Germany’s TUEV NORD Group, one of that countries largest technical service providers, offers a wide range of consulting, testing, and servicing activities with its Systems, Mobility, Certification, Energy and Systems Engineering, Academy and International Divisions. The company serves customers in 36 countries in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. The TUEV NORD Group needed to replace its 32-bit system with a 64-bit solution. The company upgraded its database supporting the SAP BW to Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Enterprise Edition. The company saw a 15 percent performance increase after upgrading to SQL Server 2005, enhanced availability with Database Mirroring, readiness for 64-bit architecture, and enterprise-grade stability.

Cartesis, the largest business performance management software specialist in the world, creates applications that help its customers improve BPM. The organization’s reporting, consolidation, forecasting, and budgeting solutions provide Global 2000 companies with cost-effective solutions that unify processes and increase efficiencies. Cartesis wanted to find a more productive and faster method of creating its business performance management solutions and also wanted to offer its customers better analysis and reporting services. The company recently used Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 and the Microsoft .NET Framework to develop a solution that runs on a Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 database application. As a result of using these tools, Cartesis was able to increase its developer productivity by 30 percent and deliver the new solution to its customers quickly.

CROSSMARK helps the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry refine marketing efforts by gathering vast amounts of point-of-sale (POS) information into a data warehouse. As the company prepared to expand its biweekly POS data loads from 300 million rows to 4 billion, it needed a more robust extract, transform, and load (ETL) solution and an easier-to-use reporting solution. It upgraded its data warehouse to Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 running on the Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition operating system. CROSSMARK replaced its Business Objects reporting application with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Using SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, the data warehouse, which has grown to more than 3 terabytes, handles the 12-fold increase in data loads without expanding the loading window and gives the company a better view of its business