TechRepublic Resources
- China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited Achieves standardization
- With assets of more than 50 billion yuan (US$6 billion) and more than 35,000 employees, China Eastern Airlines Group, which includes China Eastern Airline Co., Ltd (CEA), is a leading force in the Chinese aviation market. The challenge were to standardize and enhance the consistency of CEA's employee education programs...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Training, Consumer Electronics Association, Standardization, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Case studies
- standardization Enables Collaboration for Improved Learning
- The Holmen School District in Holmen, Wisconsin, supported their diverse computer network using several types of computers and more than one operating system. These inconsistencies and the decentralized platform made exchanging and opening attachments and even simple e-mail correspondence difficult for the district's students, teachers and staff. This obstacle posed...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Collaboration, TCO, Teacher, Standardization, Roi/Tco, E-mail, Productivity, Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications
- Case studies
- Computer System standardization Enriches Student Education
- The computers at Trinity Primary School in Marysville, Ohio were a mixture of various brand name and generic models, all obtained through private donations. In addition, they were all legacy systems, at least five years old and pre-Intel Pentium. Similarly, the process capabilities of approximately half of the computers did...
- Tags: Education, Dell Computer Corp., Computer, Standardization, Computer System Standardization, Productivity
- Case studies
- standardization: Key to Mass Deployment
- Over the past ten years, the access network has evolved in the three dimensions that are fundamental to the successful offering of services: high data speed, high data quality and high data sustainability. In standardization terms, these are the data, control and management planes, the evolving requirements of which have...
- Tags: Alcatel, Standardization, Strategic Planning, Databases, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers
- Xansa Cuts Cost Through standardization
- Xansa plc provides business and technology consulting, IT implementation, IT outsourcing, and business process outsourcing services to public and private organizations in the United Kingdom. The company wanted to replace existing patchwork of stand-alone Oracle and third party software used to manage financial accounting with a single, fully integrated platform,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, BPO, Xansa Plc., Standardization, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Operational Planning, Project Management, Financial Accounting, It Services, Tools & Techniques, Financial Management, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It service Management, Finance, Management, Financial Planning
- Case studies
- Governance Helps in Balancing Flexibility With the Need for Efficiency and standardization
- A financial firm with a strong position in real estate and mortgage services in Western Europe was struggling to align and coordinate its IT efforts for the relatively autonomous business units. Quint assisted the information managers from both corporate and a business unit level, and the management of the internal...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Unit, Standardization, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- FirstHealth of the Carolinas Cures Information Growing Pains With standardization on NetApp
- FirstHealth of the Carolinas is a private, nongovernmental, not-for-profit health care network serving 15 counties in the mid-Carolinas. The challenge was to support 100% annual data growth and 650 applications while controlling fast-rising management costs and improving information services to health-care stakeholders. Address regulations for privacy and security, and implement...
- Tags: Health Care, NetApp, Standardization, Storage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Aon Corporation Achieves Global Enterprise Customer Relationship Management standardization With Salesforce.com
- Aon Corporation, a leading insurance broker and risk management consulting firm, has standardized its enterprise customer relationship management on salesforce.com. With 47,000 employees working in Aon's 500 offices in more than 120 countries, Salesforce enables Aon to have a consistent view of customers and vendors across business units so the...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Aon Corp., CRM, Standardization, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies
- State of Illinois Saves $10.5 Million With Messaging and Desktop standardization
- With a directive to increase efficiency and reduce costs, the State of Illinois embarked on an ambitious process to improve the overall effectiveness of the state government. In the IT realm, improving efficiency meant standardizing the state's three decentralized messaging systems and moving to a single desktop software solution to...
- Tags: Illinois, Desktop Software, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Standardization, Groupware, Desktops, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Publisher Gains Stability and Cost Efficiency Through IT standardization and Consolidation
- Though it is known as a pioneering publishing company, Forbes had an IT infrastructure that was out of date. The company wrestled with aging hardware and software, including client desktops running the Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems and file and e-mail servers running Novell NetWare 4.11 with...
