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Case Studies
XM Tunes in Consumer Interest With Massive In-Game Advertising
Dec 2009
XM Radio wished to position as the leader in satellite radio with the young male core-influencer audience, driving brand awareness and consumer interest. To master these challenges Massive...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Massive Gets Tinactin Off the Sidelines and Into the Game
Dec 2009
Tinactin needed to build consideration, and perception for Tinactin's anti-fungal product as the best and most powerful medicine for athlete's foot. To master these challenges Massive designed and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Massive In-Game Ads Catapult Favorability for Fox's Jumper DVD
Dec 2009
Fox objective was to promote the DVD release for the blockbuster movie Jumper to an audience of young male movie enthusiasts to increase awareness of the DVD release and drive purchase intent. To...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Priceline.com Soars Above the Competition With Bing
Sep 2008
The W Hotel, a subsidiary brand of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc., teamed with Microsoft Advertising to conduct a study on cross-channel branding. Microsoft Advertising and the W...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Bing Confirms Significant ROI From Massive In-Game Advertising in a Search for New Users
Apr 2010
Microsoft launched the Bing decision engine in June 2009, along with a heavy promotional campaign covering almost all forms of traditional media, including TV and online advertising. Bing wanted...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Mazda UK Makes Inroads With Men
Apr 2008
As a leading international car manufacturer, Mazda produces one in every five sports cars sold worldwide. With eight of ten prospective car buyers researching online, Mazda needed a creative...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Nivea Captures User Data With Mobile Phone Campaign
Apr 2008
As the world's biggest personal care brand, Nivea Visage UK offers products for the entire family. Nivea needed to boost the readership of its online magazine Fun, Young and Independent (FYI). The...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Search Ads Lower Costs for CampusBooks.com
Jan 2008
Founded in 1998, Campusbooks.com is a leading textbook comparison shopping web site that serves over a million students per year. In July 2007, Campusbooks.com needed to drive traffic and sales to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Campaign Optimization Helps Global Forex Trading Increase Conversion Rate by Over 300 Percent
Jan 2008
Global Forex Trading (GFT) is a leading online currency dealer (Also known as forex dealer). GFT wanted to increase its CTR and brand exposure on Live Search. To master this challenge GFT...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Quick-Service Restaurant Delivers to Consumers Through Xbox LIVE
Feb 2010
Every day over 130 million people eat at Quick-Service Restaurants (QSR) s. With over 200,000 restaurants to choose from, the QSR space is highly competitive. To break out from the crowd and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Bing Delivers Fruitful Conversions for Gourmet Retailer
Mar 2010
While retailers suffer through the recession, specialty gift merchants are feeling even greater pain as customers cut back on discretionary spending. Savvy gourmet gift retailers are turning to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Multiple Channels Increase Allstate Brand Metrics
Sep 2008
Allstate wanted to determine the incremental brand lift a search or display campaign would receive when running with other online channels. To determine what effect cross-channel branding would...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Bing Is Music to Instrument Retailers' Ears
Mar 2010
With competition growing fiercer in the music retail space, Music Destock needed to find a way to drive more drummers, guitarists, and other musicians to its bargain-oriented website. With one of...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Poshcuffs Drives Conversions With Bing
Dec 2009
As an internet start-up, Poshcuffs offers an impressive variety of options for every budget, from oval gold-plated cufflinks decorated with an onyx inset to novelty brushed steel cufflinks...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Smilebox Partners With Microsoft Advertising to Drive ROI Through Bing
Dec 2009
Enter Smilebox, which is emerging as a leader in this fast-growth market. Smilebox needs constant growth to stay ahead of aggressive, more established competitors. The company relies heavily on...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Thousands of Subscribers Joined Toyota's World Via Windows Live
Jan 2010
Toyota Argentina is a leading company in the country's automobile industry. The company employs 3,000 people and is well known in the nation for its strong commitment to quality, its...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Sony Leverages Microsoft Advertising's Custom Solutions and Technology to Promote Angels and Demons
Sep 2009
On May 15th, fans poured into theaters all over the world to experience Sony Pictures' Angels & Demons, the motion picture adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling novel. In the movie, Harvard...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Adidas Scores With Gaming Campaign
Aug 2009
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the brand, adidas sought a way to distribute content and messaging related to its celebrity endorsed clothing and footwear collections. It needed a social...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
LBC - Transforming Into a Multi-Service Company
Jan 2011
Incorporated in the 1950s as a brokerage & air cargo service provider, LBC had been evolving into a variety of organizational transformations to catch up with current market trends. A part of its...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
On the Enactability of Business Protocols
Apr 2008
Protocols specifying business interactions among autonomous parties enable reuse and promote interoperability. A protocol is specified from a global viewpoint, but enacted in a distributed manner...
