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Visible Breakthrough: Big Hammer Achieves Agility and Performance for Data Pools

Overview Edgenet's Wisconsin-based Big Hammer Data division is certified as both a source data pool for suppliers and a recipient data pool for retailers-and is the exclusive Enterprise Private Data Pool and preferred GDSN and Marketing Pool for The Home Depot. The company wanted a highly reliable, highly scalable platform for the ultimate in supply-chain flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Edgenet's Big Hammer Data is using a solution from Unisys, Microsoft, and Intel to power supplier and retail data pools with greater agility and efficiency-all at a lower cost than mainframe or UNIX alternatives.

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Publisher	Unisys	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Processors, Application Servers, Database Management

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