Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
After considering Oracle, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. chose SQL Server 2000 for its human resources system and migration from Sybase. The solution provides scalability and performance to support the company's 17,000 employees worldwide, achieving 99.995% availability in its first year. | Oracle, Sybase |
Albertson's, Inc.
Using the Microsoft platform, including SQL Server 2000, and its capabilities to integrate with IBM mainframe applications, Albertson's, Inc. developed a scalable and integrated solution to support multiple storefronts and fulfillment models. | IBM |
ASB Bank
Since migrating its data warehouse from Oracle to SQL Server, ASB Bank has made comprehensive customer information instantly accessible to employees. With in-depth knowledge at their fingertips, employees can now make intelligent recommendations about bank services, resulting in increased profits. | Oracle |
Black & Decker
Standardizing on the Microsoft platform, including migrating from Oracle to SQL Server, Black & Decker built a Web site in three months. Black & Decker now cultivates deep and long-lasting relationships with tens of millions of consumers at a lower total cost of ownership. | Oracle |
Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F)
Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) chose SQL Server and the Microsoft platform to build its leading-edge foreign exchange clearinghouse. BM&F brought the solution to market in just six months and has achieved a mission-critical level of availability that now processes $5 billion US per day. | Oracle |
Ceridian
"SQL Server 2000 came out ahead of Oracle and DB2 because it offered the best management tools, lowest TCO [total cost of ownership], and greatest level of interoperability with the disparate data sources in our enterprise environment." Using the Microsoft platform, Ceridian built a Web-based interface for its mainframe-base payroll processing system in just four months and resulted in an annual savings of $15 million US. | IBM, Oracle |
Clalit Health Services
After considering IBM, Clalit Health Services chose SQL Server 2000 to provide real-time business intelligence (BI) to more the 1,000 managerial and medical offices supporting more than 3.7 million insured member. Clalit's medical BI application now provides multidimensional world views on every aspect of HMO operation. | IBM Informix |
Commonwealth Department of Education Science and Training
By migrating its mainframe applications to Web technology using SQL Server 2000, the Commonwealth Department of Education Science and Training has enabled the two-way transfer of mission-critical data between public sector employees and overseas agents at a lower total cost of ownership. | IBM |
Commonwealth Securities Limited (CommSec)
After considering Oracle, Commonwealth Securities Limited decides that upgrading its existing infrastructure with SQL Server 2000 and the Microsoft platform is the best way to provide the scalability, low total cost of ownership, and agility that their growing business needs. | Oracle |
Cooper Rubber & Tire
Cooper Rubber & Tire migrates to the Microsoft platform and SQL Server 2000 and cuts time-to-market by 50 percent, realizes higher revenues, and achieves lower total cost of ownership equaling $2.9 million US over three years. The solution requires interoperability with legacy mainframe and Oracle databases. | Mainframe |
Countrywide Home Loans
After a side-by-side comparison with IBM DB2, Countrywide decided to implement a solution based on SQL Server 2000 for its loan origination data system. They are now benefiting from new replication capabilities, improved query return times, enhanced analysis capabilities, outstanding reliability, and an affordable scalability strategy. | IBM |
Danfoss
Danfoss migrated its SAP R/3 application from Oracle to a more cost-effective solution using SQL Server 2000. With 1,500 users, the new solution reduced total cost of ownership by 50% and increased overall performance by 40%, with batch processes running up to 67% faster. | Oracle |
DPF Data Services
With 4 terabytes of data, DPF Data Services Group has an enormous database to manage. The archiving company previously used Sybase 11.5 and Oracle 8.0 to handle its customer data, but the two systems did not work well together and could not deliver the scalable solution that DPF needed. In addition to saving the company U.S.$500,000 each year in hardware and software costs, the solution gave the company increased performance, better interoperability, and the scalability that DPF was trying to achieve. Additionally, they have not experienced any downtime in the full year and a half since making the switch from Sybase and Oracle. | Oracle,Sybase |
Grand Expeditions
Grand Expeditions, a consortium of luxury travel companies, wanted to reduce its Web development and hosting costs while making it easier for marketing staff to post new information and make changes. The company also wanted to improve site reliability and performance. Grand Expeditions accomplished all of these objectives by moving its nine travel Web sites from a combination of Linux- and UNIX-based servers running the Oracle 8i database to SQL Server on Windows and saved approximately U.S.$200,000 a year. | Oracle |
Guinness World Records Limited
Guinness World Records migrated from a Sun and Oracle platform to the Microsoft platform and SQL Server 2000 just 90 days prior to the launch of GuinnessWorldRecords.com. By doing so, the site launched on schedule, with more features than originally planned, and with lower costs. | Oracle |
H&R Block
Since switching from Oracle to SQL Server, H&R Block developed a new solution in just four months and was able to leverage its existing professional tax calculation engine. It now enjoys an agile and easily scalable system, and can focus on growing its online business by adding new features and services. | Oracle |
Hadeed (Saudi Iron & Steel Company)
Hadeed migrated its SAP R/3 application from Oracle to SQL Server 2000 to support 1,400 users more cost effectively. The result reduced total cost of ownership by 50%, reduced process time by 87%, and achieved a full return on investment in 18 months. | Oracle |
Home Shopping Network (HSN.com)
Home Shopping Network migrated the database tier of its Web solution from Oracle to SQL Server 2000 and the Microsoft platform, achieving an increase in performance, easy maintenance, and a decrease in time to market for new functionality. | Oracle |
Indiana (State of) Department of Administration (IDOA)
