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City Improves Network Agility and Cuts Complexity
January 3, 2013 12:00am PST
California's economy has placed extra-ordinary pressure on local governments to tighten their budgets, streamline and reduce costs wherever possible, without affecting services. Their challenges...
Provided by: Cisco
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SpaceTime Media: Making Use of Modern Conferencing Solutions, Including Presentation Sharing, Email Connected Meeting Tools and Remote Training Capabilities
July 10, 2012 12:00am PDT
As a small company operating in an often volatile economy, SpaceTime places increased emphasis on client retention and prospecting. As a result, SpaceTime needed to make use of modern conferencing...
Provided by: InterCall
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Portuguese Navy: Portuguese Navy Improves Vessel Preparation With Project Management Solution
March 19, 2012 12:00am PDT
The navy is essential in helping the Portuguese to use the sea in their interests, namely in protecting Portugal's maritime border, which harbors potential threats to its sovereignty, economy, and...
Provided by: Microsoft
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China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation: Chinese Energy Utility Builds BI Solution to Improve Information Sharing and Efficiency
March 6, 2012 12:00am PST
China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation (CGN Group) is tasked with developing clean energy sources to fuel China's booming economy. As the utility grew, its data stores multiplied into...
Provided by: Microsoft
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Government of Albania: Albania Standardizes Government IT With Cloud Services, Lifts Productivity 70 Percent
February 10, 2012 12:00am PST
The ministries and agencies of the Albanian government were making great strides in their use of technology - but that became a problem. A growing number of decentralized applications ran on a...
Provided by: Microsoft
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Global Media Company Boosts Agility
December 1, 2011 12:00am PST
This global media company in the United States provides the infrastructure that powers the video economy. This global media company in the United States provides the infrastructure that powers the...
Provided by: IBM
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Magna International Drives IT Efficiency With Private Cloud Built on NetApp
October 14, 2011 12:00am PDT
A diversified global automotive supplier, Magna International designs, develops, and manufactures technologically advanced automotive systems, assemblies, modules, and components. Their challenge...
Provided by: NetApp
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Call Center Services Provider Guarantees 99.999 Percent Uptime Assurance for Its SaaS Platform
July 13, 2011 12:00am PDT
The economy has accelerated many companies' willingness to outsource applications to control costs and gain flexibility. Despite perceived risks, even critical applications are becoming candidates...
Provided by: Stratus Technologies
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Flow International Corporation: Riverbed-Citrix Combination Accelerates Access to Central ERP System
July 11, 2011 12:00am PDT
Flow International Corporation provides technologically advanced, environmentally sound solutions to the manufacturing and industrial cleaning markets. Flow International Corporation needed to...
Provided by: Riverbed Technology
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Bahrain Adopts ICT Shared Services to Enhance Government Efficiency and Productivity
April 5, 2011 12:00am PDT
The Kingdom of Bahrain is a business hub that builds its success on openness and forward thinking. Their challenges are need for standardization of ICT, need to increase efficiency, functionality,...
Provided by: Cisco Systems
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Zurich Financial Services Embraces SOA To Improve Business
January 1, 2011 12:00am PST
Zurich Financial Services (Zurich) is a global insurance-based financial services provider with offices in 170 countries. Zurich faces a challenge shared by many established insurers: how to keep...
Provided by: Computer Sciences Corporation
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CSC Introduces Multi-Currency Processing To Global Cards Market
January 1, 2011 12:00am PST
With the new global economy spawned by the Internet, merchants are no longer limited to doing business within their country's borders. A new feature of CSC's CAMS II Card & Merchant System...
Provided by: Computer Sciences Corporation
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Manufacturing Firm Sees Benefit of Communications Investment in Slower Economy
November 17, 2010 12:00am PST
Ohio-based Stoneridge designs and produces highly engineered electrical systems and components that are used in automobiles, commercial trucks, and agricultural vehicles. The company depends on...
Provided by: Microsoft
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Queensland Motorways: Breaks up Traffic Congestion in Fast-Growing Brisbane
October 11, 2010 12:00am PDT
Leveraging advanced sensing technology, Queensland Motorways' free-flow tolling has cut the average commute by 15 minutes, or greater than 50%. This not only improves the quality of life for...
Provided by: IBM
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Manufacturer Slashes Costs by $500,000 Annually by Moving Email Into the Cloud
October 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
Sensata got serious about cost-cutting when a tough economy hit its target industries hard in 2008. As part of a fresh look at how it delivered IT services, the IT staff decided to move key...
Provided by: Microsoft
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Valence Health Eases Clinical Integration Pains With SAS Analytics
October 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
When Valence Health co-founder Todd Stockard left the benefits and actuarial group of a large consulting firm more than a decade ago, he left on a mission. Along with co-founder Phil Kamp, his aim...
Provided by: SAS Institute
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Engineering Firm Speeds Service Requests With Automated Forms Processing
September 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
To support growth in a tight economy, Downer New Zealand, an Australian engineering infrastructure firm, merged two divisions. The organization inherited an inefficient, paper-based...
Provided by: Microsoft
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Construction Firm Enhances Efficiency, Keeping Costs Low and Innovation High
September 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
Trimo, one of the foremost European developers of construction solutions for steel buildings, wanted to boost its competitive advantage by helping its employees work more efficiently. The company...
Provided by: Microsoft
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IT service management in an uncertain economy: Financial Services podcast
August 26, 2010 12:00am PDT
This 9 minute podcast provides an overview of the results from a global survey recently conducted by IBM to identify the impact of economic uncertainty on the financial services industry. The...
Provided by: IBM
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CH2M HILL: Engineering Firm Virtualizes Field Servers, Saves $3.2 Million, With Switch to Hyper-V
August 24, 2010 12:00am PDT
Engineering firm CH2M HILL was an early user of virtualization software to lower server costs. However, when the global economy began to slump in 2007, the company sought a more cost-effective...
Provided by: Microsoft
