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Industry: Government
Geography: France
Opportunity: needed to modernize the whole of their administration process, as well as enterprise management, while being able to offer new services through information technology (declarations, on-line payments, and real-time status checks through a Web interface, etc).
Solutoin: DGI selected Atos Origin and JBoss, who formed an alliance and provided the JBoss J2EE Application Server for DGI’s mission-critical I.T. system.
Benefits: An outright saving of 13 million Euro’s on project costs.
Company Overview: The Direction Générale des Impôts (the Directorate-General of Taxes) offer new online services, via the Internet, for tax declaration, payment, consultation and information. This project for increasing the convenience and efficiency of DGI’s tax services is known as the ‘Copernic Program’.
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Category: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Implementation
Winner:Vivat (client = US Trust)
Submitted by: Max Yankelevich, Chief Architect
Industry: Vivat = Technology Partner / US Trust = Government, Financial
Geography: Bensalem, PA
Overview
Vivat (www.vivatconsulting.com), a professional services organization focused on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Application Integration, was selected based on its work with US Trust, one of the oldest private banking firms in the U.S. Vivat successfully moved US Trust’s main revenue stream, the Client Fee Calculator, from an antiquated legacy system to a new SOA system built on JBoss technologies, including JBoss Rules and JBoss Application Server. The solution is expected to bring in an additional $20 million over the next five years as well as maximize customer profits, thanks to newly transparent and manageable fee rules.
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Category: Increased Return on Investment
Winner: Alintec (previously Politecnico Innovazione)
Submitted by: Sanne Grinovero, Architect IT
Industry: Technology and Government
Geography: Milan, Italy
Overview
Alintec (www.alintec.it) (previously Politecnico Innovazione), a non-profit consortium promoting technological innovation within SMEs and public institutions and technology transfer between academia and industry in Europe, was selected following the high return on investment (ROI) it achieved after the implementation of multiple JBoss technologies within its Internet-based Library Management System (LMS) for the Province of Bergamo. The JBoss-based solution increased library loan rates by more than 25 percent and the frequency of inter-library loans by over 30 percent. Overall, it has positively impacted the end-user experience in terms of speed and ease-of-use.
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Customer: U.S. Army Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC)
Industry: Government
Geography: North America
Opportunity: Red Hat and Unisys partnered to migrate U.S. Army mission-critical systems from a proprietary server platform to JBoss for better performance and lower costs. The migration increased reliability and efficiency with no disruption to ongoing operations.
Migration Path: Proprietary Software to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Seamless Performance Improvements, Secure Business Operation and Innovative Metrics.
Background
“As a systems integrator, Unisys must be confident that the open source tools we select deliver value that matches the quality of our services. In creating mission-critical open source solutions for the US Army and US Navy, as well as for other government and enterprise clients around the world, Unisys has found that value in the performance, flexibility and economy afforded by the JBoss suite.”- - Anthony Gold, vice president and general manager, Open Source Business, Unisys.
Industry: Government
Geography: Sweden
Opportunity: To replace costly proprietary software with reliable open source solutions to reduce acquisition and ongoing costs for the organization’s IT department.
Migration Path: Proprietary software and hardware, including Hewlett Packard PA-RISC chip-architecture, HP-UX Unix operating system, Oracle database and BEA WebLogic Server, to open source solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Solution:
Hardware: HP Blade System C-class servers with 300 AMD Opteron Dual Core CPUs
Operating System Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Application Server: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2
Database: MySQL Enterprise Server 5
Benefits: Experienced reduced TCO, increased reliability, enhanced performance, freedom from vendor lock-in, and expects estimated cost savings of approximately €20 million Euros over the next five years
BACKGROUND
Swedish National Police Board (SNPB) is the law enforcement agency for the country of Sweden. The Police Board consists of the 21 Police authorities in Sweden, in addition to the National Laboratory of Forensic Science. The Police Board employees 25,000 staff, including 16,900 policemen and 535 IT department workers.
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Industry: Government
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4, Red Hat Cluster Suite
Hardware: Two quad-core servers in clusters for production; one SAN; one ISA server; one mail server; one web server; one server backup (NAS); one backup tape drive
Benefits:
The Marsala Town Council saw significant cost reductions after migrating to Red Hat solutions. Its IT infrastructure experienced improved service performance levels too. Systems security and reliability have significantly increased with the adoption of Red Hat. » Read more
Category: Innovation in Government
Submitted by: Douglas Babb
Vertical: Government
Geography: Hill Air Force Base, UT
Website: http://www.hill.af.mil
Overview
Selected for use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to greatly reduce or eliminate system crashes, simplify a complicated operating environment and have minimal user disruption.
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Industry: State and Local Government
Challenge: Create a scalable, three-tier, web-based architecture under shrinking budget.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell servers
Applications: Oracle8i database, Juvenile Tracking System (custom, Oracle-based)
Benefits: Increased price/performance and stability at one-third the cost of legacy UNIX solutions
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Industry: Federal Government
Challenge: Provide low cost, yet fast and reliable access to Personnel Electronic Records Management System
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: HP ML350
Applications: PERMS database with Web interface
Benefits: Improved price/performance, Global access to critical records
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Industry: Meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography
Geography: Head office in Norrköping, Sweden with offices all over Sweden
Aim: To standardize from VMS, Tru64, SGI, and Solaris to Linux, cutting costs and enhancing efficiency within the organization
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Intel
Applications: Include JBoss, MySQL, J2EE applications developed in-house
Advantages: Substantial reduction in costs and simpler operation compared to proprietary operating systems
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