Provided by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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White Papers
CRN - Big Sales to Smaller Businesses - Aug 7th 2009
Aug 2009
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) turn to VARs to help them implement the IT applications on which their businesses depend. Year on year, this becomes more onerous because these...
Provided by Quocirca
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White Papers
Deriving Value in Digital Media Networks
May 2009
This paper presents a framework for the analyzing revenue distribution in the delivery of digital content such as music, movies, games, books, and news. In such content delivery networks, there...
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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White Papers
A Ubiquitous Care-Support Service Based on Agent-Oriented Multiple-Context Coordination
Sep 2007
This paper presents a gentle system for supervising care-support services that fulfill users' actual requirements based on their physical locations and statuses of system components in ubiquitous...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Rollout Delivery Team Comparison for Large Multi-Site Technology Deployments
Jan 2011
This paper is designed to provide an understanding of the different scenarios that can be applied when considering the fundamentals utilized for a technology rollout system. The three technology...
Provided by Concert Technologies
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White Papers
Applications of Stable Distributions in Time Series Analysis, Computer Sciences and Financial Markets
Jun 2009
In this paper, first the authors introduce the stable distribution, stable process and theirs characteristics. The á -stable distribution family has received great interest in the last decade due...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
The Case for Byzantine Fault Detection
Jan 2011
Distributed systems are subject to a variety of faults and attacks. In this paper, the authors consider general (Byzantine) faults, i.e. a faulty node may exhibit arbitrary behavior. In...
Provided by Rice University
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Case Studies
Nigerian Bank Transforms Customer Service With Enhanced Communications
May 2008
Diamond Bank is a strong financial services institution with an effective presence in its home market, which Need to support business growth while reducing costs with desire to improve customer...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Financial Services Company Accelerates Telework
Feb 2011
SNS REAAL Headquartered in Utrecht faces challenge to improve work-life balance with increase business continuity and minimize real estate cost. The organization found its solution in enabled...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Cisco IT Case Study
Apr 2009
Cisco IT has a very large global unified communications deployment. Their challenge is to monitoring the large multi-site, multi-cluster network and helping ensure that reliability and service...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Luxoft Helps Risk Management Advisory (RMA) at Deutsche Bank Move in the Right Direction With COMPAS
Dec 2010
The Risk Management Advisory (RMA) group at Deutsche Bank wanted to develop an innovative loan origination system. Their challenge is to develop and launch an enhanced web-based loan origination...
Provided by LUXOFT
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Case Studies
Commercial Mortgages Origination System
Feb 2009
Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) Group Division of a leading global investment bank. Faces the challenge to integrate separate departments into world wide system, to speed up loan processing,...
Provided by LUXOFT
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White Papers
Inferring the Composition of a Trader Population in a Financial Market
Jun 2007
There has been an explosion in the number of models proposed for understanding and interpreting the dynamics of financial markets. Broadly speaking, all such models can be classified into two...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
Interface Groups and Financial Transfer Architectures
Jul 2007
Analytic execution architectures have been proposed by the same authors as a means to conceptualize the cooperation between heterogeneous collectives of components such as programs, threads,...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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White Papers
A Channel Portfolio Optimization Framework for Trading in a Spectrum Secondary Market
Feb 2010
State-of-the-art spectrum auctions are designed under a primary market paradigm to conduct spectrum trading between legacy owners and large cognitive service providers. In the previous work, the...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Robit: An Extensible Auction-Based Market Platform for Challenged Environments
Jul 2010
Open and competitive marketplaces, like those enabled by the internet, bring enormous value to consumers while fostering innovation and growth across a wide variety of businesses. Electronic...
