Industry Implementations
Kelly Services Selects Exstream Software's Dialogue
Exstream Software, LLC announced that Kelly Services has chosen its Dialogue enterprise document automation software to take the company's billing statements to the next level. Key considerations in the company's selection of Dialogue were its robust and flexible design capabilities, which will increase operational efficiency, and the software's ability to easily integrate with existing systems. Dialogue's functionality and open architecture for streamlining complex document processes, including the ability to output variable documents at high performance levels regardless of delivery channel, were also key in the company's selection.
"Dialogue's ability to simplify complex design and development processes will allow us to give our clients billing statements that group employee and applicable fees in a way that makes it easy for them to understand," said Thomas Manceor, vice president of project operations for Kelly Services. "Increased clarity means greater customer satisfaction."
Scarborough Building Society Achieves Improvement in Application Performance with Blue Phoenix Solutions
BluePhoenix Solutions, a provider of value-driven legacy modernization, announced the successful completion of a strategic upgrade project for Scarborough Building Society, which ranks 18th in the list of United Kingdom building societies, and offers mortgages, savings, insurance and financial planning services to approximately 120,000 members.
The strategic modernization project involved the migration of the Society's mainframe applications and IDMS(X) database to the Microsoft SQL Server and the Microsoft .NET platform. The COBOL applications were converted to Micro Focus COBOL/C# applications. This has improved the performance of its existing business applications by 30 percent on average and paved the way for the cost-effective development of new applications. The Society also expects to reduce development time using the .NET Framework by around 30 percent.
"With BluePhoenix's extensive experience in Legacy migration and modernization to Microsoft solutions, its staff knew exactly what steps were required and what pitfalls to avoid," said Kevin Moran, IT director, Scarborough Building Society. "Although the project was not without its challenges, the implementation was remarkably smooth and painless. Our users were barely aware of it happening except for noticing that the look and feel of the application was much more modern."
Carolinas HealthCare System Selects Peak 10 for Secure Data Services
Peak 10 has been selected as the data hosting provider by Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), the largest healthcare system in the
CHS has consistently been recognized for excellence in such areas as neonatal, maternity, cardiac, neuroscience, spine and cancer care. Peak 10 will be providing CHS with dedicated Internet access, managed firewall and intrusion detection prevention and a fully managed server. CHS will also be using Peak 10 as an offsite data duplication center where they will be using direct-to-disc backup services.
"Peak10's security and services provide us with the technological flexibility to host multi-center research data stores including participants like the Mayo Clinic,
eScholar Selects Pitney Bowes' Group 1 Software
Group 1 Software, Inc., a Pitney Bowes Company, announced that eScholar, a K-12 data warehousing company, has extended its long-standing relationship another three years providing Group 1 Software's data integration solution, Data Flow, as an integrated component of its eScholar Complete Data Warehouse.
Group 1 Software's Data Flow solution makes it easy to access, integrate, manipulate and analyze data with a unique architecture that enables high-volume data transfer, rapid query-based extracts, analysis and reporting. Featuring an easy-to-manage drag-and-drop interface, the solution allows users to visually diagram workflow processes to create data warehouses, integrate disparate data, perform business analysis and deploy content to users.
As a member of Group 1 Software's G-Force Alliance Program, eScholar utilizes Group 1 Software's Data Flow solution to power the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse, which unifies and organizes data from an infinite number of sources and provides the capability for data driven decision-making to help educators evaluate and improve educational programs, performance metrics and No Child Left Behind reporting requirements.
"Integrating the full-featured, powerful data integration capabilities of Data Flow as part of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse enables us to deliver a truly compelling data management solution to educators," said
Cardiff
AirDefense announced that its enterprise security product is being deployed by
The wireless network will cover 66 buildings across three square miles. It will include over 1,300 Access Points and cater for 30,000 students, 5,000 staff and visiting guests. The goals of the University are to ensure maximum wireless coverage by expanding the existing wireless capability for the whole campus and outlying peripheral sites. In addition, it has to help realize the goals of the Modern Working Environment project that is the core of the university's Information Services Strategy for the future.
"We want to enhance the wireless networking service as much as possible, to improve the users experience and to ensure the service is as robust, resilient and as secure as possible with the least amount of man effort for ongoing management." said Anthony Cope IT Manager Cardiff University.
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