transactions in case studies
Shipping company to slash CO2 and power costs
Case Study The company manages berthing at hundreds of ports globally for major clients including BP and Exxon Mobil, handling about 58,000 transactions-a-year. A shipping services and cargo company that looks after the US Navy and... [21 Feb 2008]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study He said the only solution was to develop a system that could process exponentially more transactions for a lower cost than traditional betting engines. In the end, the R&D team came up with a betting engine, called... [15 Nov 2007]
Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth
Case Study The Amex service benchmarks each of Philips' negotiations with SkyTeam against a list of other transactions by companies of a similar size and business, made up from its own customer list. Dutch electronics giant Royal... [03 Oct 2007]
Tate makes e-bulletins an artform
Case Study Tate Online already has a system in place to monitor if its online shop e-bulletin increases online transactions and it is now working with Lyris to implement a similar feature for its events and exhibitions bulletins to... [06 Jul 2007]
Linux move reaps dividends for stockbroker
Case Study A major part of the business are the financial transactions carried out on bespoke software which previously sat on the old, Unix-based system. There was an initial testing period of 25 days when the Unix and Linux... [18 May 2007]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study Gill said: "The challenge is transactions appear in a very peaky way between 19:00 and midnight [of Red Nose Day] so there's a huge volume of what potentially can be very dense traffic. To help cope with such peaks -... [15 Mar 2007]
Everton FC gets a kick out of IT
Case Study Logic Group has provided the club with financial transaction software and technical support for around eight years but has now taken full responsibility for payment transactions. Everton FC has upgraded its entire IT... [11 Jan 2007]
Great Ormond Street Hospital overhauls IT
Case Study Saldanha said: "The strategy is about trying to consolidate all the data transactions we have coming into our back-end system from third-party suppliers and partners. The charity arm of Great Ormond Street hospital for... [07 Sep 2006]
Travel data centre serves up speedy requests
Case Study Pegasus Solutions has found a cost-effective and energy-efficient way to handle the more than one billion travel and hotel transactions processed at its data centre each month. Pegasus handles back-end... [15 Aug 2006]
Lloyd's of London updates key system software
Case Study One of the key roles of the system is to settle insurance transactions between syndicates and brokers, with more than £31bn - in eight different currencies - processed through the system. The settlement mainframe system... [20 Oct 2005]
Building society banks on chip and PIN
Case Study Rippon said: "The results of the trial were fantastic with several thousand successful transactions. Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (N&P) has kicked off the rollout of chip and PIN cards to replace magnetic... [27 Sep 2005]
Bank of New York prepares for Bacstel-IP
Case Study Preece told silicon.com: "This removed many manual stages in the processing flow, further increased security and provided an additional benefit in the ability to automatically collect and distribute reporting on the same day as... [15 Sep 2005]
Payments giant saves £2.5m with new network
Case Study The company - formerly known as BACS - processed four billion financial transactions worth £2.5tr last year, including nine out of 10 salary payments. Voca provides the technology behind the direct debit system in the UK... [07 Jul 2005]
Retailer cuts checkout fraud with alert software
Case Study High-street fashion chain River Island is cracking down on internal fraud in its 200 UK and Ireland stores with software that analyses all point-of-sale data and flags up any unusual transactions. The data is then... [24 Jun 2005]
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