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Industry: Technology
Geography: Ottawa, ON
Opportunity: A previously solely dedicated BEA WebLogic customer, Mxi Technologies Ltd. was interested in finding a partner that could provide a simpler and more cost effective relationship for bundling and embedding a J2EE 1.4 compliant container in their Maintenix™ product offering.
Migration Path: BEA WebLogic to JBoss Application Server
Software: JBoss Application Server, Oracle Database, and Internet Explorer for Middleware, Database, and Client application tiers respectively
Benefits: By migrating to JBoss Mxi now save $15,000 per customer installation and experience 30% better overall performance with JBoss.
Industry: Finace
Geography: Lugano, Switzerland
Opportunity: Cornèr Bank needed a cost efficient and innovative solution to address the mobile needs of credit cards customers.
Software: JBoss Application Server, JMS
“The mobile services offered by Cornèr Bank are state-of-the-art. No other credit card institute in Switzerland can claim such advanced services for its cardholders. Thank to the JBoss AS application server, the SW development and integration of those new services has proven to be highly efficient.”
-Massimo Calanchini, Cornèr Banca SA, IT Project Manager
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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.
Selected by the community as the 2006 JBoss Innovator of the Year
Category: Service Orientated Architecture
Winner:RLPTechnologies
Submitted by: RLPTechnologies Team (see below)
Industry: Bio Engineering
Geography: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Overview
Selected for their use of JBoss AS and Hibernate as the foundation for their SOA-based platform that has revolutionized how data is collected, enhanced and compiled to increase data-file processing performance by 70%, increase scalability by 400%, and enrich the timeliness, accuracy and quality of R.L. Polk’s data for the automotive industry.
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Category: Clustering
Winner: J. Craig Venter Institute
Submitted by: Pete Davies, Indresh Singh, Tom Dolafi, Chris Lemieux, Sean Murphy, Adam Resnick, Angelo Trivelli, Bryan Yu, and Saul Kravitz
Industry: Bio Engineering
Geography: Rockville, MD
Overview
Selected for use of JBoss messaging and clustering to provide the stability and scalability necessary to process in excess of 40 million traces in batch across a 2 node cluster that supports over 100 DNA sequencers (scaling to 8 nodes to process large collections of traces) while also saving the not-for-profit genomic research center over $500,000 per year in licensing and maintenance costs.
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Category: Core Infrastructure
Winner: Cendant Distribution Travel Services Group, Inc
Submitted by: Bryan Harwood & Chuck Clark
Industry: Travel
Geography: Chicago, IL
Overview
Selected for their use of JBoss AS and its JMX capabilities as the foundation for their services container that allows them to provision core travel services more quickly and efficiently to a number of leading travel sites including Orbitz.com and Cheaptickets.com.
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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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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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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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Start-up shortens time-to-market, gains industry recognition Industry: Sales 2.0
Geography: Pittsburgh, PA
Opportunity: Build a high-availability Saas solution that could support product evolution, a growing subscriber base, and integration with multiple technologies
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, Oracle 10g RAC cluster solution
Applications: Landslide (a Sales Workstyle Management Solution)
Hardware: Dell, Cisco Gigabit switches, Cisco Gigabit firewalls
Benefits: Expedited time-to-market, optimized resources to improved product development, and delivered a highly secure, reliable solution that’s recognized by the industry » Read more
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
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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: Transportation
Geography: Sweden
Opportunity: Build a new development platform to rapidly deliver integrated IT projects across the business
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (JBoss AS 4.2, ESB 4.2, JBoss Messaging 1.4), EnterpriseDB
Hardware: 2 IBM xSeries 346 servers
Benefits: Increased time-to-market of services for customers, increased ROI and interest in rail travel, eliminated licensing costs for the platform, integrated IT systems, and avoided vendor lock-in
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BACKGROUND
Swedish Railways (SJ AB), the national railway operator in Sweden, travels between 350 stations and carries 100,000 passengers per day. The company maintains approximately 3,500 employees and boasts a yearly revenue of 1.3 billion dollars.
OPPORTUNITY
In May 2006, SJ AB recognized the need to upgrade its internal software delivery system in order to provide a shared platform for all of its IT systems. The integration of the IT systems is essential for SJ AB as it uses a diverse range of applications relevant to human resources, sales, and other departments. Each applications needs to be accessed across a range of interfaces from PCs to PDAs. A new department called the Integration Competence Centre (ICC) was established within SJ AB with assistance from Redpill. The ICC is responsible of establishing the Integration platform and deliver service based integration solutions and new service according to SJ AB requirements.
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Industry: Telecom
Geography: Phoenix, AZ
Opportunity: Integrate service delivery systems with communications providers’ back office systems to automate network allocation and subscriber provisioning processes
Migration Path: Proprietary Software running on an AS400 to JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
Software: Windows and Linux operating systems; JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform; Oracle and MySQL databases
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Blade Server, AIX Server, SUN enterprise SAN.
Benefits: Automate the allocation of network resources in support of customer order processing, network resource management and service fulfillment.
Background
Founded in 1985, CADTEL Systems is a premier provider of integrated Operational Support Systems software that helps communications providers manage network resources efficiently. Automating many of the complex tasks involved in delivering next-generation products and services to subscribers, CADTEL’s solution offerings enable communications providers to improve response time to customer demands while lowering operational costs.
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Submitted by: Michael Simpson, CTO
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Louisville, CO
Website: http://www.mckesson.com
Overview
Selected for being the first company to employ the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform to integrate its varied healthcare software applications on one unified platform, saving approximately one million dollars in combined software and hardware costs and allowing the company to provide a more robust and enterprise-ready solution for patient care.
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Category: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Submitted by: Sanjay Sen, Senior Director, Digital Properties; Aled Davies, Architect; Brian Compton, Architect
Industry: Entertainment
Geography: New York, NY
Website: http://www.wmg.com
Overview
Selected for implementing JEMS to create a customer asset management system with a Service-Oriented Architecture that enables efficient website data management and maximum scalability across WMG’s rapidly growing extended enterprise.
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