Provided by University of Michigan
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Case Studies
A Large Aluminum Producer Partners With TCS to Gain IT Support at a Competitive Price
May 2011
TCS' client, a leading global producer of primary and fabricated aluminum, recognized that cost containment and maintaining profitability were key to staying competitive. The company hence decided...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Case Studies
KPN Transforms Its Approach to Direct Marketing
Dec 2010
KPN is one of Europe's leading telecommunications and ICT services companies. KPN used IBM SPSS predictive analytics to create propensity models for more than 30 key products. These models are...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
5-Minute Sales Meetings
Jan 2011
This new one-pager by sales strategist and author Jill Konrath explores four essential steps to creating an irresistible five-minute sales meeting.
Provided by Citrix Online
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Case Studies
Focusing on Streamlined Project and Portfolio Management With IBM Rational Focal Point
Apr 2011
The city's Department of Finance has a broad array of responsibilities, from overseeing financial and urban planning to managing real estate development and promoting business. Those duties are...
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
Office 365 Jump Start (06): Exchange Online Overview for IT Pros
Jun 2011
The speaker joins Adam Carter (Bomb) to help IT Pros truly understand what Exchange Online is and why it's such a compelling approach. She outlines features such as Anywhere Access, Protection and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
JM Family Improves Customer Service and Employee Productivity
Apr 2010
JM Family improves process efficiency and accuracy to realize approximately $202,000 in annual projected savings and eliminate annual printing of 168,000 pages when it implements IBM software with...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Why and How of Design for Manufacturability Review Automation
Jun 2009
'Design For Manufacturability' (DFM) is a methodology that involves designing with an intent to minimize the cost of production and time-to-market, without compromising on the quality of the...
Provided by Geometric
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White Papers
Application of Lean in Product and Manufacturing Engineering
Jan 2010
Shortening product development lead time, while reducing the cost and increasing reliability, is a perpetual challenge of engineering. This, coupled with changing consumer needs, doesn't make...
Provided by Geometric
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Case Studies
Duke Energy Brasil Gains Competitive Advantage in Customer Relationship Processes
Mar 2010
Duke Energy Brasil wanted to monitor sales contracts to improve relationships with industrial clients and minimize errors in managing client relationships and improve financial data processing....
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation Cuts Financial Consolidation Time Across 234 Group Companies
Mar 2010
FUJIFILM Holdings wanted to provide the Tokyo headquarters with consolidated visibility into global business performance, eliminating self-management by company or by individual Business Division...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Telco Reduces IT Incidents by Nearly 95 Percent, Optimizes IT With Premier Support
Mar 2010
After its inception in 2004, Nedjma, the Algerian arm of Wataniya Telecom needed a way to support the growing complexity of its IT environment as the company moved forward strategically to gain...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Conquering Fear: Moving Forward Through Technology
Mar 2010
Even though the Einstein quote is well known, far too often one goes about the daily business doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. Many companies don't realize that...
Provided by Datex
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Whitepapers
Using Process and Service Models to Help Transform Business Processes in Financial Services Organizations
Nov 2007
Financial services organizations faced with increasing competitive pressures are looking for innovative approaches to leverage their strategic assets. Many companies are looking to implement...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Unlock Your Profit Potential: The Acorn-IBM Cognos Solution
Mar 2009
Financial service institutions are under constant pressure to increase profitability. Yet delivering profits can be undermined by a simple fact: very few organizations have complete and accurate...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Finance Perspective on Procurement
Feb 2010
Supply chains are never static. And the supply chain itself is just one link in a chain of business processes that must work together smoothly for organizations to succeed. If one key component...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Metrics-Based Sales Productivity - Delivering Dividends for Forward Thinking Sales Organizations
Mar 2010
For organizations who have invested millions building sales automation systems, a new era of sales productivity and performance management has finally arrived. New Sales Performance Management...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
KCOM Makes Significant Savings on IT Operating Costs With Services Agreement
Mar 2010
Telecommunications and systems integration specialist KCOM Group, a nationwide business headquartered in Kingston-upon-Hull in the United Kingdom (U.K.), needed cost-effective technical support in...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
SJ AB Boosts Customer Satisfaction by 47% With Loyalty Program and Improved Marketing Analysis
Feb 2010
SJ AB wanted to increase the company's competitive edge before 2010 when the passenger transport market is deregulated and improve company knowledge of its customers to optimize product marketing...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Atlantic Forwarding Cuts Report Generation Time From Days to Seconds With New Financials System
Feb 2010
Atlantic Forwarding Group wanted to replace local financials systems with an integrated platform to manage budgeting and multicurrency transactions, as well as consolidate data across different...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Breakthrough: University of Wisconsin Credit Union Supports Growth Via Improved Performance and Flexibility
Aug 2008
For more than 70 years, the University of Wisconsin Credit Union (UWCU) has been helping members meet their money management goals UWCU wanted to promote financial growth while accelerating the...
