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Businesses across all industries succeed and fail by one key criteria: their ability to create happy customers. Firms that struggle with it risk losing market share to competitors that out innovate them in delivering top-notch customer experiences (CX). Firms with happy customers that don’t keep-up with the changing needs of their clientele also risk falling ...
Customer loyalty is one of the ultimate goals for virtually every company across every industry. Gaining and maintaining customer loyalty requires firms to keep up with the rapidly changing needs of their clientele as well as monitoring and adapting to changing business dynamics. This allows firms to monitor, predict, and adapt their activities to keep-up ...
Daejeon University, established in 1980, is one of the leading private universities in Daejeon, South Korea. The university’s institute of information and communication provides 24 hours of always available and seamless web applications to 10,000 students and 1,000 faculty members and staffs on and off campus. Their challenges are to provide secured and high performance ...
It was natural that when world-class brewer HEINEKEN launched a global marketing campaign, it would partner with the Bond franchise. And when that campaign needed an equally first-class cloud platform, HEINEKEN turned to Microsoft Azure. HEINEKEN then used Azure for promotions that were even more technically demanding, including one with the UEFA Champions League. Boorsma ...
Growing from a regional telephone carrier into a national information services organization, KCOM wanted to make it easier for employees to share knowledge across geographic and business boundaries. To develop an integrated knowledge management, unified communications and BI (Business Intelligence) framework, KCOM deployed a suite of Microsoft messaging, collaboration and management solutions, which has reduced ...
SoftBank Mobile Corporation is a fast-growing cellular service provider in Japan. When management set a goal of doubling its cellular transmission points within a year, the SoftBank mobile IT staff knew that it needed to shore up the company’s database infrastructure to handle the increased data. SoftBank mobile upgraded to Microsoft SQL Server 2012 data ...
The Weather Channel needed to increase business insight, streamline reporting processes and improve data control. In 2012, it implemented a flexible Business Intelligence (BI) solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to take advantage of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Power View via a portal and virtual desktops. As a result, The Weather Channel saves more ...
RHI, a global supplier of refractory products, wanted better BI (Business Intelligence) tools. To improve query performance and reporting capabilities, the company implemented a tabular data model based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services and the new xVelocity memory-optimized column store index. Queries that once took more than a minute to run now finish ...
Georgia-Pacific is a leading producer of building products and paper goods for consumers worldwide. To address rapid business growth, the company’s building products unit needed a higher-performing, more scalable data warehouse. In response, the firm implemented Microsoft SQL Server fast track data warehouse, which has greatly improved performance and provides faster and more reliable access ...
Auckland Airport wanted better Business Intelligence (BI) tools to optimize operations, so it replaced existing Oracle and Cognos products with a BI solution that includes Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. As a result, the airport has improved business agility and profitability with near-real-time access to analytics information. In addition, it has ...
Learn how Infrastructure-as-a-Service company simplified its data center using Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) approach. Adopting Cisco’s ACI, NetApp experienced: • Improvements in the density of throughput and cost per port • Increased productivity of the infrastructure • Integrated visibility and intelligence • Agility enablement of the entire application infrastructure Download this Case Study to ...
It’s easy in any large organisation for printers and consumables to end up being bought on an ad hoc basis. This piecemeal approach not only costs more, it is time consuming. This is what happened to the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust. Learn how Samsung printing solutions assisted the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust reduce waste and ...
King’s College London is among the top 6 universities in the UK and top 20 in the world. To improve its print service for students and staff, and save money, the College looked for a partner that could help it standardise on one model of printer, provide a proactive print service and enable the use ...
Discovery implemented a MobileIron enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform to enforce security policies across 2,000 iOS and Android devices, let employees complete HR and financial transactions through a secure mobile web browser, and remotely wipe corporate data from employee-owned devices after employees leave the company. Subscribe to the Innovation Insider Newsletter Catch up on the ...
To support a mobile program that was rapidly growing worldwide, Philip Moris International worked with Nomasis to implement a MobileIron enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform. PMI uses MobileIron to secure corporate-issued and employee-owned devices, maintain an accurate device count across 60 countries, reset employee passcodes in seconds, and manage its growing lineup of productivity apps. ...