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Microsoft and CSC have formed an alliance to support CSC’s Integral insurance suite on Microsoft software. Because Integral interoperates seamlessly with Windows Server and SQL Server, insurance carriers who deploy the joint CSC/Microsoft solution benefit from a modern, easy-to-manage solution...

SQL Server provides an ideal database platform for TEMENOS T24. By choosing the Microsoft platform, T24 customers experience faster funds transfers, higher security-trade volumes, and quicker close-of-business processes. This white paper provides best practices for configuring and running T24 on SQL...

CSC’s Integral is a comprehensive insurance administration suite that provides end-to-end policy and group management, product configuration, and business-analytics capabilities. In February and March of 2012, CSC and Microsoft conducted performance and scalability testing on the Integral property...

CSC’s Integral is a comprehensive administration suite for life insurance and annuities/pensions, property and casualty (P&C), general insurance, and group insurance. In February and March 2012, CSC and Microsoft conducted performance and scalability testing on the Integral P&C application running...

Desire2Learn, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, provides mission-critical enterprise learning systems that can help transform teaching and learning, and lead the market in innovation and client satisfaction. To demonstrate the scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency of using Desire2Learn Learning...

CSC’s POINT IN policy administration system is widely known in the insurance industry as the leading end-to-end property and casualty (P&C) administration application suite. It has the largest active customer community in North America, with more than 100 carriers using the system to process...

A team of engineers from RedPrairie and Microsoft worked together to test the performance and scalability of RedPrairie’s Parcel on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. Tests were also run on a pre-release version of SQL Server 2012, SQL Server Denali CTP3...

The telecommunications industry has undergone tremendous changes in recent years. As the services they provide converge and as industry churn puts revenue at risk, telecommunications service providers are finding that they must transform their operations and their business models so that they can deliver...

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is an enterprise, business, and information strategy that helps companies develop and deliver world-class products quickly and efficiently. Teamcenter from Siemens PLM Software is the most widely used PLM system in the world, powering innovation and improving productivity...

Enterprises have come to rely on increasingly robust product lifecycle management (PLM) systems to streamline their business processes and to keep costs down. PLM systems, in turn, rely on high-performance databases. Dassault Systèmes ENOVIA V6 is a standards-based, scalable PLM system that can...

In November 2011, Siemens PLM Software, Microsoft, and Intel conducted performance and scalability testing on Teamcenter 8.3 with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 running on servers based on Intel Xeon processors. The benchmark testing was very successful, confirming that Teamcenter can successfully scale to...

Temenos is the market-leading provider of integrated core banking systems, with more than 1,500 customers and 700 implementations in more than 125 countries. Temenos works closely with Microsoft to provide financial institutions with scalable, high-performing, and affordable banking solutions. ...

Infor EAM is a leading enterprise asset management (EAM) software solution that has been helping companies worldwide—including more than 60% of the Fortune 500—for more than 20 years. Infor recognizes that Microsoft is a key vendor in many of their customers' businesses and has engaged in...

The RedPrairie Commerce Suite delivers an integrated shopping experience on the web, in stores, on mobile phones, on Facebook, and anywhere else consumers choose to interact with their favorite retail brands. Using Microsoft SQL Server as a database platform with industry-standard hardware provides the...

Telvent, a leading provider of IT solutions and business information services, works with Microsoft to develop integrated solutions that can help utilities better use their distribution assets for maintenance and growth. The companies recently joined forces to conduct real-world scalability and performance...

In August 2011, Lawson and Microsoft worked together to confirm the scalability and performance of Lawson System Foundation (LSF) 9.0.1 on SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Human resources, payroll, accounts payable, and general ledger application procedures were tested...

As part of their strategic alliance, Siemens and Microsoft, in partnership with HP and Intel, ran benchmarking tests to evaluate the performance and scalability of current versions of Teamcenter, Microsoft SQL Server, and Windows Server. These tests were completed in March 2011 in the HP labs in Houston...

This spring there has been extensive benchmarking done with the Itron team on Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, which I have been following. A few weeks ago there was a webcast with Itron's Robert Sonderegger and our own Lonnye Bower, describing...

In prior posts , I have described the benefit of Read-Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI). RCSI will usually benefit most ISV databases . Another method may benefit many ISV databases (running on SQL Server 2008 and later): compression . Compression is often ignored because of user experiences with the...

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...

I have been going though posts on our old blog to select a few "Best of" repostings. While SQL Server 2008 R2 is clearly the best choice, with some recent studies suggesting a 10% performance improvement over SQL Server 2005, often corporate policy may not allow its selection. The white paper may be...

In an older post I described the performance of Itron's Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management (MDM) Version 5.3 using SQL Server 2005. Today, you can read about Version 7 performance on SQL Server 2008 R2. The performance has increased to handle the volume seen with the largest utility companies in...

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. ...

Recently I reviewed some public posts on Desire2Learn SQL Server Performance and extracted some recommendations of common issues: Often, I have seen an increase of CPUs without increasing RAM or the number of TempDB files. Each CPU (or core on a CPU) creates a "mini-PC". A configuration with 4 GB...

Advisor and Reviewer: Bryan deSilva, Managing Director and Chief Evangelist at Improvizations.com . His bio can be found here . Recently I had a conversation with Bryan deSilva, Chief Evangelist of Improvizations , a firm that specializes in workforce management software implementations...