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House Builder Improves Customer Service, Bolsters IT Infrastructure With Web Solution

Overview Since it was established in 1934, Miller Homes has built more than 60,000 properties and become one of the largest house builders in the United Kingdom. To enhance business performance, the company replaced an open-source platform with Microsoft technology so it could connect its supply-chain solution with its Web site. This has given the company more control over its online business and increased online custom by 37 per cent.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	May 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Application Servers, Database Management, .NET

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UK Police Authority Supports Investigations With Powerful Solution and Reduces Expenditure by 90 Per Cent

Publisher:
Dell

Tags:
application servers

Dell Case Study: CareerBuilder

Publisher:
Dell

Tags:
application servers

MSDN Webcast: Building Asynchronous Contextual Collaboration With Exchange Web Services (Level 300)

Publisher:
Microsoft

TechNet Webcast: Extending Excel With Excel Services (Level 200)

Publisher:
Microsoft

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses the Exchange Hosted Services to Protect the Messaging Environment (Level 300)

Publisher:
Microsoft

UPS unites supply chain business

UPS has launched a business unit called UPS Supply Chain Solutions. The new division offers customers the combined services of the company's existing, separate supply chain businesses: UPS Logistics Group, UPS Freight Services (including Fritz...

Channel:
SOA/Web Services

Fact: Heavy IT spend equals bigger profits

During June and July 2002, Gartner interviewed 973 executives and senior managers across eight countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) working in a variety of vertical markets.

Channel:
IT Director

RFID: It's no supply chain saviour - not yet anyway

Perhaps the most discussed project due to its sheer size is Wal-Mart in the US, which has been trialling RFID in its Texas stores, and which has placed a deadline of next January on all suppliers to use RFID tags within its supply chain.

Brampton Factor: Customer woes

For homes and small businesses, highly sophisticated technology is incredibly cheap. There are some support services available for homes and small businesses. The first unit to arrive would not connect to the wireless PCs with any degree of...

Campbell Soup boosts supply chain management

Campbell Soup Company is using business intelligence software from QlikTech to improve its supply chain management. The data will be made available to staff throughout Campbell Soup's supply chain and to members of its finance department.silicon...

Fashionista gives supply chain a BT makeover

Young fashion brand Lipsy has signed BT Expedite to provide a supply chain system, allowing it react to changes in fashion trends and buying behaviours more flexibly. Lipsy MD Jeremy Stakol told silicon.com the company used to track its supply...

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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