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- SAP Engineering & Construction: Activity-Based Costing With R/3 at ABB Industrie AG
- ABB Industrie AG is a global player in international markets which not only exhibit low growth rates due to strong international competition but are also subject to constant price pressure. To meet challenges like these, ABB has implemented programs like Customer Focus and Total Optimization of Processes TOP worldwide. These...
- Tags: Optimization, SAP R/3, SAP AG, Activity Based Costing, ABB Industrie AG, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Novell Case Study: ABB ALSTOM POWER (Schweiz) AG
- ABB ALSTOM POWER AAP came into being in 1999, with the merger of subdivisions of the ABB Group ABB Kraftwerke and ALSTOM. The prime concern within the merger was to combine the two IT networks. The newly-formed AAP Schweiz AG took the opportunity to set up its own hardware and...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Alstom, ABB, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Servers, Networking, Investment, Finance, Hardware
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- ABB Cewe Control Improves Collaboration for Better Products
- ABB Cewe Control, with 550 employees, is part of ABB Sweden, a global leader in power and automation technologies. ABB Cewe Control wanted to enable more people to participate in new product development. The company created central digital vault for all product information to improve access and manage workflows electronically....
- Tags: Collaboration, ABB, CAD, Retail, Business Structures, Product Marketing, Process Improvement, Software, Finance, Marketing, Quality, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Outsourcing Systems Unit Allows ABB to Renew Its Business Focus
- ABB wanted to increase its core focus on power and automation. Having previously outsourced infrastructure to an external supplier, ABB began to look for a competent outsourcing vendor to partner with. The goal was to achieve an ideal, win-win solution for ABB as well as for the employees of Business...
- Tags: Capgemini, Outsource, ABB, Outsourcing Systems Unit, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2007-08-06
- Italian Leader in Energy and Automation Technologies Reduces Support Costs by 28 Percent
- ABB Group is one of the world's leading providers of energy and automation technologies. Despite the ABB Group move towards an outsourcing agreement with IBM, subsidiary ABB Italia wanted its existing information technology services team to continue to manage its infrastructure. To ensure that it could deploy new applications, software...
- Tags: ABB Group, Microsoft Corp., ABB, Security Administration, Outsourcing, Patches, Tools & Techniques, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
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- Dell Provides Reliable Hardware for DENC AG
- DENC AG, Darmstadt is a product development management consultancy celebrating its fifth anniversary. DENC Design Engineering Consultants has been a satisfied Dell strategic partner since it was founded five years ago. During this period, the company has increased its computer pool from 15 to about 120 Dell machines. Of these,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hardware, Product Development, CAD, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Software, Marketing, Management
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- The ABB Group Overcomes Major Liquidity Crisis With Strategic Finance
- The ABB Group, a leading global engineering company, has an illustrious record of innovation and technological leadership in many industries and has helped countries all over the world to build, develop, and maintain their infrastructures. In 2002 and 2003, ABB overcame a major liquidity crisis with the aid of Oracle's...
- Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., ABB Group, Liquidity, ABB, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Swedish Company Increases Efficiency of Processes With Project Management Solution
- The power transformer division of Swedish company ABB produces around 80 transformers every year. As the business continues to grow, it has become increasingly important for ABB to ensure better control of its ongoing projects. Previously, the company used a number of systems to manage project planning. After replacing them...
- Tags: Swedish Company, Microsoft Corp., ABB, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
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- ABB Controls Billions in Procurement Spend With SAS Supplier Relationship Management
- ABB, which supplies utilities and other industries with power and automation technologies, is a truly global corporation, with business units in some 100 countries and annual revenues close to US$15 billion. As a rule of thumb, such companies spend close to half of their revenues on subcontractors, creating very large...
