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Integrated Data Infrastructure Pays Off for Advance America, Cash Advance Centers, Inc.

Founded in 1997, Advance America, Cash Advance Centers, Inc. is the largest provider of payday cash advance services in the United States. The organization wanted to replace siloed, non-integrated data infrastructure to enable more rapid application deployment and expanded visibility of critical data. The company wanted to improve the availability...

Tags: Advance America Cash Advance Centers Inc., Oracle Corp., Data Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

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Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. Gains Enterprise-Class Reliability and Functionality With New Data Infrastructure

Copper State Bolt & Nut Co., founded in 1972, is a manufacturer and distributor of fasteners, power tools, construction equipment and related products. The company wanted to implement a cost-effective, yet feature-rich data infrastructure to support continued growth and new business applications and ensure IT scalability. They wanted to implement...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Data Infrastructure, Performance Management, Construction, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software

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Acquity Group, LLC Increases Competitive Advantage With Scalable, Reliable Data Infrastructure

Acquity Group is a leading provider of business and technology solutions designed to optimize business performance. The company wanted to meet customer Service Level Agreements SLA for the company's new software-on-demand offerings and increase competitive advantage through enhanced product offerings. The challenge was to ensure IT infrastructure scalability to accommodate...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Competitive Advantage, Scalability, Acquity Group, Service Level Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

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Managing an Internet data infrastructure: An interview with Bob Hagenau

Reconciling real-time inventory and billing information with your back-end ERP systems can create many obstacles. Acta's product development director Bob Hagenau offers advice on how to keep the data flowing.It is very easy for a small “gap” in the flow of information to quickly develop into a Himalayan-type crevasse. However,...

Tags: Web technology, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), E-business/E-commerce, Internet, Acta, Matthew Osborn, e-business, ERP

Technical articles 2000-04-14

Building Service Oriented Applications on Top of a Spatial Data Infrastructure - A Forest Fire Assessment Example

In this paper, the feasibility of using services offered by a Spatial Data Infrastructure as the basis for distributed service oriented geoprocessing. By developing a prototype it demonstrate that a Spatial Data Infrastructure facilitates rapid development of applications that solve real problems. The prototype provides users with a distributed application...

Tags: Application, Service, University Of Munster, Channel Management, Marketing

White papers 2006-04-11

Enetrix Enhances Performance, Increases Operational Efficiency With Integrated Data Infrastructure

Enetrix provides enterprise feedback management solutions that help customers identify and meet customer, employee, and partner needs; improve profits, customer satisfaction, and knowledge; and enhance decision-making. The company wanted to integrate and consolidate data collection to drive greater business intelligence. The challenge was to provide an efficient, scalable infrastructure to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Enetrix, Tools & Techniques, Application Servers, Strategy, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Databases, Management, Software, Marketing, Data Management

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Motivaction International B.V. Gains New Insight With Reliable and Scalable Data Infrastructure Solution

Motivaction International B.V. wanted to create a highly reliable and available data infrastructure to support the company's research initiatives and ensure scalability of the IT environment to accommodate future growth. The challenge was to extend existing IT investments by ensuring that solution works with Windows 2003 and .Net. Motivaction International...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-06-01

Caja Municipal de Ahorro y Credito de Arequipa Triples Daily Business Volume With Robust Data Infrastructure

Caja Municipal de Credito de Arequipa wanted to establish a robust, high-capacity data infrastructure to process banking transactions and support the company's growth and centralize and consolidate client information to give regional managers online access to updated information. The challenge was to eliminate manual procedures that led to unnecessary reprocessing...

Tags: Banking, Financial Services

Case studies 2009-05-01

GLOBALconect, LLC Expands Business With High-Performance Data Infrastructure

GLOBALconect, LLC delivers high-performance, fully managed, secure hosting services for law firms, government organizations, corporations, and insurance firms. The company wanted to ensure a highly scalable and secure data infrastructure for GLOBALconect's growing client base. The challenge was to deliver rapid search capabilities to customers and enable flexible security options...