Provided by Unisys
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Webcasts
Powering Business Via Transformational Technology
Apr 2009
The presenter of this webcast steps through the products, services and technologies that IBM offers as a solutions partner to the financial services market.
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Fast Track Your Financial Close
Mar 2010
The convergence of stricter financial regulations and a challenging global economic environment is forcing large companies to do more with fewer resources as they seek to accurately report their...
Provided by Runbook
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Case Studies
Automaker Looks to Web Site for Record Online Sales
Oct 2009
Economy cars account for about 60 percent of all vehicles sold in South America. This focus on value has made the region an ideal market for Web-based dealers. To maintain its competitive...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Redapt Uses HP Renew Program to Win Customers
Nov 2009
Redapt Systems, Inc., an HP reseller based in Redmond, Washington, looks for ways to help customers keep technology costs down while meeting their specifications for bandwidth, performance, and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
State IT Department Unifies Agencies, Revamps Processes and Enhances Service
Sep 2009
The State of Michigan created the Michigan Department of Information Technology (DIT) to streamline and centralize IT throughout its executive branch. The state envisioned a world-class IT...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Hardware Supplier Locks Up New Software Solution With Help From Microsoft Financing
Jun 2008
Founded in the 1970s to build weatherproof locks for spare tires, Hampton Products International Corp. has grown by nearly 700 percent over the past decade alone. When the resulting stress on its...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
CASE STUDY: Leading Oracle Partner Ignites Channel Sales With Ci Pipeline From Harte-Hanks Market Intelligence
Oct 2009
Arrow ECS was faced with a critical business issue. Sales cycles were getting longer, the volume of leads was shrinking and the cost of providing leads was on the rise. At the same time, Arrow ECS...
Provided by Harte-Hanks
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White Papers
Progressive or Predictive Dialers - They Both Have Their Place
Nov 2009
There are four primary applications for investing in automated dialing devices: sales calls to new customers, pro-active customer care, cross-selling or up-selling to existing customers, and...
Provided by Callfinity
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White Papers
CORE Frameworks: LivePerson (chat) Integration
Oct 2009
LivePerson is an awarding-winning live chat service with a proven record in helping companies increase sales and improve customer service. Using this complete customer intelligence solution is...
Provided by Itransition
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Case Studies
Medical Group Uses Reporting Framework to Enhance Care and Control Costs
Feb 2010
Providing healthcare to more than 500,000 patients each year, HealthCare Partners Medical Group (HCP) employs or contracts with thousands of physicians and specialists. To provide support...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Gruppo Biesse S.p.A. Increases Efficiency and Reliability for Statutory and Administrative Accounting
Feb 2010
Gruppo Biesse S.p.A. wanted to implement an information system tool to collect and process accounting data for management purposes and for compliance with new corporate governance regulations and...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Pattern Recognition Techniques Applied to Evaluation Engineering Problem
Nov 2009
The purpose of this paper is to present a Pattern Recognition methodology composed by Multivariate Statistical Analysis techniques, in order to build a Multiple Linear Regression statistical model...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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White Papers
Ontological Engineering Process for Computerized System Subject Areas
Apr 2009
Ontological engineering consists in design and development of ontology (specific type of knowledge base). It requires professional skills in knowledge engineering from developers - from knowledge...
Provided by Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University
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White Papers
Equipment Compatibility Problems in Complex Engineering Systems
Feb 2009
In this work the author has considered basic problems of equipment compatibility in complex engineering systems. By the way of concrete example, the paper is touching upon the situation which is...
