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Acuity Brands Lighting: Why Oracle Business Intelligence

This webcast explains how Acuity Brands Lighting simplified it's reporting with a global, single instance with Oracle Business Intelligence.

Tags: Brand, Oracle Corp., Oracle Business Intelligence, Acuity Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

Webcasts

ACUITY Leads the Insurance Industry in Helping Agents Work Efficiently

A mutual insurance company, ACUITY provides policies to more than 170,000 commercial and personal customers in 11 Midwestern states. ACUITY foresaw an opportunity to increase premiums and agent productivity by making it faster and easier for agents to access information. To solve this ACUITY created direct company-to-company communication processes-connecting agents'...

Tags: Agent, Acuity Corp., Real Estate, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

Case studies

Acuity Brands Lighting Retools Operations for Added Performance, Reliability, and Scalability

Acuity Brands Lighting, a business unit of Acuity Brands, Inc., is North America's largest provider of indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures for new construction and renovation markets. The company wanted to enhance scalability for business and manufacturing applications. The challenge was to improve reliability and performance for mission-critical applications and...

Tags: Brand, Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Acuity Corp., Blade Servers, Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Data Management

Case studies

Introducing Lucent's Acuity Architecture

This paper discusses a major shift in network traffic that is driving the need for service-aware, next generation network architecture that can deliver on-demand services over a flexible converged network. The paper explains the need for network-based service intelligence with control points distributed at the edge of the network, enabling...

Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Network, Acuity Corp., Networking

White papers 2006-08-01

An Ontology-Based Architecture for Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology

Adaptive work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) is an ontology-based approach to modeling and implementing intelligent user interfaces built on top of Jena. Its potential benefits and underlying technologies are explored in the context of decision support systems. This paper introduces the Adaptive work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) software architecture and...

Tags: General Electric Co., Ontology, Acuity Corp., Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Research & Development, Management, Business Operations

White papers 2006-04-05

Additional Resources

Verisign Webex

Topic: Acuity Solutions UA Overview _ Wed Date: Every 1 week on Monday, Wednesday, from Wednesday, July 13, 2005 to no end date Time: 10:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York) Meeting number: 331 317 802 Meeting password: acuity Please click the following link to view...

Tags: craig.gilliam@..., security, VeriSign Inc., WebEx Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-07-19

Stellent Case Study: Georgia System Operations Corp.

Recently, Oglethorpe Power Corp., a $1 billion power company, faced a daunting information management challenge. To prepare for deregulation and improve operational efficiencies, the corporation split into three different companies - Oglethorpe Power Corp., Georgia Transmission Corp. and Georgia System Operations Corp. (GSOC) - and the GSOC IT department was...

Tags: Stellent, Content Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Case studies

Smiling Bubbles (exe)

The path to perfection has no borders, so as the new bubble game. Smiling Bubbles are not only chatting and laughing, entertaining you but also give you a chance to improve your skills - they are clever and cunning you see. At first you will need some time and attention...

Tags: Strategy, Games, Management, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-06-14

Manufacturing Systems Case Study: GAL Manufacturing Corp

GAL Manufacturing Corp. operates from a 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility in the shadow of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. The family-run business designs and manufactures the most complete line of elevator products available today.

Tags: Oracle Corp., GAL Manufacturing Corp., Manufacturing

White papers 2006-09-20

CNAME Browsing

Hello, I am trying to use CNAME for fault tolerance. If we loose a server and workstations are mapped to an alias we just bring the new server up and update the CNAME without having to remap workstations.Scenario:I have a server called corp.mydomain.com, I would like to use the alias...

Tags: CNAME, CNAME Browsing, Sean Ross, windows

Q&A 2005-06-14

Novell Case Study: CIBC Development Corporation

CIBC Development Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, is one of Canada's leading commercial property owners, managers and investors. In early 1998, CIBC Development Corp. began making changes to its technology infrastructure. They needed a system with integrated hardware support, one that would support...

Tags: Novell Inc., Commercial Property, Financial Services, Networking

Case studies

Retail Stores/Corp Office networking - How to...

OK, I plan on getting all my retail stores on VPN to my central location(corp office), use only internal DNS servers and Proxy servers to allow/dissallow websites and network traffic.and build an intranet site to share documentation, policies, news etc etc... internally.anyone else doing something similar?also, all my it staff...

Tags: NETWORKING, andresk@...

Discussion threads 2005-06-03

Paradise Pet Salon (exe)

This is no day at the spa! It's you versus Pet Corp in this fast paced fur flying good time. Your pet spa is competing against the evil Pet Corp. You'll turn a small corner spa into a huge success with fast and hard work. But it's not all about...

Tags: Salon, Fur

Software downloads 2007-09-07

An Innovative Pattern for Manufacturing Success

Dependable Pattern Works is one of the largest pattern shops in the Northwest part of the United States. The company's challenge was to remain competitive in the face of fierce global competition. They deployed automate design-through-manufacturing process using NX software with extend NX to shop floor to let machine operators...

Tags: Siemens AG, Manufacturing, Dependable Pattern Works, Product Marketing, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Finance, Management

Case studies 2007-10-01

Citrix ICA connections. How to set default login page to your domain

I have a problem with Citrix ICA connections whereby when I attempt to make a connection to the published desktop the default login environment is set to the "Workstation (This computer)" rather than our companies Domain. In order to fix it I have to use the drop down box...

Tags: Citrix ICA, Citrix Systems Inc., jhussey@..., networking, windows

Discussion threads 2006-10-23

QUALCOMM Case Study: Synovus Mortgage Corp.

Synovus Mortgage Corp. provides residential mortgage lending for retail, alternative and correspondent loans. Synovus needed its loan originators to be able to interface with its information systems in real time, anywhere their customers might be. Synovus' IT division worked to determine the best wireless implementation. They chose Sprint who provided...

Tags: Qualcomm Inc., Synovus Mortgage Corp., Mortgages, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Finance, Capital Structures

Case studies

Firebird

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981. The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C...

Tags: RDBMS, Firebird Community, Firebird Project, C/C++, Databases, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2007-11-13

How to enable Mozilla via regedit

Hi,I have a company laptop that restricts changes to Internet Options->LAN Settings (grayed out). I have recently gained admin access to the computer to install Mozilla and is still NOT able to access any public website when not connecting to the corp network. In fact when I connect to my...

Tags: Notebooks, NETWORKING, jcg225@..., LAN Settings, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-22

Microsoft wins patent lawsuit over boot-up technology

A U.S. District Court jury in Texas has ruled that Microsoft did not infringe on patents claimed by Computer Acceleration Corp., a subsidiary of patent warehousing firm Acacia Research Corp. Excerpt from Network World: The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...

Tags: Patent, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-18

Jerr-Dan Was Content With 2D CAD Until People Saw How Easy and Beneficial 3D Design Could Be

Jerr-Dan Corp. makes a product one doesn't want to see up close. The company is a leading manufacturer of what's known in its industry as "towing and recovery equipment," more familiarly known as rollbacks and wreckers. Jerr-Dan Corp. wanted to use I-deas migration to NX as an opportunity to investigate...

Tags: 3D, 2D, Siemens AG, CAD, Software

Case studies 2007-02-01