Tags: Oracle Corp., High-performance, GLOBALconect, Leadership, Insurance, Databases, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Solutia Inc. Improves System Reliability and Availability With Advanced Data Infrastructure

Solutia is a market-leading performance materials and specialty chemicals company. Solutia wanted to create a highly available and scalable data infrastructure to support the company's manufacturing, distribution, and human resources processes. The challenge was to minimize IT downtime and steamline IT management. Solutia implemented Oracle Database and Oracle Real Applications...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Solutia Inc., Manufacturing, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-03-01

Natexis Banque Populaires Builds SWIFT Messaging and Data Infrastructure on Integrated Solution of Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica ContentMaster

Based in Paris, Natexis Banque Populaires is a leading financial institution focused on four cores lines of business: corporate and institutional banking, private equity and wealth management, banking technology services, and receivables management. The company wanted to rapidly implement an integrated data infrastructure to automate creation, transformation, and delivery of...

Tags: Informatica, Messaging, Natexis Banque Populaires, Banking, Financial Services

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University of Porto School of Engineering Builds Highly Scalable, Reliable Infrastructure on Novell SUSE Linux

With origins that date to the 18th century, Portugal's world-renowned University of Porto School of Engineering is one of the most respected engineering schools in Europe. The university wanted to securely manage information for more 30,000 students and 3,000 faculty across 13 campuses and develop a data infrastructure that is...

Tags: Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., Linux, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Blade Servers, Databases, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

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Property Condition Assessments, LLC Increases Efficiency and Boosts Productivity With Integrated Data Infrastructure

Property Condition Assessments, LLC PCA wanted to streamline its data collection process to coordinate and aggregate information received. The challenge was to increase capacity, productivity, and manageability of IT architecture to allow for rapid growth and provide an efficient, scalable infrastructure to meet future demands. PCA centralized its infrastructure with...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Infrastructure, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Perspectives on Grid: Application Programming and Extreme-Scale Data Infrastructure Support in WebSphere Extended Deployment - A Closer Look at Application Patterns

IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment Extended Deployment is infrastructure software for application servers, which many associated with the ability to optimize and lower costs of an application infrastructure, prioritize resources for use by the most important applications, and improve availability. It does this via virtualization and intelligent workload management. But WebSphere...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, Programming, IBM Corp., Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-06-12

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Speeds Medical Research With Advanced Data Warehouse

In the quest for more effective cancer treatments, researchers face a fundamental challenge: how to make sense of mountains of scientific and clinical data and find clues buried in them. The Human Genome Project, an unprecedented program that resulted in a map of the human genome and opened up limitless...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Medical Research, Biotechnology

Case studies 2009-02-01

Gallup, Inc. Ensures Reliable, Rapid Access to Critical Operational and Business Data

Gallup, Inc. wanted to provide a standard infrastructural solution that enables the presentation of research - such as industry-specific employee and customer engagement data - to clients and creates a data infrastructure that is scalable, reliable, secure, and accessible to multiple applications without need for a proprietary access layer. The...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Database Management, Databases, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Hardware

Case studies 2009-04-01

Groupama Phoenix Accelerates Access to Customer Data by 60% and Optimizes IT System

Groupama Phoenix is one of Greece's leading insurance companies, distributing a diverse product line through a network of 350 agents, 930 brokers, and a team of 80 insurance advisors. Groupama Phoenix wanted to implement a stable, highly available data infrastructure with the ability to seamlessly scale to support future business...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Phoenix Technologies, Information Technology, Insurance, Financial Planning, Strategy, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-03-01

3n (National Notification Network) Uses Clustered Data Center Infrastructure to Lower IT Costs and Ensure 24x7 Availability

3n National Notification Network is a privately held company founded in 2002. 3n wanted to enable 24x7 availability of the company's notification system and avoid an enterprise-wide system outage in the event of the failure of a single database server. They wanted to create a data infrastructure that will cost-effectively...

Tags: Data Center, Oracle Corp., Network, Information Technology, Outage, Manufacturing, Data Centers, Databases, Storage, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Software

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Chicago Stock Exchange Reduces IT Management Burden and Improves Service With New Data Infrastructure

The Chicago Stock Exchange CHX provides an auction market for the purchase and sale of equity securities. CHX wanted to increase capacity and manageability of legacy IT investments, while minimizing the risk of downtime and provide a flexible, scalable infrastructure to meet future demands. The company wanted to reduce their...

Tags: IT Administration, Oracle Corp., Stock, Information Technology, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software

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Empresa Electrica Ambato Regional Centro Norte S.A. Integrates Data and Accelerates Bill Processing

Empresa Electrica Ambato Regional Centro Norte S.A. wanted to consolidate dispersed systems into a robust, scalable, reliable, high-availability IT infrastructure to ensure that the company can continue to operate and created a robust database to manage millions of monthly client records and histories and allow access to up-to-date information. The...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-05-01