Market Basket Stores Inc., a leading Texas-based grocery retailer with 30 full-service grocery stores located throughout Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, selected JDA Workforce Management to help reduce labor costs while maintaining its customer service standards.
“Labor is 65 percent of our controllable expense. Keeping that in mind, we knew we needed to update our current system to a more user-friendly, Web-based format,” explained Russell Saleme, employment and training coordinator, Market Basket Stores Inc. “We researched solutions from a variety of software providers and determined that JDA Workforce Management would provide the highest return on investment.”
Graham Capital Management Chooses CODA
Graham Capital Management, a hedge fund manager and commodity trading adviser, signed a contract to implement CODA’s Financial software along with software for its fixed assets management.
“CODA will help us to expand our accounting capabilities and tailor it more to the current business structure and future business requirements,” said Jeff Baisley, CFO at Graham Capital Management. “This will give us more flexibility around what we can report and a more accurate picture of business performance. In addition to Financials, we will be taking advantage of a fully integrated fixed asset management solution and electronic payment facility. Having the latest technology will ensure the business is supported for the foreseeable future.”
Noel-Levitz uses SAS Predictive Analytics to Qualify Campus Enrollment Success
Noel-Levitz helps colleges and universities determine with high accuracy which students are most likely to enroll and succeed. The company uses predictive analytics from SAS to forecast the behavior of prospective students, determine which are at risk and identify factors influencing student retention. This allows campuses to shape their enrollments with precision, while using scarce resources more strategically.
“SAS fueled our 2006 expansion with new product development taking a fraction of the time I expected. In just two years, those new products have brought in hundreds of customers. At the same time, SAS Enterprise Miner brought efficiencies to our staff: They’re accomplishing more in less time and saving our company hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in personnel costs,” said Tim Thein, senior vice president and principal at Noel-Levitz.
Caja Madrid Launches New Messaging Strategy with Sun Microsystems and Grupo Acotel
Caja Madrid is using the Sun Open Suite for SWIFT solution platform for its financial messaging strategy for the next three years, spanning payments, securities, funds and treasury, in addition to communication with external institutions including CNMV - the Spanish local market regulator.
Through this new strategy, Caja Madrid will be able to consolidate all bank-to-bank message flows, helping to improve efficiency and time to market in the design and execution of business processes, reinforcing Caja Madrid's leadership position in new financial standards processing. This enables the savings bank to provide a new global value proposition for its customers, corporations and financial institutions.
BNP Paribas Assurance Uses Informatica PowerCenter
BNP Paribas Assurance, France's fourth largest life insurer, selected Informatica PowerCenter to manage its overall data exchange processing. In modernizing its information system, the new data integration platform will assist in the expansion of the company's insurance business in France. Informatica's response times, the system's quick speed to implementation, and its capacity to integrate a wide diversity of data were all determining factors in the choice.
Philippe Renault, Information Systems Manager, BNP Paribas Assurance, explains, “Our aim was to set up a data integration platform on which to build our system. We therefore needed a long-term solution with the potential to evolve. Only a handful of organizations could meet our criteria.”
Pennsylvania College Simplifies Data Collection and Automates Analyses
Dickinson College is accurately predicting student enrollment, financial aid allocation, diversity, class size and a host of other critical operational variables using data analysis and integration applications from Rapid Insight Inc. The Pennsylvania school is using Rapid Insight Analytics and Data Integration software to accelerate data collection and understanding, enabling administrators to make intelligent ad hoc and long-term business decisions.
“Accuracy is absolutely critical when analyzing student enrollment against the average tuition each student will pay, financial aid included,” said Mike Johnson, director of institutional research at Dickinson College. “If we miss that calculation, called the discount rate, by as little as one percent, we’re talking about a half million dollars. Rapid Insight Analytics and Data Integration allow us to look at more data in more ways to get a more precise view of these figures so we can strike the right balance.”
Paper Manufacturer Felix Schoeller Group Implements VMware
IT service provider ISO Datentechnik completed a successful server and storage virtualization project at Felix Schoeller Group. With six locations in Germany and Canada, Felix Schoeller Group is one of the largest manufacturers of specialty papers worldwide. Schoeller selected DataCore virtual storage area network technology to complement its VMware ESX Server systems.