After extensive performance and cost analysis, IDOA migrated its PeopleSoft application from IBM DB2 to SQL Server and increased usage 100-fold to all 40,000 state employees. This solution achieved a 90-day ROI and dramatically improved performance, with most transactions running in 1/10th of the time. | IBM, Oracle |
iTelco
iTelco switched from Oracle to SQL Server 2000 and developed an entire carrier-grade conferencing system in only three months. iTelco's solution provides a cost-effective, high-availability platform that carriers can offer as a new generation of high-quality Internet Protocol (IP) audio, video, and data conferencing, and application sharing services. | Oracle |
Jih Sun Financial Holding Company
After consolidating its banking and securities-trading operations, Jih Sun Financial Holding Company turned to the Microsoft platform and SQL Server 2000 to develop a data warehouse and an enterprise application integration (EAI) solution for its IBM mainframe applications. The result was a consistent and transparent interface for customers. | IBM |
Launch.com
After considering IBM DB2 and Oracle, Launch.com chose SQL Server 2000 for its music entertainment portal that serves more than 4.3 million customers. The result is a robust, highly scalable database system that handles large and diverse data sources, including streaming media files and music videos, and streamlines database development | IBM, Oracle |
Minolta
Minolta migrated one of the world's largest SAP R/3 applications (5.5 terabytes, 2,000 users, and 700 concurrent users) from Oracle to SQL Server and consolidated twenty UNIX-based IBM RS/6000 servers to two 32-way Unisys ES7000 servers. The company also doubled the processing speed for many of the key SAP R/3 functions and reduced administration costs for the system by half. | Oracle |
ntl
After considering Oracle, ntl, a leading broadband company in the United Kingdom, decided to use the Microsoft platform and SQL Server 2000 for its customer management and billing solution. The result has been an increase in productivity and performance and a decrease in development costs. | Oracle |
NuRun
"We considered IBM DB2 and Sybase, but decided SQL Server 2000 offered the best solution for building an effective Web site at lower cost and risk. Additionally, we received excellent support from Microsoft personnel." | IBM, Sybase |
Outtask Inc.
"There are certain undeniable advantages to standardizing on the Microsoft platform. As with the entire suite of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers [now Windows Server System], SQL Server 2000 allows us to move fast with a high level of reliability and scalability. The speed at which we can develop in the Microsoft environment is far beyond what we could do in the Oracle environment." | Oracle |
PCS Health Systems, Inc.
PCS Health Systems, Inc. chose SQL Server 2000 when it migrated a 1.3-terabyte data warehouse from legacy systems, including an IBM mainframe data warehouse. The result was rapid, more flexible reporting without compromising availability. | IBM |
Premera Blue Cross
"We believed that Microsoft, in partnership with Unisys, would deliver and create the highly centralized, scalable, reliable environment that we needed for our transaction engine and be best able to provide it in a way that creates an integrated solution all the way out to the desktop. The Windows and ES7000 server platform offers a better price/performance, and this choice reduces the number of platforms that we have to support." | IBM, Oracle, Sybase |
Radioshack.com
After migrating its Web site data tier from Oracle to SQL Server 2000, RadioShack.com enjoys seamless integration with legacy systems, improved business intelligence capabilities, and extensive personalization that meets the needs of both B2B and B2C customers. | IBM, Oracle |
Safeway, Inc.
After considering Linux, Sun Solaris, and IBM AIX platforms, Safeway migrated its 1,800 in-store server network to the Windows Server platform and SQL Server, resulting in a more dependable, flexible, manageable, and cost-effective platform. | IBM |
Sandford Bernstein
Sandford C. Bernstein, an investment research and management firm, migrated its customer care solution from Sybase to SQL Server, and utilized the replication capabilities of SQL Server to enhance customer service with a more reliable and powerful centralized customer view across sites in London, New York and Los Angeles. | Sybase |
Sanford Limited
Sanford Limited migrated from an Oracle and Solaris platform to the Microsoft platform and SQL Server 2000. The solution was implemented and deployed by their in-house staff in just four months and has reduced Sanford's per-transaction cost by nearly 50 percent and realized annual savings of AU$480,000 (US$319,000) in licensing and maintenance fees alone. | Oracle |
Savings Bank of the Russian Federation
After the deployment of a mainframe-based solution failed, the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation chose the Microsoft platform and SQL Server 2000 to support its 18,000 branch offices and 200,000 employees, and to process millions of transactions per day and more that 15 million documents a month. | Mainframe |
Smead Manufacturing Company
Smead's migration from an Oracle environment to SQL Server simplifies operations, provides rapid failover and recovery of mission-critical applications, supports future growth, and enables new e-business intiatives for its PeopleSoft applications—all with a 75 percent reduction in total cost of ownership. | Oracle |
Stratapult
After evaluating alternative solutions like IBM and Oracle, Stratapult built a Web-enabled business analysis portal using the Microsoft platform and SQL Server 2000. The result: a large e-business data warehouse system that integrates with legacy systems and that is scalable, flexible, and affordable. | IBM, Oracle |
Suncor Energy
Suncor migrated its SAP R/3 application from Oracle to SQL Server, which resulted in a 400% performance increase on batch jobs and a projected availability of 99.99%. The company projects that the new system will reduce hardware, software, and support costs by 42% over six years. The migration process was designed and tested over a three-month period and implementation was done over a weekend. | Oracle |
University of South Florida
The University of South Florida chose the Microsoft platform and SQL Server 2000 to build a complete Web-based student information system that extracts information from an IBM mainframe and other database systems throughout the 36,000-student campus, increasing scalability while also lowering total cost of ownership and development costs. | IBM, Oracle |
