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Case Studies

Banco Sabadell Looks to Standardise Its IT Platform to Increase Competitive Advantage

April 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

Banco Sabadell wanted to update and standardised its IT platform in order to add a competitive advantage to its business. HP provided a Managed Print Service solution with the some of the most...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Case Studies

Austrian Construction Company Simplifies IT Management With Standardised Technology

March 5, 2008 12:00am PST

PORR AG was using a range of technologies from different manufacturers that lacked compatibility and made it difficult to manage the company's IT infrastructure. A standardised solution from one...

Provided by: Dell

White Papers

Deep" Integration Of 19th Century Grain Markets: Coordination And Standardisation In A Global Value Chain

July 1, 2010 12:00am PDT

This paper explores the dynamics underlying integration of the international grain markets of the nineteenth century. It demonstrates that 'Deep' integration implied changes to market structures,...

Provided by: London School of Economics and Political Science

Case Studies

Standardising Computing Solutions for Every European Employee

May 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

The UniCredit Group has developed and grown through a series of mergers and acquisitions that have positioned it as one of Europe's leading providers of financial services. However, this process...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Case Studies

Turkcell Standardises on Portal Solution Saving 50 Per Cent in Developer Time

April 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri (Turkcell), the leading communication and technology company in Turkey, wanted a standardised enterprise portal solution to improve customer service and staff...

Provided by: Microsoft

White Papers

Modélisation des processus métiers et standardisation

November 14, 2008 12:00am PST

Sans nier l'importance des progrès accomplis, ce livre blanc se propose de faire un état des lieux sur les travaux de standardisation de la modélisation des processus métiers afin d'en dresser un...

Provided by: MEGA

Case Studies

Standardised Infrastructure Cuts Maintenance Time by 75 Per Cent

July 21, 2008 12:00am PDT

BGN wanted to standardise its infrastructure so that it could simplify maintenance and integrate new technologies quickly and easily. It also wanted to ensure that its IT environment was...

Provided by: Dell

Case Studies

Manufacturing Firm Cuts Helpdesk Calls From 200 to Two by Desktop Standardisation

June 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

AfriSam is one of the largest construction material manufacturers in Southern Africa. Its administrative staff found it difficult to share files between departments due to disparity in versions of...

Provided by: Microsoft

Case Studies

Labour Organisation Improves Member Services With Standardised Operating System

March 28, 2008 12:00am PDT

AKNO, the Federal Chamber of Labour for Lower Austria, took advantage of a planned IT refresh in 2007 to migrate to the Windows Vista operating system and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. For the...

Provided by: Microsoft Tips

White Papers

Standardisation and Licensing of Microsoft's Office Open XML File Formats

January 1, 2008 12:00am PST

eXtensible Markup Language ('XML') is a standard for describing content data in a manner that facilitates the sharing of such content across different systems and applications1. Over the last 10...

Provided by: Baker & McKenzie

Case Studies

EMI Music Enhances Global Digital Transaction Management by Standardising on SAP R/3

October 12, 2006 12:00am PDT

To prosper in the digital world, global music company EMI Music is undertaking a major overhaul of its sales and billings model to reflect market evolution. Historically, EMI Music's local...

Provided by: Microsoft

Blog Posts

Around the Grounds: WebSocket becomes RFC 6455, Geelong gets $100K

December 11, 2011 3:56pm PST

One of the cornerstone technologies of the next generation of websites, WebSockets, has become standardised by the IETF, and the Victorian State Government has stumped up for ICT funding in Geelong.

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Articles

Befriend APML -- the new markup for social profiles

January 16, 2008 10:11am PST

What began as a discussion two years ago during a power blackout has led to Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML), which is an attempt to create a standardised and open format for consumers...

White Papers

Mobile Wireless Communications Past and Future Trends

July 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

Many mobile and wireless communications systems are currently in operation, and work is ongoing to standardise the systems of the future. The major international standardisation bodies for mobile...

Provided by: Roke Manor Research

Case Studies

A Large Insurer Uses TCS Expertise to Standardize Its IT Environment

June 20, 2011 12:00am PDT

TCS' client is the member of a global insurance group that is a leading organisation in financial protection and wealth management wished to migrate the policy administration system of an acquired...

Provided by: Tata Consultancy Services

Case Studies

Transformation Programme Enables Next Step In HMRC's IT Strategy

February 11, 2011 12:00am PST

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) IT infrastructure originally supported the separate Inland Revenue and HM Customs & Excise organisations. When the departments merged to become HMRC, joining up the IT...

Provided by: Capgemini

Case Studies

A UK-Based Media Company Transforms Its Finance and Accounting (F&A) Operations in Collaboration With TCS

October 28, 2010 12:00am PDT

The media company embarked on a program to simplify and standardise its back office services to implement their corporate strategy as well as support a culture which embodied the company values....

Provided by: Tata Consultancy Services

Case Studies

Fujitsu Case Study: The Body Shop International

January 1, 2010 12:00am PST

The Body Shop International is a values driven retailer of high quality skin and body care products. In order to increase operational efficiency and reduce the total cost of ownership, The Body...

Provided by: Fujitsu

Case Studies

Software-Plus-Services Helps Increase Margins and Deliver Greater Value to Customers

November 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

Outsourcing business Steria wanted to standardise processes and provide clients with a transparent view of performance improvements. It selected business process content management software...

Provided by: Microsoft

White Papers

A Process Ontology for Business Intelligence

April 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

This paper presents oXPDL, a process interchange ontology based on the standardised XML Process Definition Language (XPDL). XPDL was introduced to allow process model exchange between information...

Provided by: Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)