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Renault goes multilingual
Case Study Car maker Renault has used translation technology to convert its product documents into 23 different languages to support its expanding global car dealership network. Using technology from global... [06 Jun 2008]
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... [21 Aug 2006]
Document project pays dividends for stockbroker
Case Study Stockbroker Brewin Dolphin Securities has updated information about its customers and ensured regulatory compliance through a "repapering" project involving Xerox Global Services. And it realised that it couldn't do this... [12 Jul 2005]
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... [03 Oct 2007]
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. [15 Nov 2005]
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... [08 Nov 2007]
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... [06 Feb 2006]
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... [11 Jun 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... [10 Oct 2007]
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,... [17 May 2006]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study Zurich CIO Michael Paravicini said that there was no global IT strategy and that its outdated infrastructure relied on too many data centres and incompatible software platforms, with 30 different claim systems in place. [10 Jun 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... [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... [18 Jan 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... [24 Jan 2008]
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. [26 Apr 2006]
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