Case Studies in Brief - May 28, 2009

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (API) selected Vision’s information archiving solution to meet its increasingly demanding supply chain and legal obligations, ensuring high-volume data storage environments run optimally.

“Vision’s technology enables API to meet specific data retention rules while cost-effectively reducing requirements for additional disk space,” says Brett Hart, application manager for finance and business reporting, Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, is successfully using the Metastorm software suite to support its enterprise-wide Operational Excellence business transformation effort.

AMEC has achieved numerous benefits from its first deployments of Metastorm BPM – including cost reduction, productivity improvements, paper reduction and green sustainability and risk reduction and compliance.

 

SunGard has been selected by leading banks in Mexico to help manage their operational risk. SunGard’s Ambit Risk & Performance has been chosen by the banks to help identify, quantify and manage operational risk as well as compliance with Basel II regulatory requirements. 

 

The banks that have selected Ambit include: Invex Servicios Corporativos, S.A. DE C.V. Invex Grupo Financiero; Banco Regional de Monterrey, S.A. Institución de Banca Múltiple, Banregio Grupo Financiero; Banco Monex, S.A. Institución de Banca Múltiple, Monex Grupo Financiero; Banco Autofin Mexico, S.A. Institución de Banca Múltiple and Banco ve por Mas, S.A. 

 

“We believe that by adopting better operational risk principles and practices, we can manage our economic capital more efficiently. SunGard’s Ambit Risk & Performance solution provides a platform to help us accomplish this. We chose it because it’s a proven, mature solution that we’re confident will give us a better understanding of where our risk resides,” Ana Cecilia Reyes Esparza, president of the OpRisk Committee at the Mexican Banks Association and head of risk management at Grupo Financiero Ve por Mas said.

 

comScore, a provider of digital marketing intelligence platform, selected the DMExpress technology platform to incorporate into its click-stream data processing environment. 

“We saw a 500 percent improvement in data integration throughput after deploying DMExpress technology in our environment,” said Michael Brown, comScore's EVP of Software Engineering. “DMExpress is able to convert raw click-stream data into strategic information our clients use to make intelligent marketing decisions. However, the real advantage for us is the speed with which this processing is completed. It provides a clear competitive advantage.”

bet365, one of the world’s leading online gambling groups, selected GemStone’s high-performance data management solution, GemFire, as part of a critical IT infrastructure expansion to support the company’s growth. 

“Working with the GemFire engineers, GemStone proved that its technology had the scale, flexibility and reliability to make our systems our strength,” Martin Davies, chief technology officer for bet365 said. “They were responsive to our demands at every step of the selection and testing process, and I am confident that GemFire will enable us to scale our data infrastructure to meet the growing demands of our business. I look forward to working with them as we roll out the platform and continue to provide our customers with the online gambling experience they demand.” 

 

Charlotte Radiology has gone live with an enterprise-scale HL7 messaging hub built on the InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform. The new hub will integrate data feeds from hospitals and clinics throughout the Carolinas. 

"We had been looking at other HL7 hubs when Ensemble came into the picture," said John Frazer, IT Development Team Lead. "The big problem with any type of health care integration initiative is the lack of standardization in HL7 messaging," he continued. "Not everyone uses HL7 the same way and incoming and outgoing messages typically must be translated…Ensemble does that very well."

Kognitio built and is managing a 1.5TB data warehouse for Kelkoo. Kelkoo is Europe's largest e-commerce Web site after Amazon and Ebay, and the largest e-commerce advertising and price comparison platform in Europe. 

“We wanted to connect our various legacy data sources together and give our business teams direct access to that data,” said Lyndon Hearn, director of business intelligence at Kelkoo. “However, we did not want to get distracted from our business goals by implementing the infrastructure ourselves. Kognitio’s DaaS offering was the perfect solution; by outsourcing the data warehouse, we are not tied up with infrastructure management and platform development, and can focus on using the insight the service gives us to make our business more efficient and formulate strategies for the future. Furthermore, Kognitio has proven to be responsive and flexible, helping us to get the most of the service.”

LogiCamms Limited, one of Australia’s national electrical engineering and control systems companies, will deploy the myDIALS on-demand performance improvement platform. 

“myDIALS will enable us to proactively manage the operating performance of our equipment wherever it is located and compare the data against industry best practice while at the same time providing us with the ability to maximize the productivity and efficiency of our customers’ business,” said Garry McGrechan, director and general manager, West Australia, LogiCamms. “As myDIALS provides LogiCamms with a SaaS-based approach, we didn’t need to purchase new hardware, which will reduce the project’s overall costs while ensuring deployment in a matter of a few weeks.”