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Living By Numbers | BTalk Australia: Leading businesses rely on Business Intelligence for strategic and operational decision making. Today Phil Dobbie talks to Noel Pettitt, Teradata's Vice President, South Pacific, about the importance of a data warehouse as a repository for your business information. How can it be used and what sort...; Tags: Podcasts, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Databases, Storage, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing, Hardware, Phil Dobbie; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Analyze This: Is better analytics the key to business success? In his "The Halcyon Days of Analytics," Steve Finikiotis of management consultant Osprey Associates argues that firms should be using analytics more effectively. It's an intriguing post, but a little thin on specifics. To wit, this statement: ...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Business intelligence, Marketing research, Databases, Michael Fitzgerald, data mining, Harvard Business School Press, New Technologies, tool; Blog posts 2008-06-24
Google Makes Us Stupid: So Nick Carr argues in the July/August issue of The Atlantic (update: here's the link to Is Google Making Us Stupid?). Think about this: how often do you search on Google or any search engine every day? How about the people you work with? ...; Tags: Storage, Michael Fitzgerald, Nick Carr, Google Inc.; Blog posts 2008-06-09
Check 21 Becomes Law, Allows Speedier Electronic Settlements: This paper represents an article where check21 will enable speedier transactions & processing of checks. This would be a major technological change which will enable the bank to substitute electronic check images for paper checks for the clearance and settlement process. Under an electronic automated system once the check is...; Tags: Computerworld, Check 21, bank, database, Web; White papers
Radionics: Designing Advanced Neurosurgical Instrumentation With SolidWorks: A global leader in the fields of neurosurgery, neurological pain treatment, and radiation therapy, Radionics designs and manufactures advanced neurosurgical instrumentation and sophisticated neurological imaging systems. For years, the company's engineers used the VersaCAD 2D CAD system for developing product designs but decided to transition to 3D design in 1998...; Tags: Product marketing, SolidWorks Corp., instrumentation, product design, manufacturing application, data management, imaging, 3D, manufacturing, leader, software; Case studies

Operation and Maintenance Decision Support: Companies that automate the process of diagnosing faults and performance degradation in equipment can lower costs and increase profits by increasing the life-cycle of critical components. Decision support technologies, such as automated diagnostics and on-line condition monitoring, can translate years of operations and maintenance engineering experience and fundamental physical principles...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Battelle Memorial Institute, decision support, advisor, monitoring, performance; Case studies
Commercial Laboratory: Implementing Caché also provided a competitive advantage for Omega. Maintaining their database is a challenge for them but not for us. For Omega, implementing Caché resulted in better performance and reliability as well as less maintenance. Backups are running faster, down from 6 1/2 hours to 2 1/2 hours. Another...; Tags: Storage, Misys, database, competitive advantage, backup, benefit, performance; Case studies
Ensuring Customer Self Service: The client is a leading property & casualty insurer. The existing Risk Portrait system existed as five different applications on diverse platforms and databases making it difficult for the customer to track his claims. Wipro developed a new Risk Portrait solution based on Web Services which integrates the different applications...; Tags: Storage, Wipro Technologies, database, Web service, environment, Web; Case studies
Johnson Controls Partners With Insurance Giant to Minimize Multimillion Dollar Risk: MetLife, an insurance industry world leader, relies on its Rensselaer Information System Center, RISC for all mainframe computer processing nationwide. The challenges faced by Johnson controls were to prevent unscheduled downtime of the computer database system, eliminating the risk of an operational loss of thousands of dollars per hour, decrease...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Johnson Controls Inc., MetLife Inc., database system, RISC, mainframe, insurance, computer; Case studies
Advanced Systems Earn an Ivy League A+ for Innovation: Metering, Monitoring and Managing Yale University's Utilities: Since its founding in 1701, Yale University has offered undergraduate courses of study leading to a bachelor's degree. Until now, facility upgrades and retrofits were made with little consideration given to data management or integration. All the systems -- including several generations of building automation systems BAS, the power plant...; Tags: Johnson Controls Inc., Yale University, facility upgrade, systems engineering, data management, monitoring, network, computer; Case studies
