The SELGA group, comprising SELGA, JME and MEAB, operates from 36 branches throughout Sweden. SELGA management wanted to deploy a Web-based portal that was fully integrated with legacy systems to retain the same levels of functionality as current. The portal needed to facilitate: effective and efficient sales processes for customers...
The business leader may dream of having easy access to scorecards containing key performance measures and colored alerts, easy drill-down to details, and consistent enterprise-wide reporting that integrates data from multiple sources so executives and managers all share one version of the truth. Idealists the IT department may share vision,...
Motion Picture Industry Pension & Health Plans MPI is a specialty union benefits provider with big ideas about technology. MPI was facing skyrocketing labor costs and a growing backlog of claims. Its legacy system was not capable of adjudicating claims electronically or meeting The Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
Legacy systems are key parts of many organizations. They often drive the mission-critical applications that businesses depend on. Replacing them can be both costly and risky. Business can preserve and extend legacy systems by moving to a service-oriented architecture. Developing a model that accurately captures the organization's business processes is...
Outdated technology systems are hampering the business performance of insurance carriers worldwide. And yet, wholesale replacement of these systems is not an option for the cost conscious. This paper presents factors that are inhibiting high performance in legacy systems and reveals that Accenture research, however, has found an alternative optionùintegrated,...
To be competitive and build a platform for future growth, the client, a Fortune 500 company, launched an Order-to-Cash project, which streamlines and integrates operations by migrating data from distributed legacy systems to a centralized SAP repository. This posed some key challenges: data conversion from various stand-alone legacy systems like...
The client mentioned in this study is one of the largest telecom service providers in a European Union member country, with approximately 5.2 million access channels, and is listed on Euronext Brussels in March 2004. The company used legacy systems for Order Management OM and Provisioning, which do not cater...
The needs of American Armed Forces deployed around the world are changing dramatically. As such, the DLA wanted to shift its supply-focused business processes centered on managing items to a customer-based enterprise focused on fostering long-term relationships with customers and suppliers. DLA was also challenged with replacing two 35-year-old legacy...
InFact Group is a global technology consulting organization with a world-class portfolio of customers in Europe, the United States, and the Indian subcontinent. The company provides end-to-end project services, and it delivers many outsourcing solutions based upon its dedicated development platform in India. InFact grew rapidly after its founding in...
Faced with the introduction of Chip-&-Pin throughout the UK in January 2005, along with the significant expense associated with maintaining legacy technology, Vodafone UK decided to combat these issues by upgrading the electronic point of sale EPoS system in its retail channel. Together with Capgemini, Vodafone developed a solution that...
The fast-paced advancement of information technology is rapidly changing the business world. Fulfilling on-demand service requests is vital to today's business survival. Enterprises must incessantly upgrade and integrate their e-infrastructures in order to maintain their competitive advantage. One major roadblock to integration is that there is usually an inherent heterogeneity...
The legacy systems of the client handling among others, customer name and address, receivables and payables for US and UK operations; and claims, premiums and contracts for US operations was being maintained from onsite by a third party vendor. Leveraging its Transition model, Wipro ensures a smooth handover of knowledge...
The case study describes about aircraft manufacturing. The client is a Fortune 100 multinational company and is an industry leader in marine transport, aircraft manufacturing, shipbuilding, nuclear power engineering, waste treatment plants, satellites, defense contracting, glass, petrochemicals, oil products, beer, property and casualty insurance and warehousing. The client was using...
To manage growing business needs, a Fortune 500 company implemented SAP R/3 at its USA and UK geographies, while the other geographies were running on legacy systems. The client was looking forward to reduce dependency over multiple technologies by migrating most of the applications to SAP. Wipro provided end-to-end services...
The Las Vegas Valley Water District LVVWD is the largest water purveyor in southern Nevada serving more than 1 million people. Company's challenge was to seamlessly integrate CAD (Computer-Automated Design) and GIS Geographic Information System data with minimal impact on user productivity. The solution provided was to utilize Autodesk Topobase...
Most managers live in the past. That statement may sound ridiculous. What about all the five-year plans, the spending on research and development, the new initiatives in cyberspace, the ambitious acquisitions, and so on? Despite all that activity, managers are inevitably and deeply affected by what they have, by their...
The Internet stock crash at the turn of the 21st century may forever capture the imagination of the layman, but another disaster was occurring simultaneously with enterprise information systems. Some of the world's leading corporate giants and public institutions decided to scrap workhorse legacy systems for the promise of faster,...
Enterprise IT infrastructure environments must increasingly be more flexible, available and cost effective than ever before. They must continue to support a myriad of legacy systems and applications while simultaneously enabling a new generation of more flexible and distributed business needs. More and more workers now require full enterprise computing...
Modernizing an enterprise legacy system isn't a cut-and dry endeavor. At times, upgrading can mean taking two steps back just to take one step forward because the amount of front-end work can be overpowering and time consuming. To that end, shutting systems down to modernize is paradoxical: stymieing productivity is...
Deciding when to upgrade computer systems is uniquely challenging in the life sciences. Companies in other industries base their decisions upon software costs, hardware requirements, training and staffing issues and whether or not the new applications will interface with legacy systems. While these are certainly concerns of life science companies,...