Provided by Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University
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White Papers
Unified Model of Interaction: Use Cases and Scenarios Engineering
Dec 2008
Scenarios and use cases have been used interchangeably in several works meaning partial descriptions. This paper suggests a requirement engineering process that composes (merge) use...
Provided by University Mohammed V Souissi
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Case Studies
University of Pennsylvania Health System Cuts Budgeting and Planning Time by 25%
Jan 2010
University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) wanted to control costs, optimize staffing, project accurate revenues, and oversee capital expansion for three hospitals, two outpatient medical...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Capgemini Streamlines Support and Improves Response Times for Oracle Customers
Jan 2010
Capgemini wanted to improve service levels and customer support response times for more than 50 customers with Oracle implementations across the United Kingdom (UK) and enable a team of 180...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Western Power Gains More Control Over Revenue, Improves Customer Relations
Dec 2009
Western Power was an integrated network provider and retailer that produced and transported electricity and charged consumers, using an in-house developed system, until April 2006 when the company...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Passion for Purchasing
Dec 2009
A couple of years ago purchasing was just a black box for many organizations. The board somehow understood that procurement is somewhat important, due to its direct influence on the bottom line...
Provided by IBX
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Case Studies
S-OIL Reduces Paper Use by More Than 10,000 Kilograms Annually, Wins Eco-Enterprise Award
Nov 2009
S-OIL wanted to implement a performance management system that would align individual and department goals to corporate objectives and reduce reliance on paper-based processes to conduct its oil...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
NLB Tuzlanska Banka Boosts Performance of Retail and Corporate Platform by 30%
Nov 2009
NLB Tuzlanska banka wanted to ensure continued resilience, performance, and scalability of the Bank's IT infrastructure, which serves as the foundation for all client-facing and back-office retail...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Hedge Funds and Anti-Money Laundering
Oct 2009
A combination of secrecy, weak regulation, and rapid proliferation make hedge funds a very attractive vehicle for money launderers. This white paper describes how hedge funds fit into the overall...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Credit Bureau Employs Enterprise Support Plan to Optimize IT Infrastructure, Innovate
Nov 2009
The leading credit bureau of Brazil, SERASA Experian provides credit validation services to businesses and individuals alike. Not surprisingly, of the company's 3,000 employees, a team of 500 is...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
TDC Saves $700,000 Annually With Microsoft Customer Care Framework
Nov 2009
TDC found that its disparate CRM legacy systems were simply no longer equipped to support the aggressive sales strategy that the company was poised to implement. The customer care system being...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
City of St. Petersburg Improves Buying Power and Saves US$4.9 Million by Centralizing Procurement
Nov 2009
City of St. Petersburg wanted to eliminate error-prone paper processes with self-service ordering, while improving productivity and control and streamline data requisition process to enable more...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Massive In-Game Ads Catapult Favorability for Fox's Jumper DVD
Dec 2009
Fox objective was to promote the DVD release for the blockbuster movie Jumper to an audience of young male movie enthusiasts to increase awareness of the DVD release and drive purchase intent. To...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Priceline.com Soars Above the Competition With Bing
Sep 2008
The W Hotel, a subsidiary brand of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc., teamed with Microsoft Advertising to conduct a study on cross-channel branding. Microsoft Advertising and the W...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Bing Confirms Significant ROI From Massive In-Game Advertising in a Search for New Users
Apr 2010
Microsoft launched the Bing decision engine in June 2009, along with a heavy promotional campaign covering almost all forms of traditional media, including TV and online advertising. Bing wanted...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Mazda UK Makes Inroads With Men
Apr 2008
As a leading international car manufacturer, Mazda produces one in every five sports cars sold worldwide. With eight of ten prospective car buyers researching online, Mazda needed a creative...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Nivea Captures User Data With Mobile Phone Campaign
Apr 2008
As the world's biggest personal care brand, Nivea Visage UK offers products for the entire family. Nivea needed to boost the readership of its online magazine Fun, Young and Independent (FYI). The...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Search Ads Lower Costs for CampusBooks.com
Jan 2008
Founded in 1998, Campusbooks.com is a leading textbook comparison shopping web site that serves over a million students per year. In July 2007, Campusbooks.com needed to drive traffic and sales to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Campaign Optimization Helps Global Forex Trading Increase Conversion Rate by Over 300 Percent
