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- Lexmark Proactively Initiates Solutions for Burlington Coat Factory
- Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a retailer that had more than 300 locations throughout the U.S. as of June 2002. Burlington Coat Factory was looking for ways to reduce its total cost of printing, improve service, reduce help desk calls and improve business efficiencies throughout the company. They chose...
- Tags: Burlington Coat Factory, Printing, Lexmark International Inc., Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
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- Large U.S. Retailer Runs Its Enterprise on SUSE LINUX to Decrease Administrative Costs and Reduce Hardware Costs Tenfold
- Burlington Coat Factory is a national retail chain with 341 stores in 42 states nationwide. They needed to replace its large-scale servers that were obsolete, complex and difficult to manage. Burlington was also dissatisfied with support from its existing Linux distribution provider and began searching for a company committed to...
- Tags: Burlington, Novell Inc., TenFold, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Burlington Coat Factory, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
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- Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Centralizes Identity Management, Increases Security
- Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retail chain, offering current, high quality designer merchandise at discounted prices. Burlington Coat Factory wanted to manage identities of all employee desktop users, users of server-based applications, and intranet portal users. The company wanted to strengthen IT security while decreasing...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Burlington Coat Factory, Identity Management, Portals, Authentication/Encryption, LDAP, Web Technology, Help Desk, Strategy, Internet, Security, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Management
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- Novell Case Study: Burlington Coat Factory
- Burlington Coat Factory is a national retail chain offering high quality, designer merchandise at up to 60 percent less than other department store prices. The company has been running its enterprise on Linux for several years, replacing the "Green screens" in its retail stores with Web-based applications. But the company...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Burlington Coat Factory, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
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- Server Clustering Is Tailor-Made for Burlington Coat Factory
- Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a U.S. retail chain offering high-quality merchandise at prices up to 60 percent less than competitors. A retailer needs to migrate 40 Oracle-based applications from a proprietary UNIX platform to a lower-cost, highly scalable, available, flexible and manageable IT infrastructure using Intel architecture-based servers...
- Tags: PolyServe Inc., Clustering, Burlington Coat Factory, Server Cluster, Intel Architecture, Servers, Hardware
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- Burlington Coat Factory Lowers Costs, Boosts Reliability by Consolidating Systems on Grid
- Since the 1990s, Burlington Coat Factory has made technological innovation a pivotal element of its business strategy for containing costs and boosting efficiency - an approach that has earned it widespread respect and recognition. As an innovator, the company has been quick to embrace beneficial new technologies. In one of...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Burlington Coat Factory, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Databases, Enterprise Software, It service Management, Networking, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- Centralizing UNIX Authentication and User Provisioning With Oracle Internet Directory
- Burlington Coat Factory BCF is a major garment retailer, based in the Northeast. BCF uses Linux workstations for conducting their core business with employees and customers. They use Star Office for their word processing needs and Oracle ERP and other applications also run on Linux and some Unix variants. There...
- Tags: Word-processing, User Provisioning, Oracle Corp., Internet, Burlington Coat Factory, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, StarOffice, LDAP, Open Source, Software, Office Suites, Directory Services, Enterprise Software
- White papers 2005-09-01
Additional Resources
- The only company in the world using Linux?
- The Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse is often cited as a top Linux success story. But lots of other enterprises have adopted Linux. TechRepublic is looking for other successful Linux implementations, and you can help by joining the discussion.Last week, the Wall Street Journal’s William Bulkeley wrote an interesting piece on...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Bob Artner, Linux
- Technical articles 2001-04-24
- The Town of Burlington, Massachusetts Turns to Siemens HiPath
- Named by Inc. Magazine in the 1990s as the second best place in America to locate a business, the town of Burlington, Massachusetts is a community of approximately 23,000 people located in the northeastern part of the state, just 13 miles from Boston. Burlington decided to upgrade their telephone system...
- Tags: Burlington, Siemens AG, Telecommunications
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- Holland America Enjoys Clear Sailing With Blue Coat
- Holland America Line, a leader in the premium cruise industry, was using a well-known product to intercept viruses and control access to potentially dangerous sites. The company was experiencing problems with performance, availability, and maintenance costs because an ineffective web-security solution. The company needed a more efficient and effective strategy...
