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Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: Spain, South America
Challenge: To simplify their multi-platform IT environment. To create a highly-scalable yet cost-effective environment in support of corporate-wide goal for massive growth. To quickly improve performance of mission-critical data warehouse system
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 9i RAC, SAP BW, SAP SEM
Benefits: Reduced response time for user queries from minutes to seconds. Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) by a 4x factor. Reduced price per transaction by a 10x factor. Increased data warehouse performance as much 5,214%.
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Fiserv Investment Support Services (Fiserv ISS), one of the largest trustees of self-directed retirement plans in the U.S., recently adopted an Itanium 2-based HP Integrity server platform equipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and an Oracle®Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters to process its customers’ financial data. Nearly five times as fast as the company’s former mainframe-based RISC platform, the Integrity server environment enables Fiserv ISS to exceed ever faster and more complex client service-level agreement (SLA) requirements and enhance the quality, agility, and efficiency of its services while reducing hardware and software costs.
Fiat Auto is transforming distribution to suit customers’ needs with Fiat Link, an innovative sales support/customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Customers can now configure and buy their Fiat of choice with Fiat Link, which sales people access from wireless HP Tablet PCs. Fiat Link will integrate and enhance sales and service across 5,800 retailers in Europe by 2005. HP Services consultants developed Fiat Link’s three-tier, Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based infrastructure, powered by an Oracle9i Real Application Clusters database on HP Integrity servers equipped with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors.
Industry: Manufacturing
Challenge: Converting a closely interwoven and complex distribution model into a unified solution to automate the sales & distribution backbone.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.5.9
Benefits: Simplified management and complete freedom to scale up using low cost commodity hardware. Significant TCO reduction by saving on unnecessary licensing fees. Installing security patches and conducting routine server hardening checks reduced to a bare minimum.
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Industry: Technology, specializing in mining companies
Geography: Poland
Challenge: Outdated and disjointed IT infrastructure created performance and maintenance issues for Polish coal mines. COIG needed to renew the aging IT infrastructure based on SCO Unix across 50 remote locations, while increasing functionality and reducing maintenance downtime.
Solution: Centralized server, hosted at single location and containing shared database.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle database, SZYK and SAP ERP applications, Apache Web server and Zope application server
Benefits: The move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivered reduced maintenance and purchase costs, greater functionality, simpler system management, and increased and faster performance.
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Industry: State and Local Government
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle9i Database, Legato backup solutions, HP MSL Tape Library
Hardware: HP DL580 G2
Benefits: Up to 3x performance improvement, lower server procurement and maintenance costs, increased hardware options
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Industry: State & Local Government
Challenge: Increase performance despite sharply decreased budget
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Application: Oracle11i, GenaWare’s GenaMap
Integration provider: Mascon IT
Benefits: Dramatically improved performance. Lowered maintenance and support costs. Delivered project within budget.
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Industry: Banking
Geography: India
Central Bank of India is one of the largest banks in India. Established in 1911, it was the first Indian commercial bank to be wholly owned and managed by Indians. Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala, founder of the Bank proudly declared on its establishment that Central Bank was the ‘property of the nation and the country’s asset.’ The bank’s customer base of 25 million is among the largest in the industry and it has 3115 branches spread across the vast geography of India. Progressive management and far-sighted leadership have ensured that the bank has maintained its status as an asset for the country.
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To solidify its market-leading status, AutoTradeCenter (ATC), a top Internet-based business-to-business automotive remarketing company, turned to Red Hat and HP for help constructing a reliable, stable and responsive e-commerce site (99.99 percent or “four nines” availability).