Jan 2008
Global Forex Trading (GFT) is a leading online currency dealer (Also known as forex dealer). GFT wanted to increase its CTR and brand exposure on Live Search. To master this challenge GFT...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Quick-Service Restaurant Delivers to Consumers Through Xbox LIVE
Feb 2010
Every day over 130 million people eat at Quick-Service Restaurants (QSR) s. With over 200,000 restaurants to choose from, the QSR space is highly competitive. To break out from the crowd and...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Bing Delivers Fruitful Conversions for Gourmet Retailer
Mar 2010
While retailers suffer through the recession, specialty gift merchants are feeling even greater pain as customers cut back on discretionary spending. Savvy gourmet gift retailers are turning to...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Multiple Channels Increase Allstate Brand Metrics
Sep 2008
Allstate wanted to determine the incremental brand lift a search or display campaign would receive when running with other online channels. To determine what effect cross-channel branding would...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Bing Is Music to Instrument Retailers' Ears
Mar 2010
With competition growing fiercer in the music retail space, Music Destock needed to find a way to drive more drummers, guitarists, and other musicians to its bargain-oriented website. With one of...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Poshcuffs Drives Conversions With Bing
Dec 2009
As an internet start-up, Poshcuffs offers an impressive variety of options for every budget, from oval gold-plated cufflinks decorated with an onyx inset to novelty brushed steel cufflinks...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Smilebox Partners With Microsoft Advertising to Drive ROI Through Bing
Dec 2009
Enter Smilebox, which is emerging as a leader in this fast-growth market. Smilebox needs constant growth to stay ahead of aggressive, more established competitors. The company relies heavily on...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Thousands of Subscribers Joined Toyota's World Via Windows Live
Jan 2010
Toyota Argentina is a leading company in the country's automobile industry. The company employs 3,000 people and is well known in the nation for its strong commitment to quality, its...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Sony Leverages Microsoft Advertising's Custom Solutions and Technology to Promote Angels and Demons
Sep 2009
On May 15th, fans poured into theaters all over the world to experience Sony Pictures' Angels & Demons, the motion picture adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling novel. In the movie, Harvard...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Adidas Scores With Gaming Campaign
Aug 2009
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the brand, adidas sought a way to distribute content and messaging related to its celebrity endorsed clothing and footwear collections. It needed a social...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
LBC - Transforming Into a Multi-Service Company
Jan 2011
Incorporated in the 1950s as a brokerage & air cargo service provider, LBC had been evolving into a variety of organizational transformations to catch up with current market trends. A part of its...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
On the Enactability of Business Protocols
Apr 2008
Protocols specifying business interactions among autonomous parties enable reuse and promote interoperability. A protocol is specified from a global viewpoint, but enacted in a distributed manner...
Provided by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
-
White Papers
CRN - Big Sales to Smaller Businesses - Aug 7th 2009
Aug 2009
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) turn to VARs to help them implement the IT applications on which their businesses depend. Year on year, this becomes more onerous because these...
Provided by Quocirca
-
White Papers
Deriving Value in Digital Media Networks
May 2009
This paper presents a framework for the analyzing revenue distribution in the delivery of digital content such as music, movies, games, books, and news. In such content delivery networks, there...
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
-
White Papers
A Ubiquitous Care-Support Service Based on Agent-Oriented Multiple-Context Coordination
Sep 2007
This paper presents a gentle system for supervising care-support services that fulfill users' actual requirements based on their physical locations and statuses of system components in ubiquitous...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Rollout Delivery Team Comparison for Large Multi-Site Technology Deployments
Jan 2011
This paper is designed to provide an understanding of the different scenarios that can be applied when considering the fundamentals utilized for a technology rollout system. The three technology...
Provided by Concert Technologies
-
White Papers
Applications of Stable Distributions in Time Series Analysis, Computer Sciences and Financial Markets
Jun 2009
In this paper, first the authors introduce the stable distribution, stable process and theirs characteristics. The á -stable distribution family has received great interest in the last decade due...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
-
White Papers
The Case for Byzantine Fault Detection
Jan 2011
Distributed systems are subject to a variety of faults and attacks. In this paper, the authors consider general (Byzantine) faults, i.e. a faulty node may exhibit arbitrary behavior. In...
