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- IMAGE-X Enterprises Case Study: American Airlines
- Over ten years ago, American Airlines created a department known as IdeAAs In Action to receive suggestions from its employees as well as subsidiaries. IdeAAs In Action was trying to respond to over 30,000 handwritten suggestions each year. After evaluating several competitive proposals, Image-X was selected as the best system...
- Tags: American Airlines, Database, Mainframes, WANs, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware
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- Building Society IT Department Reduces Development Time by Up to 30 Per Cent With New Application Platform
- Scarborough Building Society's mainframe environment was restricting business growth. IT managers wanted to migrate business-critical applications onto a new platform, but didn't want to rewrite or rebuild them. They decided to transfer these applications onto the Microsoft .NET Framework. As a result of the migration to Microsoft, the IT team...
- Tags: Society, Information Technology, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management
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- Maximising Business ROI
- Syndicate 386 chose the Select Component Factory and the Select Process Director Suite to redesign and develop their core administration systems. The business case for the redevelopment of the applications was two-fold, firstly to move to a more n-tier GUI based application frontend and the secondly to reduce the company's...
- Tags: Environment, ROI, Roi/Tco, Mainframes, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Servers, Hardware
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- Select Business Solutions Case Study: Region 10 Educational Service Center Dallas, Texas
- The Region 10 Educational Service Center in Dallas, Texas, is responsible for mainframe processing conducted by school districts in the greater Dallas area. Prior to UltraQuest, Region 10 used a product with a basic 3270 character-based system that was complicated and unwieldy. Now, with UltraQuest, there are currently 2,000 users...
- Tags: Dallas, Texas, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
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- A Platform for Consolidation and Growth: Overhauling Mission-Critical Systems to Create a Low-Cost, Flexible Infrastructure
- The Skipton Building Society, one of Britain's most respected mutual societies, wanted today's computing solution for tomorrow; a single, scalable, end-to-end operating environment, available across all channels and all systems, capable of offering the Society the cost savings, business agility and business continuity it needed to maintain its market-leading position....
- Tags: Unisys Corp., Consolidation, Mission-critical System, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
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- Performance Assurance on the Mainframe
- This webcast explains how BMC performance assurance for mainframes can help a person to resolve these issues.
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Performance, It Management, Mainframes, It service Management, Servers, Hardware
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- Novell Case Study: Idaho Power Company
- Idaho Power Company, a subsidiary of IDACORP, Inc., is involved in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in a 24,000 square mile area in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. In an ongoing effort to optimize its infrastructure and contain costs, the company saw the potential hardware...
- Tags: Software, Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Idaho, Power Company, Mainframes, Virtualization, Servers, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Storage Management, Hardware, Management, Storage
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- Enterprise Software Configuration Management
- Enterprises using IBM mainframe zSeries systems are taking on projects to expose their native applications to new users in new ways. Externally, customers demand Internet access. Internally, employees and management expect new, user-friendly interfaces. These projects introduce complex new development and deployment issues. At the same time, these enterprises are...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, MKS Inc., Mainframes, Financial Accounting, Servers, Hardware, Finance
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- Skipton Building Society Secures Against Authorised Device Access and Malware With Reflex Disknet Pro
- The Skipton is the 7th largest Building Society in the UK. Founded in 1853 the Skipton has 79 branches from Aberdeen to Plymouth. In 1998 Skipton Building decided to embark upon a substantial upgrade to its IT environment, by replacing "Dumb" terminals connected to a mainframe environment, with a network...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Access, Environment, Malware, Skipton, Internet, Mainframes, Tools & Techniques, Viruses And Worms, Security, Servers, Hardware, Management
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- TechNet Webcast: HIS Bi-Directional Transaction and Data Inter-Op Between Windows and IBM Mainframe Systems (Level 200)
- This webcast demonstrates the peer level inter-operation capabilities provided by Microsoft Host Integration Server HIS 2004, where a program on either system can use the other as a database or transaction server. Programs running on either side can call programs on the other, within the context of a transaction. Either...
