Learn how Microsoft’s interoperability solutions have helped a variety of industries and partners solve business challenges, increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve collaboration and communication.

Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

Enhances Decisions and Boosts Safety through Integration with Other Agencies
The Virginia DMV used the Microsoft® Connected Government Framework to create an integrated solution that so far includes the state Department of Transportation and Virginia State Police. The case study is now available for reference.

GoDaddy.com

Web Hosting Firm Empowers Customers, Realizes Operational Benefits
GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest Web site domain name registrar and one of the world’s leading hosting companies, offers more than 40 Web site products and services for its customers. With its focus on empowering its customers to achieve success on the Web, Go Daddy deployed Windows Server® 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0) to address its own expanding IT infrastructure requirements as it supported the growing needs of its customers. By offering new features, including individual application pools, and both Microsoft®-based and alternative development options, Go Daddy is providing an improved customer experience based on more individual choice and flexibility, while delivering reliability, improved manageability, and increased data security. View the case study and video.

Johns Hopkins Institutions

University-Hospital Doubles IT Management Efficiency with New Software
Johns Hopkins Institutions, wanted to trim the cost of managing its IT infrastructure, which spanned 1,500 Windows®, Linux, and UNIX operating system–based servers and 15,000 desktop computers. The organization deployed Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to manage all systems through one console, doubling monitoring efficiency, increasing application service levels, and improving auditing. Read the case study.

Aqua Connect

Aqua Connect: Microsoft Open Protocols Decrease Solution Deployment Time (.pdf)
Aqua Connect is a leading provider of Macintosh® terminal server software. As part of its development of a Mac terminal server, Aqua Connect obtained a license from Microsoft for the Remote Desktop Protocol and, by accessing Microsoft’s protocols specifications, reduced their compatibility issues with RDP devices currently available. The collaboration with Microsoft and the inclusion of RDP helped Aqua Connect keep pace with customer demand and establish their product as a leader in the market.

Strong Angel III

Strong Angel III: Disaster Response Demonstration (.wmv)
More than 800 volunteers gathered for a demonstration to explore how military, humanitarian, local government, and private organizations work together during man-made or natural disasters. Using available technologies from Microsoft, the Strong Angel III team was able to easily communicate, collaborate, and share information across geographic, technical, and environmental boundaries by building bridges among applications and operating systems.

Accenture and Siemens

Portugal Creates Interoperability Framework to Simplify Citizen/Government Interaction (.wmv)
The Portuguese government is working to make Portugal one of the world’s leading information societies. The Agency for the Modernization of the Public Administration (AMA) is chartered with leading digital initiatives across Portuguese society and introducing e-government services. The agency worked with Microsoft, Accenture, and Siemens IT Solutions and Services to create an interoperability framework that allows multiple, incompatible government information systems to communicate with one another and share citizen-submitted data.

Centrify

Software Firm Eases Compliance, Improves Security by Linking Heterogeneous Systems (.pdf)
Today’s businesses face new regulatory pressures to integrate and centrally manage heterogeneous computer systems. Centrify is a leading security software vendor that uses Active Directory® as the core of its auditing, access control, and identity management software solutions. With Centrify solutions, companies are able to centrally manage diverse systems, comply with data security regulations, and increase staff efficiency.

Conductor

Credit Card Processor Utilizes Microsoft-Novell Agreement, Expects 55 Percent Savings (.doc)
Conductor, one of the largest credit-card processing outsourcers in Brazil, provides credit card issuers with comprehensive services. Internally, it supports a mix of desktop systems and a heterogeneous IT infrastructure which led to support inefficiencies, lack of interoperability between servers, and difficulty exchanging files internally. By using the Microsoft-Novell interoperability agreement, Conductor has alleviated these issues and saves hardware, energy, and support costs.

EMC Corporation

EMC Provides Scalable, Low-Cost Document Management with Diverse Data Stories (.pdf)
EMC Corporation helps enterprises manage their growing information volumes. EMC worked with Microsoft to demonstrate outstanding performance and scalability of the EMC® Documentum® enterprise content management platform on the Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) database running on Windows Server® 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. Now, customers get lower-cost solutions and interoperability between Microsoft and other UNIX-based database vendors.

Engryo

Software Interoperability Increases System Availability and Reduces Costs (.pdf)
Many businesses use multiple management systems to manage applications. This has led to nonintegrated management data and poor visibility into system health. Engryo, a Microsoft subsidiary, uses Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager 2007 to help customers connect these diverse management systems. Engryo’s products help increase system uptime, reduce costs, and improve application health through better analysis and decision-making.

American University of Beirut

University Delivers Unified Logon to Disparate Computing Systems, Drives Innovation (.doc)
American University of Beirut has a diverse technology environment consisting of multiple platforms and applications. To give users easy access to all systems, exchange data between systems, and cost-effectively manage them, the IT staff standardized on the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 operating system and Active Directory® service as its interoperability “backbone.” Since implementing these technologies, AUB has been able to provide users with unified logon to Windows®, UNIX and Linux, and improve data security.

Ca Wily Technology

Interoperability Solution Simplifies Management of Mixed Web Environments (.pdf)
Organizations with complex, distributed web application environments cannot tolerate downtime or even slowdowns. CA Wily Technology makes a management pack that integrates its Introscope application performance management product with Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager 2007. The combination provides end-to-end management of mixed Microsoft .NET and Java application environments, faster problem resolution, better application performance, and reduced costs.

Tidal Software

Enterprises Link Heterogeneous Applications to Identify Performance Problems Faster (.pdf)
Enterprise IT staffs often devote much valuable time to tedious performance management tasks. Using Tidal Software products, companies can automate performance management for SAP, PeopleSoft, and other mission-critical applications running on Windows®, Linus and UNIX operating systems. They can integrate performance data through a single Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager 2007-based interface, freeing IT talent for strategic work.

Univertex

Integrator Links Disparate Customer Systems to Deliver Business Agility, Lower Risk (.pdf)
Many companies have financial and sales systems that they want to extend with newer reporting and data warehouse solutions to give managers easier views of business health. Univertex is a Microsoft® Certified Partner that specializes in connecting such systems using Microsoft software. Univertex has found that Windows Server® 2003, Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006, and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 allows them to deliver interoperable solutions on time, within budget, and with greater flexibility and improved risk mitigation.

JN Bridge

KLA-Tencor Links Java and .NET, Saves U.S. $1.6 Million (.pdf)
KLA-Tencor recently sought to migrate from Java to Microsoft® .NET, but it had thousands of lines of code that would have to be rewritten at a high cost. The company engaged JNBridge, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that offers development tools allowing interoperability among different platforms, to deploy a solution that allowed the company to access larger amounts of data across the Java and the .NET boundary and boost its performance. This solution reduced development time and the risk of rewriting and converting the existing code base, a cost savings of $1.6 million.

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