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ANCAP Refines SAP Performance With IBM eServer iSeries Solution: 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...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Servers, SAP R/3, Portland, SAP AG, petroleum, Y2K, IBM Corp., performance, server, software; Case studies
The MITRE Corporation Bedford, Massachusetts - McLean, Virginia: True Partnership Means Added Value: As a public interest company, the MITRE Corporation works in partnership with the government, applying systems engineering and advanced technology to address issues of national importance. Before the turn of the century, the Johnson Controls operations and maintenance team recommended and replaced MITRE's existing building controls system with a Metasys...; Tags: Business structures, Johnson Controls Inc., Mitre Corp., McLean, systems engineering, partnership, Y2K, backup; Case studies
Olympic Stadium, Homebush: Construction work associated with the year 2000 Olympics has provided the Australian building and construction industry with unprecedented opportunities to showcase Australian ingenuity and innovation at its very best. Smorgon Steel Reinforcing won the contract to manufacture and supply steel fabricated products, reinforcing bar and mesh and engineered fabrics for...; Tags: Smorgon Steel Group, construction industry, Y2K, transportation; Case studies
HIPAA Regulation Compliance on the Heels of y2k: The paper highlights that the healthcare industry is undergoing an evolution. With the proliferation of managed care, declining reimbursements, and national Medicare legislation and compliance, reliable information is critical now more than ever. In an era of technological advancement, electronic commerce has emerged as the most important paradigm, not only...; Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Vertical industries, HIPAA, regulation, compliance, patient, Medicare, EDI, health care, Y2K, industry, security; White papers
Profitability, Customer Relationship Management and Convergence in the Financial Investment Arena - Where Are We Really?: Convergence and Customer Relationship Management CRM are terms for the millennium. More significant than the rampant Y2K issues heard so much about prior to 2000, these two concepts will have dramatic affects on a financial institution's ability to increase profits in the next decade. The drivers behind these concepts are...; Tags: VOIP, Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), convergence, CRM, Y2K, financial service, financial, industry; White papers

Volkswagen Passes Year 2000 Challenge: Metasys Drives 8000 Point System: Early last year, Volkswagen AG set a corporate goal to be Y2K compliant by June 30, 1999. At the Wolfsburg, Germany production plant, which encompasses 20 buildings, the task force teamed with Johnson Controls and turned Volkswagen's corporate goal into an opportunity to upgrade the control systems at the complex....; Tags: Fiber optics, Optical networking, NETWORKING, Johnson Controls Inc., Volkswagen AG, Y2K, fiber-optic network, fiber-optics, benefit, network; Case studies
Search-Based Techniques Applied To Optimization Of Project Planning For A Massive Maintenance Project: This paper evaluates the use of three different search - based techniques, namely genetic algorithms, hill climbing and simulated annealing, and two problem representations, for planning resource allocation in large massive maintenance projects. In particular, the search - based approach aims to find an optimal or near optimal order in...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, technique, Y2K, programming; White papers
A Component-Based, Reusable Financial Framework Improves Cost Efficiency and Responsiveness: Building Solid Customer Relationships on Solid IT Models: Argenta is a fully independent retail financial institution that is focused on retail lending and investment services for individuals and small- and medium-sized enterprises. When Europe's financial institutions were hit simultaneously with the challenge of Y2K compliance and the introduction of the Euro, Argenta found its legacy IT systems had...; Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Y2K, financial company, application development, financial, information technology, software; Case studies
Lessons from High Tech Hokum, Pt 2.: Lessons from High Tech Hokum, Pt 2.One more thing...I was talking about this post with a good friend of mine, who's been in sales for a quarter of a century. He told me that the "profound truth" behind high tech hokum is somewhat more simple than the one I...; Tags: Y2K, High Tech Hokum, Pt 2, B2B, trinket, deception; Discussion threads 2008-02-28
Lessons from High Tech Hokum, Pt 2.: In Part 1 of "Lessons from High Tech Hokum," I pointed out three high tech product concepts that never fail to generate excitement and interest in the press, even though they contradict actual experience in the real world. I believe that the unfailing popularity...; Tags: Y2K, Sales strategy, Geoffrey James, cultural myth; Blog posts 2008-02-28
