Personify Design, a custom Web design and development firm, wanted to streamline the process of entering and retrieving information from its application lifecycle management solution. Personify Design utilized TeamLook—a software tool sold by TeamSolutions—to provide access to Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System Team Foundation Server work items, reports, and queries through the Microsoft Office Outlook® messaging and collaboration client. Deploying TeamLook and integrating Team System Web Access into the client-facing process has increased productivity for both Personify Design and clients such as PRO Sports Club, with people on both sides benefiting from significant time savings. Communication between the two parties also is more accurate, complete, and timely, resulting in fewer misunderstandings, smoother software development, and less rework.

For years, the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) depended on paper-based work orders to manage its many responsibilities in central Texas, which include delivering electricity, managing the water supply and environment of the lower Colorado River basin, and supporting community and economic development. Manual data entry processes were causing bottlenecks and inaccuracies, and the LCRA needed a mobile solution that offered versatility and configurability to meet the company’s data management requirements. Windows Mobile-based solutions from Microsoft® partner Syclo enabled the LCRA to move, capture, and manage complete and accurate data, which helped improve management, compliance reports, regulatory compliance, and service delivery, streamlined data flow, and improved customer service.

Siemens PLM Software offers Teamcenter, a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution that customers use for global collaboration during product development and launch. The company opted to integrate Teamcenter with Microsoft® Office programs to extend the power of PLM to departments throughout the enterprise for faster overall product development. Users also can take advantage of the familiar interface for increased productivity.

ErgoGroup is a leading IT services provider in the Nordic region, with 3,700 employees working in 90 locations. The firm deployed the Windows Vista® operating system to 2,000 of its 3,600 client computers and was eager to build on that foundation to achieve even greater user productivity and IT efficiencies. ErgoGroup deployed the Windows® 7 operating system to 250 computers and plans to deploy it companywide by early 2010. The outstanding stability of Windows 7 promises improved user productivity across the company. Its new management features will decrease desktop management time and eliminate licensing costs for third-party encryption software. Because of the operating system’s minimal hardware requirements, ErgoGroup will be able to deploy Windows 7 on existing computers without upgrades. ErgoGroup also envisions new customer opportunities stemming from Windows 7.

Sogeti is a global IT services provider with locations in 14 countries and 2,000 mobile employees in the United States. In order to prepare for customer deployments, the company wanted to perform a pilot upgrade to the Windows® 7 operating system. It started its upgrade with 100 computers and already benefits from improved system performance, user experience, and IT management, plus the ability to use its existing 64-bit IT infrastructure.

Helzberg Diamond’s divisional and regional vice presidents travel frequently and visit many stores each day. Previously, to access key performance data about the stores they were visiting, the executives spent extra time working with a laptop and Internet connection, or they did a lot of faxing. To improve productivity, Helzberg worked with Webalo, a Microsoft® Partner, to deploy the Webalo Mobile Dashboard on Helzberg executives’ existing handheld devices. The resulting "anywhere, any time, on-demand" data availability helps Helzberg’s mobile executives be more productive. Executives can now easily and quickly access the numbers they need, automatically get updated metrics, and even review information offline.

With 10 stores in India and plans for dozens more, RiteCare Pharmacy (India) wanted to make its warehouse operations more efficient before launching its next growth phase. As part of that process, RiteCare wanted to reduce the time required to fulfill store orders, increase order accuracy, reduce warehouse space requirements, and make it easier for workers to locate products. To address those needs, the company chose the S3Edge RTVS™ solution suite for Warehouse Visibility that includes Microsoft® BizTalk® RFID Mobile and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2. This solution optimizes the placement, retrieval, and flow of products throughout the warehouse and provides real-time visibility of all warehouse operations. As a result, RiteCare cut its order fulfillment time in half, reduced inventory by 60 percent, and increased the accuracy of fulfilling store orders to 97 percent.