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Inergy Automotive Systems: Automotive Systems Maker Consolidates Domains, Enhances Remote E-Mail Access: Headquartered in Paris, Inergy Automotive Systems designs, manufactures, and delivers plastic fuel systems. Inergy wanted to improve the performance of its network, while reducing the time necessary to maintain it. The company also wanted to improve access to its messaging and collaboration tools. Inergy worked with Interlink Group to upgrade...; Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, E-mail servers, Directory services, messaging, Microsoft Exchange Server, collaboration tool, directory service, collaboration, Microsoft Corp., performance, tool, network; Case studies
Isotechnika, Inc.: Collaboration Tool Reduces Drug Research Report Time by 33 Percent: Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Isotechnika is a biopharmaceutical research and development company with 90 employees. The drug research and development company was challenged to improve the time to develop and approve clinical documentation?to reduce duplicated efforts by reviewers and corrections to old versions of documents. To reduce delays, Isotechnika...; Tags: Groupware, collaboration tool, collaboration, Microsoft Corp., tool, Web; Case studies
Perlegen Sciences: Discovering Genetic Variations and Improving Lives With Windows High Performance Computing Clusters: Perlegen Sciences conducts genetics research and develops products that impact and improve people's lives. Many common diseases have a genetic basis. In order to better understand how these diseases work and how they may be treated, detailed analysis of massive amounts of genomic data is required. Perlegen uses a Microsoft...; Tags: Databases, LIMS, high-performance computing, development tool, analysis, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., window, tool; Case studies
Import From Or Link To A SharePoint List: If your department or workgroup uses Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or later to communicate and collaborate with each other, you might encounter scenarios where you need to work with some of the SharePoint lists in Microsoft Office Access 2007 to take advantage of its rich querying and reporting features. If...; Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows; White papers
Automatically Start An Office Program When You Turn On Your Computer: You can save time by configuring your computer to automatically open a specific Microsoft Office program whenever Microsoft Windows starts by doing one of the following: Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP. The next time you start your computer, Windows automatically runs the program or programs that you have copied...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, computer, Microsoft Corp., window; White papers

Health Plan Improves Broker Effectiveness and Shortens Sales Cycle With Pivotal CRM: Sentara Health Plans, Inc. is a health insurance provider located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Its sales staff and broker network create new business and maintain a 319,000-member customer base. Sentara wanted to grow its business, increase member retention, and improve broker management. Because of an inefficient tracking system, those goals...; Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Insurance, Advertising & Promotion, Pivotal Corp., CRM, CRM solution, health insurance, health care, Microsoft Corp., database, operating system, sales; Case studies
Employee Involvement, Attitudes and Reactions to Technology Changes: This paper examines the relationships between employee reactions to specific technological changes and the job-related attitudes of these employees. The specific changes include the transition, by the organization's clinical professionals, from the use of laptop computers to smaller palm-sized Clinical Assistant (CE) devices and the automation of clinical pathways into...; Tags: AllBusiness.com, laptop computer, job, computer; White papers
Aligning Six Sales Divisions Following Merger Leads to Better Customer Understanding: Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness in the crop protection and in the high-value commercial seeds markets. Syngenta required the ability to exchange consistent customer information between different areas of its marketing and sales divisions in order to gain a better understanding of its customers and the market. Capgemini developed a...; Tags: Sales strategy, Microsoft Windows 2000, Sales force management, Databases, Capgemini, CRM, sales, merger, marketing, Microsoft Corp., server; Case studies
IT Strategy for Large Corporation: ERP/MRP/CRM, Unix/Linux/Windows, Microsoft/Java - Balanced Approach: 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...; Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, conception, accounting application, CRM solution, Microsoft Corp., ERP, CRM, operating system, server; White papers
Metalife: Life Sciences Company Uses the Beta Edition of SQL Server 2005 to Enhance Full-Text Searches: Based in Winden, Germany, Metalife provides tools and services to assist pharmaceutical companies and scientists explore genetic databases as they search for ways to cure and prevent disease. Metalife needed to provide increased capacity for concurrent, full-text searches, and provide easier data access, data snapshots for versioning, and easy-to-use reporting....; Tags: Databases, full-text search, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server, life science, data access, 64-bit, database, Microsoft Corp., operating system, tool; Case studies