- Tags: Supplier Relationship Management, SAS Institute, Procurement, ABB, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
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- ABB Robotics Customers Increase Productivity With Flexible Customization Technology
- ABB Robotics provides global manufacturers with automation technologies. One of these technologies is RobotStudio, the programming software for robotic systems. For years, ABB Robotics used Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications for customization technology in RobotStudio. But the company wanted to give customers a more flexible, reliable, and easily managed toolset...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Robotics, Microsoft Corp., ABB, ABB Robotics, Robots, Microsoft Development Tools, Emerging Technologies, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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- ABB Australia Meets Head Office Directive, Raises Productivity, and Cuts 5% From Local IS Costs
- When multinational power and automation technology group ABB issued a global mandate altering the way costs were charged within the business, it left the Australian team with a challenge of how to source a system that billed internal services on a per-user basis, rather than the traditional "allocation versus budget"...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., ABB, Microsoft Development Tools, .Net, Team Management, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Software
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- Software AG Develops Tamino Using Linux on zSeries by Compiling With Systems/C From DIGNUS
- Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, is Europe's largest provider of system software, offering leading-edge technology for data management and electronic business. Software AG saw that its software development environment was not meeting its needs. The software group at Software AG learned about Dignus and is now using the Dignus...
- Tags: IBM zSeries, Linux, Software AG, Data Management, Mainframes, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Management, Software
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- WORM_SOBER.AG
- WORM_SOBER.AG,http://ae.trendmicro-europe.com/consumer/vinfo/encyclopedia.php?LYstr=VMAINDATA&vNav=1&VName=WORM_SOBER.AG&highlight=WORM_SOBER.AGPlatform: Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003 The Network Admin guys at Work recieved about 600 emails beore they decided to set the spam filter, and this caused alot of predicated chaos.Check this out,Source: Trend Micro Security InformationKeep an eye out for it
- Tags: NETWORKING
- Discussion threads 2005-11-26
- Open-Source Linux Developer SuSE AG Saves IT Expenditures With Stable and Reliable Backup and Restores of Critical Data
- SuSE Linux AG of Nuremberg is one of the leading international suppliers of the Linux open-source operating system. SuSE AG didn't do without backups in the past and used software tailored to the Linux domain. With the increasing scope of security duties, the software began to show weaknesses. Instabilities became...
- Tags: Developer, Open Source, Information Technology, Backups
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- Automation Technology Leader Uses SAP Solution Manager to Help Support 20,000 SAP Users Across 85 Systems Worldwide
- When automation technology leader ABB set out to improve operations of its worldwide SAP systems, the company chose the SAP Solution Manager application management platform. The platform provides a service desk that helps ABB manage its worldwide support system for SAP users more efficiently, speeds up issue resolution, and reduces...
- Tags: Platform, Leader, SAP AG, Leadership, It Services, Management
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- LINZ AG Migrates Its Communication Servers to HP BladeSystem Servers
- With more than 2,600 employees, LINZ AG provides energy and infrastructure services for private households and businesses in the metropolitan area of Linz and Upper Austria, including power generation and distribution, gas and heat, water supply and waste disposal, public transportation and much more. In all of these areas Management...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Transportation, Servers, Hardware
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- Leader Implements Advanced Collaborative Commerce Network and Significantly Cuts Average Process Costs
- ABB provides power and automation technologies to utilities and manufacturing factories. ABB wanted to ensure that its manual processes could be updated so that its suppliers could buy materials quickly and easily. It also wanted to implement an infrastructure that could support collaborative planning, electronic transactions, and online reporting. Following...
- Tags: Network, Leader, Microsoft Corp., ABB, Enterprise Application, EAI, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Manufacturing, Software
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- German Insurance Company Cuts Operating Costs by a Third With Consolidated E-Mail Environment
- In the wake of a complex merger, Stuttgart-based financial group Wustenrot & Wurttembergische AG (W&W AG) found itself struggling with a disparate and convoluted IT infrastructure. An amalgam of Bausparkasse Wustenrot, Wurttembergische Versicherung, and the newly acquired Leonberger Bausparkasse, W&W AG needed to consolidate its IT and e-mail environment over...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Insurance, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Strategy, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
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- Garderos Case Study: AHG AG
- AHG AG is a medical rehabilitation company with over 2,500 employees in 33 hospitals and facilities, providing treatment to approximately 40,000 patients each year. Aiming to enhance its service offering in order to strengthen its competitive position, this Dusseldorf-based company was looking for a way to provide patients at its...
- Tags: Patient, AHG AG, Internet
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- ABB Case Study: Pfizer
- The Pfizer Safety Sciences groups is located across 7 sites around the world and undertake preclinical activities vital to the development and introduction of new drug products within the Pfizer group. During a FDA inspection, spreadsheets were sited as a significant compliance concern, and improvements were required against spreadsheet validation...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Spreadsheet, ABB, Pfizer Safety Sciences Group, Productivity, Federal Government, Government
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