Customer Case Studies

Migrating away from a mixed development environment, CCIS now benefits from a more consistent and streamlined application lifecycle, increased productivity, improved software quality, better communication, and reporting.

Centrify's auditing, access control, and identity management software solutions centrally secure heterogeneous systems, Web applications, databases, and storage systems by using Active Directory.

Cervalis needed to manage applications running in Windows®, Linux, Sun Solaris, and other operating system environments. That's why they chose Windows infrastructure.

Children's Hospital Boston deployed a platform-independent directory service based on Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode, along with Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003, resulting in up-to-date and accurate identity information, as well as a 75-percent reduction in manual data management.

Before adopting Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Chip Ganassi Racing used an engineer's laptop to run race-day simulations. The simulations that used to take 24 hours to complete on the laptop are now completed 38 times faster.

After testing Unix, Citi determined that the Microsoft® Application Platform provided the best performance and lowest total cost of ownership.

City of Indianapolis standardized its heterogeneous environment to achieve better manageability. While considering Linux, the city chose Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 and Windows Server® 2003 to save costs on long-term support.

Microsoft technology met the higher security requirements and provided superior support than Linux.

Colorado State University decided to install Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 as the campus-wide communication and collaboration server, enabling more efficient scheduling, improved performance, a fivefold increase in storage for e-mail, as well as scripting tools and scalability.

COMBELL built a website for InSites based on Microsoft technology with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition instead of a Linux-based solution to provide high availability and scalability.

Continental standardized its IT infrastructure with new server computers and modern operating systems and applications using a platform based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Windows XP Professional, considerably reducing IT costs and improving security.

Costco.com needed a solution to handle rapid growth and chose to build its Web site on a Microsoft platform resulting in increased sales, increased IT productivity, faster time-to-market, and 99.8 percent uptime.

Creative Software Systems, with DTR Business Systems, helped a customer upgrade its server-based e-mail for easier management and remote access with Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2. A 50-percent revenue boost is expected because of its Windows-based offerings.

CSG Systems needed to create a more agile front end for the mainframe-based applications it uses to provide customer care, order management, and billing solutions for the convergent cable, direct broadcast satellite and communications industries.

Daelim Industrial Company integrated its two separate e-mail systems and chose to work with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, resulting in reduced total cost of ownership, improved security, and enhanced user experience.

DaimlerChrysler Objektmanagement und Service invested in a new application developed using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, optimizing logistical processes and increasing employee productivity, with anticipated 100-percent return on investment in 12 months.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will reduce its total server holdings by 75 percent and save $4,300 per server in hardware, maintenance, electrical, and real-estate costs by virtualizing its Red Hat Linux and Windows servers with Hyper-V technology.

Dawning Information Industry Company improves performance and manageability while reducing network latency by switching from Linux to Windows HPC Server 2008.

DCD was using a mix of Linux, NetWare, and UNIX and wanted to standardize on a more reliable operating environment. After migrating from this mixed infrastructure and standardizing on the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional operating system, DCD reach its goals while saving money.

While a Linux-based solution was an option given DPK's centralized Linux file server, eMazzanti recommended upgrading to Windows Server 2008 Standard. The solution was in place within two weeks.