Provided by Rice University
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Case Studies
Nigerian Bank Transforms Customer Service With Enhanced Communications
May 2008
Diamond Bank is a strong financial services institution with an effective presence in its home market, which Need to support business growth while reducing costs with desire to improve customer...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
Case Studies
Financial Services Company Accelerates Telework
Feb 2011
SNS REAAL Headquartered in Utrecht faces challenge to improve work-life balance with increase business continuity and minimize real estate cost. The organization found its solution in enabled...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
Case Studies
Cisco IT Case Study
Apr 2009
Cisco IT has a very large global unified communications deployment. Their challenge is to monitoring the large multi-site, multi-cluster network and helping ensure that reliability and service...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
Case Studies
Luxoft Helps Risk Management Advisory (RMA) at Deutsche Bank Move in the Right Direction With COMPAS
Dec 2010
The Risk Management Advisory (RMA) group at Deutsche Bank wanted to develop an innovative loan origination system. Their challenge is to develop and launch an enhanced web-based loan origination...
Provided by LUXOFT
-
Case Studies
Commercial Mortgages Origination System
Feb 2009
Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) Group Division of a leading global investment bank. Faces the challenge to integrate separate departments into world wide system, to speed up loan processing,...
Provided by LUXOFT
-
White Papers
Inferring the Composition of a Trader Population in a Financial Market
Jun 2007
There has been an explosion in the number of models proposed for understanding and interpreting the dynamics of financial markets. Broadly speaking, all such models can be classified into two...
Provided by University of Oxford
-
White Papers
Interface Groups and Financial Transfer Architectures
Jul 2007
Analytic execution architectures have been proposed by the same authors as a means to conceptualize the cooperation between heterogeneous collectives of components such as programs, threads,...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
-
White Papers
A Channel Portfolio Optimization Framework for Trading in a Spectrum Secondary Market
Feb 2010
State-of-the-art spectrum auctions are designed under a primary market paradigm to conduct spectrum trading between legacy owners and large cognitive service providers. In the previous work, the...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Robit: An Extensible Auction-Based Market Platform for Challenged Environments
Jul 2010
Open and competitive marketplaces, like those enabled by the internet, bring enormous value to consumers while fostering innovation and growth across a wide variety of businesses. Electronic...
Provided by University of Michigan
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Webcasts
5 Key Ingredients for Sales Success
May 2011
Is your sales process broken? Does it even exist? You need a sales process to create sales success. What we have seen in our years of consulting with ConnectWise partners and other solution...
Provided by ConnectWise
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Case Studies
A Large Aluminum Producer Partners With TCS to Gain IT Support at a Competitive Price
May 2011
TCS' client, a leading global producer of primary and fabricated aluminum, recognized that cost containment and maintaining profitability were key to staying competitive. The company hence decided...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Case Studies
KPN Transforms Its Approach to Direct Marketing
Dec 2010
KPN is one of Europe's leading telecommunications and ICT services companies. KPN used IBM SPSS predictive analytics to create propensity models for more than 30 key products. These models are...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
5-Minute Sales Meetings
Jan 2011
This new one-pager by sales strategist and author Jill Konrath explores four essential steps to creating an irresistible five-minute sales meeting.
Provided by Citrix Online
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Case Studies
Focusing on Streamlined Project and Portfolio Management With IBM Rational Focal Point
Apr 2011
The city's Department of Finance has a broad array of responsibilities, from overseeing financial and urban planning to managing real estate development and promoting business. Those duties are...
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
Office 365 Jump Start (06): Exchange Online Overview for IT Pros
Jun 2011
The speaker joins Adam Carter (Bomb) to help IT Pros truly understand what Exchange Online is and why it's such a compelling approach. She outlines features such as Anywhere Access, Protection and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
Office 365 Jump Start (05): Microsoft Office 365 Directory Synchronization
Jun 2011
The speaker provides a detailed overview of Directory Sync, including who it was build for, what it does for IT Pros and their users and when to use it. Throughout the podcast, the speaker shares...
Provided by Microsoft
