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Mar. 062012Data Services Firm Uses Microsoft BI and Hadoop to Boos... Klout wanted to give consumers, brands, and partners faster, more detailed insight into hundreds of terabytes of social-network data. It also wanted to boost efficiency. To do so, Klout deployed a bus... Mar. 062012Advertising Firm Boosts Client Services with Faster Rep... Havas Media wanted to improve operations and client services with better business intelligence (BI) tools. After evaluating more than 20 solutions—including those from Oracle and IBM—Havas Media imple... Mar. 062012Online Gaming Firm Implements Real-Time Analytics and S... BetOnSoft develops and manages more than 110 online casino games, played every day by thousands of players worldwide. The company needed to ensure that its games are highly available, because players ... Mar. 062012Automaker Will Be More Competitive with Faster Performa... BMW Group is one of the most successful manufacturers of automobiles and motorcycles in the world. As it prepares to move to a private cloud infrastructure, the company wanted to ensure high availabil... Sep. 272011Kimberly-Clark Cuts TCO by 30% and Boosts Sales by 8%The company deployed a mission-critical BI solution on the Microsoft platform that consolidates disparate data and provides one set of BI tools, simplifying IT and cut its TCO by 30%. Sep. 142011Lottery Agency Saves Millions with BI SolutionOLG created a solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and HP hardware using guidance and best practices available in Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse.Aug. 232011Retailer Enhances BI and Speeds Performance Upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise helped Edcon create an enterprise-grade solution for its BI while gaining increased performance and data compression.Aug. 232011Visa Deploys Highly Secure Payments Service on Microsof... Visa wanted a new payments service for small online purchases. The company worked with the Microsoft Services Solutions Development Centre in Sydney to develop and deploy payclick by Visa. Jun. 102011London Transport Manages 2.3 Million Website Hits a Day... TfL worked with Microsoft Services to create a real-time data feed for its TrackerNet website for trains in just six weeks using Windows Azure. Jun. 092011Trading Firm Standardizes on Private Cloud IT System Mitsui deployed Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtualization technology, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 6.0 to consolidate its IT infrastructure within a private cloud... Mar. 092011Pharmaceutical Firm Bolsters Mission-Critical SAP Platf... The new solution, based on 64-bit versions of Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server, provides much higher computing performance, with response times improved by 80% or more.Jan. 112011Car Rental Company Migrates Rate Engine to New DatabaseInstead of spending U.S.$700,000 to upgrade the Oracle platform, it migrated the Rate Engine to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise data management software, saving the company $135,000 in annual ... Sep. 082010Volvo Group Increases Project Visibility and Control Volvo IT is using Project Server 2010 to improve capacity planning to build its long-term strengths, reducing the time spent entering project data by 40%.
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