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| Finance |
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| Centerprise
Centerprise is an application service provider offering
financial management companies its CenterSphere management
framework to integrate with their legacy systems. All
this is made possible with IBM WebSphere MQ for Linux.
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| Clarity
Payment processing is Clarity's specialty, as it crafts
a variety of solutions specific to different industries.
But that requires a database that is reliable and scalable,
with low cost of ownership.
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| Ericsson-Deutsche Technology Fund
This private equity fund in Australia, managed by DB
Capital Partners, needed a new Web site to showcase
the fund and its benefits to an audience of investees
and entrepreneurs. Using Aptrix Multi-Platform from
Presence Online, on WebSphere on Linux, their business
staff is able to manage their Web content without involving
the IT department.
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| Retail |
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| Expert Invest AB
Selling electronic goods through a chain of 200 retail
stores is one thing. Setting up a help desk for customers
who have questions about their gadgets is another dimension
in adding value. That is what Expert Invest AB did,
using Lotus Domino for Linux to run its help desk application.
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Future Communications
Selling cell phones and services is a challenge via
automated kiosks, but that is what Future Communications
does. These stand alone minishops have to be centrally
managed from one location, which Future manages to do
thanks to IBM middleware and Linux.
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| Diveo
Offering Internet data centers throughout Latin America,
Diveo relies on Linux for its own operations. But it
also tapped that experience to resell IBM-Linux solutions
for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
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team, read the story. |
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| Nitsuko America
It was just a small operation supporting 120 mail clients
in three offices, but Nitsuko America took this support
task seriously. The company migrated to Lotus Domino
on Linux to gain its reliability and lessen the work
load on its three IT administrators.
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solution is, read the success story. |
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VoiceRite
VoiceRite, a computer/telephony solutions company in
the U.S., is using Relavis eBusinessStreams’ eSales
component and Lotus Domino for Linux to save time and
money in managing their customer relationships.
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Web Wombat
What started out as two PCs and a modem is now a one
terabyte data warehouse with a high-end file server.
So runs Web Wombat, Australia's largest search engine,
and it relies on DB2 to manage a system that has far
outgrown its humble beginnings.
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| Manufacturing |
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| Essential Systems
Losing tools added up to great expense for a specialty
construction company, until Essential Systems built
a handheld solution using barcodes and a portable database
to track all tools and materials.
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| Grede
Too many servers and not enough floor space was the
problem Grede Foundries was facing. Using IBM DB2 on
Linux, the company consolidated its servers onto a single
S/390 mainframe, cutting its total cost of ownership.
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| Element-System Rudolf Bohnacker
This German manufacturer of component shelf systems
needed a new ERP system to handle the company’s expansion
and reorganization. Using SAP on DB2 for Linux, they
have increased productivity by 25% while reducing stocks
and lead times by around 15%.
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| Health |
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| Structural Bioinformatics
Pharmaceutical companies create new drugs today by
understanding the proteins they have to interact with.
But that requires calculating three-dimensional models,
a solution that Structural Bioinformatics delivers with
IBM DB2 and Linux.
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| Tramedico
A good experience porting the e-mail and Internet gateway
to Linux made Tramedico eager to do the same for its
groupware. As an importer and distributor of pharmaceutical
products, Tramedico relies on its solution to deliver
detailed information to its sales reps.
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prescription for success, read the story. |
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| Travel |
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| deckchair.com
Getting away for a quick vacation at some sunny Mediterranean
destination should take no more than a few minutes of
pointing and clicking at deckchair.com. But behind the
screen is a DB2/Linux combination that can handle the
traffic while making life easy for IT managers to administer
the site.
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your chair, read the story right now. |
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| Satair
People fly to their vacation destinations with scarcely
a thought about the airplane that gets them there. That
worry belongs to Satair, which sells and distributes
spare parts for aircraft using Lotus Domino on Linux.
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| Education |
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| FHT Esslingen University
Running a DB2 Scholars Program is one way FHT Esslinghen
University can get its computer science majors up to
speed on the latest technology. Graduates then take
these skills to nearby corporations, where they can
put their knowledge to good use.
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| Florida International University
It takes a lot of computing power and a high-performance
database to turn two-dimensional information into three-dimensional
maps that a user can view. Florida International University
delivers a solution that gives users a bird's-eye view
using aerial photos and satellite imagery.
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| University of Western Ontario
A robust database solution is the ideal solution when
you have a hundred or so computer science majors working
side-by-side on their projects. The University of Western
Ontario found its solution on DB2 running on Linux.
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solution, read about it right now. |
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| Computer Services |
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| AIRS
Finding the right resume among thousands of applicants
is like finding a needle in a haystack. But AIRS crafts
its own Web-based solution to electronically search
and find ideal job candidates from the deepest hiring
pools.
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solution, just read the story. |
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| Steeleye
No company can afford downtime from crashed systems.
Steeleye's LifeKeeper lives up to its name by controlling
reliable Linux clusters to deliver uptime all the time.
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read the success story. |
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| SuSE
As a packager and distributor of Linux applications
in Europe, SuSE provides 60 days of free support for
customers installing its solutions. But when detailed
customer records could not be retrieved to enable effective
support, SuSE had to craft its own Linux-based solution
using DB2 to speed the needed information to its support
team.
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used Linux and DB2 to help itself, read the story. |
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