- Tags: Information Technology, Consolidation, Forbes, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Intel Xeon, Standardization, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Servers, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies
- Getronics Enables Server Consolidation, Desktop standardization, Lower TCO Via Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP
- Postkantoren BV, which runs the Netherlands' postal service, was continuing to manage its infrastructure on the Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 platform. But that software - state of the art when it was first deployed - was not intended to address today's security issues, or to take advantage of today's...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Getronics, Microsoft Windows XP, Server Consolidation, TCO, Microsoft Corp., Standardization, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Grid standardization
- This webcast shows how adopting grid technologies can be done with zero disruption and fast return on investment.
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Standardization, Roi/Tco, Strategic Planning, Digital Media, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- IDC: Cutting Costs Through standardization
- This webcast explains how Oracle 10g standardizes systems to reduce staff-related costs while remaining secure and reliable.
- Tags: Oracle Corp., International Data Corp., Standardization, Strategic Planning, Application Servers, Digital Media, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Consolidation, standardization on HP Systems, Oracle Software Pays Off for Community College
- Lansing Community College (LCC) serves some 18,000 students in south central Michigan with nearly 150 degree and certificate programs. Lansing Community College (LCC) needed to replace disparate, unconnected applications with integrated software, improve reporting capabilities, decrease cost of system maintenance and establish a campus-wide portal and collaboration applications. They implemented...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Consolidation, Standardization, Lansing Community College, Portals, Application Servers, Web Technology, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Servers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Worldwide standardization of IT Support for Sales and Marketing With mySAP CRM
- The company wanted to develop standards for every relevant CRM process throughout company's global organization. Siemens AG, headquartered in Berlin and Munich, Germany, is using the best practices of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) template based on SAP solutions to replace its previous heterogeneous CRM application landscape with a group-wide...
- Tags: mySAP, Information Technology, SAP AG, Sales, mySAP CRM, CRM, Standardization, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- Braskem: Invests in Intel Processor-Based Hardware Consolidation and standardization to Achieve Excellence in the Petrochemical Industry
- Braskem was created in 2002 as a result of the merger of six different companies. After the merging process was concluded, the main challenge for the Information System area was the consolidation, standardization and modernization of the system architectures and technology infrastructures previously implemented in the six different companies. The...
- Tags: Consolidation, Intel Corp., Standardization, Strategic Planning, Processors, Strategy, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
- KSB Drives for standardization & Better Customer Relationship Management
- KSB is a leading manufacturer of pumps and valves for the industrial equipment in the market. The company faced not only low profit margins, slowing sales and fierce price competition, but antiquated IT systems, too. Working with Accenture, the company developed a new operational strategy encompassing completely reengineered sales processes...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., CRM, Standardization, KSB, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Supply Chain, Sales, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Electronic Document Management Speeds Search and Retrieval, While Improving Quality and standardization
- Verbund Management Services is the engineering and consulting company of Verbund, Austria's leading electricity company. The company's document management needs were diverse, encompassing contracts and other legal documents, invoices, delivery notifications, CAD drawings, personnel records, reports, correspondence, and general corporate documents. The company also wanted the EDMS to support Web...
- Tags: EMC Corp., Documentum, Standardization, Verbund Management Services, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, CAD, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies
- Transforming the Data Center Through standardization
- Data centers today are at the breaking point - complexity has gone out of control, driving costs up and jeopardizing service levels. That's why Symantec recommends companies standardize on a single layer of infrastructure software. Data centers today are at the breaking point - complexity has gone out of control,...
- Tags: Data Center, Standardization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-04
- How Cisco IT Achieves Consolidation and standardization in the Data Center
- The need to manage and build isolated islands for each application cost Cisco IT too much in resources and flexibility, and a solution was required. Underutilization of resources is a major factor in high TCO. Like many enterprises, Cisco is challenged to control the costs and improve the inefficiencies of...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Consolidation, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Standardization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-12-18
