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- Printek Case Study: Ford Motor Company
- Ford Motor selected the FormsPro as the printer of choice for its Common Manufacturing Management Systems CMMS project, one of the largest computer projects Ford has ever undertaken. Ford has installed over 300 of the FormsPro 4000 Series at its 59 component manufacturing plants in North America and internationally to,...
- Tags: Printek, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals
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- Improving Customer Satisfaction Through Global Content Management
- Ford Motor Company is the world's second largest manufacturer of cars and trucks, with operations in more than 40 countries, 114 manufacturing plants, and more than 350,000 employees. Ford Motor Company needed to help improve product quality and customer satisfaction by ensuring that content published by widely dispersed contributors to...
- Tags: Customer Satisfaction, EMC Corp., Content Management, Ford Motor Co., Documentum ECM Platform, Records Management, Managerial Accounting, Product Marketing, Manufacturing, Storage, Finance, Marketing, Hardware
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- Essentials Series: eRoom Project Collaboration Success at Ford
- This webcast describes what it takes to deploy, support and maintain collaboration as an enterprise service. The webcast will provide a high-level overview of Ford Motor Company's deployment and utilization of Documentum eRoom, as well as lessons learned and best practices for driving its adoption in any size company.
- Tags: eRoom, Collaboration, Webcast, EMC Corp., Ford Motor Co., Storage, Groupware, Digital Media, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- Peoplesoft Gives Ford the Ability to Operate Globally as One Company, With Accounting, Analysis, GAAP Reporting, and Statutory Reporting on One System
- Ford Motor Company was running a disparate combination of local and regional accounting systems that created architectural and administrative barriers to the smooth operation of Ford's global finances. Ford's systems required a high level of maintenance expense, and were challenging to update in a global environment. Ford chose to upgrade...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Accounting, Analysis, Ford Motor Co., Operational Accounting, Financial Services, GAAP, Finance, Financial Accounting
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- Stratacache Case Study: Ford Motor Company
- Ford Motor Company is the world's second largest automotive company with headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, USA and 13,200 dealers in 130 markets worldwide. The Ford Motor Company is using Stratacache's reliable multicast software to deliver key credit, inventory, and warranty software updates to more than 6,000 North American dealerships, reducing...
- Tags: Stratacache, Ford Motor Co., Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Management
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- eRoom Enables Ford to Drive Into New Technology
- With sales of over $170 billion and 345,000 employees worldwide, Ford Motor Company is firmly entrenched as one of the world's largest manufacturers of cars and trucks, with approximately seven million vehicles sold globally each year. The complexities of conducting business on multiple continents, in multiple languages and across numerous...
- Tags: eRoom, Ford Motor Co., Storage, Hardware
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- Factiva Case Study: Ford Motor Company
- Ford Motor Company is a household name on a global scale. Ford's Research Library and Information Services, or RLIS (pronounced 'Arlis') is the heart of Ford's research community. Ford is a significant, long-standing Factiva client. Until recently, the Research Library had been using Dow Jones Interactive, one of Factiva's legacy...
- Tags: Factiva, Ford Motor Co.
