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- HIC Upgrades 4500 PCs, Looks at Linux
- The Health Insurance Commission HIC began a technology review covering its outsourcing agreement with IBM GSA and an investigation into Linux as a way to reduce operating costs. HIC information services manager said hardware infrastructure, from desktop to mainframe, was outsourced to IBM GSA few years ago and it is...
- Tags: PC, IBM Corp., International Data Group, Linux, Purchasing & Procurement, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Outsourcing, Mainframes, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Human Resources, Corporate Insurance, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Servers, Hardware
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- Cardiovascular Information System (CVIS): 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- Founded in 1941, the Ochsner Clinic Foundation has grown into a large, not-for-profit, multi-specialty healthcare organization, treating over 250,000 patients each year and employing over 6,000 staff including 600 physicians. Given its growth projections, Ochsner realized it needed a better way to manage patient data. To that end, a group...
- Tags: Information System, Patient, Computerworld, International Data Group
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- Collaborative Teaching and Learning: Bridging the Distance - 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- A veteran professor with a decades-long classroom teaching habit used technology to change nearly everything she did. Her students were everywhere, from Los Angeles to Little Rock to Hong Kong. Teaching and learning happened all the time through both synchronous shared and archived online experiences. Learning and satisfaction compared favorably...
- Tags: Computerworld, International Data Group
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- Strategic National Stockpile Inventory System, for Ohio Department of Health: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- The Ohio Department of Health has responded to the Center for Disease Control's program of being able to respond to an unforeseen state-wide event by developing a series of stand-alone warehouse management system applications. In the scenario where a large scale event has occurred, the CDC shall immediately deploy to...
- Tags: Warehouse Management System, Health Care, Computerworld, International Data Group, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Benefits, Software, Human Resources
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- Guanzhou Airport Central Integration Information Management System: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- Guangdong Province in South China was fast emerging as an important business and industrial hub. At the same time the old airport in the region's capital, Guangzhou, was rapidly becoming outdated. To keep pace with progress in the region and the country's overall development, the Chinese Government set upon an...
- Tags: Information Management, Computerworld, International Data Group, Integration, It Services, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Improving Patient Care With Enterprise Systems Technology: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- As one of the primary healthcare facilities serving Silicon Valley, El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., has long been on the leading edge of hospital informatics. Spurred by new state seismic construction standards, El Camino Hospital launched a massive construction and expansion program in 2003, including the creation of...
- Tags: Patient, Computerworld, International Data Group, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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- Customer Information Infrastructure: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- At a time when no commercial products or methodology existed, Acxiom Corporation created a grid- computing infrastructure and a specialized grid-enabled processing architecture and strategy, Customer Information Infrastructure CII, to meet the increasing information management and time-to-market needs of the company and its clients. The grid now consists of more...
- Tags: Acxiom Corp., Computerworld, International Data Group, Data Management, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Storage, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Hardware
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- Panel Discussion: Back From the Brink - Lessons Learned on the Front Lines of Disaster
- Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Less than a month later, Hurricane Rita hit, then Hurricane Wilma. Flood waters ravaged data centers, employees went missing, entire communities were evacuated. In this webcast, panelists offer a candid view of where and how their IT and business continuity plans worked, what they...
- Tags: International Data Group, It Services, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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- A Benefits Payment Provider Builds Its Business on 100% Uptime
- Evolution Benefits sells a prepaid benefits card, called Benny, for employers to offer as part of their benefits programs. When employees sign up for a Flexible Spending Account or some other tax-favored benefit, they can use Benny to pay for eligible out-of-pocket and other expenses. The card payment system debits...
- Tags: Payment, Uptime, International Data Group, Evolution Benefits, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance
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- Virgin Entertainment Group, North America: Gaining Advantage From Microsoft Software Assurance
- The Virgin Entertainment Group VEG operates one of the largest media product retail chains in the world, with 20 Virgin Megastores in the United States and North America, as well as stores in Europe and Japan. Virgin Entertainment Group, North America, purchased Software Assurance SA to help reduce costs, make...
