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Qatar Steel Company Builds Integrated Business Platform, Achieves Considerable Annual Savings in Manufacturing Costs

Overview Oil and gas may be the biggest contributors to Qatar's economy, but Qatar Steel Company (QASCO) is a leading force in the country's manufacturing sector. QASCO, already an Oracle customer, had a database and development tools in place, but needed powerful applications to run and optimize its growing operations. After debating whether to select a single-vendor solution or attempt to integrate a range of best-of-breed applications, QASCO ultimately chose Oracle. With Oracle Financials, QASCO has cut its month-end closing cycle from 18 days to three days.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Oracle	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2005
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Finance

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Nine point ecommerce agenda mapped out at WIPO summit

But Jonathan Steel, chairman of the Bathwick Group, believes the organisation faces an uphill task. Steel argues that despite WIPO's good intentions, the slow pace of government will leave them stranded as commercial organisations find their own...

Channel:
SOA/Web Services

SAP reinvents itself with ecommerce offering

Joyce Bonham, analyst at Gartner Group, agreed: "The driving force behind the new marketing campaign is likely to be the fact that the market does not perceive the company to be a new economy vendor. The system, estimated to support 100,000 users...

Channel:
Applications

Will the last electronics company to leave the country please turn off the power...

Discounts of up to 80 per cent are on offer for companies that use environmentally friendly energy sources such as wind or wave power, and those which are classified as intensive energy users, such a steel plants, will also enjoy a rebate.

Channel:
IT Director

The Bloor Perspective: The net and bad news, top tier vendors turn the screw and that international ebiz report

Do customers want specialist, best of breed products that deliver far more than the alternative? On the one hand, the best of breed products are obviously a better idea. There are many reasons for this situation - top of the list is the economy.

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Analysis: The network is the security

As network-centric security delivers better protection and lower costs, chief information officers will abandon their current best-of-breed security strategy and seek out partners who can deliver the whole enchilada.

Negative image hinders Russian IT outsourcing

Dmitry Milovantsev, Russian deputy IT minister, claimed in an interview in Moscow attitudes are changing and the Russian economy is being reborn as "an economy of high technologies", although he admitted the country can't compete with the scale...

Channel:
Offshoring
Tags:
luxoft,
russia,
gartner

Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria

In the past several years, server virtualisation technology has moved quickly and firmly into the IT mainstream. Of the many approaches to system virtualisation available in the market today, VMware's hypervisor architecture has gained the greatest market acceptance. This paper examines the architectural issues, solution support, and enterprise readiness required when deploying such a virtualisation solution.

Publisher:
EMC

Getting Started with Master Data Management

Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it is needed, and explores methodologies for implementing master data management.

Publisher:
DataFlux

Optimising Storage with Global File Virtualisation

This white paper will provide an overview on how Rainfinity Global File Virtualisation virtualises unstructured data environments and moves data -including active, open files-without disruption to users or applications. Rainfinity is the only enterprise-class file virtualisation solution, and delivers complete NAS optimisation across geterogeneous environments, such as NAS, CAS, and file servers.

Publisher:
EMC

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