BNET Dispatch: March 5, 2007: With daylights savings time starting three weeks early this year, companies are scrambling to reset their hardware and software systems to sync up with the time change. The new changes are causing IT headaches reminiscent of the Y2K bug in 2000, and may impact data-centers, desktop computers, and...; Tags: Handhelds, Desktops, Investment, Financial accounting, Joseph De Avila, Ford Motor Co., Jim Balsillie, Aston Martin; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Y2K and Offshoring: The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity: The paper deals with a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a...; Tags: National Bureau of Economic Research, offshoring, externality, heterogeneity, Y2K, Y2K problem, foreign direct investment, offshore outsourcing, outsourcing, industry; White papers 2005-10-01
Leveraging the Value of Existing Supply-Chain Solutions: Analysts say businesses are increasing IT spending in 2005, but this news comes with a big caveat: Most of the new investment is earmarked for corporate compliance. Mandates contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act as well as general document and record retention regulations...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Regulatory compliance, Keller International Publishing, supply chain, HIPAA, IT budget, health insurance, IT-spending, Y2K, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, compliance, health care, information technology; White papers 2005-04-01
Transfer of Health for All Policy - What, How and in Which Direction? A Two-Case Study: This article explores the transfer of World Health Organization's WHO policy initiative Health for All by the Year 2000 (HFA2000) into national contexts by using the changes in the public health policies of Finland and Portugal from the 1970's onward and the relationship of these changes to WHO policy development...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, BioMed Central, public health, health care, Y2K, tool; White papers 2004-12-07
Comparing Your Milk Checks: This is the fifth year we have conducted the analyses of producer milk checks. The purpose of this project has been to better help producers understand their own milk checks and how they might compare their checks with other producers. From the year 2000 through 2004, August milk check premiums...; Tags: Cornell University, Y2K; White papers 2004-11-10
The ABC's of ERP: Even as Y2K ushered in boom times for ERP vendors, they were beset by a string of negative press reports regarding the complexity and cost of getting their software to run effectively - assuming it could be made to run at all. ERP horror stories abounded, with Hershey Foods Corp.'s...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, CFO Publishing Corp., ERP, Y2K, software; White papers 2004-09-15
Is Your Sales Force Ready For The NEW “New Economy"?: From the executive summary: ‘Today, IT product selection it totally changed from the 1990’s. Back in those halcyon days, as companies and IT organizations bought and adopted PCs, servers, LANS, switches, routers, the Internet, dealt with Y2K and e-commerce, while spending up to 40% of businesses invested capital, the selling...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, SalesVantage.com Inc., sales people, Y2K, sales force, information technology, sales, router, e-business, PC, Internet, server; White papers 2004-08-23
Dairy Market Impacts of US Milk Protein Imports and Trade Policy Alternatives: US imports of milk protein products, particularly certain Milk Protein Concentrates MPC have increased dramatically since 1995. Whereas in 1995 MPC imports were just 15.9 million pounds, by the year 2000 they had reached 116.1 million poundsùan increase of well over 600% in just five years. The two events, record...; Tags: Cornell University, import, Y2K; White papers 2004-05-01
The German Public Pension System: How It Was, How It Will Be: This paper describes the German pension system as it has shaped the labor market until about the year 2000. It describes the three-staged reform process that will convert the exemplary and monolithic Bismarckian public insurance system after the year 2000 into a complex multipillar system. The paper delivers an assessment...; Tags: National Bureau of Economic Research, Y2K, insurance; White papers 2004-05-01
In Case Of Emergency: From the executive summary: ‘Paradigm shift aptly describes what is going on in the world of disaster recovery these days. Spurred on initially by Y2K and, more recently, 9/11 and the great blackout of 2003, corporate executives are focusing on data protection like never before.’ The paper examines this issue....; Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., 9/11 commission, Y2K, data protection, disaster recovery; White papers 2004-05-01