Success stories: 'Global Support Services' category

CENDANT - 2006 JBOSS INNOVATION AWARD WINNER - PORTAL

Category: Portal
Winner: Cendant Distribution Travel Services Group, Inc
Submitted by: Brad Lindow & Jason Cohen
Industry: Travel
Geography: Chicago, IL

Overview

Selected for use of JBoss Portal to improve user experience, reduce transactions and reporting times, and reduce costs and overall development time in building myaccount.galileo.com, Cendant Travel Distribution Services’ portal was built to provide self service capabilities to thousands of travel agents and suppliers.
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Filed under Consumer, North America, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Consulting, JBoss Training, Global Support Services, JBoss Innovation Awards on March 3rd, 2008 | No comments »

ADP - 2006 JBOSS INNOVATION AWARD WINNER - PERSISTENCE

Category: Persistence
Winner: ADP
Submitted by: Patrick Urban & Nicholas Whitehead
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Roseland, New Jersey

Overview

Selected for building an AJAX Adaptor for Hibernate that supplies AJAX clients with a rich and high performance data access API and for their use of Hibernate and other JEMS products to improve uptime and reduce cost of their EasyPayNet 5 and TeleNet 1.X Web-based payroll systems.
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Filed under Industry, Financial, Geography, Solutions, North America, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Hibernate Framework, JBoss Training, Global Support Services, Innovation Award Winners, JBoss Innovation Awards, Migration Path, Other on March 3rd, 2008 | No comments »

KROGER 2006 JBOSS INNOVATION AWARD WINNER

Category: Return on Investment (ROI)
Winner: Kroger
Submitted by: Kroger Team
Industry: Retail
Geography: Cincinnati, Ohio

Overview

Selected for building out a shared infrastructure (grid) system on JBoss AS that deploys the majority of their mission-critical applications, boosting overall capacity by 40% and saving Kroger over $100,000 in licensing costs and $400 per CPU in yearly maintenance costs.
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Filed under Consumer, North America, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Training, Global Support Services, JBoss Innovation Awards, Migration Path on March 3rd, 2008 | No comments »

Comcast - 2007 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner

Category: Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies
Submitted by: John Brzozowski, Architect and Principle Engineer
Vertical: Broadband services
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Website: http://www.comcast.com

Overview

Selected for ther use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization capabilities to create a cost-effective, highly efficient testing and certification environment to support the corporate IPv6 initiative.
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Filed under Technology, Consumer, HP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, North America, Global Professional Services, Global Support Services, Virtualization, Red Hat Innovation Awards on January 10th, 2008 | No comments »

DST Health Solutions - 2007 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner

Category: Joint Red Hat / JBoss Deployment

Italian Olive Oil Manufacturer Enhances Performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM Mainframe zSeries

Industry: Food Manufacturing
Geography: Italy
Opportunity: Ensure the fast processing of customer orders by reducing system response times and maintaining consistent performance levels, even during peak periods
Solution:

• Software: 6 virtualized instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running on IBM z/VSE and z/VM, DB2/Udb database, Ware Place and Tomcat
• Hardware: IBM zSeries 9 Business Class mainframe

Benefits: Maintain response times calculating to under one second, efficiently manage various databases with over 24 gigabytes of data and simplify communication among operating systems through use of XML within the mainframe
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Filed under Consumer, Manufacturing, IBM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, EMEA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Global Support Services, Virtualization on January 8th, 2008 | No comments »

Host Europe Managed Hosting: No Interruptions Thanks to Red Hat

Industry: Internet services
Geography: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Opportunity: High-availability hosting services at a competitive price;high-quality support
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat support services
Benefits: Stable online applications for customers. Consistent performance. Data security.
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Filed under Technology, EMEA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Global File System, Global Support Services on October 15th, 2007 | No comments »