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Coal Producer Consolidates Financial Systems, Saves 83 Percent

Overview Read about the impressive savings realized by coal producer Drummond Company, Inc. when it consolidated several disparate and lagging financials systems on PeopleSoft 8.4 running on Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. In addition to cutting annual maintenance costs by 83 percent, Drummond was also able to:

Redeploy five technicians to more strategic functions
Reduce PO processing time from three days to one hour
Cut cost reporting from two weeks to real time

This case study outlines the unique issues surrounding the deployment of Drummond’s single-OS solution, as well as the business benefits the coal producer gained by ditching its legacy mainframe solution.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML & WORD
Date Published	January 2005	Downloads	294
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Database Management, E-procurement, High Performance Computing, E-fulfillment, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003

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