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- Momentum Webcast: A Unified IT Management Solution for Mid-Sized Businesses (Level 100)
- This webcast unified IT management solution designed specifically for mid-sized businesses. This webcast overviews Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007, and to understand how it enables IT professionals to proactively manage their IT environments by simplifying and automating complex tasks from a single console. The attendee of this webcast will learn...
- Tags: IT Environment, IT Administration, Webcast, Information Technology, Midsize Business, Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
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- Dell Deploys Scalable IT Management Solutions to Support Global Technology Base
- With a worldwide IT infrastructure consisting of approximately 100,000 Windows-based computers and 13,500 servers, Dell needs scalable IT management solutions to keep its global business running smoothly. To meet that need, the company chose Microsoft System Center solutions, enabling Dell to manage its extensive IT infrastructure with minimal time and...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., IT Administration, Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management
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- Auto Component Manufacturer Upgrades Infrastructure, Reduces it administration
- L.G. Balakrishnan & Bros. LGB is a leading player in the Indian auto component industry, manufacturing power transmission parts. The company's outdated, heterogeneous IT infrastructure cost too much to maintain, and isolated systems did nothing to support employee communication across a geographically dispersed organization. LGB needed a robust, scalable infrastructure...
- Tags: IT Administration, Collaboration, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware
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- Manufacturer Simplifies IT Management to Tackle Tasks in Minutes, Not Hours
- Equipment manufacturer TOX Pressotechnik makes machines and tooling used in the automotive, appliance, and electronic industries. When employees at its U.S. arm began to send drawings back and forth by e-mail for customer approval, they quickly outgrew the message store of their local e-mail folders and had to store older...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications
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- Pharmaceutical Company Enhances Security and IT Management With New Directory Service
- Leading pharmaceutical company sanofi-aventis operates in 100 countries. For effective research and development, sanofi-aventis Science and Medical Affairs SMA conducts clinical trials involving large numbers of internal and external researchers. To improve collaboration, the company created an extranet portal for clinical information sharing. It deployed Active Directory Application Mode and...
- Tags: Security, IT Administration, Directory Service, Information Technology, Pharmaceutical Company, Extranet, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Networking, Internet
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- Leading Portuguese Bank Reduces IT Management Costs by 25 Per Cent
- Banco Espirito Santo is one of Portugal's leading private and business banks. During its expansion, the company acquired some complementary local companies. These historically worked with disparate IT systems, making it difficult to manage systems centrally or report on group-wide activities. As a result, the bank deployed a new IT...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Portuguese Bank, Banco Espirito Santo, Strategy, Management
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- SAM Program Helps Financial Services Firm Streamline IT Management and Reduce Costs
- In 2004, a European financial services company determined that its existing software inventory solution was not identifying all applications installed on employees' computers. In response, the company worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner PC-WARE to develop a comprehensive Software Asset Management program. Now, the company has reduced software costs, has...
- Tags: Software, IT Administration, Financial Service, Streamline, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Management, Finance
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- Small Business Webcast: Collaboration, Communications, and IT Management Tools in Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Level 100)
- In this webcast, the presenter describes how Microsoft Windows Small Business Server SBS 2003 R2 gives the user tools that can help the user take better care of customers, present a professional appearance, and manage customer relationships more effectively. SBS 2003 R2 includes the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 messaging solution....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, IT Administration, Collaboration, Information Technology, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, SBS 2003 R2, Microsoft Windows, Groupware, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Online Communications
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- Brasil Telecom Implements BSM Solutions From BMC to Increase IT Management and Monitoring Capabilities
- Understanding the value of IT to their core business services, Brasil Telecom turned to BMC to deliver Business Service Management BSM solutions that connect the company's data centers with central views for monitoring, management, notification, and automation. The BMC solutions not only support Brasil Telecom's present needs, but are well...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., IT Administration, Information Technology, Monitoring, It Management, It service Management
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- Unisys West Achieves 99 Percent System Availability and Reduces IT Management Costs by 50 Percent Using PATROL
- Unisys West was formed in September 2000 as a joint venture between the Bank of Western Australia BankWest and Unisys Australia. BMC helped Unisys West create a comprehensive system management solution to monitor its diverse IT environment and ensure the continuity and security of the company's systems. According to Unisys...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., IT Administration, Unisys Corp., Information Technology, It Management, It service Management
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- Healthcare Provider Boosts Security, Improves IT Management With New Operating System
- A provider of mental health services, Vanboeijen is required to safeguard residents' confidential health information. By upgrading to the Windows Vista operating system, Vanboeijen expects to enhance its IT security, as well as reduce total employee downtime by approximately 150 hours each month, due to Windows Vista updating capabilities that...