Prudential California Realty - San Bruno: Real Estate Firm Recruits More Clients, Improves Service With Mobile Office Solution: Prudential California Realty - San Bruno is an independently owned and operated member of The Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc. In 2003, the office generated sales worth more than U.S. $484 million. The management at Prudential California Realty had been seeking a way to help their agents improve productivity and...; Tags: Tablets, Microsoft Windows XP, Notebooks, San Bruno, tablet PC, competitive advantage, real estate, tablet, agent, customer service, Microsoft Corp., mobile, sales, PC, operating system; Case studies
DLC Management: Real Estate Firm Gains Added Functionality, Seamless Integration of Remote Offices: DLC Management Corporation is a privately owned retail real estate company headquartered in Tarrytown, New York. DLC owns and operates 40 retail shopping centers across the United States. Two years ago, DLC began to review its technology infrastructure. Expecting growth in the near future, the company was aware that current...; Tags: E-mail servers, Microsoft Windows 2000, Databases, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, data management, real estate, server, e-mail, Web; Case studies
Nissan Motor Company: Nissan Boosts Global Communication and Collaboration, Cutting Time-to-Market: Nissan Motor Company, based in Tokyo, Japan, sold more than 3 million vehicles globally last year. Because the company's decentralized IT infrastructure did not support global collaboration or mobile access, it drove up costs and inhibited productivity - at a time when the company needed to be increasingly competitive. Nissan...; Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Windows XP, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., collaboration, cost reduction, IT infrastructure, mobile, Microsoft Corp., information technology, operating system; Case studies
Wetherill Associates: Electronic Components Manufacturer Finds Migration Made Easy: Headquartered in Royersford, Pennsylvania, Wetherill Associates, Inc. (WAI) is a leading manufacturer of component parts for alternators and starting motors in the automotive and supporting fields. The company sought to enable a seamless migration that supports critical Oracle database operations, while delivering a highly available, cost-effective infrastructure to handle rapid...; Tags: Servers, Manufacturing, Databases, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, database server, manufacturer, database, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., server; Case studies
General Motors Corporation: GM Provides Assistive Technology to Help Employee Who Is Blind Be More Effective: General Motors (NYSE: GM), the world's largest vehicle manufacturer, designs, builds, and markets cars and trucks worldwide. Blind "car person" manages to do everything possible with cars except drive - including making a living as a General Motors technical liaison. The challenge was to develop Microsoft Windows and JAWS for...; Tags: Operating systems, Construction, General Motors Corp., window, Microsoft Windows, collaboration, software, Microsoft Corp., computer; Case studies
Hanley Economic Building Society, The: IT Infrastructure Upgrade Helps Financial Firm Improve Productivity, Customer Service: The Hanley Economic Building Society, with 70 employees, is located in North Staffordshire, England, offers members mortgage and financial services and has assets worth more than ú270 million (U.S. $485 million).The Hanley's existing IT infrastructure couldn't support its increasingly mobile workforce or meet the organization's growing needs for improved security,...; Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, IT infrastructure, workforce, financial service, information technology, customer service, Microsoft Windows, environment, mobile, financial, Microsoft Corp., desktop, security; Case studies
Mid-State Bank & Trust: Bank Increases Productivity, Network Security Through Platform Upgrade: Mid-State Bank & Trust, based in Arroyo Grande, California, is an independent community bank with U.S. $2.3 billion in assets and 41 retail offices serving California's Central Coast. Mid-State was running its network on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, which was approaching the end of its support. The bank required a...; Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, Microsoft Windows NT, Operating systems, NETWORKING, platform upgrade, Microsoft Exchange Server, network upgrade, bank, California, network security, business process, asset, security, network, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, server; Case studies
Cole Taylor Bank: Bank Finds Windows Solution 20 Percent Less Expensive, More Capable Than Linux/Oracle: Cole Taylor Bank serves small to midsize businesses in the Chicago area with a unique brand of relationship banking. It needed to upgrade its Microsoft Windows NT Server-based infrastructure to obtain support, tighten network security, upgrade key banking applications, and offer new services. After seriously considering a switch to Linux...; Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Corp., small and medium business, network security, scalability, banking, Microsoft Windows, security, bank, brand, Linux, network, server; Case studies
Sage Telecom: Telecom Firm Cuts Costs, Enhances View Into Business With 5-Terabyte Data Warehouse: Based in Allen, Texas, Sage Telecom is the third largest telephone company in Texas, with over a half-million customers in 11 states. Sage Telecom needed a better source for operational data to help it control costs, and business intelligence to help it better serve customers. It created two data warehouses...; Tags: Databases, Telecom & Utilities, Sage Telecom, Texas, business intelligence, data warehouse, billing, telecommunications, Microsoft Corp., operating system; Case studies
SARES-REGIS Group: Real Estate Company Reduces TCO by 50 Percent and Expects to Increase ROI: 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...; Tags: Databases, real estate, commercial property, failover, clustering, TCO, asset, database, Microsoft Corp., environment, operating system, server, network; Case studies