- Tags: Clear, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Holland America, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Site Development, Viruses And Worms, Strategy, Databases, Security, Internet, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Mustang Controls Spyware at the Gateway and Reaps Huge Benefit
- Mustang Engineering, a Wood Group company, is an independent services provider to the global oil, gas and chemical industries. Mustang Engineering needed more efficient and effective strategy to prevent spyware from entering its networks, reduce helpdesk requirements, and improve network performance. The company deployed Blue Coat WebFilter in conjunction with...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., Benefit, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Help Desk, Call Centers, Viruses And Worms, Security, It Operations
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- Flash Menu Factory (exe)
- Flash Menu Factory is a new software application that allows you to create stylish and impressive navigation for your Web site. Flash Menu Factory requires zero Flash knowledge. Creating a flash menu is a matter of defining your text and the corresponding links, the rest is job of FMF. Flash...
- Tags: Software, Menu, Flash Menu Factory, Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Management, Internet
- Software downloads 2006-04-06
- Best Practices for Model Development With IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
- This paper is a collection of best practices, tips, and suggestions from the IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory development team. It is a work-in-progress and will be updated periodically. A section on Selecting Builders provides some guidance in navigating the Builder palette. The intended audience is developers using or expecting to...
- Tags: Portlet, IBM WebSphere, Best Practice, IBM Corp., Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-06-01
- MSDN Webcast: Russ and Joe Developer Show With Stan Schultes: The Web Service Software Factory Using ASMX (Level 100)
- This webcast explores the Web Services Software Factory also known as the Service Factory, a technology toolkit from the Microsoft patterns & practices group that focuses on building the server side of a Web services infrastructure. The Service Factory takes advantage of several modules in the Microsoft Enterprise Library 2.0...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Developer Network, Web, Webcast, Web Service, Microsoft Corp., Service Factory, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
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- State of Alabama Picks Blue Coat Proxy Appliances to Protect Web Infrastructure
- The State of Alabama wanted to regulate Web traffic and address productivity concerns. With a diverse population of up to 35,000 online users, the solution had to provide very granular control without significantly increasing in-house maintenance or support requirements. The State of Alabama deployed two Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances...
- Tags: Network, Alabama, Web Infrastructure, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Networking
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- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Trailer (asp)
- Watch the trailer for the film classic staring everyone's favorite chocolate maker. Charlie Bucket is a poor boy who lives in the shadow of a giant chocolate factory. He wins a candy bar contest and is given a tour of the marvelous factory.
- Tags: Factory, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
- Software downloads 2005-04-01
- City of Burlington Manages Growth With Activity-Based Costing
- Located west of Toronto, the city of Burlington is a growing municipality with a long-term vision to manage growth and development in a way that maintains a strong network of residential neighborhoods, a diverse economic base, a sound infrastructure, a fiscally stable metropolis and an environmentally sensitive community. Land development...
- Tags: Burlington, Municipality, SAS Institute, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Pricing, Finance, Marketing
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- Haunted Factory Audio Game (exe)
- Haunted Factory is a high quality audio game, fully enabling fun also to blind people. In the Haunted Factory you play the role of a hard-working worker in some factory. Your job is to put packets on an assembly line and group them according to some specific rules. This work...
- Tags: Job, Factory, Audio, Packet, Haunted Factory, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2006-07-24
- Content Filtering With Integrated Blue Coat WebFilter for ProxySG
- Countless Internet-based distractions compete for employee time in the workplace. Non-work related activities including online games, Internet shopping, stock trading, Internet radio, personal Web mail and MP3 downloads lure users away from company work and expose the company to spyware and other viral threats. Now, more that ever, risks and...
- Tags: Content Filtering, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Channel Management, Games, Content Management, Marketing, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Avaya Case Study: Burlington County Public Safety Department
- Providing county-wide public safety services is never an easy job, but in Burlington County, New Jersey, the sheer size of the county makes emergency communications even more challenging. The county wanted a solution that would enable it to remotely activate call-outs by phone or directly from the desktop - initiating...
- Tags: County, Avaya Inc., Business Structures, Recruitment & Selection, Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
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