J.R. Simplot needed a better way to support the technology requirements of its fast growing agri-buisiness. Custom point-to-point integrations between its JD Edwards enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and third party applications were taking too long to develop. Also, Simplot executives had no insight into their ERP system. Simplot adopted the Microsoft Application Platform (SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006) to create a solution that cut integration and reporting time from weeks to days.
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Berlin Packaging maintained contact information on its 21,000 customers in a PeopleSoft ERP database—but the company’s sales force often updated their customer contacts only in their personal Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003 contact lists. The company wanted to link the two solutions so that sales people could always access contacts from Office Outlook wherever they were, while the PeopleSoft database would always contain up-to-date records. A custom application from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Emerging Solutions makes this possible. The result: Better customer information from the application enables Berlin Packaging to make millions of dollars in increased revenues. Productivity is up, as is customer and employee satisfaction. According to the CIO, this may be the best U.S.$20,000 investment the company has ever made
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When landscape giant ValleyCrest Companies faced a multimillion-dollar expense to continue to use IBM System i to support JD Edwards, it knew it needed another solution. That solution: the Windows Server® and SQL Server® products from Microsoft. Hardware and software licensing costs declined 92 percent and a U.S.$300,000 maintenance contract was eliminated, while performance and scalability will help keep the company growing for years.
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Moore Medical, a $100M business unit of McKesson, streamlined and replaced manual processes with an automated system based on .NET, Office, and SharePoint technologies that required no changes to its existing JD Edwards legacy application. Find out how Moore Medical increased employee productivity, reduced time-to-market, and enabled new revenue opportunities.

Mary Kay, one of the largest direct sellers of skin care and color cosmetics in the world, partnered with Microsoft and Hitachi Consulting to reduce the cost of reporting across its supply chain and fulfillment operations. Read how Mary Kay leveraged Microsoft BI technologies to extend the PeopleSoft applications and allowed users to interact with the data in their familiar Office environments.

Hutton Communications partnered with Microsoft and BORN Consulting to extend its legacy JD Edwards' system to the web. Hutton considered IBM WebSphere, but ultimately determined that the .NET platform was the best choice. See how Hutton increased customer satisfaction and more than doubled the company's online sales.

BIC Chile, a subsidiary of BIC Corporation, wanted a mobile computing solution for sales representatives to optimize the sales order generation process. By leveraging the .NET Compact Framework and the HP IPAQ Pocket PC, BIC developed a mobile sales order solution integrated into its existing JD Edwards system. Learn how BIC increased sales force productivity and reduced sales cycle time from five days to just minutes.

London Drugs, a major retail chain consisting of 55 stores serving millions of customers across Alberta and B.C., automated its supply chain business processes with Microsoft's BizTalk Server. See how the new solution delivers immediate business results, but is also providing a solid foundation for integrating future business systems.

The United States Department of Agriculture supports over 73,000 current and retired employees. Read how they were able to improve system performance by replatforming their PeopleSoft Human Resources systems from UNIX and Oracle to a Windows Server System platform.

Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa, a joint venture between MGM Mirage and Boyd Gaming, considered deploying its PeopleSoft Human Resources system on a DB2 solution. Find out how Borgata saved $400K by deploying to a Microsoft Windows Server System platform.

Hilton Hotels, a 70,000 employee hotel chain, saves $5M annually by leveraging PeopleSoft Global Services to upgrade its 7.X PeopleSoft environment while replatforming off their legacy UNIX environment to a Windows Server System platform.
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ACE Insurance is one of the world's leading insurance companies with assets of $43 billion. The high cost of the SUN and Oracle platform threatened its implementation of the PeopleSoft Human Resources system for its 15,000 employees. See how, by replatforming to a Windows Server System, ACE was able to free up budget to continue the rollout enabling self-service for its employees.

El Paso Energy, a $6B natural gas and pipeline company, realized improved system performance while saving more than $200K per year. Find out how migrating their PeopleSoft financial applications from Oracle to SQL Server made it happen.

Palomar College, a public 2-year college near San Diego, met the needs of its 30,000 students and 1,500 staff by migrating off a legacy UNIX platform to a Microsoft Windows Server System platform. Read how replatforming while upgrading to PeopleSoft 8 Student Administration system reduced TCO.

Smead Manufacturing, a leading supplier of office supplies to the United States and Europe, replatformed off a legacy UNIX platform and leveraged the Microsoft Windows Server System to consolidate its PeopleSoft environment from 28 servers to three.