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- Ford Cuts Energy Costs Using Real-Time Consumption Data
- Ford Motor Company manufactures and distributes automobiles in 200 markets across six continents. The company wanted to enable automated and manual collection of detailed transactional data from the factory's many energy meters and enable near real-time analysis of energy consumption. It also wanted to enable accurate forecasting of energy use...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Analysis, Ford Motor Co., Sales Force Management, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Oracle Case Study: Ford Motor Company
- The problem faced by Ford Motor Company was running a disparate combination of local and regional accounting systems that created architectural and administrative barriers to the smooth operation of Ford's global nuances. Ford needed a new, consolidated solution to standardize and streamline global financial business processes and achieve a single...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Ford Motor Co., Financial Accounting, Finance
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- Dell Revs Up Automotive Sales at Ford
- Ford Motor Company of Canada is one automotive company that is on the leading edge of DMS deployment. The i-Connect team planned to eliminate old hardware and supply each dealership with a minimum of one new desktop and server. Ford Canada sent a request for quote RFQ to hardware companies...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dealership, Sales, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, Desktops, Hardware
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- Access to Reliable Management Information Puts Ford Financial in the Driving Seat
- Sound business decisions depend on timely access to the right management information. With 19 European locations Ford Financial Europe has a vast amount of data and needed a system that could help it design, create and manage critical management information regarding the sale of automotive finance contracts to support strategic...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Ford Motor Co., Management Information, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Databases, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Management, Finance, Software, Data Management, Marketing
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- Grid Technology Case Study
- When it comes to business relationships, the one between Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Ford Motor Company has always been solid. Like other companies in the automotive industry, Ford was asking its IT departments company-wide to cut costs, while still ensuring the company's standards of quality remained high. Sun's sales and...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Ford Motor Co., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- Ford Otosan Builds on NetApp SAN and NAS Solution for Faultless Disaster Recovery in an Earthquake Zone
- Ford Otosan is a joint venture between Ford Motor Company, the highly respected global automotive manufacturer, and Koc Holding, Turkey's leading conglomerate. The company wanted to support explosive growth and ensure uninterrupted availability. The company also wanted to ensure DR in an earthquake zone and streamline infrastructure management. A thorough...
- Tags: NAS, SAN, Disaster Recovery, Ford Motor Co., NetApp, Ford Otosan, Storage, Hardware
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- Disaster-Proofing a Leading Turkish Automotive Manufacturer With Data Protection Solution From Symantec and Gantek Teknoloji
- Seeking to lower the total cost of ownership managing its storage environment while helping to ensure business continuity in the face of a system failure or natural disaster, Ford Otosan turned to Symantec for assistance. Symantec and Symantec Business Partner Gantek Teknoloji worked with the Ford Otosan IT team to...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Ford Motor Co., Disaster Recovery, Security, Data Management
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- Avaya Case Study: Sutton Ford
- Sutton Ford is a full service automobile dealership with 3 locations in the Chicago suburbs Matteson and Midlothian, IL. The company wanted a new solution that would centralize the communications support for both dealerships, and capture valuable marketing data from incoming and outgoing call patterns. Sutton Ford also hoped to...
- Tags: Avaya Inc., Ford Motor Co., Marketing Research, VOIP, Marketing, Telecommunications, Networking
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- Ford Motor Company's Java Center of Excellence
- Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford Motor Company is a Fortune 5 company with 2002 total sales and revenue of $163 billion. Its well-oiled business processes are driven by the latest information technology, particularly by Web-based applications. However, when it came to developing those applications, Ford wasn't best in class. By standardizing its...
- Tags: Ford Motor Co., J2Ee, Java, Programming Languages, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software
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- Mustang GTR Screensaver (zip)
- The Ford Mustang is an automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company, originally based on the Ford Falcon compact. The first production Mustang rolled off the assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan on March 9, 1964.
- Tags: Ford Motor Co., Ford Mustang
- Software downloads 2007-12-28
- Jaguar Various Screensaver (zip)
- Jaguar Cars Limited is a luxury car manufacturer, originally based at Browns Lane, Coventry, England but now at Whitley, Coventry. The company has been owned by Ford since 1989 and currently forms a part of Ford's Premier Automotive Group with Volvo and Land Rover. It contains over 20 high-resolution photos,...
- Tags: Screensaver, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2007-12-27
- Ford F150 Screensaver 1 (zip)
- The F-Series is a series of full-size pickup trucks from Ford Motor Company sold for over 5 decades. The most popular variant of the F-Series is the F-150. It has been the best-selling vehicle in the United States for 23 years and the best-selling truck for 30 years. A great...
- Tags: Ford Motor Co., F-Series
- Software downloads 2007-12-18
- Ford Mustang Cobra Screensaver (zip)
- The Ford SVT Mustang Cobra is a sports car built by Ford since 1993. It is generally the highest performance version of the Mustang built by Ford, sitting in the model range above the Mustang GT model.
- Tags: Screensaver, Ford Motor Co., Ford SVT Mustang Cobra, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2007-12-17