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Webcast, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Digital Media, Servers, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- TechNet Webcast: Security Integration Between Windows and IBM Mainframes (Level 200)
- This webcast introduces the mainframe professional to security on the Windows Server System. Join this webcast to learn how to integrate security including end-user single sign-on between Windows and IBM OS/390 and zSeries Operating Systems.
- Tags: Security, IBM Mainframe, Webcast, Microsoft TechNet, IBM Corp., Integration, Microsoft Windows, Mainframes, Digital Media, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- CA Ensures Continuity for Euroclear's ?300 Trillion Per Year Securities Settlement Business
- Euroclear is the world's largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity and fund transactions. As Europe's premier settlement-service provider, the company could not afford unplanned downtime or the loss of a single transaction. The challenge faced was an ambitious program of platform consolidation and...
- Tags: Security, Computer Associates International Inc., Euroclear, Recruitment & Selection, Mainframes, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Servers, Hardware, Finance
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- Mainframe-to-Windows Migration Saves Frozen Food Producer More Than $1 Million
- The Schwan Food Company, one of the world's leading branded frozen food manufacturers, needed an alternative to a mainframe, which was complex, costly, and unable to support the company's aggressive growth. Its solution: migrate its custom business applications to the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and the Microsoft .NET...
- Tags: Food, Microsoft Windows Server, Migration, Microsoft Corp., Mainframe-to-Windows Migration, Windows Server Solution, Mainframes, Food & Beverage, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Software
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- Arabian Food Supplies Consolidates IT Systems for Improved Business Management and Planning
- Arabian Food Suppliers AFS is one of Saudi Arabia's most diversified retail organizations. The company wanted to replace mainframe system with automated, Web-enabled, tier one Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution for financial, purchasing, and warehouse management. The challenge was to implement a solution with multi-language capabilities to allow employees to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Management, Information Technology, ERP, Arabian Food Supply, Arabian Food Suppliers, Mainframes, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software
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- Huntington Bank Saves $58,000 a Year Using Unicenter Output Management Web Viewer
- Like many large financial institutions, Huntington National Bank uses a mainframe computer to store and process most of its data. Initially, to give its large base of PC users access to the data on the mainframe, Huntington implemented terminal emulation software that ran on the PC. For the users, however,...
- Tags: Web, CA Unicenter, Computer Associates International Inc., Huntington Bank, Unicenter OM Web Viewer, Mainframes, It Management, Servers, Hardware, It service Management
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- Improve End User Experience With Pro-Active Network Management
- Whether it is the applications, mainframe, client-server, distributed, grid or web services computing - none of it works without the network. CA's Network Management solution helps to improve service by providing proactive service assurance to detect problems before they impact end users.
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Channel Management, Mainframes, Networking, Servers, Marketing, Hardware
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- TCS Helps Reduce Errors, Improve Turnaround Time for Government Program
- A division of the state government department runs a federal program mandated with ensuring that surplus property donated by various federal agencies is made available to eligible organizations. The program was managed using a mainframe-based system that ran a batch process. Data entry was manual and done at multiple points....
- Tags: Program, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
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- Novell Case Study: Deutsche Bahn
- Deutsche Bahn DB facilitated more than 1.6 billion passenger-journeys in 2004, and transported around 280 million tons of freight. Given the complexity and scale of the company's rail services, it is vital to maintain availability and performance throughout any cost-saving initiatives. In order to reduce operational costs while maintaining reliability,...
- Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, Open Source, Mainframes, Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
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- Novell Case Study: Chicago Mercantile Exchange
- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is an international marketplace that enables businesses to allocate assets and manage financial risks. The Merc has several dozen servers, networked with Tandem and IBM mainframes, that operate trading floor wallboards, facilitate office productivity and communications, connect to other markets, and enable electronic trading. With so...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Network, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Merc, Mainframes, Servers, Networking, Hardware
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- Lexmark's Output Strategy Eases the Pain of Merging Global Enterprises
- This case study focuses on one of the top manufacturers of agricultural tractors and combines in the world. This customer's main objective was to architect a corporate worldwide Windows NT server-based e-forms solution that would be flexible enough to accommodate the mainframe data flowing from several different legacy systems and...
- Tags: Strategy, Lexmark International Inc., Mainframes, Hardware Upgrade, Microsoft Windows NT, Construction, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
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