- Tags: Security, IT Administration, Information Technology, Operating System, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Oil Company Simplifies it administration, Saves Money With Switch to Microsoft
- Kerr-McGee operates oil and natural gas fields onshore in the U.S., the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, and China's Bohai Bay. The company's Applications Delivery group, part of the IT department, understands the benefits of deploying software from one source to many computers simultaneously. The existing systems-management product needed an upgrade...
- Tags: Software, IT Administration, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Systems Management, Kerr-McGee, It Services, Tools & Techniques, Network Administration, Management, Networking
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- Major European Carrier Enhances Management Decision Making and IT Management
- OJSC Rostelecom is Russia's national long-distance telecommunications operator. Historically, the company supported its activities with a range of disparate information systems. These were developed over time to address specific business functions from general accounting to project management. Lack of integration between systems made it difficult to access current management information...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Carrier, OJSC Rostelecom, Telephony, Strategy, Networking, Management
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- Conservation International Streamlines IT Management, Freeing Additional Resources for Core Mission
- Conservation International CI applies innovations in science, economics, policy, and community participation to protect Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity. The challenges were to reduce CI's IT management burden, improve the performance of and ensure around-the-clock availability of CI's IT systems and gain greater visibility of financial data....
- Tags: IT Administration, Oracle Corp., Financial, Information Technology, Conservation International, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management
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- Satyam Computer Services Improves Communication, Collaboration, Security, and IT Management
- Satyam Computer Services Limited Satyam is a leading global consulting and IT services company. It offers a wide range of solutions that meet customer business demands for many industry verticals and horizontals. Satyam also offers high-end consulting services to several world-class global corporations. Satyam's IT infrastructure is distributed across locations...
- Tags: Security, IT Administration, Collaboration, Information Technology, Satyam, Strategy, Management
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- Consumer Goods Company Improves Collaboration and Knowledge and IT Management
- Marico Limited wanted a solution to provide improvements in messaging and collaboration. Working with Microsoft Certified Partner Wipro, the company implemented a Microsoft environment. It used Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 to improve communications and share knowledge across the company. Company executives...
- Tags: IT Administration, Collaboration, Knowledge, Information Technology, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Consumer Goods Company, Marico Ltd., Groupware, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Office, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Office Suites, Management
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- Pfizer Centralizes IT Management, Reduces Costs With New Messaging Environment
- Pfizer, the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company, experienced rapid growth in a few short years when it merged with two other companies. That merger provided the company with an opportunity to upgrade the messaging and network environments of all three companies, consolidating them into one centralized, standardized global system. Pfizer...
- Tags: IT Administration, Pfizer Inc., Information Technology, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, E-mail Servers, Microsoft Windows 2000, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows
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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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- Manufacturer Saves Time and Reduces Costs With Simplified it administration
- Arrow Group Industries, a manufacturer of storage buildings, needed to reduce the complexity of its IT systems. The company was using outdated hardware running Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 and Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. The three-member IT staff spent most of its time reacting to problems and had...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Arrow Group, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Strategy, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Hardware
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- Nonprofit Group Centralizes IT Management; Saves More Than U.S.$671,000 Annually
- Bergische Diakonie Aprath BDA offers outreach and support services to elderly, disabled, and mentally ill patients. As a nonprofit organization, BDA operates on a tight budget and with a small IT department. However, the decentralized system architecture resulted in time-consuming, expensive IT support costs, with support personnel travelling to each...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Terminal Server, Terminal Services, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management
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