The Track and Trace Solutions Department of 3M, a Fortune 500 company, provides radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions. One such solution is the 3M™ RFID System, which is used by nearly 1,000 libraries and other facilities. To ensure customers can easily transition to and quickly benefit from the Windows® 7 operating system, 3M recently migrated its library RFID applications from Windows Vista® to run on Windows 7. The applications have nearly 2 million lines of code, yet it took just two days to verify the migration results—and no modifications to the applications were needed. As a result, 3M has noted enhanced security and reliability, and application performance improvements of up to 30 percent. Library patrons and staff should realize enhanced ease of use and productivity, strong support services, and simple deployments.

The main purpose of implementing an integrated client relations management system was to maintain a strong market position, and obtain a majority market share in chemical substances used for the production of generic medicines. Polpharma decided to use an IT solution which offered precise forecasts of product sales by time and place, and comparisons of forecasts with actual sales. Microsoft Dynamics CRM was installed and integrated with Oracle EBS application and Microsoft Excel.

With offices in over 90 countries, smooth real-time communication and team collaboration are crucial to the Syngenta agribusiness group. The company upgraded its communication and desktop infrastructure by installing Windows Vista® and the 2007 Microsoft® Office system, with Microsoft Office Communicator® 2007, on 20,000 computers. Employees now communicate more effectively and economically, and Syngenta saves 30 percent on PC support costs.

RMJ Laboratories, a fast-growing cosmetics manufacturing company, needed a flexible enterprise resource planning system that could handle complex process-manufacturing requirements and scale to meet growing demand. The company previously used Sage ERP X3, formerly known as Adonix X3, but found that the system lacked critical functionality and was difficult and costly to modify. After a thorough search, company leaders opted to migrate to Microsoft Dynamics® NAV. Microsoft® Certified Partner Micro DataNet helped RMJ implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV and enhance the solution with Process Advantage, an add-on solution for Microsoft Dynamics designed specifically for process manufacturers. Now, RMJ benefits from tighter inventory management, improved quality control, and an enhanced ability to handle future growth.

Adhesives manufacturer Crespel & Deiters GmbH & Co. KG implemented Microsoft Dynamics® NAV to make operations more efficient and simplify its IT environment, which previously comprised several disjointed systems. Recently, the company upgraded to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 under the Technology Adoption Program. As part of the implementation, Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner Tectura AG deployed the solution together with its process manufacturing solution. Crespel & Deiters gained the ability to capitalize on opportunities for business efficiencies throughout the organization and further streamlined its IT environment by closely integrating the solution with applications in the Microsoft Office system. Today, Crespel & Deiters owns an efficient business infrastructure that lets it direct the future of the business with confidence.

The chemical industry's "SchekinoAzot Group of Companies" has successfully implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX into a new business management system that unifies key processes, including material resources management with critical financial procedures.

InjGeo R&D Institute uses Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology to decrease internet channel loading, increase remote access speed, and lower IT operating costs.

Arch Chemicals is a global biocides company with manufacturing and customer support facilities worldwide. Due to its diverse portfolio of businesses, the company needed a better way to manage and analyze its sales force and customer service. Through the flexibility and simple integration of Microsoft Dynamics® CRM business software with its existing systems, Arch Chemicals is increasing sales productivity and customer service performance while gaining valuable insight into its business data.

Honam Petrochemical Corporation (HPC) produces plastics, synthetics, and basic chemicals and, following mergers with two other companies, was in the process integrating the various IT infrastructures. HPC wanted to simplify management by consolidating its servers and implementing an efficient disaster recovery solution, which was less costly than the existing remote solution. HPC deployed Windows Server® 2008 with the Cluster Continuous Replication function in Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007, to enable real time data recovery without investing in a costly remote recovery solution. By taking this approach HPC was able to reduce the IT costs incurred from the operation of its DR center by half, as well as greatly decrease the time for failure recovery from a maximum of four hours to within a minute, improving availability for its group companies.

Engro, a fertiliser company based in Pakistan, uses SAP software to manage financial and human resources (HR) tasks. In 2007, two fires damaged servers in the company’s data centre, including the Linux server, which hosts the SAP software. The IT team spent more than a week restoring the operating system to guarantee access to this critical business application. Employees introduced a new solution based on Windows Server® 2003 Enterprise Edition, reducing the time spent on server management and restoration, and better protecting the business.