- Tags: Virgin Entertainment, Microsoft Corp., Software Assurance, North America, International Data Group, Virgin Entertainment Group
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- hPLUS: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- In 1994 Habib Bank AG Zurich HBZ wrote and developed a unique language and banking application called hPLUS. Based on a tiny virtual machine and a Sybase database, this powerful concept allowed the bank to scale its applications on thin clients. Six months after that, hPLUS became the world's first...
- Tags: Computerworld, International Data Group, Banking, Financial Services
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- Ohio Job Insurance (OJI): 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services ODJFS set a goal to transform the way it offered unemployment benefits to citizens. The agency wished to move from manual and semi-automated claims processing that used outdated technologies to a state of the art approach utilizing web technologies. In addition, the...
- Tags: Agency, Computerworld, International Data Group, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware Upgrade, Marketing, Hardware
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- IT Project Initiation Flow: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- The Michigan Department of Transportation's IT Project Initiation Flow is an innovative customized methodology using formal yet flexible project management practices to ensure the repeatable and predictable success of IT projects. Although based on time-tested planning activities used for highway construction operations, the original IT Project Initiation Flow Call for...
- Tags: Information Technology, Computerworld, International Data Group, Strategy, Management
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- Linux Powers Nation's Largest Satellite Network
- The Rural Link project by NSW.net was initiated in 2000 when the State Library of NSW approached the federal government about connecting country libraries in New South Wales NSW to the Internet via satellite due to the expense of ISDN. After experimenting with two-way satellite communication, the decision was made...
- Tags: Network, Satellite, International Data Group, Network Technology, Linux, Networking, Operating Systems, Software
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- Strategic Sourcing: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- The New York City Department of Education DOE, the largest public school system in the United States, serves more than one million students in 1,200 schools. Pressed to find savings - with the caveat that those savings could not adversely affect the level of services provided- the New York City...
- Tags: Sourcing, Savings, Computerworld, International Data Group, Sourcing Team, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
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- Cross Platform Solution for China's Ministry of Education: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- The Ministry of Education in Mianzhu City, Sichuan Province, China needed to give the entire local community the means to communicate electronically on education matters, as well as online and offline mobile access to real-time data from the Education Bureau on course materials, student attendance, and academic performance. Intel Solution...
- Tags: Education, China, Computerworld, International Data Group
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- Web-Based HR Implementation Helps Save Taxpayer Dollars, Improve Service: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
- As Orange County's primary transportation agency, OCTA provides bus and commuter rail service to the county's more than three million residents. To improve service to employees while reducing operating costs, OCTA implemented Web-based technology to automate its HR processes. This enabled OCTA to save taxpayers' dollars by streamlining business processes...
- Tags: Web, Human Resources, Computerworld, International Data Group, Transportation
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- Switch to Thin Clients Boosts Builder's Productivity
- Privately held construction and building group BGC has ousted half of its fleet of Wintel PCs in favour of thin clients running Solaris in order to "Go forward" with service delivery to the company's employees. BGC's IT director said the main benefit in moving to a thin-client architecture is a...
- Tags: Thin Client, International Data Group, BGC, Thin Clients, Hardware
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- The Business Impact of Concord Communications' eHealth Software at Unisys
- As a worldwide information technology and services company, Unisys has more than 37,000 employees operating in over 100 countries. For Unisys, it is absolutely critical, since the infrastructure supports all the firm's internal operations as well as its entire Web activity, including numerous business-to-business clients. The infrastructure must not only...
- Tags: Unisys Corp., Concord Communications Inc., International Data Group, E-health, B2B, Healthcare, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
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- Making the Right Call: Scotiabank Builds Customer Success Through Avaya Contact Centre Technology
- One of North America's leading financial institutions and Canada's most international bank, Scotiabank serves customers from around the world and recognizes that outstanding customer service is key to driving business success. Scotiabank understood that agents within its contact centres needed to have multiple proficiencies in order to provide high-quality service...
- Tags: Avaya Inc., International Data Group, Scotiabank, Real Estate, Banking, Business Operations, Financial Services
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