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The Taiwanese banking sector is intensely competitive and fragmented, making it very challenging for banks to generate attractive margins by exercising price differentiation and charging appropriate risk premiums in the lending business. In response, many banks in Taiwan have been actively seeking alternative...

Availability, performance, and scalability are critical for providers of online education. Virtual High School Global Consortium (VHS)—a successful nonprofit provider with 770 member schools and more than 200 online courses—implemented the Desire2Learn learning management system, which runs on the Microsoft...

Electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors is upgrading to Dassault Systèmes’ V6 PLM solution running on SQL Server. Tesla has not only been pushing the cutting edge of electric car design, it has for the last four years piloted numerous Dassault Systèmes software and partner solutions...

PROS, the world leader in enterprise business-to-business pricing and margin optimization software showcased its energy industry solution at the Microsoft Global Energy Forum 2011 in Houston, TX. PROS showcased how they worked together with Microsoft to enable customers to improve control, visibility...

Mobile payments are a rapidly growing market that require high availability. Luup , a leader in this industry, emphasizes innovation to save costs and to create revenue for its customers. Luup is active in developing countries where there is high mobile phone penetration and largely unbanked populations...

TÜV Rheinland Group (TÜV) is the world's leader in comprehensive, global independent product testing and assessment of environmental impact. TÜV has selected ENOVIA V6 PLM solutions running on SQL Server to launch an integrated compliance portal for customers. What is a compliance portal...

Servus Credit Union joins a growing number of major Canadian Credit Unions running T24 on SQL Server. Other credit unions include Vancity and North Shore credit unions. Servus provides a complete line of banking services, including registered accounts, financing, investments, insurance, commercial banking...

Groupe Bénéteau (GB) is the world's leading manufacturer of sailboats and one of Europe's top manufacturers of powerboats. GB also engages in low-environmental impact sustainable housing. Windchill will be used initially for the design and manufacture of both sailboats and powerboats. GB...

Pentair has more than 13,000 employees in more than 20 countires produce a wide variety of products. More than 1500 employees regularly used their PLM systems which was running on Oracle. Pentair is typical of many businesses: if a system is working, don't upgrade it! Time marches on, they found that...

In the developing world, there is often a shortage of two things: money and technical skills. People with top technical skills often immigrate to better paying markets, adversely impacting the local economy. AVIS-Budget Chile has grown from a single desk with 10 cars in Santiago in 1970 to every airport...

Recently I was reading the PLM World e-Newsletter and saw this nice table reflecting the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). TCO Category Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Benefit over Oracle Database 11 g IT Labor 24 percent lower IT labor costs Software...

SPÄNEX based in Uslar, Germany, design and provide chip-extraction, dust-extraction and filtering plants around the world. They are a small company with only 60 employees with minimial information technology support. After two years of consideration, they selected SQL Server based Solid Edge Insight...

[DB2 Migration Value] [ Sybase Migration Value ] In the early 1980's I was an Oracle Developer on mainframes and on MS-DOS using Oracle 5.1 on MS-DOS (distributed on some 20+ diskettes -- I still have them). It was an interesting time because PC products like dBase II were power-user friendly but...

Culver Franchising Systems, Inc. has grown to 381 restaurants since 1984. RedPrairie’s Performance Management solution running on SQL Server has given CFSI better visibility into the performance of Culver’s restaurants and menu items. The impact on operations was more than just significant...

[Oracle Migration Value] [Sybase Migration Value] Two decades ago, I made my living as a DB2 developer working for GTENW (now Verizon). In this year's spring-cleaning, I came across my old DB2 certificates; perhaps it is time to do a spring-cleaning of perceptions about DB2 and SQL Server. As a developer...

Recently I was reading the PLM World e-Newsletter article entitled “ A One-Man Show: Maintenance Tips from a Solo CAxPLM Administrator ” by Larry Carpenter (P.E.) I have encountered this situation often in talking with PLM support staff: the typical PLM support person is a P.E. (Professional...

Siemens is a leading provider of enterprise manufacturing execution and quality systems. Teamcenter 2007 is a suite of lifecycle management solutions improving productivity by connecting people with the product and process knowledge. There are over 4 million licensed seats of Teamcenter worldwide. ...

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is changing the face of the utility industry and helping make the planet greener. There is an old saying, "Information is power!", the AMI version of this is " Information saves power !". The technical problem is processing this volume of information at a low total...

Telvent Designer allows the next generation of infrastructure needed to support modern commerce to be designed. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 supports spatial data -- the locations of items expressed as longitude, latitude. Modern GPS devices can locate items within a few feet. SQL Server spatial ability...

Thomas Instrument provides engineering, manufacturing, repair, and overhaul services to the United States Department of Defense (DoD). The company is used by the DoD to produce and/or support orphan parts, components, and systems. Orphans are items that are no longer produced and/or supported by the...

Taylor-Deal Aviation (TDA), LLC, is an aviation consultancy providing engineering services for corporate jet, state-of-the-art VIP aircraft and military modifications. The company was founded in 2004 and has grown to over 30 engineers specializing in aircraft engineering experience. “We had...

On March 28th, 2011 Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) signed an agreement with the CGI Group for detailed analysis, manufacturing, testing and rollout of the commercial lending IT solution. This solution will be based on Microsoft technology consisting of three parts the customer relationship...

Telvent’s ArcFM Enterprise GIS Solution is a complete utility GIS solution covering electric, gas, sewage and water grids. Without the electric grid, grid computing would not happen. Your utility infrastructure is managed more efficiently and effectively through ArcFM. ArcFM provides tools for...

A leading health care distribution company selected PROS on SQL Server to increase visibility into transaction types, and identify opportunities within customer and product segments. “the company needed a partner that would hold down total cost of ownership. PROS leveraged its relationship...

Misys has announced that Summit FT has migrated its product to SQL Server 2008 (32 bits) and planning to add support for SQL Server 2008 (64 bits) soon. Misys states that it is responding to market needs to reduce the total cost of ownership and improve efficiencies. Summit V5.5 is a result of major...