Private auditors hired by Medicare have been scouring hospital and doctor records for the last few years in search of overbilling, waste and fraud. Paid on a contingency basis, which gives them a natural incentive to be aggressive, such "recovery audit contractors" identified more than $1 billion in improper Medicare...
I think it's the understatement of the year to say that fuel is starting to get a little pricey. As painful as that is, it does have at least one big benefit. It spurs increased activity in the world of jet engine R&D. With fuel this expensive,...
The challenge was to develop a PC based test system capable of performing tests on agricultural implements while controlling the motion of a 9 kN (2000 lbs) carriage in an in-door soilbin. The test system needs to be flexible enough to allow users to configure test parameters, while being robust...
ANCAP Administracion Nacional de Combustibles Alcohol y Portland is a Uruguayan state monopoly responsible for petroleum import, exploration and refinery processes, and producing Portland cement. With over 2,500 employees, the company has downstream operations in Uruguay and investments in upstream operations outside the country. Back in 1997, ANCAP had set...
MAPA GmbH in Zeven/Lower Saxony is a medium-sized company with more than 50 years' experience in elastomer processing. MAPA needed to upgrade SAP R/3 4.0B to SAP R/3 Enterprise, including EBCDIC to ASCII codepage conversion; retain existing AS/400 system, continue to deliver good response times for database queries from new...
Established in 1969, Distribution and Auto Service, Inc., DAS provides the automotive industry with high-quality vehicle processing, logistics, and marine services. Every day, DAS processes up to 300 vehicles at each of its sites. As a 24-hour operation, the company simply cannot afford to experience downtime or high IT maintenance...
Otto Sauer Achsenfabrik GmbH is one of the leading European manufacturers of axles and suspension systems for heavy goods vehicles. The company needed to maintain competitive advantage through excellent process management; ensure high availability for core business systems, and reduce the risk of interruption to shopfloor production lines. The company...
Microsoft Business Solutions pluses - old conception that OS should be separate from the DB platform and from the accounting application doesn't work when the author considers modern Microsoft: it now offers all in one: Microsoft Great Plains/Navision/Axapta/Solomon/Microsoft CRM/Small Business Financials ERP, based on MS SQL Server DB platform and...
With 40,000 employees and U.S. $30 billion in revenue in 2003, The Allstate Corporation is the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurer, providing insurance products to more than 16 million U.S. households. With only about 10 percent of the resources on any individual server being used, Allstate still projected...
Auger backhoes that are X Series planetary models are designed for heavy industrial use in hard soil to depths up to 20-feet, depending on conditions. Specify a standard-flow planetary model for 10-foot depths; chain drive units maximize productivity of low-flow skid steers for digging to five-foot depths. HDF style auger...
Stadco provides design and manufacturing services for defense, aerospace, and high-tech. With a design solution from IBM, Stadco successfully designed molds for large fuselage and weapons bay doors, helicopter rotor blades, and launch vehicle parts. From large aircraft composite tooling to helicopter rotor blade molds, computer-generated three-dimensional images are replacing...
The original HVAC systems for the Owings Mill headquarters building was engineered and installed by The Frosty Refrigeration Co, Inc., Baltimore, MD. Bank managers decided to remodel the lower lever to include more offices, meeting rooms, a lunch room, and server room. Mr. Slim PKH30FK split-ductless, wall-mounted system. The indoor...
The client's requirement was to cut costs and still provide an exceptional performance, addition/up-gradation of existing Solaris boxes was costly and except for SUN no other choices existed and to remove dependency on ORBIX and migrate the C++ applications so that it runs on both Solaris and Linux. Infosys helped...
The client is a leading information technology company with products for healthcare delivery. The challenge was to design and develop a centralized database and a user friendly front end to assist pharmacist to dispense drug to outpatients facilitating online adjudication and clinical alerts using FDB. Using client server architecture, power...
Profitable and growing fast, Teligence provides the telecommunications network and custom software for telephone social networking services including Livelinks, Tango Personals, Vibeline and Fonochat. The biggest challenges the company was facing was managing growth and maintaining a high level of network uptime. Extremely reliable HP technology on the back end...
The company was faced with the costly and complex task of upgrading aging AS/400 systems to improve its business performance and position itself for future growth. It was also looking to make its IT costs more predictable, improve its responsiveness to changing business conditions and take advantage of new technologies....
CGI's challenge was multifold: transfer 125 applications from mainframe to PC, client server and Web platforms; deploy new enhanced applications on more than 10,000 workstations; redesign the infrastructure and implement new billing, customer care, service provisioning and network surveillance applications. CGI Group did all the technical work of modifying applications...
TELUS is one of Canada's largest telecommunications companies, with more than CDN$7 billion of annual revenue, 4.8 million network access lines, and 3.6 million wireless subscribers. The company wanted to decrease the cost of Web hosting for its customers and to increase the flexibility and control that customers have over...
California-based SARES?REGIS Group provides comprehensive real estate services. It has 500 employees and manages more than U.S. $2.3 billion in assets, including 10.5 million square feet of commercial property and more than 12,000 apartment units. It wanted to upgrade its JD Edwards applications and migrate from an IBM AS400 environment...
VanderVeen & Goracke, LLC, located in Nebraska City, Nebraska, is a certified public accountant firm that provides financial services throughout a Midwest tri-state region. Lightning knocked out most of the business network and caused intermittent hardware failure in the primary business server. Business had to resume with minimal downtime available...
