The Public Power Corporation (PPC), the largest business in Greece, provides 93 percent of the country’s power. To reduce operating costs and improve user productivity, PPC is upgrading as many of its 4,200 client computers as are hardware-capable to the Windows 7 operating system. PPC expects to reduce IT costs and improve user productivity by speeding computer deployments, and to trim energy consumption with power management features.

Just Energy is a leading independent energy supplier with more than 1.5 million electricity and natural gas customer accounts in North America. To accommodate a growing need for improved business continuity and real-time access to data, the company wanted to minimize the costs associated with maintaining and developing its data infrastructure. After analyzing various IT options, Just Energy determined that creating a data management platform based on Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 would represent a cost-effective method to improve its data compression and warehousing capabilities. Today, the company is using SQL Server 2008 to operate within a cost-effective, secure and scalable IT infrastructure that features strong server consolidation and a higher availability of corporate data.

Provincial Firefighters' Command in Białystok had a diffused IT infrastructure, each computer was equipped with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. The units were not connected in a local network. Because Microsoft is the basic IT system platform used in the organization, the natural way to develop was to use solutions introduced in the newest versions of Microsoft operations server system. A solution based on Windows Server 2008 platform is currently used.

The museum is preparing a computerized inventory of its collection. This requires a complex computer system. The rich resources of the museum, over 150,000 objects, demand elaboration and recording in electronic form. Up until now, the IT infrastructure in the museum, consisted of one very slow server. It was necessary to replace it with a new one. Using Windows Server® 2008 guaranteed easy remote access and application integration with MONA software. MONA is responsible for gathering full museum collection information. All users of the network can now use a printer mapping service and local terminal keyboard, which considerably simplify infrastructure administration and system service.

Stork Thermeq, a provider of products and services for industrial water-steam systems, used a Red Hat Linux high-performance computing (HPC) system to support its research. But the company found that the system took considerable expertise to run and maintain, pulling researchers away from their work, and would have required outside consultants to expand and maintain the system’s structure. The company migrated to the Windows® HPC Server 2008 operating system because it provided greater scalability and easier management. Stork Thermeq also found that the system delivers greater cluster efficiency and flexibility because of the integrated Job Scheduler and because it performs 30 percent faster per node than the company’s previous Linux system. Due to the accelerated performance, Stork Thermeq researchers can run more compute jobs and gain deeper insight for improved products and services.

Active Directory deployment ensures logical integration of IT resources, unified version of software and single business rules.

With the assistance of Microsoft Gold Partner, SQL Services Ltd, Powerco assessed its existing database management systems and identified SQL Server as a more cost-effective and manageable solution.

Transelectrica is a power-grid company in Romania. To ensure the reliability of the power system, the company prides itself on continuously improving its IT infrastructure. In an effort to streamline information access at branch offices, the company upgraded to the Windows® 7 operating system. Transelectrica now benefits from streamlined access to corporate resources, easier IT management, enhanced security, and improved system performance.

Based in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, Elektrodistribucija Beograd supplies electric power for over 2 million of the country’s citizens. Given the mission-critical nature and regulatory environment that Elektrodistribucija Beograd had to operate in, it found that its legacy Lotus Notes system lacked the functionality and native collaboration features that it needed. Weary of limping along with a messaging and collaboration platform that failed to completely meet its operational expectations, Elektrodistribucija Beograd decided to migrate to the Microsoft platform with the help of Microsoft systems integration partner, Smart d.o.o.

ActionBase develops human process management solutions that integrate with Microsoft® Office programs. These Office Business Applications help customers increase the effectiveness of human-centric processes, leading to greater accountability and more-informed decision making. For ActionBase, integrating with Microsoft Office programs offers an expanded market opportunity, and its customers appreciate how readily their users adopt ActionBase solutions.