22 Feb 2008]

Shipping company to slash CO2 and power costs

Shipping company to slash CO2 and power costs

Case Study A shipping services and cargo company that looks after the US Navy and Shell is hoping for massive CO2 and cost reductions by centralising its IT systems. Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more.

Tags: port, waas, global, sea

[21 Feb 2008]

BA puts faith in IP at Terminal 5

Case Study The Fast Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) - installed by communications partner Affiniti over an 18-month period - will carry data for most of BA's T5 business systems. The systems running on the network include passenger check-in...

Tags: ba, affiniti, testing, heathrow

[08 Feb 2008]

Scottish Re evaluates risky data

Case Study In the meantime he has also conducted a back office systems strategic review and decided to remain with the service provided by CSC. He expects to start exploring ways in which the EDI system can be integrated more fully into the back office...

Tags: data mining, csc, insurance, life

[04 Feb 2008]

Rotherham NHS ups network access security

Case Study Rotherham NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT) has improved network security using integration software to match staff records with systems access.silicon.com Public Sector Rotherham PCT IT infrastructure manager Derek Stowe said the organisation was...

Tags: nhs, security, active directory, directory

[25 Jan 2008]

AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date

Case Study The migration was carried out with both old and new systems running parallel to each other to reduce disruption. So users could be on either of the virtual systems and it would effectively, from their point of view, feel the same.

Tags: astrazeneca, migration, global, email

[23 Jan 2008]

Rugby club scores with automated backup

Case Study The Saints lost a lot of vital data, spurring it to move away from slow, unreliable tape backup systems that are prone to corruption, to a system run by Asigra and Datastore 365. The system automatically copies every file on the club's systems at...

Tags: rugby, back-up, asigra, data

[21 Jan 2008]

Denplan bites hard on document automation

Case Study Denplan head of IT Phil Metcalf said the company's existing legacy systems had a number of template documents used to communicate with customers at set times hardwired into core code. Dental payment plan provider Denplan has implemented a document...

Tags: crm, compliance, document management

[17 Jan 2008]

Specsavers boosts customer vision with CRM system

Case Study Specsavers has beefed up the CRM systems at its Nottinghamshire call centre to get a single view of its customers. The optician has achieved solid growth over the last few years, building brand loyalty through advertising campaigns and competitive...

Tags: specsavers, call centre, crm, retail

[04 Jan 2008]

How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive

Case Study O is for Operating systems As far back as 2003 word got out that insurer Norwich Union (NU) was working on a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) in-car 'black box' device. Early suppliers emerged including IBM and Orange, for the telematics software and...

Tags: norwich union, teradata, road pricing, driver

[27 Nov 2007]

TNT speeds data flow with handy hardware

Case Study Delivery company TNT Express UK has upgraded its range of mobile computers to improve the flow of data through its systems and provide greater 'trace and track' visibility of deliveries for customers.

Tags: mobile, symbol, motorola, element

[16 Nov 2007]

Betfair betting engine goes supersonic

Case Study The engine hasn't been installed into Betfair's core systems yet and Carter couldn't give any precise deadline for migration. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below…

Tags: betting, betfair, transaction processing, volume

[15 Nov 2007]

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