Merritt Square Mall-Merritt Island, Florida: On-site Electric Generation Creates Opportunity for Absorption Cooling: Larry Golden, a senior retail operations manager for Jones Lang LaSalle, property managers is speaking about a time-tested system for onsite electric generation and reuse of engine heat to supply an absorption cooling plant at Merritt Square Mall in Merritt Island, Florida. When the mall was originally conceived, much of...; Tags: American Standard Inc., Florida; Case studies
Access Flooring: This paper focuses on Access floors which consist of a steel or aluminum structure that supports removable floor panels. Floor panels consist of a steel pan filled with a thin cement or wood secondary structure and floor finish. Access flooring is used primarily in office buildings. It was initially used...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Access, computer room, computer; White papers
Case Study: Medical Packaging: The medical device industry is moving toward pre-packaged disposable devices such as surgical instruments and syringes. Typical set-ups use Instron's universal testing systems configured with pneumatically activated side-action grips, which together provide the precise control and accurate alignment required. Another option is the In-Spec 2200 Portable Handheld and Benchtop Testers,...; Tags: Instron, data acquisition, medical device, mobility, PDA, industry; Case studies
Enhanced Broker Reporting Data Warehouse: Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown DBAB wanted to enhance its management reporting system used by internal brokers and its parent company. DBAB wanted to create a central data repository that each data source could automatically update. The key to building this repository was to create specific rules governing the data elements...; Tags: Business intelligence, Starpoint Solutions, data warehouse, data source; Case studies
Ongoing Access to High-quality Technical Staff: With 200+ vendors doing business at JPMorgan Chase, the process of locating, interviewing, and retaining technical consultants was time consuming and fragmented. Starpoint became one of JPMorgan Chase's Preferred Vendors, helping them recruit and hire technical talent. For five consecutive years, Starpoint was one of the firm's top vendors in...; Tags: Workforce management, Starpoint Solutions, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., consultant, talent; Case studies
Case Study - Conveyor Belt Characterization: A large multinational manufacturer of elastomeric materials and components needed to improve the fatigue life of their conveyor belts. Used in the mining of raw materials, these conveyor belts are crucial for transporting various raw materials over great distances and must be reliable for many years in order for the...; Tags: Instron, raw material, data acquisition; Case studies
Galco Industrial Electronics Case Study: Dynamometer Control System: The Michigan division of a large automotive powertrain components manufacturer needed a dynamometer control system. They also wanted 32 channels of data acquisition at a 200 Hz sampling rate as well as the ability to regulate torque, flow and temperature characteristics of torque converters attached to the dynamometer. The solution...; Tags: data acquisition, electronics, software; Case studies
Access to HIV Care: Initial Results From the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study: This paper discusses and gives information on HIV care across all regions of America. Recent clinical advances have made HIV/AIDS a highly treatable disease. Appropriate medical care can prolong the lives of HIV-infected individuals and prevent unnecessary and potentially costly complications. However, not all HIV-infected individuals have sufficient access to...; Tags: RAND Corp., America; White papers
Loma's Package 'Meats' With Approval at St Merryn: Key to St Merryn Meat's new automated processing lines are three integrated check-weigher and metal detector systems and a data management package supplied by Loma Systems. The state-of-the-art equipment has helped significantly cut breakdowns at the wholesalers and increase line speeds by 60%. The wholesale meat processor supplies a number...; Tags: Loma Systems, data management; Case studies
Merritt Square Mall: Merritt Island, Florida - On-site Electric Generation Creates Opportunity for Absorption Cooling: The mall is an 800,000 square-foot retail facility located in Merritt Island on Central Florida's rapidly growing "Space Coast," not far from the Kennedy Space Center. Because of its location in a growing commercial and residential area, and along the primary route between Orlando and Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral, it receives...; Tags: American Standard Inc., mall; Case studies